Moors for the Future have teamed up with natural and social scientists, local stakeholders and policy makers to develop an approach that can help people better anticipate and monitor future change in UK uplands. Sustainable Uplands: Frameworks for Adaptive Learning is a research project funded by the UK Research Council's - Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme which is co-sponsored by defra and SEERAD.
	Building on local knowledge and experience, researchers are combining new ideas from local people with the latest science. The result will be a choice of options for the future that could not have been developed by any group alone. Further details are available by visiting the Sustainable Uplands website or reading the latest newsletter. The project follows a succesful year long Scoping Study for which the final report is now available.

In addition, Moors for the Future are working closely with another RELU project looking at Hill Farm Economics, Landscapes and Biodiversity in the Peak District. Launched in 2006, this collaboration between researchers in the Universities of Sheffield, Stirling and Nottingham aims to discover how we can manage moorland ecosystems in a way that delivers sustainable hill farming communities while also protecting the environment. Taking the Peak District as a case study, they will examine how farmers respond to policy changes and how they can design business plans to cope with these changes most effectively. They will explore the impact that hill farming has on moorland species and predict how those impacts are likely to change over the next 20 years.