{"id":2,"date":"2019-10-15T19:56:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T18:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:40:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T11:40:24","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>30 years&#8217; experience of working on strategic research and policy issues associated with Climate Change.<\/strong> Specific expertise on land use, natural environment, and water: including agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, soils, water resources, flooding, and the coastal zone. These pages feature examples of projects and publications, as associated with decision making at all levels of society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Independent Research Consultant and Honorary Professor at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/water\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/water\">UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy &amp; Science<\/a> &#8211; University of Dundee, including research associated with the Hydro Nation programme, Scottish Government. Recently embedded researcher with the Welsh Government developing an integrated policy framework on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/projects\/integrated-framework-sustainable-management-natural-resources-smnr\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/projects\/integrated-framework-sustainable-management-natural-resources-smnr\">Sustainable Management of Natural Resources<\/a>. Lead Contributor UK Climate Change Risk Assessment (2012, 2017, 2022) and UK National Ecosystem Assessment (2014). Member of Defra Ecology &amp; Ecosystem Services Committee and several international research evaluation panels. <span class=\"tadv-color\" style=\"color:#9b51e0\">Email: Iain8Brown@gmail.com <\/span>or ixbrown@dundee.ac.uk<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/?page_id=103\">Biography<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 years&#8217; experience of working on strategic research and policy issues associated with Climate Change. Specific expertise on land use, natural environment, and water: including agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, soils, water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/summaryhouse.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}