This NatureScot-supported pilot is investigating how communities can help monitor landscape change. One of four pilots across Scotland, it aims to enable delivery of a number of actions in NatureScot and Historic Environment Scotland’s joint Landscape Position Statement and Action Plan, namely:

• More communities will be engaged in the planning and management of their local landscapes through the development of a range of joint resources (Action 9).
• Landscape’s contribution to the preparation of place-making plans, including Local Place Plans, will be promoted and good practice shared (Action 10).
• ‘Citizen Science’ approaches and other participatory methods for monitoring landscape change will have been tested and applied (Action 3).
• We will test and implement shared methods for monitoring broad-scale landscape change and the effects of climate change on landscape (Action1).
• Natural capital approaches will have been promoted and ecosystems services methodologies applied to the natural and cultural elements of landscape (Actions 5 and 6).
• We will support the work of Scotland’s Landscape Alliance to promote the value of, and action for, landscape (Action 8).

Clare Cooper, Bioregioning Tayside