RD 1.4.3: Practical interventions to realise multiple benefits and manage trade-offs

RD 1.4.3: Practical interventions to realise multiple benefits and manage trade-offs research considers how we can support delivery of multiple benefits in practice. Working with stakeholders at a landscape scale, we will support delivery of multiple benefits in intensive/extensive agricultural catchments; and woodland expansion in peri-urban and accessible-rural settings. A comparative research design, comparing different land use and land management choices will draw out what works where and why; and provide stakeholder feedback to RD 1.4.1 (priority data gaps) and RD 1.4.2 (local perceptions and management strategies).

Our work is organised as follows:

• Applying an adaptive management framework to facilitate the evaluation and coordination of measures to deliver multiple benefits contact Kit MacLeod
• Assessing the potential for agri-environmental measures to deliver multiple benefits at a landscape scale – contact Justin Irvine
• Developing approaches that reconcile woodland expansion with other land use priorities – contact Katrina Brown. This research is developed together with research on ecosystem benefits
• To use AM to integrate water management options for the delivery of multiple benefits – contact Kit Macleod. This work incorporates an ongoing project in the Lunan Catchment.

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.

Outputs:

• Brown, K.M. (2017). Digital Storytelling Mapping (DSM) methodology. RESAS1.4.3c Deliverable D3. The James Hutton Institute
• Donaldson-Selby G (2017) Visualisation of Future Woodland Scenarios, JamesHutton Institute, 9 pp.
• Macleod, C.J.A., K. Blackstock, A. Eastwood, K. Prager, A. Gimona, K. Brown, and J. Irvine. (2016). An overview of examples of adaptive management in action from the UK and internationally and selection of the most appropriate approach for the Scottish institutional context.
• Macleod, C.J.A., K. Blackstock, K. Brown, A. Eastwood, A. Fisher, A. Gimona, K. Prager, and R. J. Irvine. (2016). Adaptive management evaluation framework. RESAS1.4.3a Deliverable M2.
• Rajagopalan, D., and L. Kuhfuss. 2017. “Agri-Environmental Concerns and the Potential for Catchment-Scale Cooperation near Five Case-Study Research Farms in Scotland: an overview of the initial scoping exercise”. RESAS 1.4.3b D1. The James Hutton Institute.
• Brown K (2016) Living with Capercaillie: experiences from Boat of Garten, Research Briefing, James Hutton Institute.
• Brown K, Irvine J, Fischer A, Eastwood A and Herrett S (2016) Co-constructing the research agenda on accessible rural woodland expansion, James Hutton Institute, 7pp.
• Brown K, Irvine J, Fischer A, Eastwood A and Herrett S (2016) Benefits from woodland derived by communities from case study areas and the main trade-offs, James Hutton Institute, 24pp.
• Macleod, C.J.A. and R. Hewitt (2017). Summary of research on developing a more integrated approach to land and water management using incentives and regulations for the delivery of multiple benefits: exploring national and regional level stakeholder views and needs.
• Skuce, P., Mitchell, G., Cuthill, G., Zadoks, R., McCracken, D. & Irvine, J. (2017). Liver fluke risk and agri-environment schemes. Poster.
• Westerink, J., R. Jongeneel, N. Polman, K. Prager, J. Franks, P. Dupraz and E. Mettepenningen (2017). "Collaborative governance arrangements to deliver spatially coordinated agri-environmental management." Land Use Policy 69: 176-19
• Van Hulst, F.J., J Irvine and K Prager (2017) Summary of Glensaugh farm event, RESAS 1.4.3.b Research Deliverable D2, James Hutton Institute