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The Biodiversity 2020 Strategy: A New Framework For The
Future Of Biodiversity
A Spatial Planner’s Response
Alister Scott BA PhD MRTPIProfessor of Spatial Planning
and Governance
Beyond the stereotypes
To boldly go…
• Beyond boundaries• Beyond biodiversity• Beyond the status quo• Beyond comfort zones
Disintegrated planning…
Box 1: Environmental lens • Incentives • Biodiversity 2020 • Defra • Ecosystem Approach • Classifying and valuing• NEA• IBDAs • NIAs• LNPs
Box 2: Planning lens • Control • NPPF • CLG• Spatial Planning • Zoning and order • SA • GI• EZ• LEPS
Biodiversity 2020 : “A planner’s response”
• Green space designation • Biodiversity offsets/ Habitat banking • Presumption in favour of Sustainable
Development • Policies to protect and conserve the
environment (NPPF)
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Is there a method in the madness? Uniting Spatial Planning and the
Ecosystem Approach
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Alister ScottClaudia Carter, Mark Reed, Peter Larkham, Nicki Schiessel, Karen Leach, Nick Morton, Rachel Curzon David Jarvis, Andrew Hearle, Mark Middleton, Bob Forster, Keith Budden, Ruth Waters, David Collier, Chris Crean, Miriam Kennet, Richard Coles and Ben Stonyer
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The Response
• New ways of doing research and policy
• Building a new model of interdisiciplinarity
• Bridging the environment-planning divide
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Building a Team• BCU Prof Alister Scott PI• Aberdeen Dr Mark Reed CI• BCU Prof Richard Coles CI• BCU Dr Nick Morton CI• BCU Dr Rachel Curzon CI• BCU Claudia Carter CI*• BCU Nicki Schiessel CI*
• Claudia Carter Forest Research • David Collier NFU• David Jarvis DJA Consultants • Ruth Waters/Andrew Hearle Natural
England• Karen Leach/Chris Crean Localise West
Midlands• Miriam Kennet Green Economics Institute • Nick Grayson Birmingham Environment
Partnership • Bob Forster West Midlands Rural Affairs
Forum • Mark Middleton Worcestershire County
Council, WMRA
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“… we must learn to apply an adaptive ecosystem approach to ecological planning. This will allow us to deal with the thorny issues of sustainability, itself taken complexly in regional and urban planning, in novel and ultimately more realistic ways.”
Vasishth 2008: 101
Vasishth, A. (2008) ‘A scale-hierarchic ecosystem approach to integrative ecological planning’, Progress in Planning 70: 99-132.
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• Team members produced their own reflective papers on – Spatial Planning – Ecosystem Approach
Reflective Papers
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Co-production of bridging concepts
• Papers acted as boundaries for synthesis – Identified synergies and
differences within a working paper
– Critical explorations of SP and EA to define integrative principles s
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SP and EA Compatibilities
New ways of thinking Holistic frameworks Cross-sectoral Multi-scalar Negotiating Enabling Long term
perspective
Connectivity Governance Inclusivity Equity goals Regulatory Market-orientated
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Beyond boundaries
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• Time – Long-termism– Learning lessons from the past
• Connectivity– Flows and linkages vs urban and rural – Multi-scalar relationships and dependencies
• Values – Core values and belief systems – Professionals (Planner, Environmentalist) and
Publics
Unpacked
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• Understanding each others language • Joined up dialogue • Working together on problems and solutions • Starting the journey
New Ways of thinking
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RUFopoly
Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
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Building interdisciplinarity across the rural domain
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Concept Plans via Worcestershire GIP
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• Legacy of the planning-environment divide • Danger of preparing plans in isolation• Sector targets risk agency insularity • Power of inclusive processes and partnerships
integrate economy, society and environment • Importance of planners and environmentalists
becoming bedfellows
Summary
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• http://www.bcu.ac.uk/research/-centres-of-excellence/centre-for-environment-and-society/projects/relu
• http://twitter.com/#!/reluruf
Questions ?
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