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Monitoring and Evaluating the Effects of Land Reform on Rural Scotland: a Scoping Study and Impact Assessment

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APPENDIX 1 THE CRITERIA AND INDICATOR FRAMEWORK TEMPLATE

The Context

Context

Criteria

Preferred Indicator

Evidence and availability of indicator (or close proxy)

Methods required for assessment

Social/spatial/temporal scale of assessment

Relevance to measure

The context variables are those that represent important aspects of the state of the system but where attribution of cause and effect will be difficult but which it might be hoped that land reform would contribute positively to

Social change

Economic wellbeing

THE CAPITAL ASSETS

Capital type

Specific criteria

Preferred Indicator

Evidence and availability of indicator (or close proxy)

Methods required for assessment

Social/spatial/temporal scale of assessment

Relevance of measure

(A) Social
Social criteria should relate back to social capital. Social capital refers to networks and/or trust and new institutional formation and inter alia, we might wish to think about bridging and bonding capital

(B) Economic(financial)
Economic capital refers to the financial resources of the community. This might be explored in relation to the community as a whole, the land based community and at household or collective level. We might want to think about non-market but still economic values here

(C) Human
Human capital refers to the individual capacities and often is associated with education and training

(D) Environmental
Environmental capital is the natural capital embodied in forests, soils, land etc. it will include non-market goods such as biodiversity as well as forms of natural capital which allow profitable resource management. (We need to avoid double counting with Economic capital)

( E) Physical
Physical capital refers the man-made physical infrastructure

(F) Cultural (symbolic )
Symbolic and cultural capital refers to how assets are perceived and their importance in society and culture over and above any economic values

Institutions & processes
within the livelihoods framework are the institutions, organisations, policies and legislation that shape livelihoods. Their importance cannot be over-emphasised. They operate at all levels, from the household to the international arena, and in all spheres, from the most private to the most public.

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