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- Atterton, Jane, et al.
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The role of the LEADER approach post-Brexit
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- LEADER is the European Union’s place-based, participatory and bottom-up approach to rural development. It is based on a set of seven core principles, which have remained unchanged over time: - area-based local development strategies; - a bottom-up approach; - public-private partnerships; - facilitating innovation; - integrated and multi-sectoral actions; - networking; and - co-operation. LEADER has been delivered in rural Scotland since 1991. This research, commissioned by the Scottish Government and carried out by a team from SRUC’s Rural Policy Centre, reviews the achievements of LEADER in Scotland over time to explore its legacy and the key factors which have contributed to the impacts that it has had.
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- Currie, Mags, et al.
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Understanding the response to Covid-19 : exploring options for a resilient social and economic recovery in Scotland’s rural and island communities
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This research considered the impacts of Covid-19 on rural and island communities, how resiliently they have responded; and the most effective ways forward for their recovery. Our research approach involved: interviewing people in key rural sectors then producing a map to identify factors of resilience. This map was used to identify case study communities. Interviews were undertaken in these communities to understand local perspectives.Rural and island communities have been vulnerable to the impacts of Covid. Specific factors that have increased their vulnerability include reliance on limited employment sectors, being located far from centralised services (e.g. hospitals), limited digital connectivity; and an ageing population. Communities with a more resilient response had some or all of the following features: a strong sense of community; community organisations and local businesses that have been responsive to local needs; the existence of strategic partnerships between community organisations and the public/private sector; and good digital connectivity.Covid-19 has brought rural vulnerabilities into sharp focus and these vulnerabilities are often connected. Strategic and joined-up partnerships between community, public and private sector organisations will remain important, as well as novel and flexible funding mechanisms to enable place-based and context-specific responses.This research highlighted nine actions that would assist rural and island communities to thrive in the future. These include: 1. Building on existing and new partnerships and supporting anchor organisations 2. Capitalising on and rewarding community spirit 3. Encouraging and supporting young people to move to rural and island communities 4. Retaining and enhancing digital connectivity opportunities 5. Supporting adaptable local businesses 6. Strategic partnerships with deliver place-based solutions 7. Continue to support diversification of the rural economy 8. Enhancing the knowledge base on local-regional vulnerabilities 9. Retaining a flexible, targeted and responsive approach to financial support.
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- Currie, Margaret, et al.
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Understandings and applications of rural community resilience amongst Scottish stakeholders : introducing dual discourses
- 2022
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Ingår i: Community Development. - : Routledge. - 1557-5330 .- 1944-7485.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper considers understandings and applications of community resilience deployed by multiple stakeholders in rural Scotland. By exploring what stakeholders think rural community resilience means in theory and practice, we enhance existing understandings of the concept. Scottish policy has shifted towards neoliberalism and community empowerment, with the Government encouraging communities to play a proactive role in enhancing their own resilience. For this to occur successfully, we argue that it is important to understand the perspectives of multiple stakeholders in how they conceptualize community resilience, identify what practical factors they believe enhance community resilience, and provide a greater understanding of the mechanisms through which community resilience can be delivered. Drawing on data collected from focus groups and in-depth, semi-structured interviews, we question what resilience means and what factors can facilitate it in practice. We find that by examining the perspectives of multiple stakeholders, dual discourses of resilience emerge: the emergency which reflects the policy focus on short-term damage reduction, and the everyday which reflects the desire for more long-term adaptive capacities developing in response to gradual change in rural communities. We conclude that the discourse which stakeholders predominantly align with will affect how they understand, adopt, and practice the concept.
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- Glass, Jayne, et al.
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Scotland’s Conservation Landowners
- 2016
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Ingår i: The Munro Society Journal. ; :4, s. 129-136
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Since the 1980s, there has been a reinvigorated movement by conservation organisations to purchase land in remote and scenic parts of Scotland. This has happened for a number of reasons, including a perceived failure of government conservation policies and designations to protect the natural heritage, and a growth in public environmental awareness. Buying land has also taken place as a way to demonstrate conservation land management in practice, alongside lobbying and campaigning activities, as well as to respond to threats from development.Current debates surrounding land reform in Scotland raise many questions about how land should be owned and managed. Should there be a cap on the upper limit of the size of landholdings? Who should be allowed to buy land in Scotland? Are privately-owned or community-owned estates likely to deliver more public benefits? Not as much discussed is the ‘middle ground’ of conservation ownership, where land is owned by well-known environmental organisations. What do we know about this type of land ownership and management model, and what benefits are associated with it?
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- Glass, Jayne, et al.
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The effects associated with concentrated and large-scale land ownership in Scotland : a research review
- 2019
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This research review accompanies the ‘Investigation into the Issues Associated with Large-Scale and Concentrated Landownership in Scotland’, published by the Scottish Land Commission in 2019. The review provides an additional evidence base for the Scottish Land Commission to assist the formulation of recommendations relating to concentrated and large-scale land ownership in Scotland.
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- Glass, Jayne, et al.
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Translating community resilience theory into practice : A deliberative Delphi approach
- 2022
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Ingår i: Sociologia Ruralis. - : Wiley Blackwell. - 0038-0199 .- 1467-9523.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the availability of important theoretical insights that could enhance the resilience of rural communities to complex challenges, there is a paucity of guidance on how to apply these insights in practice. This paper therefore presents and assesses a deliberative research process using the Delphi technique to elicit expert knowledge from 22 academics, community practitioners and policy makers working in roles related to community resilience delivery in rural Scotland. The participants co-produced an operational framework for community resilience, with support from researchers who facilitated the three-stage, interactive process. The methodology enabled participants to work together in an iterative and inclusive manner, culminating in the collective development of a conceptual framework consisting of eight resilience-enabling factors and corresponding criteria for monitoring change, which can be used to plan practical action and provide feedback to enable ongoing adaptation. The process also produced an in-depth understanding of participants’ perceptions of rural community resilience, identified key factors that enable or impede rural community resilience, analysed the potential to assess community resilience, and explored scale-related issues. The paper explores the implications of this framework for those working to make rural communities more resilient and reflects on the benefits and wider application of this type of research approach for developing shared understandings of complex concepts.
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- Holland, John, et al.
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Meeting the challenge of wild deer research to support delivery of sustainable deer management in Scotland
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this project was to analyse existing wild deer research and identify specific research and evidence gaps which need to be addressed in order to meet the challenges for each of the five priorities outlined in Scotland’s Wild Deer - A National Approach (WDNA).The project was developed to facilitate more effective exchange of knowledge and provide a fuller understanding of the issues involved in deer management and therefore help deliver targeted, informed and sustainable deer management in Scotland. This report complements the recently published Deer Management in Scotland: Report to the Scottish Government from Scottish Natural Heritage 2016.Gaps in the existing knowledge-base were identified by gathering the views of stakeholders at a series of workshops, through an online survey of researchers and policy makers, and through a review of published and un-published research material. Workshops were run across Scotland, including four regional stakeholder workshops, one workshop for trainers,and one for researchers/policy makers. The uptake of research by stakeholders was also examined through the use of an on-line survey of researchers and policy makers. The information gained from the workshops, online survey and literature review were analysed to determine the key research and knowledge transfer gaps associated with each of the five WDNA priorities.As part of the project a web-based deer research resource was created that provides an online database of deer research relevant to the five WDNA priorities (www.deerscotland.info).
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- McMorran, Rob, et al.
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Review of International Experience of Community, Communal and Municipal Ownership of Land
- 2020
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Community landownership in Scotland is generally understood as ownership of title to land and/or assets by a community body, linked to a defined geographic community. It is a relatively distinct category of landownership, regarded as different to public ownership of land (e.g. by government agencies and non-departmental public bodies). In contrast, the interpretation of ‘community’ or ‘communal’ ownership of land varies in other countries and is often less clearly distinguished from public ownership. Municipal ownership as a form of state ownership where the land is owned by municipal bodies (e.g. communes) at different scales, is also relevant due to the high level of community control. Communal or municipal rights to land are relatively common globally and across much of Europe, with a growing, statutory recognition of rural communities as collective owners of land. This research was commissioned to provide an overview of relevant forms of community, communal and municipal landownership in other countries, and suggest how lessons from international experiences could be applicable in Scotland.
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- McMorran, Rob, et al.
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Rural Land Market Insights Report : A report to the Scottish Land Commission
- 2022
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report presents the findings of the first stage of a two-stage research project commissioned by the Scottish Land Commission, on improving reporting of land market transactions in Scotland. This first stage aimed to identify current trends within Scotland’s rural land market to provide an up to date picture of buyer and seller motivations, with a specific focus on understanding how increased demand for natural capital investment isdriving activity in the land market.
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- McMorran, Rob, et al.
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The socioeconomic benefits of the ownership and management of land by environmental non-governmental organisations : Evidence for Scotland's Land Reform Policy Review (2012-2014)
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this study was to identify and understand the key socio-economic benefits of ownership and management of land by environmental non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Scotland. The objectives were to:Assess the extent of ownership and management of land by environmental NGOs in Scotland.Determine the natural heritage significance and landscape value of land under NGO ownership and management.Determine key socio-economic benefits of NGO ownership and management of land, including employment impacts, access and visitor numbers, extent of volunteering and direct spend.Assess the extent of community engagement on NGO-owned and managed land, including educational engagement and partnerships.
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- McVittie, Alistair, et al.
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A review of the social, economic and environmental benefits and constraints linked to wild land in Scotland
- 2017
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Wild land is an important component of Scotland’s natural environment. Scottish Planning Policy highlights that wild land character is displayed in some of Scotland’s remoter upland, mountain and coastal areas with a strong sense of remoteness, ruggedness, lack of human artefacts and perceived naturalness. SNH has identified 42 Wild Land Areas, and this report provides evidence on the benefits and constraints associated with wild land.
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- Rust, Niki, et al.
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Perceived Causes and Solutions to Soil Degradation in the UK and Norway
- 2022
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Ingår i: Land. - : Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute. - 2073-445X. ; 11:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Soil quality is declining in many parts of the world, with implications for the productivity, resilience and sustainability of agri-food systems. Research suggests multiple causes of soil degradation with no single solution and a divided stakeholder opinion on how to manage this problem. However, creating socially acceptable and effective policies to halt soil degradation requires engagement with a diverse range of stakeholders who possess different and complementary knowledge, experiences and perspectives. To understand how British and Norwegian agricultural stakeholders perceived the causes of and solutions to soil degradation, we used Q-methodology with 114 respondents, including farmers, scientists and agricultural advisers. For the UK, respondents thought the causes were due to loss of soil structure, soil erosion, compaction and loss of organic matter; the perceived solutions were to develop more collaborative research between researchers and farmers, invest in training, improve trust between farmers and regulatory agencies, and reduce soil compaction. In Norway, respondents thought soils were degrading due to soil erosion, monocultures and loss of soil structure; they believed the solutions were to reduce compaction, increase rotation and invest in agricultural training. There was an overarching theme related to industrialised agriculture being responsible for declining soil quality in both countries. We highlight potential areas for land use policy development in Norway and the UK, including multi-actor approaches that may improve the social acceptance of these policies. This study also illustrates how Q-methodology may be used to co-produce stakeholder-driven policy options to address land degradation.
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- Warren, Rachel, et al.
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Attitudes to land reform
- 2021
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report presents the main findings from a research study exploring the public’s attitudes to land reform. The study was conducted on behalf of the Scottish Government by Ipsos MORI Scotland in collaboration with Scotland’s Rural College. Fieldwork took place between Spring and Autumn 2020.The aim of this research was to investigate the public’s attitudes to land reform and community engagement in decisions about land use and provide a nuanced understanding of what policy options are likely to meet the public’s priorities.A mixed-method approach was adopted, comprising: an evidence review, eightinterviews with expert stakeholders, a mixed mode (online and telephone) survey of 1,501 respondents aged 16 and over, and a deliberative stage which involved 10 online workshops and 12 interviews.
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