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Professor Deborah Roberts

Professor Deborah Roberts

Deborah Roberts

 https://www.hutton.ac.uk/staff/deborah-roberts

  deb.roberts@hutton.ac.uk

James Hutton Institute
Errol Road
Dundee
Scotland
DD2 5DA

Professor Deborah Roberts

Biography

Deb is Director of Science at the James Hutton Institute, and her research experience includes agricultural economics and regional science, with a nuber of inter-related areas. relation to rural and regional development she focuses on understanding how and why rural economies are unique, the key drivers for change, and reasons for regional disparities. Second, in relation to the policy, she has focussed on modelling the economy-wide impacts of changes in farm, forestry and structural policies using social accounting methods and general equilibrium models. Deb is  the work package cordinator for communities and well-being.

Leading Ideas

  • Land and Communities
  • Place-based policy
  • Sustainable Land Management
  • Rural Economy

Area of Strategic Research Programme

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

  • Theme 2: Productive and sustainable land management and Rural Economies
  • 2.3 - Productive and Sustainable Land Management
  • 2.3.8 Alternative approaches to sustainable land management
  • 3.4 - Communities and Wellbeing
  • 3.4.2 Place-based policy and its implications for policy and service delivery