University Lands: references and further reading

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References and further reading

This section includes publications and sources referred to in the text, which include resources and materials specifically aimed at the higher education sector.

Association of University Estates Directors (AUDE). 2025. Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Guide.

Bell, G, E Naumann, K Medcalf. 2020. Tree Suitability Modelling – Planting Opportunities for Sessile Oak and Sitka Spruce in Wales in a Changing Climate.

Bull, J, I Taylor, E Biggs, H M J Grub, T Yearley, H Waters, E J Milner-Gulland. 2022. The biodiversity footprint of the University of Oxford. Nature 604, 420-424.

Climate Change Committee. 2021. Independent Assessment of UK Climate Risk.

Companies (Strategic Report) (Climate-related Financial Disclosure) Regulations 2022. https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/31/regulation/1/made

Costanza, R, R de Groot, P Sutton, S van der Ploeg, S J Anderson, I Kubiszewski, Stephen Farber, R K Turner. 2014. Changes in the global value of ecosystem services. Global Environmental Change 26: 152–158.

Department for Education (DfE). National Education Nature Park. https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/

Department for Energy Security & Net Zero (DESNZ). 2024. Mapping greenhouse gas emissions & removals for the land use, land-use change & forestry sector.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). 2025. Accounting for the effects of climate change: Supplementary Green Book guidance.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). 2025. Land Use Consultation.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). 2025. The Statutory Biodiversity Metric User Guide.

Dooley K, H Keith, A Larson, G Catacora-Vargas, W Carton, K L Christiansen, O Enokenwa Baa, A Frechette, S Hugh, N Ivetic, L C Lim, J F Lund, M Luqman, B Mackey, I Monterroso, H Ojha, I Perfecto, K Riamit, Y Robiou du Pont, V Young. 2022. The Land Gap Report 2022.

EAUC. 2023. Climate Risk Register Guide and Tool. https://www.eauc.org.uk/climate_risk_register.

EAUC. 2025. Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan Guide and Template. https://www.eauc.org.uk/biodiversity_guide_and_template.

EAUC. University and College Land for Carbon. https://www.eauc.org.uk/university_and_college_land_for_carbon.

Hebcon and EAUC. 2019. Using an existing organisational resilience framework to develop a Climate Change Adaptation Plan.

HM Government. 2018. A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment; Committee on Climate Change. 2019. Land use: Policies for a Net Zero UK.

HM Government. 2022. UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2022.

HM Government. 2025. Post-16 education and skills white paper.

HM Government. 2025. The UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy.

HM Government. UK Sustainability Reporting Standards information. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-sustainability-reporting-standards

HM Treasury. 2022. The Green Book.

Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). Estates Management Record. www.hesa.ac.uk/data-and-analysis/estates.

House of Lords Land Use in England Committee. 2022. Making the most out of England’s land.

Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). 2022. Methodological Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 2006. Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. Volume 4 Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 2014. The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5 Climate Change 2014): Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 2014. The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5 Climate Change 2014): Synthesis Report.

International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 2019. Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.

National Adaptation Programmes. www.ukclimaterisk.org/national-adaptation-programmes/.

Natural Capital Coalition. 2016. Natural Capital Protocol.

Office for National Statistics. 2024. UK natural capital accounts. www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/bulletins/uknaturalcapitalaccounts/2024.

Office for National Statistics. 2024. UK natural capital accounts methodology guide: 2024.

Parlement français. 2023. Loi n° 2023-175 du 10 mars 2023 relative à l’accélération de la production d’énergies renouvelables.

Research Agency of the Forestry Commission. 2011. Ecological Site Classification.

Rising, J, S Dietz, M Dumas, R Khurana, J Kikstra, T Lenton, M Linsenmeier, C Smith, C Taylor, B Ward. 2022. What will climate change cost the UK? A study of climate risks, impacts and mitigation for the net-zero transition. Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

Roe, S, C Streck, M Obersteiner, S Frank, B Griscom, L Drouet, O Fricko, M Gusti, N Harris, T Hasegawa, Z Hausfather, P Havlík, J House, G-J Nabuurs, A Popp, MJ Sanz Sánchez, J Sanderman, P Smith, E Stehfest, D Lawrence. Contribution of the land sector to a 1.5 °C world. Nature Climate Change 9, 817–828

Royal Society. 2023. Multifunctional landscapes: Informing a long-term vision for managing the UK’s land.

Town and Country Planning Act 1990, Schedule 7A (as inserted by Schedule 14 of the Environment Act 2021). https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2021/30/schedule/14/enacted.

Sheikh, H A, A Singh, N Kushwaha, C Christiaen, N Tkachenko, J Sabuco, B Caldecott. 2025. A Field-Level Asset Mapping Dataset for England’s Agricultural Sector. Scientific Data 12: 1240.

Stid, J T, S Shukla, A D Kendall, A Anctil, D W Hyndman, J Rapp, R P Anex. 2025. Impacts of agrisolar co-location on the food–energy–water nexus and economic security. Nature Sustainability 8: 702–713.

Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). 2017. Recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures.

Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). 2023. Recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures.

Taskforce on Nature Markets. 2023. Making Nature Markets Work. Shaping a Global Nature Economy in the 21^st Century.

United Nations. 2012. System of Environmental Economic Accounting 2012 – Central Framework

United Nations. 2024. System of Environmental Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). 2022. The Global Land Outlook, second edition.

Universities UK. 2024. Opportunity, growth and partnership: A blueprint for change from the UK’s universities.

World Economic Forum. 2020. Nature Risk Rising: Why the Crisis Engulfing Nature Matters for Business and the Economy.

World Economic Forum. 2021. Nature and net zero.

World Economic Forum. Global Risks Report. https://www.weforum.org/publications/series/global-risks-report/

WWF. Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World. https://www.worldwildlife.org/publications/