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Nurturing Vibrant and Low Carbon Communities

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Rural places have a central role in supporting productive land use

The challenge is to deliver knowledge and ideas to empower communities to deliver transformative change to address the major geographical differences in wealth and wellbeing across rural areas of the world and to support rural people to provide a suite of market and non-market products to better meet societal needs. We will use mono- and multi-disciplinary approaches from social, economic, geographical and psychological sciences to address the challenge. We will deploy state of the art models to assess the impact of policy change and economic shocks on rural economies, the latest participatory approaches to ensuring enhanced governance of land management and rural development and the latest technologies such as the virtual landscape theatre to engage with rural stakeholders in exploring alternative rural futures.

Nurturing Vibrant and Low Carbon Communities Theme Leader: Robin Matthews

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