Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of Museums and the Natural Environment (1996), Ecomuseums: a sense of place (1999; 2nd edition 2011) and Sir William Jardine: a life in natural history (2001). He has also edited several books in the Heritage Matters series (Boydell and Brewer) and with Michele Stefano edited The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage ( 2017). His research interests relate to the connections between place, nature, heritage, communities and sustainability.