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A summary of research outputs supported or facilitated by the Environmental Change Programme of the Scottish Government’s Portfolio of Strategic Research 2011-2016
An important considera on, given the high targets for emissions reduction and habitat restoration, is to consider where peatland conservation on and restoration on may be most desirable. To aid this process, a decision support tool has been developed that summarises all of the information on that is available at the national scale on peatland locations and various condition indicators.
Peatland drainage in Scotland has been carried out for over a century, to prepare peatland for afforestation, agricultural or grouse moorland use. Drainage leads to peatland degradation and carbon release, in the form of Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and the release of carbon into waterways. There are few records remaining of where drainage has taken place in Scotland, although this information is vital to enable accurate emissions accounting in the UK GHG Inventory and to assess priority areas to fulfil the ambitious peatland restoration and rewetting targets in the Climate Change Plan. A
My research interests relate to decision making and values around agriculture. I am an interdisciplinary social scientist and I am interested in what could be described as the philosophy of agriculture: what agriculture is for, why we value it and how we can understand change within agriculture. More information can be found on my James Hutton Institute staff profile. My work in SEFARI includes work in the Centre for Expertise in Animal Disease Outbreaks (EPIC), exploring beef and dairy farmers’ experiences of the Scottish Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) eradication scheme, and work understanding