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.