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Professor Robert Fish is a social scientist and human geographer at the Centre for Environmental Policy, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London. He specializes in the social and cultural dimensions of natural resource management, particularly in rural and agricultural contexts, and is known for his participatory research methods and policy engagement.
- Chair in Environmental Sustainability
- Co-leader of the UKRI Valuing Nature Programme
- Founding Lead Editor of People and Nature journal
His research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to valuing nature, emphasizing cultural ecosystem services, biodiversity's impact on human well-being, and stakeholder collaboration in environmental policy. He has pioneered methods to quantify sensory and emotional interactions with nature, contributing to frameworks for sustainable land management.
Recent work examines green infrastructure in viticulture, spatio-temporal biodiversity dynamics, and linguistic barriers in conservation discourse. His Valuing Nature: The Roots of Transformation (2021) received the Taylor & Francis Outstanding STEM Book award, and he has developed the BIO-WELL scale for measuring human well-being responses to biodiversity.
Notable scientific awards include:
- Taylor & Francis Outstanding STEM Book of 2021
