Our findings
It's important to us that the Just Scapes project directly benefits the locations and local communities in the Czech Republic, France and Scotland. With this in mind, we're sharing our findings with policy and academic networks to improve policy development and promote scientific and social impacts, both nationally and internationally.
The film above gives you some of the key, headline messages we've had from our research so far - particularly around issues of land and justice. And underneath the headings below, you'll find more information on the findings from different strands of our research.
We're in the process of analysing and writing up our findings from Just Scapes. These include:
- Exploring environmental justice in France: evidence, movements, and ideas. Environmental Politics, Brendan Coolsaet & Valérie Deldrève (December 2023, open access.)
- Conceptualising rural environmental justice in Europe in an age of climate-influenced landscape transformations. Journal of Rural Studies, lead author David Brown (2024).
There are more papers on the way, so watch this space and our Twitter feed for updates.
Our transdisciplinary, multi-stakeholder ‘Just Transformation Labs’ were a key part of the Just Scapes research process.
Linked to ongoing policy consultations in each of the three areas, these labs involved shared visioning exercises to help develop manifestos for just landscape transformations. Have a look at the manifestos from all three our of cases here.
As part of Just Scapes, we're also running a large-scale survey in all three of our case studies area. All three surveys are now complete, and the analysis of the findings is underway.
Watch this space for the results.
We've published all the texts written by the participants in our three creative writing workshops in Scotland, France and the Czech Republic in a trilingual anthology.
Read more about the book itself - and get access to the writing - here.
Our French team, in collaboration with filmmaker Jérôme Prudent, have produced a documentary feature film about their case.
Film is called "Demain, la vallée" (or "Tomorrow, the valley" in English). Find out more (and watch the teaser) here.