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reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Managing Environmental Change
in the rural urban fringe
Alister Scott Professor of Environment and Spatial Planning
David Collier : Head of Rural Affairs National Farmers Union
Claudia Carter, Richard Coles, Chris Crean, Rachel Curzon, Bob Forster, Nick Grayson, Andrew Hearle, David Jarvis, Miriam Kennet, Peter Larkham, Karen Leach, Mark Middleton, Nick Morton, Mark Reed, Nicki Schiessel, Ben Stonyer, Ruth Waters and Keith Budden
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Plan (to boldly go)
1. Uncover Interdisciplinary Investigations
2. Re-discover the rural urban fringe :
3. Share Fringe Stories– Opportunity spaces – Agriculture in the
fringe
4. Learn lessons
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Interdisciplinary Investigations
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
• Rural Economy and Land Use Programme. • Joining up the pieces
– “enables researchers to work together to investigate the social, economic, environmental and technological challenges faced by rural areas.
– ......... encourage social and economic vitality of rural areas and promote the protection and conservation of the rural environment
The Relu programme
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Rural-urban fringe as interdisciplinary space
SPACE where town and countryside meet
land use interests values
• Research team perspectives of the rural urban fringe.
• (1.40-3.24 )
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
The problem/opportunity • Dominant form of
land use in 21 C • Forgotten space • Urban-centric or
rural centric space? • Contested
stakeholder views • Reactive or proactive
space.
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Our Response
• New way of doing research
• Building new model of interdisiciplinarity
• Bridging the town – countryside divide
• Cross boundaries
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Crossing boundaries
Birmingham City University - Birmingham School of the Built Environment
University of Aberdeen - Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability
Forest Research
National Farmers Union David Jarvis Associates Natural England Localise West Midlands Green Economics Institute Birmingham Environment Partnership West Midlands Rural Affairs Forum Worcestershire County Council West Midlands Regional Assembly
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Doing Interdisciplinarity
• Securing involvement costs
• Using experience and expertise of team members
• Thought pieces across rural urban divide • Spatial Planning (urban) • Ecosystem Approach
(rural)
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Uniting natural and built environment paradigms 1
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Uniting built and natural environment paradigms 2
EUROCITIES (2004) The Pegasus files: a practical guide to integrated area-based urban planning EUROCITIES, Brussels
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Pragmatic Interdisciplinarity
• Thoughtpieces translated into one paper with options
• Critical explorations of SP and EA to identify common principles.
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Spatial Planning /Ecosystem Approach
Culture change New ways of thinking Holistic frameworks Cross-sectoral Multi-scalar Negotiating Enabling Long term perspective
Assets Connectivity Governance Inclusivity Equity/Justice Regulation Market-solutions
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Achieving Interdisciplinarity
• Select simple and understandable concepts for both
• New ‘glasses’ to assess the rural urban fringe
• Built into research from outset
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
• Time – Long-term (50-100 years) – Visions – Learning lessons from the past
• Connections – Flows and linkages vs Place – Identify Relationships and dependencies
• Values – Core values and belief systems – Professionals (Planner, Environmentalist) and Publics
Unpacked
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
“It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data”
Arthur Conyan Doyle Scandal in Bohemia
Evidence
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
New evidence
• The data collected and discussed in workshops and field visits provides the questions that make up Rufopoly
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Workshops
• Used networks within research team
• Workshop title addressed their key concerns/expertise
• Low tech interactive approach
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Workshops
• Each workshop had report produced
• All respondents circulated with requests for further feedback and responses
• Final report.
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Visioning
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
• Hampton (Peterborough) 12 participants • Worcestershire 16 participants (landscape
scale)• Transect - making a journey across a RUF
– To experience/assess the different ‘personalities’ within the RUF
– To share knowledge, experience and expertise looking at the RUF past, present and future
Field based Visioning exercise
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Hampton – Urban Extension
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Hampton transects
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
North Worcester: Landscape scale
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Worcester Transects
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
Viewpoint 1 Viewpoint 2
Viewpoint 3
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Outputs
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
• Re-discovering the RUF• Reconnecting the urban and rural divide • Improving connections by crossing
boundaries 2.19 • Adapting for the long-term • Managing contested valuesEach of these themes is developed in a video
activated by the hyperlink
To boldly go ………. Videoing in the fringe
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Maximising engagement in the fringe
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
• Valuable learning/development of our team through research
• Rethink ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ polarisation • Rethink rural urban fringe as key opportunity
space not just battleground for development • Promote more experiments to realise full
potential of fringe • Beware planners quest for order may remove
the very essence that makes the fringe unique
Reflections
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
reluRural Economy andLand Use Programme
Conclusions
• Start of a research, policy and practice journey
• Disciplinary silos can inhibit progress in the fringe
• We need to experiment and take risks
• We need better engagement with publics over kind of fringe they want