Background
Drennan Watson is a member of ENL and Principal of Landwise Scotland. He is a human ecologist and experienced process manager. He has worked at the interface between people, environment and land use for over thirty years - twelve years of which he has spent as a consultant, researcher and trainer. An important part of his work has focused on the relationship between environmental stakeholders, communities, and the use of the natural resources around them in rural development. This has included the management of complex environmental and land use problems and the need to blend top-down and bottom-up approaches. To this end, he has pioneered the introduction of participative techniques of community consultation, rapid appraisal, and other methods such as stakeholder management.
He has also developed skills in in-service training using well-structured participative courses, workshops and seminars.
His practical experience has extended over the social and environmental impacts of agriculture, forestry, woodland management, outdoor recreation and tourism development, mountain management, recreational land use and tourism development.
