Land management and land-use change has consequences for natural assets as well as the viability of land-based businesses and managing them requires cooperation and collaboration across a landscape. Adaptive Management, which iteratively uses evidence from monitoring interventions to evaluate the effectiveness of management interventions and inform the design of more effective alternatives, can support integrated land and water decision making to protect the multiple benefits derived from natural assets. This research is focused on a range of practical case studies that are representative of the major land uses in Scotland and seeks to identify and promote best practice in collective, landscape-scale Adaptive Management to help land managers deliver these benefits whilst maintaining viable land-based businesses.
The work involves researchers from the James Hutton Institute, Moredun Research Institute and Centre for Hydrology and Ecology (Edinburgh) working closely with local communities, land managers, Scottish Government agencies and environmental NGOs.
Aim of Research
The aim of this research is to evaluate the potential to manage trade-offs and deliver multiple benefits from natural assets at the landscape scale. Focussing on agri-environment and woodland expansion schemes, together with integrated catchment management, the research uses practical examples to explore trade-offs and impacts taking into account social and cultural values as well environmental considerations in relation to land use and land use change. We provide practical guidance to land managers and other stakeholders and illustrate how existing and novel policy measures can improve the management of our natural assets to support sustainable land-based industries and vibrant communities.
Our work is organised as follows:
Further information
General information on the Scottish Environment, Food and Agriculture Research Institutes (SEFARI) and the Scottish Government funded Strategic Research Portfolio can be found on the SEFARI website [5].
Within this, there are webpages providing summary overview information for each of the Research Deliverables (RDs) within the Strategic Programme. The page for RD 1.4.3 Practical interventions to realise multiple benefits and manage trade-offs is available here [6]and includes annual progress and highlights summaries, key outputs and links to case studies and key research staff.
To complement this, a more extensive list of outputs is provided below.
Links:
[1] mailto:Kit.MacLeod@hutton.ac.uk
[2] mailto:Laure.Kuhfuss@hutton.ac.uk
[3] mailto:Katrina.Brown@hutton.ac.uk
[4] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/research/projects/payments-ecosystem-services-lessons
[5] https://sefari.scot/
[6] https://sefari.scot/research/objectives/practical-interventions-to-realise-multiple-benefits-and-manage-trade-offs
[7] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/images/research/wp1_4_3-image-inpage.jpg
[8] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/research/srp2016-21/143%20DS%20methodology_20170904.pdf
[9] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/research/srp2016-21/Visualisation%20of%20Future%20Woodland%20Scenarios_Cumbernauld_Forest_Woods.pdf
[10] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/research/srp2016-21/RESAS_srp143_aD1_ReportOnRelevantAdaptiveManagementApproachesForScotland_v0.8Final.pdf
[11] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/research/srp2016-21/RESAS_srp143_aAM_evaluation_framework_final.pdf
[12] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/research/srp2016-21/RESAS_srp143_b_D1.pdf
[13] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/research/srp2016-21/RESAS_srp143_BOG_article_FINAL_with_photos.pdf
[14] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/research/srp2016-21/RESAS_srp143c_How_research_agenda_was_co-constructed_with_stakeholders_Cairngorm_case_study_final.pdf
[15] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/research/srp2016-21/RESAS_srp143_Output_143c-D2_Final.pdf
[16] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/research/srp2016-21/RESAS_srp143_RD1.2.4_and_1.4.3_ResearchBriefing.pdf
[17] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Fluke_poster_small_PS 210817_MkIII[1].pdf
[18] https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.09.002
[19] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Summary of Glensaugh farm event (Sep 2017).pdf
[20] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/Maps-of-land-use-data-and-ESS-for-catchment-level-CS-in-Scotland.pdf
[21] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/research/srp2016-21/Research%20Brief%20-%20Adaptive%20co-management%20of%20the%20Scottish%20uplands%20Final.pdf
[22] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/RecommendationsForLandscapeLevelAdaptiveManagement_FinalVersion.pdf
[23] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/staff/kirsty-blackstock
[24] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/staff/justin-irvine
[25] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/staff/kit-macleod
[26] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/staff/anke-fischer
[27] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/staff/antonia-eastwood
[28] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/staff/graham-begg
[29] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/research/srp2016-21/wp14-integrated-and-sustainable-management-natural-assets
[30] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/research/srp2016-21/wp141-natural-asset-inventory-and-accounts
[31] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/research/srp2016-21/wp142-identifying-and-understanding-multiple-benefits-and-trade-offs
[32] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/research/projects/ecosystem-approach-review
[33] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/research/projects/rd-132-ecosystem-services-provision