Davy McCracken

01292 525 299
davy.mccracken@sruc.ac.uk
Scotland’s Rural College
Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings
West Mains Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3JG
Institute Staff Profile

Biography

Davy is Head of Department of Integrated Land Management and Head of Hill & Mountain research centre at SRUC. Davy is involved in a range of research and demonstration projects investigating the economic, social and environmental resilience of upland livestock systems and seeking to understand the trade-offs associated with changes to those systems. 

Leading Ideas

Climate and the Environment
Biodiversity and Ecosystems

Area of Strategic Research Programme

Further information the Scottish Government's Strategic Research Programme is available

Theme 1: Natural Assets
1.3 - Biodiversity and Ecosystems
1.3.2 Ecosystem services provision
Theme 2: Productive and sustainable land management and Rural Economies
2.3 - Productive and Sustainable Land Management
2.3.11 Trade-offs between productivity and sustainability
3.4 - Communities and Wellbeing
3.4.1 Demographic change in remote areas