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Rural urban Fringe Presentation to Malmo
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
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Rural Economy and
Land Use Programme
Managing Environmental Change
in the rural urban fringe
Alister Scott Professor of Environment and Spatial Planning
David Collier : Head of Rural Affairs National Farmers Union
Claudia Carter, Richard Coles, Chris
Crean, Rachel Curzon, Bob Forster, Nick
Grayson, Andrew Hearle, David
Jarvis, Miriam Kennet, Peter Larkham, Karen
Leach, Mark Middleton, Nick Morton, Mark
Reed, Nicki Schiessel, Ben Stonyer, Ruth
Waters and Keith Budden
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Plan (to boldly go)
1. Uncover
Interdisciplinary
Investigations
2. Re-discover the rural
urban fringe :
3. Share Fringe Stories
– Opportunity spaces
– Agriculture in the
fringe
4. Learn lessons
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• Rural Economy and Land Use Programme.
• Joining up the pieces
– “enables researchers to work together to
investigate the social, economic, environmental
and technological challenges faced by rural areas.
– ......... encourage social and economic vitality of
rural areas and promote the protection and
conservation of the rural environment
The Relu programme
Building interdisciplinarity across the
rural domain
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Rural-urban fringe as
interdisciplinary space
SPACE where town and
countryside meet
land use
interests
values
• Research team
perspectives of the rural
urban fringe.
• (1.40-3.24 )
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The problem/opportunity
• Dominant form of
land use in 21 C
• Forgotten space
• Urban-centric or
rural centric space?
• Contested
stakeholder views
• Reactive or proactive
space.
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rural domain
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Our Response
• New way of doing
research
• Building new model
of interdisiciplinarity
• Bridging the town –
countryside divide
• Cross boundaries
Building interdisciplinarity across the
rural domain
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Crossing boundaries
Birmingham City University -
Birmingham School of the
Built Environment
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
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Doing Interdisciplinarity
• Securing involvement
costs
• Using experience and
expertise of team
members
• Thought pieces across
rural urban divide
• Spatial Planning (urban)
• Ecosystem Approach
(rural)
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rural domain
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Uniting natural and built
environment paradigms 1
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rural domain
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Uniting built and natural
environment paradigms 2
EUROCITIES (2004) The Pegasus files: a practical guide to integrated area-based urban planning
EUROCITIES, Brussels
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Pragmatic Interdisciplinarity
• Thoughtpieces
translated into one
paper with options
• Critical explorations of
SP and EA to identify
common principles.
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rural domain
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Spatial Planning /Ecosystem
Approach
Culture change
New ways of thinking
Holistic frameworks
Cross-sectoral
Multi-scalar
Negotiating
Enabling
Long term perspective
Assets
Connectivity
Governance
Inclusivity
Equity/Justice
Regulation
Market-solutions
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Achieving Interdisciplinarity
• Select simple and
understandable
concepts for both
• New ‘glasses’ to assess
the rural urban fringe
• Built into research from
outset
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• Time
– Long-term (50-100 years)
– Visions
– Learning lessons from the past
• Connections
– Flows and linkages vs Place
– Identify Relationships and dependencies
• Values
– Core values and belief systems
– Professionals (Planner, Environmentalist) and Publics
Unpacked
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“It is a capital mistake to theorise
before one has data”
Arthur Conyan Doyle Scandal in Bohemia
Evidence
Building interdisciplinarity across the
rural domain
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New evidence
• The data collected and
discussed in workshops and
field visits provides the
questions that make up
Rufopoly
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rural domain
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Workshops
• Used networks within
research team
• Workshop title
addressed their key
concerns/expertise
• Low tech interactive
approach
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Workshops
• Each workshop had
report produced
• All respondents
circulated with requests
for further feedback
and responses
• Final report.
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rural domain
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• Hampton (Peterborough) 12 participants
• Worcestershire 16 participants (landscape
scale)
• Transect - making a journey across a RUF
– To experience/assess the different ‘personalities’
within the RUF
– To share knowledge, experience and expertise
looking at the RUF past, present and future
Field based Visioning exercise
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rural domain
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Hampton – Urban Extension
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rural domain
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Hampton transects
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North Worcester: Landscape scale
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Worcester Transects
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Viewpoint 1
Viewpoint 2
Viewpoint 3
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• Re-discovering the RUF
• Reconnecting the urban and rural divide
• Improving connections by crossing boundaries
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• Adapting for the long-term
• Managing contested values
Each of these themes is developed in a video
activated by the hyperlink
To boldly go ………. Videoing in the
fringe
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• Valuable learning/development of our
team through research
• Rethink ‘urban’ and ‘rural’ polarisation
• Rethink rural urban fringe as key opportunity
space not just battleground for development
• Promote more experiments to realise full
potential of fringe
• Beware planners quest for order may remove
the very essence that makes the fringe unique
Reflections
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Conclusions
• Start of a research, policy
and practice journey
• Disciplinary silos can inhibit
progress in the fringe
• We need to experiment and
take risks
• We need better
engagement with publics
over kind of fringe they
want
Notas do Editor
Taken images out as too clattered / busy background. This then also standardises the videos with none having a front image
So I want to briefly unpack our conceptual approach regarding the convergence of spatial planning and ecosystems approaches. Currently pursued as separate paradigms with their own institutional champions and policy responses.
Use of the word fuzzy signifies soft and fluid boundaries of the RUFImportant addition to many definitions by looking at the people who shape the area. See RUF defined by nature/interests of people who live there as much as land uses. This brings into RUF zone commuter areas in what might have been seen as previously rural.
Today the RUF is at the heart of a media frenzy associated with the Coalition governments ideas for planning reform with a presumption in favour of development. Fears of a free for all by the national trust RSPB and others reflect the lack of strategic planning in such areas with all too often an urban focus for such spaces. Yet there are alternative views based on more localised solutions involving environmental solutions from rural traditions Ultimately there are many contested ideas of what these areas should be used for ; hence the need for proactive responses.
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 .”
Vertical integration: (also international/global perspective e.g. in terms of climate change / CO2 and other gases)Horizontal integration: Priorities and framing of criteria/themes may change over time (new situations, knowledge, insights, identified needs)
Focus on the North Worcestershire visioning exercise. 16 representatives across business, community and environmental sectors. Aim to assess the RUF personality past present and future. As a group to share their experiences within a facilitated exchange.
These are photos of the viewpoints. Vp 1 was on level 5 of Grosvenor House in Redditch with fantastic views out the Western edge of Redditch Bromsgove boundary.
The method built on work that i did in 2004 for the Welsh Assembly (what kind of countryside do we want) At each viewpoint we split the group up into 3 and led separate discussions about the RUF past, present and future. The talks were taped and transcribed and also each member was given a notebook to put down their views including those voiced and unvoiced. Each view was on a separate page of paper so as you can see we had a debreif session at the end where everybody could see the range of resposnes at each site across all groups. (also had a nice cream tea!)
These videos are useful learning aids to help people get the maximum enjoyment from the game. For A level geography the first video is essential viewing.