Multifunctional landscapes - Informing a long-term vision for managing the UK’s land

Successfully land are many, complex and interacting and navigating these intersecting challenges will policymakers need the best scientific evidence require science and innovation to increase and analytical tools to help them navigate the the sustainable productivity of land for the difficult decisions they face. [...] A more strategic being able to capitalise on the opportunities national approach to land-based information, open to them, and the UK risks not having with clear data standards and protocols and the right skills in its workforce to deliver creation of a common evidence platform, important land-based policy commitments. [...] Land managers will also robust baselines, metrics and systematic require access to good quality, trusted monitoring programmes are needed to better advice as they make decisions about which understand the state of landscapes and management interventions to make where what they are being used for, and to track and when. [...] The Society’s fundamental purpose, as it has been since its foundation in 1660, is to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity. [...] The Society’s strategic priorities emphasise its commitment to the highest quality science, to curiosity-driven research, and to the development and use of science for the benefit of society.