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Keith Matthews, Kirsty Blackstock, Kevin Buchan, Dave Miller and Mike Rivington

“Walking in others shoes” E xperience of using the DECOIN tools to characterise sustainability trade-offs in Scotland and the Cairngorms National Park. Keith Matthews, Kirsty Blackstock, Kevin Buchan, Dave Miller and Mike Rivington. The Need for New Tools.

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Keith Matthews, Kirsty Blackstock, Kevin Buchan, Dave Miller and Mike Rivington

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  1. “Walking in others shoes”Experience of using the DECOIN tools to characterise sustainability trade-offs in Scotland and the Cairngorms National Park Keith Matthews, Kirsty Blackstock, Kevin Buchan, Dave Miller and Mike Rivington

  2. The Need for New Tools • Overly simplistic single indicators - monomania • Ad hoc frameworks of incoherent metrics – fail to deliver understanding of trade-offs or relative performance • Methods compatible with multiple dimensions of values/costs • Beyond GDP agenda(s) • Questioning the role of growth • Well being • Global challenges – climate change, biodiversity

  3. SMILE Innovations • Systemic - not ad hoc – but still limits on social dimension • Multi-scale – explanatory and contextual - dependencies • Multi-metric – but coherent • Key factors, people, money, energy and land • Extents and intensities combined – avoids Jevons Paradox • Feasible? • Communicable? • Useful?

  4. CNP case study • Both an area of land and a new institution for rural sustainable development. • Assist the CNPA and their partners in delivering the aims of the National Park (Scotland) Act • Transferability of the DECOIN tools • Utility of the DECOIN tools

  5. CNP and other Institutions

  6. SUMMA Ag Sector Analysis • Part of co-funding from SG programme • National scale analysis (n+1) • CNP (n) • Time series 1991, 2001, 2007 (at time most recent) • Ag sector well documented – down to small units (IACS/JAC) • Significant as land area (CNP ~ 47% in IACS – most RGR) • Significant policy area

  7. SUMMA – ScotAG and CNPAG

  8. Emissions Extents – CNPAGand ScotAG

  9. Emissions Intensities – CNPAGand ScotAG

  10. SUMMA Emergy Analysis

  11. MuSIASEM – concepts • Multi-scale and integrated analysis • Mixtures – “opening up the box” – components of averages • Sectors: Societal Average (SA), Households (HH), Paid Work (PW), productive, service and government, agriculture (PS+SG+AG) etc • Regions, NUTS, local authority, intermediate, data zones • Land types • Time series, trajectories • Extents and Intensities together

  12. Metrics – the building blocks • GVA – gross value added (£) • THA – total human activity (population) THAHH, THAPW, THAPS, THASG, THAAG • TET – total energy throughput • TAL – total available land • Exosomatic Metabolic Rate - EMR = TET/THA • Economic Labour Productivity - ELP = GVA/THA • Not GVA/TET ! – or Subsistence = Industry

  13. Fund-Flow Diagrams

  14. Strengths and Weaknesses • SUMMA – up steam and downstream = trade-offs • Emergy – effective summary of resource use • Multi-scale – useful comparisons/standards • Dependence on developers – towards a software tool? • MuSIASEM – inclusion of population as a key factor • Decomposition – opens up the box – • Fund-flow – novel way to explore extents and intensities • Strongly empirical – adds to credibility but data dependent • Both coherent and integrative but deal less well with social aspects of sustainability (non-consumption)

  15. Implications for Mainstreaming • Implementation gap to use with stakeholders • How to communicate in succinct and accessible but not over simplify • Transparency data, assumptions and methods • Challenge to orthodox views and vested interests – but the beyond GDP agenda gains ground beyond the Anglo-Saxon “periphery” • Mainstreaming means using the tools with rather than for stakeholders – new research processes • Will continue to use DECOIN tools in our research programme but not always comfortable “walking in other’s shoes”.

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