Land use

Changes in climate variability with reference to land quality and agriculture in Scotland

Author / Creator: Iain Brown

Media type: Article

Date published: 2015

Changing climate variability has important implications for land-use planning and agricultural management


Climate change, drought risk and land capability for agriculture: implications for land use in Scotland

Author / Creator: Iain BrownLaura Poggio, Alessandro Gimona & Marie Castellazzi

Media type: Article

Date published: 2011

Drought risk is likely to have a significant influence on land use in the future.


Influence of climate change on agricultural land-use potential: adapting and updating the land capability system for Scotland

Author / Creator: Iain Brown

Date published: 2008

Climate change is likely to for land use changes in the Highlands of Scotland


Rethinking Communities, Land and Governance: Land Reform in Scotland and the Community Ownership Model

Author / Creator: Carey Doyle

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

Imagine being in a place where community organisations have wide-ranging powers over land ownership and use.


Regional Land Use Partnership LAND+Handbook

Author / Creator: Rachel Skene

Media type: Report

Date published: 2025

A community-led approach to collaboration, for the benefit of people and place.


Back to Life: Mapping Scotland’s Alternative to Grouse Moors

Author / Creator: Lateral North

Media type: Policy Paper

Date published: December 2018

An illustrative map – based on real Scottish geographic data – showing what a reformed former grouse moor could look like.


Back to Life: Visions for Alternative Futures for Scotland’s Grouse Moors

Author / Creator: Common Weal

Media type: Policy Paper

Date published:

Of all the possible uses of this land, grouse shooting is not only the least moral, it is by far the least economically effective. In fact, almost any other use will create more value and more jobs per hectare.