Scottish Land Commission - Scottish Land Commission

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CODES FOR QUESTION ON CURRENT PRIORITIES: “When you think about land in your area, what’s most important to you?”	NUMBER OF REFERENCES
Biodiversity and nature	468
Farming and food production	245
Access and recreation	221
Direct community benefit including economic benefits	160
Productive diverse land uses and management	119
Limiting excessive development	111
Culture, landscape and heritage	106
Housing, repopulation and development	73
Access to ownership	71
Community voice and empowerment	56
Economic viability	56
Climate change resilience and net zero	35
Empowerment of landowners	35
Benefits for future generations	30
Transparency of ownership and use	30
More community ownership	21
Limit commercial forestry	17
Dereliction	15
Crofting livelihood	14
Planning	14
Limit damaging farming practices	13
Support for public ownership	11
Limit rewilding	7
Land ownership should not be the focus	7
Limit shooting practices	4
Safety and security	1
THEMES AND CODES FOR QUESTION ON DESIRED CHANGE AND IMPACT: “What changes would you like to see in how land is owned and used in Scotland, and what difference would that make to you, your community, or your work?”	NUMBER OF REFERENCES
Urban focused responses	95
1 Ownership patterns and distribution	1633
Absenteeism - Company and foreign ownership	216
Redistribution and land availability	308
Diversification of ownership models	297
Fiscal measures and taxation	95
Limit community ownership	7
Limit government interventions and legislation change	47
More regulation and action from government on use and ownership	20
Private ownership rather than public ownership	15
Residency requirement and localism	164
Scale and concentration	178
Status quo - limit changes to land ownership	82
Support for public ownership	46
Transparency and accountability	60
Unscrupulous financial interests	98
2 Land management and accountability	431
Changes to public funding	35
Commodity and production focused views	11
Compensation mechanisms and penalties for malpractices	25
Lack of experience	16
Lack of joined up and complementary management practices	6
Limit shooting and sporting estates	75
Support for sorting estates	2
Need for better education on land use and ownership topics	18
Need for encouraging investment	20
Need for sustainable land uses	84
Prioritising land use rather than ownership	72
Support for landowners and managers practices	43
Vilifying private ownership	24
3 Environment and biodiversity	621
Biodiversity crisis	199
Climate crisis	52
Damaging land uses to the environment	52
Economies of scale and climate goals	18
Environmental protection practices	235
Pollution and dereliction	38
Urban green spaces	27
4 Energy and industrialisation of the environment	296
Expand local energy production	50
Limit carbon offsetting practices	21
Limit overdevelopment and industrialisation	154
Limit rewilding	25
Limit to commercial forestry	46
5 Agriculture	352
Food production and food security	38
Limit right of access	17
Local food production and regenerative practices	38
Need for support for tenancies and crofting	107
Support for the farming sector	133
Land tenure and crofting challenges	19
6 Community stewardship, heritage, livelihood and resilience	1064
Challenges caused by tourism	14
Community empowerment and local governance	233
Engagement obligations and responsibilities towards communities	66
Health and wellbeing	25
Housing and other local infrastructure investments	95
Improve - maintain access rights	66
Lack of community empowerment	64
Lack of community impact and benefit consideration	75
Local community benefit and public interest	186
Market and affordability	34
Need for reconnection to the land - culture, education etc	64
Planning and legislation	35
Threat to heritage & culture	18
Tourism benefits	10

ScotLand Futures: Qualitative analysis of survey responses

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