Background
In the early 1970s, Stott and his wife, a historian and biographer, lived in Thailand and he was carrying out field research at Kalasin. He has two daughters.
He has written academic papers and books on chalk grassland, on the vegetation and archaeology of Thailand (and on the rest of southeast Asia), on ecology and biogeography (e.g. his textbook 'Historical Plant Geography'), on fire ecology e.g. on lichens and mosses, on tropical rain forest e.g. and and on the construction of environmental knowledge.
He is currently Chair of The Anglo-Thai Society, UK. He is no longer a member of the Scientific Alliance because he deems it important to be academically independent of all organisations, industry, and green groups.
In the UK, he is a lifelong Labour supporter and he is mildly left wing politically. He is fiercely anti-tobacco.
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