Europe has a wealth of community forest arrangements. This paper aims to transcend the
diversity of locally specific terms and forms, to highlight the value of considering them …

This paper seeks to examine understandings and applications of rural community resilience.
Scottish policy has shifted toward neoliberalism and community empowerment, with …

The COVID-19 pandemic has impaired wellbeing and highlighted the importance of open,
local greenspaces in supporting healthy lifestyles and providing safe social spaces …

Assets and enterprise ambitions of rural and island communities are dependent on their
context at the margins,“on the edge” where they face greater challenges. Such communities …

Concern about who owns Scotland, and how much of it they own, has been central to the
land reform debate for decades. While many people are utterly convinced that …

Executive summary Interest in carbon markets has increased rapidly in recent months,
leading to new market opportunities and interest in acquiring land to invest in natural capital …

I'd like to start with a thought experiment: imagine being a planner in a place where
community organisations have wide-ranging powers over land ownership and use …

Community landownership in Scotland is generally understood as ownership of title to land
and/or assets by a community body, linked to a defined geographic community. It is a …

The chapter describes how community initiatives and a series of policy developments have
created opportunities for new community forests in a land which had none before 1987 …

A long history of economic, social and political inequality in rural Scotland has led to a vastly
unequal pattern of rural landownership, contributing to the social and economic fragility of …