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Championing the Local 3 – Landscape-Scale Governance

Landscape-Scale Governance is the third in the CHAMPIONING THE LOCAL series of SEDA Land Conversations.

Date and time: to

Location: Online

Organisation: Scottish Ecological Design Association

This conversation will explore when it may be appropriate to scale up the model to regional or national level.

Regional Land Use Partnerships (RLUPs) and bioregions are models bordered by natural geographic and landscape boundaries such as mountain ridges and watersheds. Both adopt a natural capital approach to understanding their regional landscapes.

This addresses issues in a cross-sectoral way, using a systems approach, rather than simplifying the issues into sectoral silos.

This is a challenging ambition, since it means grappling with the complexity, uncertainty and trade-offs inherent in large scale, closely coupled, socio-ecological systems, but policy and land use decisions (such as natural flood protection measures) are often best made at such a scale.

This Conversation will include inspirational models, using these as a springboard for a broader discussion of the subject, addressing obstacles along the way and how to overcome them.

Championing the Local 3 — Scottish Ecological Design Association

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