The submission of the University of Aberdeen’s Rural Law Research Group to the Draft Order to permit closures of core paths under the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 can be found here.

Recent commissioned research reports include:

•  Barriers and Opportunities to the Use of Payments for Ecosystem Services, September 2011. Dr Aylwin Pillai contributed to the report together with colleagues from Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability (ACES) and James Hutton Institute. The report is available here.

•  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)