15. Managing Environmental Change at
the Rural Urban Fringe 2010-2012
Alister Scott
Claudia Carter, Mark Reed, Peter Larkham, Nicki
Schiessel, Karen Leach, Nick Morton, Rachel Curzon
David Jarvis, Andrew Hearle, Mark Middleton, Bob
Forster, Keith Budden, Ruth Waters, David Collier,
Chris Crean, Miriam Kennet, Richard Coles and Ben
Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme Stonyer
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17. Crossing academic, policy,
practice and scalar divides
Birmingham City University Birmingham School of the
Built Environment/BIAD
University of Aberdeen Aberdeen Centre for
Environmental Sustainability
Forest Research
National Farmers Union
David Jarvis Associates
Natural England
Localise West Midlands
Green Economics Institute
Birmingham Environment Partnership
West Midlands Rural Affairs Forum
Worcestershire County Council
West Midlands Regional Assembly
United Research
Team
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18. Seeking out new ‘lenses’
• Spatial Planning and
Ecosystem Approach
Paradigms (lenses)
• Critical thoughtpieces
• PI Synthesis
• Team builds new
conceptual lens
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27. Lessons Learnt
• Embedding policy, practice and academia
within one research team reaps rewards
• Choose who you work with carefully
• Flexibility embedded in research method
• Important for researchers to go outside
comfort zone
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28. Take Home Messages
• Interdisciplinary approaches needed to tackle
key issues we face as a society
• Need an effective ‘bastard’ to lead
interdisciplinary endeavours
• Role of a team prepared to go outside usual
silos
• Are BCU structures for teaching and research
enabling such approaches?
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Notas do Editor
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
Having built a team uniting academics and policy practitioners we effectively Our starting point involved individual reflective pieces drawing on experiences of Spatial Planning and the Ecosystem Approach. Despite their different foundations and philosophies the rhetoric has remarkable convergence . These terms emerging from a contents analysis of the reflective pieces form the starting point from which our resultant framework was produced .”