ScotScape – Negotiating Landscape Transitions
Managing landscapes and natural capital is challenging when different groups have conflicting priorities. Our tools help people find common ground. Strategy games, visualisation tools, natural capital estimation, and discourse analysis tools enable stakeholders to build a shared understanding of landscape dynamics, fostering dialogue on management and policy options, and driving new solutions.
Our Research
The ScotScape toolkit has been built in collaboration with local partners in Scotland and reflects real-world dynamics. We use Scotscape to explore perspectives on river and landscape restoration, and to negotiate management, policy, and investment decisions. We adapt ScotScape to different localities to understand local landscape complexities, and to resolve trade-offs and conflicts that might arise in land management approaches.
ScotScape – Negotiating Landscape Transitions is funded by Ecosystem Management, ETH Zurich (2023-2026), collaborating with external page Bioregioning Tayside, external page NatureScot and other local partners.
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Related Project:
RE·FLECT - Visualising Daylight Management in River Restoration
Project team
Dr. Ivan Novotny
Researcher
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Anna Edgar
Scientific Researcher
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Johanna Wierer
Scientific Researcher