Richard Oram University of Stirling Department of History Stirling FK9 4LA United Kingdom r.d.oram@stir.ac.uk

Richard Oram is Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Stirling, where he teaches Environmental History and Scottish Medieval History, and where he is the Director of the Centre for Environmental History and Policy. He is a member of the Scottish Government’s Historic Environment Advisory Council for Scotland. After obtaining his first degree in Medieval History and Archaeology (1983) and PhD in Medieval History (1988) from the University of St Andrews, he worked for a number of years as a freelance research consultant before taking up an academic appointment at Stirling as its first lecturer in Environmental History. He has researched and published extensively on aspects of medieval and early modern land-use and resource exploitation, climate change and medieval socio-economic restructuring, urban-rural relations and fuel supply (especially peat). For more information see: http://www.history.stir.ac.uk/staff/RichardOramHistoryStirlingStaffInformation.php