Identification

Title

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

Abstract

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).

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://www.esds.ac.uk/findingData/snDescription.asp?sn=6615

name: ESDS catalogue record and data access

description: Information about the "Impacts of Increasing Land Use under Energy Crops" dataset in general including instructions on how to access it.

function: offlineAccess

http://relu.data-archive.ac.uk/explore-data/search-browse/Project/?ID=RES-227-25-0020

name: RELU Knowledge Portal page

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

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

1316697903946

codeSpace

CEH:EIDC:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

environment

farming

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Land Use

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

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

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-4.262

East bounding longitude

1.077

North bounding latitude

54.775

South bounding latitude

51.371

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2006-01-01

End position

2009-09-30

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-01

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

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.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

ArcGIS Personal Geodatabase

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Rothamsted Research, Plant and Invertebrate Ecology Division

email address

angela.karp@rothamsted.ac.uk

responsible party role

principalInvestigator

Responsible party

organisation name

University of East Anglia

email address

a.lovett@uea.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

University of East Anglia

email address

a.lovett@uea.ac.uk

responsible party role

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

UK

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-06-28T09:37:44

Metadata language

eng