In November 2021, some 18 Hutton scientific staff and 20 external specialists gathered online to identify strategic research priorities for ILUSC to pursue over the next 5 to 10 years. This workshop was funded by the Macaulay Development Trust and facilitated by Dialogue Matters.
Participants were invited to:
- Envision ILUSC impacts by 2031
- Identify the external trends and changes - post-Covid - which we need to factor into our thinking
- Describe international land use issues and opportunities, both at present and those coming ‘over the horizon’
- Assess which of these issues and opportunities the James Hutton Institute is best placed to address
The workshop yielded a set of high-level research priorities:
- Enabling transformational change in land use
- Evaluating and supporting green finance initiatives with independent science
- Identifying the right scale and place for land-based intervention measures
- Supporting environmental and social justice in land relations
- Developing practical measures to support wetland and peatland restoration
- Bridging the science-policy-stakeholder interface with integrated data and translational research
A summary report of this process is available here. For the full notes of the workshop see the report by Dialogue Matters.
