Henry Buller

Henry Buller, BA, PhD is Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter. He is Editor of the international rural social science journal Sociologia Ruralis, recent Chair of the IBG/RGS Rural Geography Study Group (2003-2007) and is a member of he Executive Committee of the European Society for Rural Sociology. Henry Buller sits as an appointed member on the Farm Animal Welfare Council of Great Britain and is Chair of the Welfare at Slaughter Committee. Author and editor of over well over 100 books, articles and reports on rural development, EU agricultural, environmental and rural policy, food policy, animals and animal welfare, he has been a key member of the EU funded WelfareQuality(R) research project (2005-2010). Other recent and current research includes 'Eating Biodiversity' (2005-2007) funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, which looked at the relationship between food quality, biodiversity and animal grazing management and Understanding Human Behaviour through Human/Animal Interaction (2009-2010), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and looking at the influence of human/animal interactions of human behaviour.