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How might our farmers adapt to a public money for public goods regime?

There is still a lot of water to flow under the bridge before the scale and shape of future public funding to farmers and other land managers becomes clearer. But with Brexit rapidly approaching – and with each new model of theoretical scenarios suggesting that major changes to current support levels are inevitable – then one major topic of debate revolves around the suggestion that future support for land management will primarily be targeted at the provision of public goods.

Rewarding the Delivery of Public Goods: How to Achieve this in Practice?

This conference will seek to help inform and shape the debate about how best to reward farmers, foresters and other land managers for delivering public goods from their land management practices. In particular it will provide a forum to help develop thinking of practical implementation on the ground and what that means for policy development.

We are delighted that the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform, Rosanna Cunnigham MSP is able to address the conference.

28-29 November - 08:30-20:00

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Biodiversity Conservation Post 2020: New Challenges and New Approaches

This conference will consider some of the new challenges facing biodiversity conservation and the novel and innovative solutions biodiversity science can offer.

The conference will run from 13:00, Monday, 5 November to 13:00, Tuesday, 6 November. It will focus on four main themes:

5 November 2018 - 12:00-19:30

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Governing Scotland’s natural resources: are our policies sufficiently joined -up?

Decisions about natural resources need to balance multiple interests and goals in order to safeguard Scotland’s economic, social and environmental prosperity. However, many existing policies for the environment focus on separate problems, such as protecting endangered species or reducing water pollution: this may not automatically enable a joined-up approach to environmental management. Our research explores the interactions of a sample of ‘policy instruments’, including regulations, incentives and guidance,

Dr Kerry Waylen

My research focuses on the challenges of achieving more participatory and holistic natural resource management, with a particular focus on the Ecosystem Approach and the challenges of governing complex socio-ecological systems.

Kerry Waylen

The James Hutton Institute
Craigiebuckler
Aberdeen AB15 8QH
Scotland UK

Bog Blog – behind the scenes of a new film about restoring our peatlands

We first met Andrew Macdonald, ExhibitScotland, at the Royal Highland Show (RHS) in 2017. Staffing the Virtual Reality corner for RSPB in the Education tent, he first showed us his 360 film shot at Abernethy.

Climate Change - Discussing Extreme Scenarios

Climate change and the impact it will have presents significant challenges to our future. The effects will be felt across many sectors of society and will influence our personal and professional lives in some profound ways. Some of these impacts have not been identified yet and even when they have they can still be difficult to assess, both in terms of how important they will be and what knock-on effects they will have.

Peatland Connections: Building Prosperity

Peatland restoration is one of the major policy interventions in Scotland’s Climate Change Plan, with a target of 20,000 hectares per year. Peatlands in good condition are net carbon sinks, while degraded sites can emit substantial amounts of carbon, contributing to climate change. Since the start of this millennium, over £10 million has been spent on publicly funded restoration projects to reduce Scotland’s net carbon emissions.

2-4 October 2018 -

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No Hitchhikers! Biosecurity on display at the Botanics

New and emerging diseases of plants and animals are one of the greatest threats to food security and natural resources today. These emergences are accelerating, driven by the effects of climate change, trade and human movement of plant and animal material.

Citizen Science: How to Investigate Pests and Diseases Under Climate Change

We have created a state-of-the-art, and free to download, desktop app to provide climate change risk assessments for crops pests and diseases in the UK that anyone can use.

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