RPC Seminar Series: Megan Blomfield and Emmott Baddeley
The next seminar in the RPC's seminar series is now confirmed. We welcome Megan Blomfield and Emmott Baddeley of the University of Sheffield to present on a recent project involving the Peak District National Park.
The seminar will take place on the 16th June, 14:00-15:00 on MS Teams. A link to add this to your Outlook calendar is at the bottom of this blog post. Alternatively email ian.merrell@sruc.ac.uk to have the invitation forwarded to you.
Abstract:
In circumstances of climate change, a resilience approach to conserving and enhancing the special features of Protected Landscapes may become increasingly difficult and resource-intensive, if not impossible. This creates a need for more flexible management approaches that might achieve desired outcomes in the context of potentially rapid landscape transformation.
In this seminar we consider how management approaches which allow for landscape transformation under the conditions of climate change might be implemented in UK Protected Landscapes, using the ‘resist-accept-direct’ framework as an example.
We identify three key challenges confronting the implementation of such approaches: first, there is a lack of understanding concerning how to model transformative management at landscape scale; second, the institutional context is not amenable to the implementation of these approaches due to policy and resource constraints; and third, decision-makers are not currently in a strong position to determine what the goals of such management should be.
We conclude that
addressing these challenges calls for research into the application of
transformative management at the landscape-scale, for institutional
developments that would actively support the implementation of transformative
management approaches, and for a broad process of public engagement concerning
the values that landscape protection should be guided by in a world undergoing
climate change.