1. The Biodiversity 2020 Strategy:
A New Framework For The
Future Of Biodiversity
A Spatial Planner’s Response
Alister Scott BA PhD MRTPI
Professor of Spatial Planning
and Governance
3. To boldly go…
• Beyond boundaries
• Beyond biodiversity
• Beyond the status quo
• Beyond comfort zones
4. Disintegrated planning…
Box 1: Environmental lens Box 2: Planning lens
• Incentives • Control
• Biodiversity 2020 • NPPF
• Defra • CLG
• Ecosystem Approach • Spatial Planning
• Classifying and valuing • Zoning and order
• NEA • SA
• IBDAs • GI
• NIAs • EZ
• LNPs • LEPS
5. 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)
6. Is there a method in the madness?
Uniting Spatial Planning and the
Ecosystem Approach
Alister Scott
Claudia Carter, Mark Reed, Peter Larkham, Nicki
Schiessel, Karen Leach, Nick Morton, Rachel Curzon
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Bob Forster, Keith Budden, Ruth Waters, David
Collier, Chris Crean, Miriam Kennet, Richard Coles
Rural Economy and
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Land
Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
7. The Response
• New ways of doing research
and policy
• Building a new model of
interdisiciplinarity
• Bridging the environment-
planning divide
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8. Building a Team
• BCU Prof Alister Scott PI • Claudia Carter Forest Research
• David Collier NFU
• Aberdeen Dr Mark Reed CI • David Jarvis DJA Consultants
• BCU Prof Richard Coles CI • Ruth Waters/Andrew Hearle Natural
England
• BCU Dr Nick Morton CI
• Karen Leach/Chris Crean Localise West
• BCU Dr Rachel Curzon CI Midlands
• BCU Claudia Carter CI* • Miriam Kennet Green Economics Institute
• Nick Grayson Birmingham Environment
• BCU Nicki Schiessel CI* Partnership
• Bob Forster West Midlands Rural Affairs
Forum
• Mark Middleton Worcestershire County
Council, WMRA
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9. “… 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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10. Reflective Papers
• Team members produced their own reflective
papers on
– Spatial Planning
– Ecosystem Approach
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11. 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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12. SP and EA Compatibilities
New ways of thinking Connectivity
Holistic frameworks Governance
Cross-sectoral Inclusivity
Multi-scalar Equity goals
Negotiating Regulatory
Enabling Market-orientated
Long term
perspective
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13. Beyond boundaries
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14. Unpacked
• 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
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15. New Ways of thinking
• Understanding each others language
• Joined up dialogue
• Working together on problems and solutions
• Starting the journey
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16. RUFopoly
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18. Concept Plans via Worcestershire GIP
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19. Summary
• 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
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20. Questions ?
• http://www.bcu.ac.uk/research/-centres-of-
excellence/centre-for-environment-and-
society/projects/relu
• http://twitter.com/#!/reluruf
• alister.scott@bcu.ac.uk
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Editor's Notes
Talk focusses on the opportunity spaces within what we call the RUF. This is a interdisciplinary team project funded by the RELU programme . I am leading this presentation today
InterdisciplinaryUnified research team comprising academics and policy and community groups Shape steer and evolve the project NEW way of doing research
Issue of social learning from experiments as a coping mechanism from uncertainty
The partnership has prepared a series of concept plans which set out the environmental constraints and functional opportunities for key development sites Strategic ObjectiveTo create a cohesive and sustainable community which is inspired by the landscape setting and which provides an attractive living environment for a wide range of household types. To protect and enhance the existing GI resource by designing a framework of green corridors, networks and open spaces which connect the development to the city of Worcester and to the surrounding rural hinterland. Led by the Strategic Planning & Environmental Policy team of the County Council, the plans have been endorsed by Partnership members including statutory consulteesA statement of aims and objectives for GI that the partners would expect to see addressed in site masterplanningThe Concept Plans are based on primary baseline data and the multifunctional characteristics of each site... Identify the GI assets and spatial patterns that give rise to opportunities for a connected and multifunctional green infrastructure network... The way we did it initially Hold a workshop for specialists for each subject/themeExpectation that the development will provide 40% GI – based on best practice as set out in Ecotowns Supplement to PPS1 and TCPA Eco Towns GI WorksheetNegotiation between subject areas with the focus on multifunctionality These concept plans provide the focus for the funding and viability research work, enabling indicative costs to be grounded in the reality of future development sitesIntention to integrate this into a Version 2 of each Concept Plan Concept Plans have proved really popular with Worcestershire DistrictsSome are including them in their Core Strategy
