ScotScape – Negotiating Landscape Transitions
Restoring landscapes and their natural capital is challenging when farmers, foresters, local residents, and conservationists have conflicting land use priorities. Strategy games representing landscape dynamics can be used to find common ground across interest groups. As participatory and interactive models, strategy games foster a shared understanding of landscape complexities and trade-offs, and facilitate dialogues on management and policy options, leading to the emergence of new solutions.
The ScotScape strategy game was built in collaboration with local partners in Scotland, and reflects the structure and dynamics of an upland landscape. We use ScotScape to explore alternative perspectives on river and landscape restoration, and to negotiate management, policy, and investment decisions. We adapt ScotScape to other localities to understand landscape complexities, and to resolve trade-offs and conflicts that might arise in land management approaches.
Policy and Management Relevance
Our strategy games enable communities and decision-makers to negotiate landscape management agreements.
ScotScape – Negotiating Landscape Transitions is funded by Ecosystem Management, ETH Zurich (2023-2026), collaborating with external page Bioregioning Tayside.
external page Go to the ScotScape website
Project team
Dr. Ivan Novotny
Researcher
Go to profile
Dr. Giacomo Vaccario
Researcher
Go to profile