'A terrific book' Michael Morpurgo
'Remarkable' Mark Lynas

We need land for so many of humanity's growing needs, such as food, renewable energy, carbon storage and housing. Traditionally, we've stolen it from nature, but this has led to a mounting toll of extinction and pollution that is now punishing us. So, as there's no land left to take, how do we get more from the same, or preferably less.

In Land Smart, Tom Heap, a presenter on BBC TV's Countryfile, Radio 4's new Rare Earth series and the anchor of The Climate Show on Sky News, tours the British countryside meeting the farmers, scientists, conservationists and even warehouse managers who are solving the most pressing challenges facing our countryside and the world.

If we use land cleverly it can give both humanity and nature the space to thrive on just the one planet. If not, we're in trouble.

"A terrific book... Every page is a challenge to how we think about the good earth about us, our climate, our soil, our food and how we live our lives. Land Smart is a call for positive change that we must not ignore." - Michael Morpurgo

"We all know about being climate smart, but as Tom Heap shows in this remarkable new book, if we really want to save the planet we're going to have to be land smart too." - Mark Lynas, author of Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet

"Land Smart offers a punchy, pacy but also precise answer to some of the biggest challenges in front of us all. I'm left convinced that we can live with the land in a way that cares for nature, our climate and ourselves if we are canny and purposeful" - Joe Smith, Director of the Royal Geographical Society