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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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Reports (other academic/artistic)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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Reports (other academic/artistic)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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In: Community Development. - : Routledge. - 1557-5330 .- 1944-7485.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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In: The Munro Society Journal. ; :4, s. 129-136
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)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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Reports (other academic/artistic)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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In: Sociologia Ruralis. - : Wiley Blackwell. - 0038-0199 .- 1467-9523.
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)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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- Glass, Jayne, et al.
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Working Together for Sustainable Estate Communities : Exploring the potential of collaborative initiatives between privately-owned estates, communities and other partners
- 2012
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Reports (pop. science, debate, etc.)abstract
- This booklet explores the potential of collaborative initiatives between privately-owned rural estates, rural communities and other partners in upland Scotland. This topic is being explored in depth because it emerged as a key theme from the 'Sustainable Estates for the 21st Century' project, carried out at the Centre for Mountain Studies, Perth College, University of the Highlands and Islands, between 2007 and 2012.
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