JNCC: Spatial Prioritisation

Spatial Prioritisation involves systematically identifying and ranking possible interventions that could be taken on a land parcel, based on their suitability and potential impact on the delivery of locally important ecosystem services, highlighting the opportunities where multiple benefits can be achieved.

Spatial prioritisation involves figuring out the best actions to take on a piece of land by looking at how an action might work for that land or how an action helps important local environmental priorities. By doing this, spatial prioritisation identifies where we can get multiple benefits from these actions, helping to make more progress towards our national environmental targets. JNCC is developing a spatial prioritisation approach that uses available evidence to provide useful information to someone deciding how to manage land.

There is strong evidence that land management practices are driving nature’s decline. Ambitious policy targets at global and national levels highlight the scale of the challenges we face. Not all land can provide the same benefits, so land managers and policymakers must make decisions based on what each piece of land is best suited to deliver.

JNCC is working to develop an analytical process that balances the multiple, and sometimes competing, policy priorities: our finite amount of land and limited budget, as well as food production needs. This puts information in the hands of decision makers by helping identify interventions that can deliver more or wider environmental outcomes on land. This concept is called ‘Spatial Prioritisation’.

To find out more about JNCC and their Spatial Prioritisation approach please visit: https://jncc.gov.uk/

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