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The author Jules Pretty is based on the Essex and Suffolk border in England. He lives in the Suffolk wool
village of Nayland, and works at the University of Essex in Colchester. He writes on the importance and relevance of nature for people, and explores the relations between people and the land.
Read his new
Nature
Notes on Facebook 
or here.
Also see new series of University
of Essex vodcasts
here on YouTube.
His new book is This Luminous Coast,
published by
Full Circle
Editions in March 2011. It is narration of the land and sea,
their wild places, social history and places of
deep significance, along the 500 miles of the coasts
of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk.
This Luminous Coast won the
East Anglian Book of the Year award for 2011 (Nature and Place
category), and was also shortlisted for the
Writers' Guild of GB non-fiction book of the year.
At the University of Essex,
Jules Pretty is Deputy Vice-Chancellor
of Science & Engineering and Sustainability & Resources. The
research focus on green exercise, nature and health is at
greenexercise.org. The
2010 dose
of nature paper has received considerable coverage worldwide,
as has a 2010 paper involving 54 authors on the "Top
100 questions for Agriculture and Food."
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