How can the UK academic sector and policy makers improve connections between those who understand and use analysis and land use decision makers who would benefit from these insights?

Background

Our key focus areas, detailed in our critical policy issues and questions below, are as follows:
• How emerging and developing technologies are likely to impact the future UK geospatial ecosystem, and how best to track its adoption and use in the economy.

• Further developing our understanding and methodology for valuing location data, applications and services to the economy and society.

• Building confidence in the geospatial ecosystem – including understanding changing public attitudes and growing the future pipeline of geospatial skills.

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Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

DSIT Areas of Research Interest 2024 GOV UK

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    Why might this be relevant?

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  • PLUS Change (Planning Land Use Strategies: Meeting biodiversity, climate and social objectives in a Changing world)

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    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...

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    Why might this be relevant?

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    Funded by: UKRI

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  • Skylark Analytics: Natural Capital Land Use Strategy

    The markets for carbon and other environmental goods need enhanced integrity. Trading requires confidence. Skylark communicates the relevant information to the relevant parties to supply that confidence. It will, in effe...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

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    The project focuses on enhancing land-use decision making and communication, aligning with the question's goal of improving connections between analysis users and decision makers.

  • Crowdsourcing Landscape Change

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

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  • Exploring how affordable, global people-centred geospatial data products could help planners to evaluate, plan and track progress to UN SDGs 3, 11 and 15

    More and more geospatial information on environmental quality is becoming available. This emerging data has numerous applications including enabling sustainable and healthy city planning, encouraging citizen awareness an...

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  • Towards Data-Driven Environmental Policy Design

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    As a society we have many competing needs for the landscapes around us. Decision makers need a good understanding of the implications of different decisions for land use e.g. whether to use land for different types of fa...

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