This report from The Royal Society sets out a “multifunctional” approach to land use (with a focus on the UK) - i.e. an approach that considers how land can produce not only goods with a market value (such as food) but also a wide range of products and services that for the most part do not have a market value (e.g. biodiversity provision, carbon sequestration and flood alleviation).
The report recommends that further research is needed to maximise the synergies between different landscape functions; that land managers should be supported in gaining the new skills and knowledge that are needed for this new land management approach; that a common, national evidence platform could utilise data science to inform land use decisions; and that the UK should develop a spatially explicit land use framework to ensure that land use decisions are aligned across different policy areas and spatial scales.
Read the full report, Multifunctional landscapes: Informing a long-term vision for managing the UK’s land, here. An interactive game is also available: The UK land use challenge. See also the TABLE explainer What is land use and land use change?
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