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:
Research Translation Fellowship The UK Government is designing a new Environmental Land Management (ELM) policy for England which will change how our rural landscape looks, and what it does, for centuries to come. It wi...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: University of Exeter
The project aims to deliver modelling evidence from the Landscapes Decisions Programme directly into the policy design process, which can help answer the question fully and the authors have the necessary expertise in land use modelling.
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 addresses land use strategies and decision-making processes, including land use modelling and interventions for sustainability, which directly answers the question about understanding effects of changes in land management.
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 aims to gain a comprehensive understanding of the motivations and drivers behind land use decisions, which can partially answer the question. The authors have the necessary expertise in interdisciplinary SSH research and land use modelling.