A Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) Programme research project has produced a Policy and Practice Note on its Sustainable Uplands project. This project has worked with the people who live, work and have an interest in the uplands to find out what the hills mean to them and how they would respond to potential future change.
The project team has considered how UK uplands might change under future social, economic and environmental conditions, and, using a combination of interviews, surveys and computer modelling, has developed two scenarios to be used as a starting point to think about our responses to future change.
Scenario one examines: What would improving UK food security mean for our hills?
Scenario two asks: What if managing carbon and wildlife became the top priority for our hill farmers?
The article is attached below.
You can download other policy and practice notes here.
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