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The multiple crises (climate, biodiversity, austerity) facing our socio-ecological systems require ambitious responses; with much of the responsibility for protecting public goods and developing sustainably lying with public policy. To tackle these wicked problems, there are increasing calls for policy coherence: to use the levers of government in a more holistic and systemic manner. Land use transformation is crucial to achieving these ambitions. However, there is limited scholarship that takes a comprehensive approach to analysing policy coherence (both horizontal and vertical).

The document aims to help answer the research question ‘How can coherence be monitored more effectively in the future?’.

Part of the Scottish Government's Strategic Research Programme (2022-2027), funded under the Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) Division of the Scottish Government

Project Purpose: to generate new insights for how land use in Scotland needs to change to meet climate change mitigation, adaptation, and other environmental objectives. The project also considers how approaches to land use can be better joined up.

Horizontal Policy Coherence for Land Use Transformations: Initial Screening Results

The importance of carbon sequestration rate considerations in area targets for afforestation: a strategic analysis for Scotland

Modelling Scenarios of Land Use Change