Deliverables

For this technical report, we analysed responses from 16 responses to 17 government consultations related to land use. Following this analysis, we conducted 9 interviews with representatives from most of these organisations. The analysis explores various stakehold.ers’ views about what rural land in Scotland is for, what environmental and social issues are most concerning, and what should be done about those to reach a desired land use future.

This 4-minute digital story shows various stakeholders’ views about what rural land in Scotland is for, what environmental and social issues are most concerning, and what should be done about those to reach a desired land use future. It is a summary of the technical report "Visions for Future Land Use in Scotland: Technical Report on Different Views on Land Use/Land Use Change".

QST 1 Output - EFA Uptake Analysis.

This document is an output of the policy-led analysis within the Land Use Transformations (LUT) research project (C3-JHI-1) part of the 2022-27 Scottish Government (SG) Strategic Research Programme. The LUT project has a focus on how to deliver high level policy outcomes – especially achieving “Net Zero and other environmental objectives”. The Vision for the Agriculture Bill signals the potential for a transformation in agricultural support, particularly via the use of Enhanced Conditionality (EC) on at least 50% of direct payments.

This briefing is a deliverable from the Land Use Transformations project (JHI-C3-1) within the Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme (SRP) 2022-27. The purpose of the document is to share with SG analysts and policy leads the Quantitative Story Telling (QST) approach to working across the science-policy interface that will be deployed in the project. The aim is to raise awareness of the methodology, illustrate its potential and to act as a reference document for policy and other stakeholders collaborating on the research.

This story map presents analysis of how land use in Scotland would need to change if the net-zero GHG emission, climate adaptation and other environmental objectives are to be achieved.  The analysis is being conducted as part of the  Land use Transformations  project (JHI-C3-1) in the Scottish Government funded Strategic Research Programme 2022-27.  The story map is a "living” document that will continue to be updated and expanded over the course of the research programme.