
Climate change: Impacts on landscapes
Climate change is likely to alter Scotland’s landscapes – and the social and economic benefits that landscape provides.
Climate change is likely to alter Scotland’s landscapes – and the social and economic benefits that landscape provides.
Landscape changes will result from climate change impacts on:
Understanding the likely effects of climate change will help us to plan for and manage the changes.
Our research indicates that:
Our research revealed that landscape change was a good topic to open up discussions about climate change with local communities.
We set up the Climate Change Conversations project to explore this option further. The project ran in the Machars and in Nairn in 2010.
Climate change conversations: NatureScot Commissioned Report No. 492
We drew on the lessons learned to develop the Talking About Our Place toolkit for communities.
A Summary of the effects of climate change on landscape and quality of life in Scotland
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