Investigating the public benefits of Little Asby Common: multiple capitals account (full report)

Mansfield, Lois ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0707-2467 , Darrall, Jan, Partington, Laura and Wilshaw, Kate (2023) Investigating the public benefits of Little Asby Common: multiple capitals account (full report). Friends of the Lake District.

Preview

PDF - Published Version Available under License CC BY-NC Download (3MB) | Preview

Abstract

Friends of the Lake District (FLD) are a charity who campaign for the landscapes of Cumbria owning 12 areas of land across the county, including Little Asby Common near Orton. FLD’s work includes commenting on policy proposals and plans, from national to local, demonstrating best practice on our land and feeding this experience back into our policy work, and engaging the public in the outdoors and landscape issues. Landscape is multi-faceted; it includes the use of all the senses and provokes a range of emotions, it also has a range of different attributes, including natural and cultural. Their policy responses and land management consider all landscape attributes, one element does not automatically trump another, for example, nature over culture, but this may of course change depending on the specific site or plan/proposal situations. Recognising a change in the current policy environment regarding landscape management and its related attributes, Friends of the Lake District seek to understand better the multiple benefits and values of their organisation’s assets. Whilst FLD have always been philosophically against the quantification and monetarisation of landscapes and their elements, we recognise a change is underway, consequently it is best to learn as much about it as we can and experience it, to increase wider understanding as to how it is done and operates. Specifically, Natural Capital Accounting has found traction in government, policy and increasingly with UK landscape management organisations, but there is yet to be recognition and an accounting methodology for other types of capital in the landscape. This study focuses on testing a prototype Multiple Capitals Landscape Framework from the previous work for Wain et al (2021, a-d) and Mansfield (2021) to create a Multiple Capitals Landscape Account by applying the concepts to one of FLDs sites, Little Asby Common, East Cumbria within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Item Type:	Report
Publisher:	Friends of the Lake District
Departments:	Institute of Science and Environment > Forestry and Conservation Centre for National Parks and Protected Areas (CNPPA)
Additional Information:	Research commissioned by Friends of the Lake District. Professor Lois Mansfield, PhD, Professor of Upland Landscapes, and Director of Centre for National Parks & Protected Areas (CNPPA), University of Cumbria, UK and Environmentors. Jan Darrall, Laura Partington & Kate Wilshaw, Friends of the Lake District.
Depositing User:	Anna Lupton
Date Deposited:	12 Sep 2025 09:11
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2025 08:30
URI:	https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/9035

Downloads