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End of project presentation given at Castleton, Peak District National Park, 2nd June 2010, describing outputs from the RELU funded Sustainable Uplands project

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reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme

Sustainable UplandsLearning to manage future change

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Sustainable Uplands project

Working with people in uplands to better anticipate, monitor and respond to future change

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• Test sites in Peak District, Yorkshire Dales and Galloway

• Funding from RELU & ESRC• Additional funding for 16 projects using findings e.g.

Yorkshire Water, Natural England, DEFRA, Premier Waste, United Utilities, Scottish Government, Commission for Rural Communities, Government Office for Science, International Union for the Conservation of Nature

Sustainable Uplands project

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University of Leeds:Prof Joseph HoldenDr Klaus HubacekDr Nesha Beharry-BorgMs Jan BirchMs Sarah BuckmasterDr Dan ChapmanDr Pippa ChapmanDr Stephen CornellDr Andy DougillDr Evan FraserDr Jenny HodgsonDr Nanlin JinDr Brian IrvineProf Mike KirkbyDr Bill KuninMr Oliver MooreDr Claire Quinn Dr Brad ParrishDr Lindsay StringerProf Mette Termansen

University of Aberdeen:Dr Mark Reed

University of Durham:Prof Tim BurtDr Fred WorrallDr Rob DunfordDr Gareth Clay

University of Sheffield: Dr Christina Prell

Wirtschafts University, Austria:Dr Sigrid Stagl

International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria:

Jan Sendzimir

Moors for the Future partnership

The Heather Trust (Simon Thorp)

The Sustainable Uplands team:

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Workshop Aims

1. Feedback the research outcomes of the Sustainable Uplands project.

2. Allow stakeholders to examine the research and put questions directly to research team.

3. Bring upland stakeholders together to discuss options for upland policy and practice.

4. Bring people together to discuss how we can move forward and turn research into practice.

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10:00 The Future of the uplandsJon Walker (Moors for the Future)

10:25 Sustainable Uplands: Introduction and methods

11:00 – 11:20 Break

11:20 Sustainable Uplands: Outcomes

11:50 Film screenings and discussions

12:45 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 Small group discussions

14:40 Sustainable Uplands: Next steps

15:00 Close

Programme

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Discussion Topics

1. Lack of new farmers

2. Upland collaboration

3. Effective management of increased recreation

4. Profitability of hill farming

5. Role of land management in influencing water quality

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1. Why are the uplands so important?

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Why are uplands so important?

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Current and future pressures

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Kyoto Protocol

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Common Agriculture Policy reform

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Water Framework Directive implementation

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Ongoing climate, cultural, social and demographic change

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2. How can we prepare for the future?

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Fortune-Telling

Human-environmental systems are highly dynamic and unpredictable

http://www.visualparadox.com/images/no-linking-allowed-main/newspaper.jpg

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Dreaming

• Most people’s vision for the future is status quo and radical visions may be unpopular

• Who’s vision do we aim for – what is best for most people?

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Reed MS, Arblaster K, Bullock C, Burton R, Hubacek K, May R, Mitchley J, Morris J, Potter C, Reid C, Swales V, Thorpe S (2009) Using scenarios to explore UK upland futures. Futures 41: 619-630

Thinking about scenarios

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A new approach to scenarios

• “Thinking out of the box” to anticipate and prepare for a wider range of futures in greater depth

• Combines knowledge from multiple stakeholders with evidence from science and computational modelling

• Goes beyond scenarios to identify and test adaptation options

• What did we do? - 7 steps…

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1. Better understand stakeholders priorities and their relationships through stakeholder analysis and social network analysis, and select working groups

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2. Understand current/future challenges/opportunities: interviews & site visits with stakeholders/researchers

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Managedburns overless areaDefra Burning

Code Review

10% leftunburned

Blanket BogBurning Ban

ShorterBurningSeason

Lessshooting days

Futureshooting ban

Increasedanimal rights

activism

Lowereconomic

returns fromgrouse

Lessmoorland

managed forgrouse

Smaller rurallabour pool

Demographicchange

Culturalchange

Conservationpriorities

More longheather

More scrub

Morebroadleaf

forest

Moreaccidental

fires

ClimateChange to

warmer/drier

Less erosion Less watercolour

More erosionMore water

colourLess

vegetationcover

Afforestationschemes

Coniferreplacement

schemes

Burningtechnologyadvances

CAP reform

Single farmpayment

EnvironmentalStewardship

Scheme

Hill sheepless

profitable

Less gamekeepering

Rural-urbanmigration

Ageing ruralpopulation

Less interestin rural

livelihoods

Less intensivegrazing

Agriculturalmarkets

Diversification?

Ecologicalrestoration

Recreationalpriorities

More controlof burning

Less bareground

Less 'flashy'hydrology

Badly timed burns,possibly under

burning

Reduction insheep numbers

Increasedrecreational use -walking, climbing,

tourism

Reluctance toclose moors

under fire risk

3. Conceptual system model from interviews, site visits & literature; trace drivers to create scenarios

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4. Refine and prioritise scenarios for investigation

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1. Farmers as ecosystem providers

2. Hill farming collapse3. Rural labour pool dries up4. Burning ban (blanket bog)5. Shooting ban6. Bird disease7. Managed retreat8. Arable uplands

Scenarios that were developed from steps 1-4

9. Upland energy production10. Tourism expansion11. Forested Scottish uplands12. Conservation forestry future

All integrate climate change and restoration can be turned “on” and “off”

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Peak District:• Blanket bog

burning ban• Farmers as

ecosystem providers

• Hill farming collapse

• Arable uplands

Nidderdale:• Hill farming collapse• Farmers as ecosystem

providers• Bird disease/shooting

ban• Arable uplands

Short-listGalloway:• Tourism

expansion• Upland energy

production• Conservation

forestry• Hill farming

collapse

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Peak District:• Blanket bog

burning ban• Farmers as

ecosystem providers

• Hill farming collapse

• Arable uplands

Short-list

Climate Change

Farmers as carbon and wildlife managers

Food secure future

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5. Collate existing data, collect new data and model possible futures: details, feedbacks, scenarios interactions, ES trade-offs for future planning

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6. Communicate model outputs through stories, films and visualisations that depict different likely futures

Year: 201020152020

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www.see.leeds.ac.uk/sustainableuplands

7. Find innovative ways that people can respond and discuss ideas from literature (How would you respond if this happened?)

• Model innovative ideas: how likely to work? • Use results to revise/refine ideas to ensure they

work

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Dr. Christina Prell and Dr. Klaus Hubacek

Social network research

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We used SNA to identify stakeholders and to involve a small portion of them in meaningful dialogue and learning– Problem: How to locate a small group of stakeholders that

represented the widest array of views and positions in the network?

Social network analysis (SNA): Peak District National Park

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• We had, from a previous scoping study a complete roster of stakeholder names.

• Roster included 60 names, which were gathered through an iterative (time consuming!) stakeholder analysis process.

• Thus, we felt reasonably confident that the names on our roster represented our stakeholder network for the Peak District.

SNA for stakeholder selection: Peak District National Park

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• Each person on the roster was given a copy of roster and asked

– How frequently do you communicate with each person on this list regarding land management issues in the Peak District? Likert scale, 5-pt.

• Asked them to identify themselves as: – Conservation, Water, Agriculture, Tourism, Recreation, Grouse

Social Networks

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n=51, stakeholder categories = 7

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• We selected a small portion of stakeholders based on three criteria:

• Chose actors who occupied – Different positions in the network (structural equivalence)– Had relatively high centrality scores within those positions– Came from different stakeholder categories

• This informed the final stakeholder selection, but did not determine it….

Stakeholder selection:

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• The management team for the Nidderdale AONB had already assembled a ‘network’ of for advising purposes, i.e. the Advisory Team

• This is a group of roughly 30 individuals, representing a wide range of organizations, views and ‘stakes’….

– businesses; local and national government; local and national non-government conservation groups; recreationists; water organizations

• We were not conducting site visits here, and thus, we did not need to try and figure out the network in order to make a smaller selection

• Instead, we used SNA to explore the idea ‘to what extent are stakeholders’ views influenced by their networks?’

The network in Nidderdale:

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The network according to stakeholder category

Re: your last LM decision in Nidderdale, whom did you speak with?

Are there places you go to where LM issues are frequently discussed? Who tends to be there?

Any other individual/org. you speak with about LM issues in Nidderdale?

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Actors who share a tie share same/similar views regarding land management on these statements

Land management view

Land owners need more autonomy in making land management decisions

Enforcement of tighter moorland burning regulations is important

Exploring Nidderdale's potential for hydropower

Encouraging more local people into the farming sector

Changing land management to reduce water colour

Allowing the uplands to return to a natural state, without management

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• Yes, sharing a communication tie coincides with sharing the same views towards certain land management issues or perspectives.

• Our data showed little evidence to the idea that stakeholders sharing the same stakeholder category share the same perspective…• E.g. national conservationists did *not* all agree on land management

issues. Rather, two actors tied together, regardless of their category/affiliation, were more likely to share the same view….

• Thus, when we think about ‘’including a diverse group of stakeholders’, we automatically thinking that different stakeholder categories implies different views on land management….

• However, these results indicate that one needs to also think how social networks are structuring ‘differences’ in opinion…–

Discussion/Conclusions

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Questions

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Project OutcomesTeam Presentations

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Carbon and burning

Gareth Clay and Fred Warrall

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Problem

• Peatlands are single largest terrestrial carbon store in the UK

• Multiple ecosystem services from these areas e.g. water, farming, biodiversity

• But changes in water colour, habitats, loss of sediments

• What role does land management play in all of this?

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Managed burning

• Why do we burn? – Vegetation development

• Grouse• Sheep• Rejuvenation

– Fuel reduction

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Methodology

KEY No Burn Grazed (unfenced) Piezometers 10 year burn 20 year burn Ungrazed (fenced)

Block A Block B

32 1

1

23

1

1

1

1

2

2

2

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3

3

3

1

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33

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MonitoringWhat are we monitoring?

– Water table and runoff occurrence– Soil water and runoff water– Carbon

• DOC, CO2

– Cation and anion chemistry• Nutrients• Metals• Flow tracers

– Hydraulic Conductivity– Soil coring

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ResultsComponent Significant

EffectComment Reference

Water Table Yes Shallowest on burnt sites Clay et al., 2009a

Runoff occurrence Yes Increased following burning Clay et al., 2009a

DOC No But, small spike following burn

Clay et al., 2009b

POC Yes Increase (from Clement, 2005)

Clay et al., in review

Dissolved CO2 No Clay et al., in review

Respiration No Clay et al., in review

Primary productivity Yes Higher on burnt sites (vegetation effect?)

Clay et al., in review

Methane Yes Increase due to water table rise (modelled)

Clay et al., in review

Significant effect p<0.05

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Overall carbon budgetAll site were sources

157 gCm-2yr-

1 118 gCm-2yr-1

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Conclusions

• Doesn’t factor in char• Wildfires• Other land management• Grazing intensity

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Impact of upland land management on water quality

Dr. Pippa Chapman

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Catchment management and water quality

In the UK, the uplands cover approximately 33% of the total land area but are the source of most of the major rivers and supply over 70% of potable water.

To comply with the water framework directive (WFD), Defra are looking at the role catchment management can play in reducing diffuse pollution and thus improving water quality.

UK water companies are also looking at the role catchment management can play in improving water quality in an attempt to reduce water treatment costs.

In order to implement catchment management strategies that will improve water quality, we need a better understanding of how spatial variations in land management and catchment characteristics control water chemistry.

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Upland landscape

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Controlled, rotational (10-15 years) patch burning of the heather to produce stands at different ages, which increase habitat structural diversity for grouse

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Networks of drainage ditches were introduced with the purpose of lowering the water table to improve the quality of vegetation for grazing and hence increase agricultural production.

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Agricultural improvement has involved a combination of drainage, enclosure, liming, reseeding and fertilising with farm yard manure and inorganic fertiliser to create upland marginal pasture.

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Impact of BurningYallop & Clutterbuck, 2009. Sci. Tot. Environ.

•Small catchments (0.13 to 3 km2) in Yorkshire

•Peat dominated (>25% of area)

Significant effect of ‘new burn’ area on stream DOC (mean of 4

samplings)

% Burnt

0 20 40 60 80 100

Wat

er c

olou

r (a

u m

-1 @

400n

m)

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

1986 2006

Chapman et al. Biogeochemistry (in press)

•Small catchments (0.05 to 3.7 km2) in Yorkshire

•Peat dominated (>34% of area)

No impact of burning (proportion of catchment showing signs of being burnt in the past) on mean annual

water colour

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Impact of Burning

•No significant effect of burning on DOC in soil water (left) and surface run-off (right)•But peak in DOC and colour 1 month after burn

Clay et al., Journal of Hydrology, 2009

Plot-scale experiment at Trout Beck, North Pennines

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Impact of drainage

% Drained

0 20 40 60 80 100 120

Wat

er c

olou

r (a

u m

-1 @

400n

m)

2

4

6

8

10

12

14

16

18

19862006

1986 r = 0.39; 2006 r = 0.05

Chapman et al. Biogeochemsitry (in press)Wallage et al, 2007, Science Tot. Environment

In general, drainage has been observed to lead to an increase in dissolved and particulate organic carbon (DOC & POC).

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Impact of drain blocking

Wallage et al, 2007, Science Tot. Environment

•Drain-blocking in blanket peat has been shown to result in a significant decrease in water colour and DOC concentrations in peat and drain waters and streams at some sites.

•But at other sites no significant difference in DOC exists between drained and blocked systems.

•The results of drain blocking may depend on peat type, position within the landscape and other environmental factors.

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Impact of fertiliser use

Edwards et al., 2000. Journal of Applied Ecology

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Impact of fertiliser use

Improved grass (% of catchment)

0 20 40 60 80

NO

3-N

(m

g L

-1)

0.0

0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

2.5

y=0.019x + 0.295, r2 =0.52, P<0.01, n=27

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Summary• Relationship between burning and DOC maybe transient.• Drainage of blanket peat generally leads to enhanced DOC & POC

production.• Studies investigating the impact of drain blocking on DOC and water

colour have observed contrasting results; no change, increases or decreases in DOC.

• Success of drain-blocking, from a water quality perspective, may be dependent on peat type, position and size of drains and other environmental factors.

• Relationship between land management and water quality may change over time.

• Nitrate concentrations are strongly related to the proportion of improved grass in a catchment and time of year.

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Flooding

Prof. Joseph Holden

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bedrock

soil

infiltration

percolation

throughflow

saturated

Infiltration-excess overland flow (Hortonian OLF)

Saturation-excess overland flow

precipitation

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0

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m3 s

-1

Oct 03 Oct 04

Discharge, Trout Beck, 2004 water year, 15-minute data

Evans, Burt, Holden and Adamson, 1999, Journal of Hydrology

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Can management in upland peatlands influence flood risk?

A major question – people have been trying to answer this for decades, especially for UK upland peatlands: gripping, gullying, grip-blocking etc– Data problems– Conflicting processes– Change over time is lagged

So we wanted to scope a different approach to answering this question

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1. Used real data on flow speeds across the land under different vegetation types, topography etc

2. Found data from a site where we could map historic area of bare peat and compare with the response of the river to rainfall over the last 60 years – a unique dataset

3. Develop some scenarios of possible vegetation change that might impact flow

4. Used the data to predict possible impacts on the floods downstream for the different scenarios

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Field results• Flow much faster across bare peat and much slower across

Sphagnum when compared to cotton grass etc – but having the real numbers means we can make better predictions at the large catchment scale

• Catchment-scale findings – Hydrographs were significantly peakier with higher peaks per unit of rainfall and narrower hydrograph shapes during the more eroded periods; less so as the site has revegetated.

• For the first time we have found evidence in a large blanket peat headwater catchment that vegetation cover influences river flow response to rainfall.

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ScenariosScenario Description

1 100% ‘Sphagnum’ coverage

2 100% ‘Bare’ coverage

3 ‘Bare’ revegetated to ‘Sphagnum’

→ C

umulative →

4 50% ‘Eriophorum-Sphagnum mix’ to ‘Sphagnum’

5 50% ‘Eriophorum’ to ‘Eriophorum-Sphagnum mix’

6 50% ‘Heather’ to ‘Eriophorum’

7 30% ‘Heather’ to ‘Eriophorum’ Alternative to Scenario 6

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The simulated hydrographs generated using for each vegetation re-establishment

and management scenario in the Hollinsclough catchment

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SummaryA modest simulated reduction in peak discharge is associated with those vegetation re-establishment and management scenarios that involve a significant return toward pristine blanket bog vegetation.

• However, modest changes in the upland hydrographs can mean large changes in flood peaks further downstream depending on flood wave synchronicity and connectivity of the river channel network.

•If a reservoir is at 104 % capacity we might be able to make a difference to get it down to 100%

•The once in 10 year flood might become the once in 11 year flood

•Unlikely to make much difference for really large storms and the biggest events

•More likely to make an impact for the small to intermediate-scale events

• Clear practical conclusion is that eliminating bare areas (i.e. by encouraging vegetation restoration) any return to a more pristine Sphagnum cover elsewhere would be beneficial in terms of delaying flow.

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Property rights in upland systems

Dr. Claire Quinn

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•Changing and competing demands– Uplands have multiple uses and users

• Amenity, water catchment, farming– Who does/should have a say over how the different

resources are managed?

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•What are property rights?– Recognised authority

Property rights regimes– Private property– State property– Common property

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Water companies

Forestry (private)

Agriculture (owned) Grouse

moor owners

Forestry (state) Agriculture

(tenants)

Water companies (Elsewhere)

Recreation/ Tourism

Access X X X X

Withdrawal X X X

Management X X

Exclusion X X

Alienation X

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Water companies

Forestry (private)

Agriculture (owned) Grouse

moor owners

Forestry (state) Agriculture

(tenants)

Water companies (Elsewhere)

Recreation/ Tourism

Access CROW Act 2000Land Reform (Scotland) Act

2003

Withdrawal Environmental designations (SSSI and SPA)

Management SSSI and SPA designationMoorland Management plans

Water Framework Directive and water resources legislation

Exclusion Access decisions curtailed by the CROW Act and Land Reform Act

Alienation

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•Mixed property rights in uplands– Private property – grouse– Private-state property – biodiversity– Common property – water catchments

•What about other services e.g. Carbon?

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•Implications for policy and management– Unclear how successful mixed regimes are– Recommendations

• Appropriate regime for private, common pool and public goods

• Appropriate links between regimes• Management needs to be flexible to adapt to new

demands

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Questions

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3. What might the future hold?

Dr. Mark Reed

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Intensification Scenario

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Extensification Scenario

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4. What would this mean for the ecosystem services we depend

upon?

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Future benefits?

• Carbon management via peatland restoration (as opposed to renewable energy developments) under the extensification scenario may bring a number of co-benefits:• Less brown water• Reduced fire risk• Protection of moorland/bog species

important for conservation• Limit scrub/forest encroachment• Supplement incomes in remote areas via

carbon markets?

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But prepare for major trade-offs• Extensive management will benefit biodiversity in over-

grazed moorlands and carbon, but compromise provisioning services such as game and sheep production, and in drier locations where scrub/forest encroaches, lead to a loss of moorland species and current recreational benefits

• Intensification prioritises provisioning services at the expense of most other ecosystem services

• Both scenarios are likely to compromise upland biodiversity in many locations• Already a source of conflict...

Golden Plover

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Upland communities tend to be well connected – this is the Moors for the Future partnership, in the Peak District

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This is a sub-sample of 22 individuals we

interviewed, showing those who

communicated most with other (no

matter how infrequently) in the network as larger

dots

Hill Farming

Conservation

Sporting Interests

Water Companies

Recreation

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Those who communicate on a monthly or more

frequent basis

Hill Farming

ConservationSporting Interests

Water Companies

Recreation

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Hill Farming

ConservationSporting Interests

Water Companies

Recreation

“I think perhaps the moors are over-burnt and not respected from the point that they are driven too hard and pushed too hard for the purpose of the grouse…they are looking for more and more and more…But it becomes like any mono-culture then – if you’re driven so single-mindedly by one thing, that tends to knacker nature – that’s the problem.”

“At the moment there is a conflict between us and the people who manage fires, that we need to sort out. It’s a big thing - its probably the most important thing.”

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Hill Farming

Sporting Interests

Water Companies

Recreation

Conservation

“The heather moorlands… are there because of grouse shooting. Full-stop… Whether we like it or not, grouse shooting is the raison d’être.”

“[They] want to paint by numbers. The problem is [they] can’t tell you what the numbers are. [They] can’t tell you what is going to happen.”

“I’ve spent thirty years managing land and I’ve seen all these things come and go. So when you tell me as a very sincere young man with a great deal of credentials, that your prescription is right, you just listen to me: the guy who gave me 100% grant aid…to plough heather moorland also believed he was right because moorland was “waste”.”

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The majority of individuals perceive considerable overlap

between their views on upland management

and the views of those they know from other

groups

Hill Farming

ConservationSporting Interests

Water Companies

Recreation

“I hear people say “Of course ours is the best way to manage...”. It’s the best way of managing moorland for grouse production. Absolutely A1. The best for anything else? That’s open to question and that’s probably why a mix with people doing different things is our best hope of creating some semblance of balance.”

Agent

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5. What can we do?

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• To tackle existing conflicts between different stakeholder groups

• Reduce likelihood of exacerbating conflicts under future scenarios

• Prioritise communication/trust between land owners and managers and those interested in conservation and

water

1. Foster communication & trust

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• Build partnerships between researchers, the policy community and practitioners

• Share good practice and innovation within and between regions, based on local and scientific knowledge

• Plan for the long-term• Manage increased recreation

to reduce wildfire risk whilst maximising income via diversification

• Restore damaged peats

2. Build adaptive capacity

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• Anticipate and prepare for the widest possible range of futures...

• ...In a funding framework that can facilitate adaptive management e.g. shifting priorities as climate changes

• Rewarding land owners and managers for the provision of public goods

• Better value for money if we target funding towards land managers and locations that can most efficiently deliver the services we need?

• Not easy...

3. Future-proof land use policy

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1. Determine potential of land to provide different ecosystem services under different forms of management

1. Determine potential of land to provide different ecosystem services under different forms of management

2. Determine relative value to society of ecosystem services provided under different forms of management

2. Determine relative value to society of ecosystem services provided under different forms of management

3. Differentiate payments so higher rates are available to support management for priority ecosystem services in the locations (and at the scales) that can provide them

3. Differentiate payments so higher rates are available to support management for priority ecosystem services in the locations (and at the scales) that can provide them

4. Negotiate management plans with land owners and managers4. Negotiate management plans with land owners and managers

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• Restoring degraded peatlands brings many benefits• Can pay for itself through carbon markets • Major revisions to Government estimates of the role that

peatlands play in the UK carbon balance

Community Rural Planning

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• Demand and supply: UK based carbon credits with multiple benefits (market research by NE with BRE)

• Working towards VCS accreditation but need to overcome methane and legislative barriers (proving additionality and avoiding double-counting)

• New 5 year project to investigate methane emissions but we should have data for VCS within 18 months

• Legislative barriers softening but still there• Focus on CSR: DEFRA/DECC GHG Accounting Guidelines

include UK projects soon – interested in developing Code of Good Practice for Accounting for Peat Carbon Projects

• Terracarbon: first steps towards Code, attract further investment or intermediary as project developer (July)

Future upland restoration scheme

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Conclusion• Ideas for discussion – we don’t have all the answers yet• Part of longer-term conversation that can inform future work

• IUCN policy review by our team with Philip Lowe, Andrew Moxey, Clunie Keenleyside and others

• Next phase RELU project...

Please take one:• RELU Policy & Practice Notes• Films available on our website soon

(DVDs available on request)• Books – give us your name please

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Discussion Groups

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reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme

The next step:

Sustainable Uplands

Transforming knowledge for upland change

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Sustainable Uplands Next Phase

Starting October 2010 for 18 months

Aims to bring together new and existing knowledge to:

– Develop an agenda for future knowledge exchange by forming a knowledge network involving upland stakeholders

– Build capacity for knowledge exchange

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What will we actually do?1. Identify gaps in current knowledge exchange

by drawing on relevant sources of expertise, from previous Sustainable Uplands projects & other RELU projects

2. Identify & address some of the most pressing knowledge exchange questions for the uplands using questionnaires & interviews

3. Co-develop a research agenda to help inform knowledge exchange, policy & practice

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What will we actually do?

4. Build capacity for interdisciplinary research relevant for adaptive upland policy & practice

5. Develop a knowledge management system for upland ecosystem service management

Improved understanding of how knowledge can be exchanged & transformed into more effective policy & practice

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Planned outputs

• Initiation of an upland research, policy & practice network

• Future knowledge exchange research agenda for the uplands

• Academic papers• Online knowledge management toolkit• Policy briefs• RELU Policy and Practice Notes

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