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Impacts of Increasing Land Use under Energy Crops - GIS Data, 2006-2009

GIS-based computer generated real-time landscape models, and other computer generated static images were produced and used alongside photographs in more in-depth interviews and focus groups. (Some elements of this dataset are not part of this data submission due to copyright restrictions, though images may be included in the report). The study is part of the NERC Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme. Future policies are likely to encourage more land use under energy crops: principally willow, grown as short rotation coppice, and a tall exotic grass Miscanthus. These crops will contribute to the UK's commitment to reduce CO2 emissions. However, it is not clear how decisions about appropriate areas for growing the crops, based on climate, soil and water, should be balanced against impacts on the landscape, social acceptance, biodiversity and the rural economy. This project integrated social, economic, hydrological and biodiversity studies in an interdisciplinary approach to assessing the impact of converting land to Miscanthus grass and short-rotation coppice (SRC) willows. Two contrasting farming systems were focused on: the arable-dominated East Midlands; and grassland-dominated South West England. The public attitudes questionnaire data from this study are available at the UK Data Archive under study number 6615 (see online resources). Further documentation for this study may be found through the RELU Knowledge Portal and the project's ESRC funding award web page (see online resources).

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-01
Identifier
CEH:EIDC: / 1316697903946
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/19ff63b5-67db-4b71-8318-a346cd4cfe98
Principal investigator
  Rothamsted Research, Plant and Invertebrate Ecology Division - Karp, A.
Point of contact
  University of East Anglia - Lovett, A.
Owner
  University of East Anglia - Lovett, A.
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Land Use
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
unknown
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
Standard conditions of use of the Economic and Social Data Service apply
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Distance
100  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
  • Farming
Begin date
2006-01-01
End date
2009-09-30
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Unique resource identifier
WGS 84
Distribution format
  • ArcGIS Personal Geodatabase ()

Distributor
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , Lancashire , LA1 4AP , United Kingdom
OnLine resource
ESDS catalogue record and data access
OnLine resource
RELU Knowledge Portal page

Further information about the "Impacts of Increasing Land Use under Energy Crops" dataset in general from the RELU UK Data Archive website.

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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Research funded by Economic and Social Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Award Number: RES-227-25-0020 GIS data consists of a series of 100m resolution raster grids in ArcGIS (version 9.3) format for all of England. These include individual layers for each of the eleven factors considered in the analysis, an estimated yield map and combined results. Some of these are in the public domain (e.g. www.magic.gov.uk). Others were originally obtained from the EDINA Digimap service (edina.ac.uk/digimap) e.g. Ordnance Survey Meridian and Panorama DTM datasets, but are now in the public domain as a results of the recent OS OpenData Initiative (http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/opendata/index.html). Other datasets were obtained from NSRI Cranfield (NatMap 1km soils), CEH (Land Cover Map 2000), Forest Research (National Inventory of Woodland and Trees), Natural England (Biodiversity Action Plan habitats and existing energy crop planting) and English Heritage (scheduled monuments) under academic research agreements for the project and cannot be distributed further under the terms of these agreements. The ESRC award page (see online resources) hosts a publication (Lovett et al. 2009) which describes the collection of the GIS data set in detail.
File identifier
19ff63b5-67db-4b71-8318-a346cd4cfe98 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2025-03-21T13:33:40
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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