CURRICULUM VITAE: SIMON BELL
Simon Bell
Professor
Estonian University of Life Sciences
Department of Landscape Architecture
Tartu
Estonia
Email [email protected]
Associate Director
OPENspace Research Centre
Edinburgh College of Art
University of Edinburgh
79 Grassmarket
Edinburgh
EH1 2HJ
Work Tel 0131 651 828
Email [email protected]
Date of birth
24 May 1957
Education
B.Sc., Forestry, University of Wales 1979
M.Phil Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh 1983
PhD Landscape Architecture, Estonian University of Life Sciences,
2009
Professional
qualifications
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Foresters (UK)
Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (UK)
Member of Estonian Union of Landscape Architects
Employment
history
1979-1999 Forestry Commission: Forest manager (1979-1981) and
then landscape architect, based at the headquarters in Edinburgh until
1999
1999-present: Part-time Senior Research Fellow/Senior Lecturer and
Associate Director of OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh
College of Art, University of Edinburgh.
2005-2009: Part-time associate professor, Department of Landscape
Architecture, Institute of Agriculture and Environment, Eesti
Maaülikool, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
2009-present: Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture,
Institute of Agriculture and Environment, Eesti Maaülikool, Estonian
University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia
Research grants
and projects
PLUREL – EU funded research project on urban, peri-urban and rural
land use change €250 000 over 4 years, 2007-2011
ASPiS- EU funded project on assessing the sustainability of public
space 2009-2013
CARe-FOR-US II. Scandinavian forest research council project on
forestry serving urbanised societies. 2011-2014
CANEPAL: EU funded project on the culture of pastoral life in
Europe 2011-2014
Green-Man: EU funded project under Russia-Latvia –Estonia border
capitals cooperation programme. 2012-2014
Closed cities of the Baltic Sea Region: Danish funded project starts
2013
E-CLIC: Making European policy popular through challenge,
learning, innovation, cooperation – the case of the European
Landscape Convention. EU funded project starts 2013
Awards
Travelling Fellowship awarded by Japan Society for the Promotion of
Science to Japan for 1 month September to October 2002
International
President of European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools
(ECLAS) 2012-2015
Activities
Executive committee member, European Council of Landscape
Architecture Schools (ECLAS) 2006-2012
Steering group member Le:Notre network on landscape architecture
education 2005-2014
Chair, Cost Action E33 Forest Recreation and Nature Tourism 20042008
Vice chair of Cost Action TD1201 Urban allotment gardens in
Europe 2012-2016
Coordinator, Eastern Baltic Network of Landscape Architecture
Schools
Teacher at Erasmus intensive programme summer school on forest
recreation and nature tourism, Braganca, Portugal, 2009 and
Hameenlinna, Finland/Kääriku, Estonia, August 2010
Teacher on Erasmus Intensive programme summer school on periurban landscapes, Bucharest, 2013 and Brussels 2014.
Editorial boards of
journals
Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
Ecological Indicators
Journal of Recreation and Tourism
Visiting professor
at:
Warsaw University of Life Sciences
University of Latvia, Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, Riga,
Latvia
Latvian Agricultural University, Department of Landscape
Architecture, Jelgava Latvia
State Technological University, Department of Landscape
Architecture, Minsk, Belarus
State Forestry Technical university, Department of Landscape
Architecture, St Petersburg, Russia
Erasmus exchange teaching in Akdeniz University, Altalya, Turkey
HAMK University of Applied Sciences, Lepaa, Hameenlinna,
Finland.
Aalto University, Finland
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL PAPERS
Bell, S., Penēze, Z., Montarzino, A and Nikodemus, O. (2009) Rural society, social inclusion
and landscape change in central and eastern Europe: a case study of Latvia. In Sociologia
Ruralis 49:3 pp295-326.
Bell, S., Nikodemus, O., Penēze, Z. and Kruze, I. (2009) Management of cultural landscapes:
what does this mean in the Former Soviet Union: A case study from Latvia. In Landscape
Research 34:4 425-455
Vassiljev P., Palo, T., Kull, A., Külvik, M., Bell, S., Kull, A. and Mander, Ü. (2010.) Forest
Landscape Assessment for Cross Country Skiing in Declining Snow Conditions: the Case of
Haanja Upland, Estonia. Baltic Forestry 16 (2): 280 - 295.
Nikodemus, O., Bell, S., Peneze, Z. and Rasa, I. (2010) The influence of Single Area
Payments and Less Favoured Area Payments on the Latvian landscape. In: European
Countryside 2:1
Zasada I, Alves S, Müller FC, Piorr A, Berges R, Bell S, (2010.) International Retirement
Migration in the Alicante Region, Spain: Process, spatial Pattern and environmental Impacts.
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 53:1 125-141
Bell, S., Alves, S., Silveirinha de Oliveira, E. and Zuin, A. (2010) Migration and Land Use
Change in Europe: A Review, Living Rev. Landscape Res. 4.
Atik, M., Bell, S. And Erdogan, R. (2012) Understanding Cultural Interfaces in the
Landscape: A Case Study of Ancient Lycia in the Turkish Mediterranean. In Landscape
Research (online from 2/12)
Hansson, K., Kylvik, M., Bell, S. and Maikov, K .( 2012) A preliminary assessment of
preferences for Estonian natural forests.Baltic Forestry, Vol. 18, No. 2, 299-315.
Unt, A-L, Travlou, P. And Bell, S. (2013) Blank spaces: exploring the sublime qualities of
urban wilderness at the former fishing harbour in Tallinn, Estonia. Landscape Research
(online from Feb 2013)
Ruskule, A., Nikodemus, O., Bell, S., Kasparinkis, R. & Ilze, U. (2013) The perception of
abandoned farmland by local people and experts: Landscape value and perspectives on future
land use. Landscape and Urban Planning. 115, 49-61.
Rismanchian, O. And Bell, S. (2013) Evidence-based spatial intervention for the regeneration
of deteriorating urban areas: A case study from Tehran, Iran. Urban Design International
(Online from July 2013)
Unt, A-L. and Bell, S. (2013) The impact of small-scale design interventions on the behaviour
patterns of the users of an urban wasteland. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening (online from
December 2013)
BOOKS
Ward Thompson, C, Aspinall, P. and Bell, S. (Eds) (2010) Innovative approaches to
researching landscape and health: Openspace:Peoplespace II. Routledge, Abingdon
Proebstl, U., Wirth, V., Elands, B. and Bell, S. (2010). Management of recreation and naturebased tourism in European forests. Heidelberg: Springer- Verlag
Bell, S., Sarlöv Herlin, I. and Stiles, R. (2011) Exploring the boundaries of landscape
architecture. Routledge, London
Bell, S. (2012) Landscape: pattern, perception and process (2nd Edition) Routledge, London
Nilsson, K., Pauleit, S., Bell, S., Aalbers, C and Nielsen, T.S. (2013) Peri-urban futures:
Scenarios and models for land use change in Europe. Springer, Berlin
BOOK CHAPTERS
Hartig, T., van den Berg, A., Hagerhall, C., Tomalak, M., Bauer, A., Hansmann, R.,Ojala,
A.,Syngollitou, E., Carrus, G. van Herzele, A., Bell, S., Camilleri Podesta, M.T and Waaseth,
G. (2010) Health Benefits of Nature Experience: Psychological, Social and Cultural Processes
in K. Nilsson et al. (eds.), Forests, Trees and Human Health, Springer Verlag
Van Herzele, A., Bell, S. Hartig, T., Camilleri Podesta , M.T. and van Zon, R. (2010) Health
benefits of nature experience: The challenge of linking practice and research in K. Nilsson et
al. (eds.), Forests, Trees and Human Health, Springer Verlag
Bell, S., van Zon, R., Van Herzele, A. and Hartig, T. (2010) Health benefits of nature
experience: Implications of practice for research in K. Nilsson et al. (eds.), Forests, Trees and
Human Health, Springer Verlag
Bell, S. (2012) Sustainable landscape in Encyclopedia of Sustainable Technologies, Springer
Verlag
Bell, S. and Ward Thompson, C. (2013) Human engagement with forest environments:
implications for physical and mental health and wellbeing in Fenning, T. (ed) Challenges and
opportunities for the world’s forests in the 21st century. Springer Berlin.
Bell, S. (2014) Cultures in flux in Roe, M. And Taylor, K. (Eds) New cultural landscapes.
Routledge, Abingdon.