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Land use decision making in rural areas

Commissioned as part of the wider Living Landscapes programme which aims to consider the Future of the Countryside, this study for the Royal Society reviewed arrangements for land use decision-making both in the UK and overseas across economic, environmental and social dimensions.

Land use decision making

The work centred on a detailed review involving an historical analysis, identification of current stakeholders and assessment of current arrangements and how they may be improved. This work was necessary in the light of Brexit and the need to reconfigure the institutional environment for effective goal delivery after the UK’s departure from the European Common Agriculture Policy. The work focused on a number of key ideas and options which policy and other new arrangements will need to confront and address in the coming years.

The summary report was published by the Royal Society in September 2020.

Authors Gavin Parker, Joe Doak