I have a passion for understanding the root causes of nature's destruction which has led to the study of environmental economics. This is the key driver of wildlife destruction and is thus the key to reversing that loss. I have contributed to a number of books, policy documents and debates on this topic and am keen to develop a wider appreciation of this subject with decision makers and wildlife conservationists.
As a trustee of the Land Research Trust, A Director of the Land Value Tax Campaign and collaborator on many aspects of economic policy my aim is to educate wildlife campaigners that the key to saving wilife is to make its destruction more expensive, relative to other costs in society. Through the reduction of taxation on incomes and trade and the transference of those tax burdens to land use and environmental externalities we can deliver an economy that can be just as prosperous, but allow more land to rewild and reduce pollution.
Such fiscal policies will allow us all to hurt nature less in every economic transaction we make. At the same time such policies will protect jobs and incomes of the most vulnerable & economically productive.
Books: Rent Unmasked: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rent-Unmasked-Global-Economy-Sustainable/dp/0856835110
Leave it to beaver
The economically necessary beaver
What is rewilding
Green Party Address
The Killing Fields
An animal Ark to save us from flooding
Battle for Wildlife: The Flood