Bridging the national and local in landscape decision making: building effective regional partnerships that deliver on climate policy objectives

研究翻译奖学金支持苏格兰区域土地利用伙伴关系的发展区域土地利用伙伴关系的发展（到2021年，到2023年及其相关框架）是苏格兰政府的承诺，由气候变化（苏格兰）法案2019年的紧迫性。其核心目的是推动实现2030年和2045年气候目标所需的土地使用决策。这些创新的区域土地使用伙伴关系将在苏格兰所有地区实施。它们将是提供战略性土地利用决策的主要机制，同时也符合苏格兰的气候政策目标。他们将帮助执行苏格兰土地使用战略和土地权利和责任声明的原则。当前的背景为实现变革提供了一个开放和激进的空间。苏格兰和整个英国都有雄心勃勃的气候目标，期望的代际转变，公共融资模式的重新设计，新兴的自然资本融资，社区赋权;以及做好这一点的机会。该奖学金的目的是通过与不断增长的景观决策研究社区联系，将前沿景观决策研究纳入这些机构的设计。它将有助于加强研究和证据在这些关键进程中的作用。该研究员将与苏格兰土地委员会密切合作，该委员会是负责就新伙伴关系的目标向苏格兰议会提供咨询意见并帮助各地区进行设计的主要组织。他们正在考虑的关键问题包括如何管理伙伴关系？就其与现有政策和机构的关系而言，它们的战略适合性如何？他们的数据和信息需求是什么？有效执行需要哪些资源，这些资源如何与激励措施和监管联系起来？所有这些问题的核心是如何构建这些机构，以确保制定更具战略性的土地使用决策。研究翻译活动将采取三种形式：1）翻译最近委托的工作中的研究成果（例如，区域土地使用规划方面的国际经验）沿着其他相关景观决策，研究产品（例如，针对地方当局的政策简报），这有助于为新伙伴关系的治理结构提供信息。2)设计和实施进程，以便在伙伴关系发展过程中分享知识，并为其他相关景观决策研究提供投入，以应对具体的治理挑战（例如，如何构建伙伴关系，以获得气候融资等新的资本领域，同时考虑到土地使用之间的权衡）。3)根据研究员的核心技术专长领域提供专题技术咨询，并通过景观决策方案建立联系。研究员还将通过参加会议和制作一份研究翻译报告，从这些过程中获得见解，与更广泛的英国景观决策社区分享见解。

Research Translation Fellowship supporting the development of Regional Land Use Partnerships in ScotlandThe development of Regional Land Use Partnerships (by 2021, and their associated Frameworks by 2023) is a Scottish Government commitment, given urgency by the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2019. The core purpose is to drive delivery of the land use decisions needed to meet the 2030 and 2045 climate targets. These innovative Regional Land Use Partnerships will be put in place across all regions of Scotland. They will be the primary mechanism for delivering strategic land use decision-making that also meets climate policy objectives in Scotland. They will help implement the principles of Scotland's Land Use Strategy and Land Rights and Responsibilities Statement. The current context provides an open and radical space to deliver change. Scotland, and the wider UK, have ambitious climate targets, a generational shift in expectations, a re-design of public funding models, emerging natural capital finance, community empowerment; and an opportunity to do this well. The objective of this Fellowship is to feed cutting edge landscape decisions research into the design of these institutions, by linking into the growing landscape decisions research community. It will help to strengthen the role of research and evidence in these crucial processes. The Fellow will work closely alongside the Scottish Land Commission - the main organisation tasked with advising the Scottish Parliament on the objectives of the new Partnerships and in helping the regions with their design. Key questions they are considering include how should partnership be governed? What is their strategic fit in terms of their relationships to existing policies and institutions? What will their data and information requirements be? What are the resource requirements for effective implementation and how might these link to incentives and regulation? Overlying all these questions is how these institutions can be structured to ensure more strategic land use decision making.The research translation activities will take three forms: 1) Translating research findings from work that has recently been commissioned (e.g. on international experience in regional land use planning) along with other relevant landscapes decisions research into products (e.g. policy briefs targetted at Local Authorities) that help inform the governance structures of new Partnerships. 2) Designing and implementing processes to share knowledge between Partnerships as they develop, and to feed in other relevant landscapes decisions research to address specific governance challenges (e.g. how Partnerships might be structured to access new areas of capital such as climate finance whilst accounting for trade-offs between land uses). 3) Provision of thematic technical advice based on the Fellow's core areas of technical expertise and making links through the Landscapes Decisions Programme. The Fellow will also share insights from these processes with the wider UK landscapes decisions community through participation in conferences and the production of a research translation report that captures insights from the process.