Swapped the desk for a couple of days of island life on Skomer - time well spent with the locals 🐧

Randomised land use pathway generation allows efficient multi-outcome appraisal - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Randomised land use pathway generation allows efficient multi-outcome appraisal

We have a new paper out, in which we use brute force to identify combinations of land use/management changes which navigate the triple challenge of climate change, biodiversity conservation and food production: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #ConservationScience 🌍 @rspbscience.bsky.social 1/

We hope this approach supports more transparent, flexible, and evidence-based planning for land, climate, and biodiversity goals.

#landuse #netzero #biodiversity #climatepolicy #UKlanduse #modelling

Ambitious onshore renewable energy deployment does not exacerbate future UK land-use challenges Transitioning to renewable energy can help address climate change. The UK is relying on wind and solar power deployment, raising questions around land-use competition, for instance, with food producti...

📚 And the impacts of onshore wind and solar deployment:
www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Spatially targeted nature-based solutions can mitigate climate change and nature loss but require a systems approach Halting climate change requires net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to at least fall to zero. UK land (including agriculture, forestry, and peatlands) is currently a net emitter of GHGs. Reducing these...

📚 This work builds on our previous research looking at spatially explicit land use scenarios:
www.cell.com/one-earth/fu...

🔍 Key findings:
• Many different routes can deliver net zero
• Some pathways are clearly more efficient - better outcomes with fewer trade-offs
• The scale of decision-making (UK-wide vs devolved nations) affects not just efficiency, but equity too

We generated 10,000 random UK land use pathways - each combining different quantities and combinations of eight climate mitigation measures.

The aim? To identify which combinations perform best across climate, food, and biodiversity outcomes.

Randomised land use pathway generation allows efficient multi-outcome appraisal - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Randomised land use pathway generation allows efficient multi-outcome appraisal

👋 First post here!
Excited to share our new paper just published in Scientific Reports:

“Randomised land use pathway generation allows efficient multi-outcome appraisal”
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A quick thread on what we did and why it matters 👇