What is the best way to model trade-offs and synergies across multiple environmental, social, and economic goals resulting from land use and land management?
Background
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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Related UKRI funded projects
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PLUS Change (Planning Land Use Strategies: Meeting biodiversity, climate and social objectives in a Changing world)
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
Why might this be relevant?
The project directly addresses the question by creating land use strategies that meet climate, biodiversity, and human well-being objectives.
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Joined-up land use strategies tackling climate change and biodiversity loss (MOSAIC)
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
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to gain a comprehensive understanding of land use decisions, awareness of climate change and biodiversity loss, and future land use patterns.
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Land Allocation and Valuation Models Phase 2
Land allocation models or Ecosystem service tools (ES tools) are simple descriptions of complex landscape processes which includes biogeochemical processes as well as demographic and socioeconomic influence. These ecosys...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: University of Aberdeen
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on land allocation models and ecosystem service tools to assess trade-offs and synergies across environmental, social, and economic goals resulting from land use and management.