Relevant Published Research

This section comprises a library ofliterature relevant to the themes of the LUNZ Hub. This includes both peer-reviewed academic research and other reports that have contributed to national policy on Land Use, Soil Health and Net Zero.

The governments of the UK as a whole, and England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have commissioned reports on issues pertaining to these topics to help support policy. Part of the work of the LUNZ Hub is to catalogue these resources with a brief summary, so that researchers, stakeholders and policy makers can easily access relevant information and use them in the context of Land Use for Net Zero.

This is a relatively static resource that can be consulted to ensure new research is relevant and doesn’t duplicate work already done. A full resource will be published soon as an Excel table, but as an introduction our TAGS have provided an outline of some foundational papers.

Land Use Change:

• Multifunctional landscapes: Informing a long-term vision for managing the UK’s land. Royal Society, 2023.
• Proposed Land Use Framework for England; Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, 2022.
• Forging a way forward: A Consensus on Food, Farming and Nature (various), 2023.
• Environmental Improvement Plan 2023: First revision of the 25 Year Environment Plan, Department for Food Environment and Rural Affairs, 2023.
• Scotland’s Third Land Use Strategy, 2021-2026, Scottish Government, 2021.
• Government Biomass Strategy, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, 2023.
• Government Food Strategy, Department for Food Environment and Rural Affairs, 2022.
• Government Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener. Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2021.
• Regenerative forestry: Forestry and forests for the future.  Soil Association, 2022.
• Why we need more trees in the UK. Friends of the Earth, 2021
• Land use: Policies for a Net Zero UK. Climate Change Committee, 2020.

Soil Health and Carbon Dynamics:

• Soil Health Report, House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, 2023.
• Review of Welsh Soil Evidence, Welsh Government, 2022.
• The state of the Environment: Soil, Environment Agency, 2019.
• The State of Scotland’s Soil, Natural Scotland SEPA, 2011.
• Delivering Our Future, Valuing Our Soils: A Sustainable Agricultural Land Management Strategy for Northern Ireland, DEARA, 2016.