NW2045 PUBLICATIONS
Review and Update on NW2045 Vision: Call To Action 2025 - NEW
New report - issued 18th June 2025 - issued a stark warning about the future of some of Scotland’s most remote mainland communities — calling for urgent rethink in how policy, service design and spending are designed and delivered for areas experiencing chronic depopulation.
Full Report
Exec Summary
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Analysis By BiGGAR Economics - NEW
Research commissioned by NW2045 in early 2025, which has informed the Call To Action
NW2045: Socio-Economic Profile
NW2045: Opportunities And Potential Development Models
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Regional Land Use Partnership – Land+ Handbook - NEW
A compendium of the work so far under the RLUP Land+ project - a community-led approach to collaboration, for the benefit of people and place.
RLUP Land+ Handbook
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Peat, Diesel and Seaweed - A Poetic Inquiry into the Green Transition in Northwest Highland Coastal Communities
In pertnership with NorthWest 2045 and Assynt Development Trust, Mandy Haggith carried out a research project to find out how people in coastal communities in the NW Highlands feel about climate change and to explore their hopes for effective climate action. The project is a partnership between the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI) and the Northwest 2045 network of community organisations (hosted by Assynt Development Trust), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to run from 2023-5. The three topics of peatland restoration, marine diesel and seaweed were selected as the research focus because they are issues with significant carbon emissions and/or sequestration potential in our area, but all relatively under-discussed.
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​NW2045 Community Vision
The NW2045 Vision - created by the NW2045 community in 2022 - is the foundation for all our work.
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