Glossary of terms

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Glossary of terms

• 20-minute neighbourhoods – places that are designed so that residents can meet their day-to-day needs within a 20-minute walk or cycle of their home .

• Active travel – making journeys in more physically active ways, such as walking, using a wheelchair or mobility aid, cycling, or scooting .

• Affordable housing – housing of a reasonable quality that is affordable to people on modest incomes, including social rented accommodation, mid-market rented accommodation, shared ownership, shared equity, discounted low cost housing for sale including plots for self-build, and low-cost housing without subsidy .

• Assemblage / species assemblage – a group of species that exists in a particular habitat .

• Biodiversity – the variety of plant and animal life in the world or in a particular habitat, a high level of which is usually considered to be important and desirable .

• Cairngorms Nature Action Plan – Cairngorms

Nature is a partnership for people and organisations to come together with a common desire to safeguard and enhance the outstanding nature of the Cairngorms National

Park . The Action Plan describes the most important priorities over the five years between 2019 and 2024 and provides a focus for the work of partners . It has three main aims: landscape-scale conservation, focused action for priority species and involving people .

• Cairngorms Nature Index – a tool to help establish a baseline and framework for monitoring the health of the National

Park’s habitats, species and ecosystems .

• Carbon markets / trading – the buying and selling of credits that permit a company or other entity to emit a certain amount of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases .

• Carbon negative – emitting less than zero carbon dioxide and carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) greenhouse gasses .

• Carbon sequestration – a natural or artificial process by which carbon dioxide is removed from the atmosphere and held in solid or liquid form .

• Circular economy – an economy in which products, services and systems are designed to maximise their value and minimise waste . It is an all-encompassing approach to life and business, where everything has value and nothing is wasted .

In simple terms, it can be explained as 'make, use, remake' as opposed to 'make, use, dispose' .

• Citizens’ assembly / jury – a representative group of citizens who are selected at random from the population to learn about, deliberate upon and make recommendations in relation to a particular issue or set of issues .