Nick James
About
Nick is a chartered town planner with over 30 years' experience in strategic planning, policy and research.
Nick has played a key role in delivering a wide range of practical, policy and research projects, with a focus on natural capital, adaption and climate change. Many of these projects inform responses to net zero, including working with councils to increase carbon sequestration and storage across their estate.
Nick has also led a series of ground-breaking green infrastructure projects, on landscape planning areas such as settlement expansion, wind energy development, forestry, climate change and perceptions of landscape change.
As well as working on a number of diverse SEA and SA, Nick's planning work includes informing and reviewing policy for the Scottish Government and developing guidance on issues such as air quality, soils, green infrastructure and woodland and forestry.