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).

Identification info

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: utf8

Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-01

Identifier: CEH:EIDC: / 1316697903946

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/19ff63b5-67db-4b71-8318-a346cd4cfe98

Rothamsted Research, Plant and Invertebrate Ecology Division - Angela Karp

University of East Anglia - Andrew Lovett

Maintenance and update frequency: notPlanned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

Land Use

Keywords

Rural Economy and Land Use Programme
Impacts of increasing land use under energy crops
Bridgwater
East midlands (region)
Lincoln
Retford
South west england (region)
Taunton
Agricultural economics
Agricultural land
Agronomy
Biofuels
Countryside conservation
Crops
Farming systems
Farms
Fuel resources
Land use
Renewable energy
Rural economics
Rural environment
Rural planning

Limitations on Public Access: otherRestrictions

Other constraints: no limitations

Use constraints: otherRestrictions

Other constraints: Standard conditions of use of the Economic and Social Data Service apply

Spatial representation type: grid

Distance: 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Topic category

Biota
Environment
Farming

Begin date: 2006-01-01

End date: 2009-09-30

Code: WGS 84

Distribution Information

Data format

ArcGIS Personal Geodatabase ()

Resource Locator: ESDS catalogue record and data access
Information about the "Impacts of Increasing Land Use under Energy Crops" dataset in general including instructions on how to access it.

Resource Locator: 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.

Resource Locator: ESDS catalogue record and data access
Information about the "Impacts of Increasing Land Use under Energy Crops" dataset in general including instructions on how to access it.

Resource Locator: 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.

Quality Scope: dataset

Other: dataset

Report

Dataset Reference Date (): 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.

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File identifier: 19ff63b5-67db-4b71-8318-a346cd4cfe98 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)

Resource type: dataset

Hierarchy level name: dataset

Metadata Date: 2021-06-28T09:37:44

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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