Community ownership
Scotland’s land reform : time to reverse the trend
Author / Creator: Josh Doble
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2025
Land reform is the pathway to building true people power.
Biodiversity and community owned land in Scotland – an analysis
Author / Creator: Mike Daniels, Catriona Mallows, Bobby Macaulay & Ros Bryce
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
Is biodiversity greater in community owned land?
Preliminary policy position on the industrial forestry sector in Scotland
Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2025
Industrial forestry corporations and asset management organisations further concentrate ownership and management of Scotland’s forests.
Active forests, thriving communities: rebalancing Scotland’s timber economy
Author / Creator: Willie McGhee
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2025
Forests matter — economically, ecologically, and culturally. More active, locally grounded forest management that restores ecological balance and enables communities to access, steward, and benefit from the forests that surround them areadvocated.
Manifesto recommendations from Scottish Community Coalition on Energy
Author / Creator: Scottish Community Coalition on Energy
Media type: Manifesto
Date published: 2024
We must enable and support increased community ownership and shared ownership of new and existing electricity and heat infrastructure, and fair distribution of the wealth that is being generated and consolidated through renewables
Understanding Urban Community Landownership
Author / Creator: Carey Doyle
Media type: Report
Date published: 2024
As the community landownership model was applied across Scotland it quickly became clear that urban communities were facing additional challenges in their buy outs, including:
- Lack of resources at the early stages
- Additional challenges for more disadvantaged communities
- Land of understanding of the process
- Lack of confidence in urban communities by decision makers
How will local communities get a fair share of record investment from offshore wind farms?
Author / Creator: Alison Murray
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Scotland outstrips the world for wind FDI investment in 2022. However, community-owned wind farms generate much more benefit than commercially operated schemes.
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.
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.