Mike Daniels

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WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR WILD LAND IN
SCOTLAND?

• Mike Daniels
• Steve Carver
• Andrew Midgley

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Outline of talk

• Definitions values
• Wild land mapping
• Conclusions

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• Is sustainable development of wild land a
  contradiction in terms?
• All wild land utilised by man (agriculture,
  recreation, deer, etc.)
• Wild land contributes ecosystem services (clean
  water, flood prevention, air quality, carbon
  sequestration, biodiversity)
• Protecting wild land protects rural economy and
  the environment

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• Is wild land nationally recognised?
• Policy (SNH, CNPA, eNGOs JMT, NTS)
• Planning guidelines (NPPG14 safeguard wild
  land character)
• Pseudo-statutory (NSAs landscape designation)

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• Is wild land physically defined?
• No statutory designation or definition
• Human perception physical attributes
• Recent attempts to integrate attributes at local
  scale

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• Is development of wild land in Scotland
  sustainable?

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What is the value of wild land in Scotland?
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Outline of talk

• Definitions values
• Wild land mapping
• Conclusions

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• Wild land mapping
• Define areas of core wild land on basis of
• Settlement
• Access
• Naturalness
• perception

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• Wild land mapping
• Relate core wild land to
• Biological proxies
• Designations
• Rural support criteria

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• Relate core wild land to
• Biological proxies
• Designations
• Rural support criteria

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• Relate core wild land to
• Biological proxies
• Designations
• Rural support criteria

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Conclusions
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• Scotlands wild land
• Inextricably linked to sustainable development
  but poor history of sustainable development
• Lack of strategic recognition, physical
  definition and full quantification of value
• Potential to develop a robust, flexible and
  interactive physical definition help in
  sustainable development?