isurv authors - Cowap, Charles

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Author

Charles Cowap

Job title and company

Visiting Professor in Land Management, Harper Adams University; Sole principal, Rural Economics and Strategy

Section and channel

Agricultural and rural property in isurv Valuation.

Biography

Charles Cowap MBA MRICS FAAV is a chartered surveyor, chartered environmentalist and agricultural valuer. Charles qualified as a chartered surveyor in 1983. He retired from Harper Adams University in Shropshire in 2018 but is still a visiting professor there and continues to run his own consultancy and training business.

He focuses on rural valuations, taxation, rural economics and strategy and the translation of new developments into rural professional practice. This currently includes the growing emphasis on natural capital in policymaking, and authorship of a new Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Code of Practice for England. Charles is a regular speaker and presenter at professional conferences and seminars and writes a regular column for Estates Gazette, ‘Rural View’.