Land reform
Land Reform In A Net Zero Nation
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2022
Scotland cannot afford for this latest round of land reform to fail, as at least two previous attempts.
Absentee owners buying up Scottish estates in secret sales
Author / Creator: Carroll, Severin
Media type: Newspaper article/Report
Date published:
Absentee owners buying Scottish land; nearly half of sales of Highland estates went to absentee owners in 2021, without the land going on the open market. In increasing cases, the sales were for environmental offsetting. Two thirds of sales in 2021 were carried out privately,
A Scottish Land Commission Report warned that these trends are threatening attempts to diversify Land ownership, improve the rural economy, and increase transparency and accountability.
Green finance, land reform and a just transition to net zero
Author / Creator: Jon Hollingdale
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: February 2022
Land reform is required to meet the climate change objectives of the Scottish Government.
Highland estates and multi-millionaires bank £1m of taxpayers’ money from Covid-19 grants
Author / Creator: Ally Tibbitt
Media type: Fact check
Date published:
The data obtained by The Ferret shows that around £178m was paid to more than 8,000 recipients by Highland Council.
Community-based land reform: Lessons from Scotland
Author / Creator: John Bryden
Media type: Academic Paper
Date published: 2007
Drawing on insights from community-based natural resource management and local development, qualified evidence is offered suggesting that, as in the current Scottish case, community-centric land reform has a promising future.
Reform Scotland’s Land
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Video
Date published: 2020
Land reform is a social justice issue. How can democratic decisions about the kind of country we want in the face of a small number of landowners?
Back to Life: Mapping Scotland’s Alternative to Grouse Moors
Author / Creator: Lateral North
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: December 2018
An illustrative map – based on real Scottish geographic data – showing what a reformed former grouse moor could look like.
Back to Life: Visions for Alternative Futures for Scotland’s Grouse Moors
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Of all the possible uses of this land, grouse shooting is not only the least moral, it is by far the least economically effective. In fact, almost any other use will create more value and more jobs per hectare.
Renew: Six policies that can refresh the Scottish Government’s domestic agenda
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Policies to renew the Scottish Government’s domestic agenda:
- Create a Scottish National Investment Bank
- Build the homes and infrastructure that people need
- Create a world-class childcare system.
- Give more power to citizens.