Joy Tivy

Joy Tivy FRSE FRSGS FIB (1924–1995) was a 20th century Irish physical geographer at the University of Glasgow. She specialised in biogeography and has been credited for having helped raise the profile of biogeography as a distinct sub-discipline of geography. She published over 40 papers, books and reports and she was often asked to advise government agencies and other organisations. and was head of the Department of Geography and Topographic Science. Her proposers were John Lenihan, William Whigham Fletcher, Donald Michie, S. G. Checkland, Lord Cameron, and Wreford Watson. She was also elected a Fellow of the Institute of Biology (FIB).

Following retirement in 1984 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (FRSGS).

Publications These are some of her most notable books: Agricultural Ecology. Tivy, Joy. 1990. Longman Scientific and Technical. Biogeography: A Study of Plants in the Ecosphere. Tivy, Joy. 1993. Routledge. Human Impact on the Ecosystem (Conceptual frameworks in geography). Tivy, Joy. O'Hare, G. 1982. Oliver & Boyd. The Organic Resources of Scotland. Tivy, Joy. 1973. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd. The Glasgow region: a general survey. Eds. Ronald Miller and Joy Tivy. 1958. Edinburgh: T. & A. Constable.

She has 33 papers listed on ISI Web of Science.