Rural communities

Community benefits from natural capital investment; Route map

Author / Creator: Scottish Land Commission

Media type: Guide

Date published: 2025

This Route Map has been created as a guide for how to discuss and embed proportionate community benefits in natural capital projects, ideally from the outset.

Scotland’s clean energy revolution must be community-centred

Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland

Date published: 2025

The rural communities of Scotland are shouldering the weight of renewable energy developments and are often seeing failing public transport and other services, closing schools, the grim reality of the housing crisis and some of the highest energy costs.

Mapping and Connecting Community Spaces in Rural Clackmannanshire

Author / Creator: Kate Turner

Media type: Report

Date published: 2022

Rural communities in Clackmannanshire, as an example of the challenges facing rural communites throughout Scotland