Honours[edit]

In the 2003 New Year Honours, Gardner was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to geography".[4] She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS),[2] and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).[3]


In 2016, she was awarded the Scottish Geographical Medal, the highest honour of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, in recognition "of her outstandingly successful work in promoting Geography – in academic research, in schools, and in public life".[5] She was also made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society (FRSGS) in 2016.[6]

Gardner, Rita; Scoging, Helen, eds. (1983). Mega-geomorphology: twelve of the papers presented at a conference of the British geomorphological research Group; London, 26-30 March 1981. Oxford: Clarendon Press.  978-0198232445.

ISBN

; Gardner, Rita (1985). Discovering landscape in England & Wales (1st ed.). London: Allen & Unwin. ISBN 978-0045510764.

Goudie, Andrew

; Gardner, Rita (1992). Discovering landscape in England & Wales (2nd ed.). London: Chapman & Hall. ISBN 978-0412478505.

Goudie, Andrew