A lecture by Alastair McIntosh, a leading figure in Scottish land reform and a well-known writer and broadcaster. No charge, all welcome! All around the world, rural communities are facing huge challenges to their cohesion as globalisation changes the economic basis of agriculture and natural resources, and high levels of mobilisation, made possible by cheap oil, create fluidity in the social structure. In Scotland, many communities are undergoing a fundamental reevaluation of what it means to be a community, and how to increase the quality of resilience.