Examples of our projects

	Public attitudes towards biological diversity		Stakeholder evaluation of multiple values of managed forest landscapes
	Climate change and carbon foot printing in the Cairngorms		Economic analysis of factors influencing rural development

Current projects we lead

• Examining the links between individual and community response to mitigation and adaptation measures and policies.
• Developing an understanding of the psychological antecedents to household environmental behaviours that impact on climate change.
• Assessing the potential for micro-hydro-power in Aberdeenshire
• Managing at a Catchment Scale
• Understanding how people see biodiversity, biodiversity changes and biodiversity management
• Understanding the values and costs associated with water resources and their management

• LandscapePartners
• Public attitudes towards biological diversity
• Identifying Socio-economic drivers of biodiversity change
• Biodiversity conservation options: research underpinning decision support systems and management tools
• Socio-economic evaluation of climate change mitigation schemes in forestry
• Institutional analysis of multi-functional forestry development
• Stakeholder evaluation of landscape changes: Q-methodology technique

Other projects we are involved in

• URflood: Understanding uncertainty and risk in communicating about floods
• Adaptive Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on Freshwater Ecosystems ('REFRESH')
• Preferences for improved management of soil carbon in Scotland
• SCALE: An Integrated Analysis of Scale Effects in Alternative Agricultural Systems
• Developing an economy-wide model to evaluate impacts of Common Agricultural Policy reform
• Access rights: Putting law into practice
• Landscapes of practice: Experiences and values of countryside recreation
• GILDED Governance, Infrastructure, Lifestyle Dynamics and Energy Demand: European Post-Carbon Communities
• HUNT Hunting for Sustainability
• BeWEL: Behaviour for Well-being, Environment & Life
• smile: Synenergies in Multi-scale Inter-Linkages of Eco-social systems
• Contribution of green and open space in public health and well-being
• InCluESEV - Interdisciplinary Cluster on Energy Systems, Equity and Vulnerability

Recently completed projects

• ABSORB: Socio-economic research notes
  • Project ended: 05-Jun-2010
• Aberdeenshire Climate Change
  • Project ended: 31-Mar-2010
• Forestry and Climate Change: Socio-Economic Perspectives.
  • Project ended: 01-Dec-2009
• Linking river basin management to town and country planning
  • Project ended: 08-Oct-2009
• Do conservation approaches in developing countries overlook less tangible values for nature?
  • Project ended: 30-Sep-2009
• Assessing Future Recreation Demands
  • Project ended: 30-Sep-2009
• A scoping study of the nature and extent of soil carbon reserves and of the actual and potential for carbon sequestration on the John Muir Trust's Skye estates.
  • Project ended: 31-Aug-2009
• Evaluating Flood Management Options
  • Project ended: 31-Mar-2009
• Changing cultural landscapes: stakeholders` preferences, values and priorities
  • Project ended: 31-Dec-2008
• Developing Indicators of Sustainable Rural Tourism
  • Project ended: 10-Jul-2008
• "Beanquorum"- building an EU-Asian organic and quality food network
  • Project ended: 30-Jun-2008
• Quantifying the relationship between crofting tenure and population retention.
  • Project ended: 31-Mar-2008
• Climate change and carbon foot printing in the Cairngorms
  • Project ended: 31-Mar-2008
• Ecosystem functions and biodiversity in managed forest landscapes (ManForest)
  • Project ended: 31-Mar-2008
• What barriers are there for new entrants to Scottish Farming?
  • Project ended: 31-Jan-2008
• Examine the impact of institutional reforms on economic and environmental performances in Ukraine's agriculture with respect to land abandonment
  • Project ended: 20-Dec-2007
• Scoping study for future trends in rural Perth and Kinross
  • Project ended: 30-Sep-2007
• Examining the Commercial Potential of Recreation on the National Forest Estate in Scotland
  • Project ended: 30-Sep-2007
• Monitoring and Evaluating the Effects of Land Reform
  • Project ended: 28-Sep-2007
• Public Perceptions and Institutional Capabilities for Translating Biodiversity Goals to Local Level Management Practices
  • Project ended: 31-Mar-2007
• Involving a wider range of people in science and technology debates.
  • Project ended: 31-Dec-2006
• 3 Dee Vision Inter-Agency Monitoring
  • Project ended: 31-Dec-2006
• Economic analysis of factors influencing rural development
  • Project ended: 31-Mar-2006
• From the "noospheric paradigm" toward public involvement, for the preservation of the native woodlands of Europe (the Ukraine)
  • Project ended: 31-Mar-2005
• Linkages between the objectives of delivery mechanisms for environmental management, visual quality of landscapes and public values and perceptions
  • Project ended: 31-Dec-2005

 

Other completed projects we have been involved in

• Reviewing the Less Favoured Area Support Scheme
  • Project ended 31-Jan-2007
• Economics of Biomass Production and Consumption in Scotland
  • Project ended 04-Apr-2006