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TV and radio presenter Tom Heap explores the various and often conflicting uses of land in the UK. Through interviews and encounters with farmers, scientists, conservationists and labourers, Heap looks at demands on land including food, renewable energy, carbon storage and housing. 

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Front cover of book titled Land Smart; photo of a field with solar panels beside food and trees

Publisher's summary

We need land for so many of humanity's growing needs, such as food, renewable energy, carbon storage and housing. Traditionally, we've stolen it from nature, but this has led to a mounting toll of extinction and pollution that is now punishing us. So, as there's no land left to take, how do we get more from the same, or preferably less.

In Land Smart, Tom Heap, a presenter on BBC TV's Countryfile, Radio 4's new Rare Earth series and the anchor of The Climate Show on Sky News, tours the British countryside meeting the farmers, scientists, conservationists and even warehouse managers who are solving the most pressing challenges facing our countryside and the world.

If we use land cleverly it can give both humanity and nature the space to thrive on just the one planet. If not, we're in trouble.

Reference

Heap, T., 2024. Land Smart: Our Countryside and How We Save It. W. F. Howes Ltd

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PUBLISHED
16 Jul 2024