External activities, CPD and consultancy

Recently completed commissioned research projects include:

• Barriers and Opportunities to the Use of Payments for Ecosystem Services, Contribution to report together with colleagues from Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability and James Hutton Institute, September 2011. available at http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=PESFinalReport28September2011%28FINAL%29.pdf (contribution to report by Aylwin Pillai)

• A review of monitoring, interpretation and case law in relation to Natura 2000 across Europe, Final Report, December 2009. (Principal investigator: A. Pillai. Contributors: D. McKenzie Skene, A.M. Slater and M.P.G. Smith. Research Assistant: S. Evans)