Land
Land Reform for a Democratic, Sustainable and Just Scotland
Author / Creator: Laurie Macfarlane
Media type: Book
Date published: 2023
The ownership, governance and use of land in Scotland remains stuck in the past.
Land Reform for a Democratic, Sustainable and Just Scotland
Author / Creator: Laurie Macfarlane
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
Ahead of the Land Reform Bill, this report sets out a bold agenda for land reform.
Understanding Urban Community Landownership
Author / Creator: Carey Doyle
Date published: 2024
Scotland has a long history of community landownership. We are celebrating 100 years since the first buyout
Scotland’s land reform journey is stalling
Author / Creator: Josh Doble
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Scotland’s experience of land reform is often described as a journey, if that is the case then our journey is stalling and all but ground to a halt.
Rural Land Sales 2020-2022
Author / Creator: Andy Wightman
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
Record of large land sales for the period 2020-22
The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it
Author / Creator: Andy Wightman
Media type: Book
Date published: 2015
the untold story of how Scotland's legal establishment and politicians managed to appropriate land through legal fixes.
Slipping Slopes; The Common Weal Policy Podcast – Episode #190
Author / Creator: Nick Kempe
Media type: Podcast
Date published:
Nick Kempe talks about the problem Scotland faces with frequent landslips and how they have been exacerbated by Government policy and by the lack of land reform in the country.
Community Land Scotland statement on the Land Reform Bill 2023
Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2023
Changes needed to Land Reform Bill 2023
Land Jjustice Bill – Consultation Response
Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2024
Proposals to limit the amount of land that can be owned by a person outside of public interest.
Forest Ownership in Scotland: Policy Review
Author / Creator: Jon Hollingdale
Media type: Report
Date published: 2023
Forestry ownership is intimately related to the multi-faceted requirements of land reform.
Proposed Land Ownership and Public Interest (Scotland) Bill
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2023
These proposals seek to change the way that Scotland buys, sells, transfers and holds land
Land Reform for the Common Good
Author / Creator: Calum MacLeod
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2023
The current form of land ownership does not promote the common good.
Creag Ghuanach
Author / Creator: Gemma Smith
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
One in a series of explorations of Gaelic place names
On Crofting, Landlordism, Rewilding and Depopulation
Author / Creator: Alison Strange
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
"Rewilding, Carbon Credits and Nature-based Solutions have become clickbait to grab the public’s imagination with an idyllic, sunlit, sylvan landscape teeming with wildflowers and butterflies, offering boundless opportunities for the reintroduction of long-lost species."
Work the Land: The Employment Potential of Land Reform
Author / Creator: Robin McAlpine
Date published: 2021
This paper argues against claims that land reform would harm rural employment and seeks to illustrate the kind of jobs that could be created instead and the positive impact radical land reform would have on employment and on wages in rural areas
REMEMBERING THE TUATH
Author / Creator: Col Gordon
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Ways that a "renewed application of [traditional ecological knowledge] and methods can help transition to sustainable, locally-appropriate forms of agriculture in the post fossil-fuel era."
How do we care for Scotland’s mountain footpath network?
Author / Creator: Charlie McCarthy
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
"The options available to keep Scotland’s popular footpaths well maintained for local walkers and tourists alike."
Fire Threats in the Scottish Countryside
Author / Creator: Martin Murphy
Media type: Article
Date published: 2021
In Scotland the incidences of wildfires have been accelerating at a considerable rate - quadrupling in a year.
Land Reform In A Net Zero Nation
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2022
Scotland has both a long history of inequality in land ownership and of a failure to correct this inequality.
Wildlife Management In Scotland Consultation
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2022
This consultation deals only with the licencing and regulation of grouse shooting.