Community Empowerment and Landscape Decision Making frameworks in Scotland: improving outcomes for people and nature

该网络将发展艺术和人文研究人员可以为形成弹性和民主的决策框架，以管理苏格兰的土地资产和景观，在更广泛的英国，欧洲和全球背景下，做出独特而重要的贡献。该网络将通过人权和社区赋权的视角，重点关注决策文化。这些概念提供了一个词汇表，用以界定与土地有关的往往看不见或无形的货物，此外，还提供了一个结构，用以平衡和分配从景观中获得的许多利益（经济、社会、文化、环境、精神）。这些好处可能表现为健康权、文化生活权、食物权、住房权、工作权、教育权（从人权角度看）的成果得到改善，或表现为机构、自主权、所有权和参与性决策（从社区赋权角度看）得到改善，并且与健康和福祉有着内在的联系。决策方式的一个关键但很少被问及的方面是治理、规划、制度、专业、纪律和其他文化的影响。公共政策现在提倡的许多原则和目标-可持续性、发展、参与、赋权-都受到根深蒂固的思维习惯和做事方式的破坏，这些习惯和做事方式源自长期存在和有争议的基本价值观。这很重要，因为它影响到社区、公共机构和其他利益攸关方取得积极成果的能力。通过持续关注在这方面决策如何受到当权者文化影响的问题，该项目将对新的决策框架作出重大贡献。这是一个调查不足的领域，研究可以支持公共和政治领域的结构化和循证辩论。艺术和人文科学研究人员有能力提供批判性的见解，因为正在调查的问题是一个文化问题。该网络是一个平等的伙伴关系之间的学者从广泛的学科和各种各样的政策制定者和从业人员从事经常有争议的管理土地资产和景观在苏格兰。该网络将调查决策文化，提出和促进有助于今后作出全面、综合和基于地方的决策的改革建议，从而产生现实世界和可衡量的政策影响。有许多组织和机构参与苏格兰的景观和土地资产，这个网络将提供一个论坛，以开放和尊重的方式分享和比较他们之间的经验，在这样一个有争议的政治领域至关重要。这种研究如何能够帮助建立更强有力的决策框架，影响我们社会面临的基本问题，如土地这一有限资源的所有权、使用和管理？每个网络成员一直在从自己的学科和从业者的角度考虑这个问题，我们希望共同为活跃而重要的辩论做出贡献，并就新的景观决策框架达成共识。

This network will develop the distinctive and vital contributions that arts and humanities researchers can make to the formation of resilient and democratic decision-making frameworks for managing land assets and landscapes in Scotland, set within the wider UK, European and global contexts. The network will focus on cultures of decision-making through the lenses of human rights and community empowerment. These concepts provide a vocabulary for framing the often invisible or intangible goods associated with land, and moreover, provide a structure for balancing and distributing the many benefits (economic, social, cultural, environmental, spiritual) derived from landscapes. These benefits may manifest in improved outcomes for the rights to health, cultural life, food, housing, work, education (in human rights terms) or in improved agency, autonomy, ownership and participatory decision-making (in community empowerment terms), and are intrinsically linked to the health and well-being. A critical but rarely interrogated aspect of the ways decisions are made is the influence of governance, planning, institutional, professional, disciplinary and other cultures. Many of the principles and goals now promoted by public policy - sustainability, development, participation, empowerment - are undermined by deeply-embedded habits of thought and ways of doing things derived from longer-standing and contested underpinning values. This matters because it affects the ability of communities, public bodies and other stakeholders to achieve positive outcomes. By focusing sustained attention on the issue of how in this context decision-making is influenced by the cultures of those with power this project will make a significant future contribution to new decision-making frameworks. This is an under-investigated area where research can support structured and evidence-based debate in the public and political arenas. Arts and humanities researchers are well positioned to contribute critical insights because the issue under investigation is a matter of culture. The network is an equal partnership between academics from a wide range of disciplines and a diverse range of policy makers and practitioners engaged in the often-contested management of land assets and landscapes in Scotland. The network will have real-world and measurable policy impacts by investigating cultures of decision making and by producing and promoting recommendations for change that will help to deliver holistic, integrated and place-based decision-making in the future. There are many organisations and agencies involved in landscapes and land assets in Scotland and this network will offer a forum to share and compare experiences between them in an open and respectful way, crucial in such a contested political field. How can such research help to create more robust frameworks for decision-making that impacts upon the fundamental issues facing our society such as the ownership, use and management of the finite resource that is land? Each of the network members have been considering that question from their own disciplinary and practitioner perspectives, and collectively, we wish to make a contribution to a lively and important debate, and find consensus on new landscape decision-making frameworks.