In the densely populated UK, competition for land between urban, rural, food, energy, recreation, environmental outcomes, industry and other uses is a fundamental issue. Our interaction with the natural environmental is often through our use of land.
We need to assess, in a changing society and climate, how best to sustainably use available land area as well as the full suite of natural environment considerations in that use.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
PLUS Change brings together 23 institutions from across Europe including 5 Universities, 5 research institutes, 3 stakeholder network organisations, 1 performing arts collective, and 9 practice partners representing regi...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL
The project aims to create land use strategies that balance climate, biodiversity, and human well-being objectives, which aligns with the question's focus on balancing different interests to improve the state of the environment.
The Strategic Priority Fund (SPF) programme 'Landscape Decisions: towards a new framework for using land assets' is delivering a new framework for land management decisions. It draws on social science, economics, natural...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: University of Leicester
The project aims to deliver a new framework for land management decisions, which includes reducing degradation of natural capital and improving the state of the environment.
Urgent and concerted action can stop and reverse unsustainable land use and the over-exploitation of land resources. This will however require rapid, simultaneous and coordinated action by a diversity of land use decisio...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
The project seeks to understand the motivations behind land use decisions and develop strategies to address climate change and biodiversity loss, which directly relates to the question's focus on balancing different interests to reduce degradation of natural capital.