Professor Richard Aspinall

Professor Richard Aspinall was Chief Executive and Director of Research at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI) from 2006 to 2011. Previously he was Head of the Department of Geography at Arizona State University (2004-2006), Professor and Director of the Geographic Information and Analysis Centre at Montana State University (1997-2004), Programme Director for Geography and Regional Science at the US National Science Foundation (2001-03), and a scientist at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (1987-1997). He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Aberdeen. He is founding editor of the Journal of Land Use Science, editing the journal from 2006-2014, and was also editor of the Environmental Sciences section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers from 2005-2009. He was co-Chair of the IGBP/IHDP Global Land Project (GLP) in 2005 to establish the GLP governance; subsequently he was a member of the International Science Steering Committee (2006-2010) and coordinated the GLP Nodal Office in Aberdeen (2006-2011). His research interests are in land systems science, geographic information science and systems, and coupled human-environment systems. He has a book 'Resource Accounting for Sustainability Assessment: the nexus between energy, food, water, and land use', written with colleagues in Barcelona, published in 2014 by Routledge in their series on Sustainability and Governance.