Andrew Copus
Economic Geographer
Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences
Scottish Crop Research Institute
United Kingdom
Biography
Andrew Copus joined the Social, Economic and Geographical Sciences Group in March 2013. For the previous eight years he was a Senior Research Fellow at Nordregio (Nordic Centre for Spatial Development, Stockholm) and the Centre for Remote and Rural Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands. Between 1989 and 2005 Andrew was with SAC (now SRUC), latterly as leader of the Rural Economy Team. He has also briefly held posts at the University of Aberdeen and Luton Sixth Form College. Andrew is an economic geographer by training, whose research interests relate to the changing rural economy and rural/regional policy. Much of his work has been based upon analysis of small area or regional secondary data and indicators. He has a long-standing interest in territorial rural development and regional disparities, which through recent projects is presented as “rural cohesion policy”.
Research Interest
Geographical Sciences
Publications
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opus A K, Dax T, and Kahila P (2014 forthcoming) European rural development – from underpinning concepts to policy, Chapter 2 in Schiller S (ed.), Inside rural development policy: Capturing process effects in Europe, Farnham, Ashgate.
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Copus, A., K., Coombes, M. (2014) Small Area Estimation of At Risk of Poverty Rates. Second ESPON 2013 Scientific Report, ESPON 2013 Coordination Unit, Luxemburg.
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Copus A K and de Lima P (ed.) (2014 forthcoming). Territorial Cohesion in Rural Europe. Cities and Regions series, Routledge, Oxford.
