Publications

Harvie, B.A. and Hobbs, R.J. (2013) Shale Bings in Central Scotland: from ugly blots on the landscape to cultural and biological heritage. In Novel Ecosystems: Intervening in the New Ecological World Order (RJ Hobbs, ES Higgs & CM Hall eds), Chapter 35. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, UK (pdf)

Kgosikoma, O.E., Mojeremane, W. and Harvie, B.A. (2012) Pastoralists' perception and ecological knowledge on Savanna ecosystem dynamics in semi-arid Botswana. Ecology and Society, 17 (4), article 27 (online)

Kgosikoma, O.E., Mojeremane, W. and Harvie, B.A. (2012) The influence of management systems on rangeland conditions under different environments in Botswana. Botswana Journal of Agriculture and Applied Science, 8 (2), 75-82

Kgosikoma, O.E., Harvie, B.A. and Mojeremane, W. (2012) Bush encroachment in relation to rangeland management systems and environmental conditions in Kalahari ecosystem of Botswana. African Journal of Agricultural Research, 36, 2312-2319

Harvie, B.A. (2012) Urban Biodiversity: Successes and Challenges: Biodiversity on Bings. The Glasgow Naturalist, 25, (4), 5-6 (online)

Harvie, B.A. (2011) To tree or not to tree? Reforesting Scotland, 44, 20-21 (online)

Sumner, B.E.H. and Harvie, B.A. (2011) Celebrating Diversity in Community Woodlands in Scotland. Botanical Society of Scotland, Edinburgh

Harvie, B.A. (2011) The shale-oil industry in West Lothian, Scotland 1858-1962. II: Oil production and technological advances. Oil Shale, 28 (1), 78-84 (online)

Harvie, B.A. (2010) The shale-oil industry in West Lothian, Scotland 1858-1962. I: Geology and History. Oil shale, 27(4), 354-358 (online)

Harvie, B.A. (2010) Phenology and the restoration of heathland ecosystems (Practical problems and moral dilemmas: a (mainly)Scottish perspective). Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Ecological Restoration, Avignon, France, 23-27/08/2010 (online)

Harvie, B.A. (2007) The importance of the oil-shale bings of West Lothian, Scotland to local and national biodiversity. Botanical Journal of Scotland, 58(1), 35-47

Harvie, B.A. and Russell, G. (2007) Vegetation dynamics on oil-shale bings; implications for management of post-industrial sites. Aspects of Applied Biology, 82, 57-64

Francu, J., Harvie, B.A., Laenen, B., Siirde, A. and Veiderma, M. (2007) A study on the EU oil shale industry - viewed in the light of the Estonian experience. A report by EASAC to the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy of the European Parliament (EASAC)

Harvie, B.A. (2005) The mechanisms and processes of vegetation dynamics on oil-shale spoil bings in West Lothian, Scotland, PhD Thesis, The University of Edinburgh. Available from the Edinburgh Research Archive (ERA)

Harvie, B.A. (2005) West Lothian Biodiversity Action Plan: Oil Shale Bings, Published, on behalf of West Lothian Local Biodiversity Action Plan partnership, by West Lothian Council, Linlithgow. Available from (ERA)

Harvie, B.A., Legg, C.J. and Russell, G. (2003) Seedbanks and shale bings; four successful weed species. Aspects of Applied Biology, 69, 21-28