README: R script for rule-based decision-making in nature recovery planning
LJMU Data Repository deposit
About the data set
Title: R script for rule-based decision-making in nature recovery planning
Resource type: Data Collection
Creators: Luke Bentley; Colm Bowe; Alex Owusu Amoakoh; Sandra Angers-Blondin; Joe Bellis; Caroline Bailey-Rothschild; Lucy Moore
Rights holder(s): Liverpool John Moores University (Natural Capital Hub) , Luke Bentley
Year of publication: 2026
Resource language: English
Collection period: 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025
Description
This deposit contains the R script associated with the manuscript “From priorities to action: a rule-based framework for nature recovery planning”. The script implements a spatial, rule-based decision workflow for nature recovery planning in the Liverpool City Region. It combines habitat-specific multiple-benefit raster layers with expert and environmental spatial layers to assign habitat creation or management intervention categories to raster cells. The rules consider priority species, species assemblages, peat and other soils, flood zones, expert habitat opportunities, habitat networks and multiple benefits. Their order determines which decision branch is evaluated first. Results are saved as cell-level CSV files and subsequently converted to intervention polygons in GeoPackage format.
Data collection/generation method: Development of an R-based decision-making script integrating spatial evidence and ordered rules to prioritise nature recovery interventions.
How to cite this dataset
Bentley, Luke; Bowe, Colm; Amoakoh, Alex Owusu; Angers-Blondin, Sandra; Bellis, Joe; Bailey-Rothschild, Caroline; and Moore, Lucy (2026). R script for rule-based decision-making in nature recovery planning. [Data Collection]. https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.d.00000288
Related manuscript: “From priorities to action: a rule-based framework for nature recovery planning” (publication details not provided).
Contact details
Principal investigator/contact email: L.K.Bentley@ljmu.ac.uk; C.Bowe@ljmu.ac.uk 
Terms of use
The deposited file is available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). Users may share and adapt the material provided appropriate credit is given, a link to the licence is supplied, and any changes are indicated.
Project and funding information
Project/manuscript title: From priorities to action: a rule-based framework for nature recovery planning
Project or data collection dates: 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025
Contents
decision-making script.R - R script; Full Archive; 62 kB. Implements the ordered, rule-based spatial decision workflow for prioritising nature recovery interventions.
Repository download: decision-making script.R
Software required: R. Version and package dependencies were not provided in the deposit information.
Outputs described by the deposit: Cell-level CSV files and intervention polygons in GeoPackage format. These output files are described in the abstract but are not listed as deposited files.
Methods
The R script integrates habitat-specific multiple-benefit raster layers with expert and environmental spatial layers. Ordered rules evaluate priority species, species assemblages, peat and other soils, flood zones, expert habitat opportunities, habitat networks and multiple benefits. The order of the rules determines which decision branch is evaluated first. The workflow assigns habitat creation or management intervention categories to raster cells, saves the results as cell-level CSV files, and converts them into intervention polygons in GeoPackage format.
Detailed methods: See the associated manuscript “From priorities to action: a rule-based framework for nature recovery planning”. Full publication details were not provided.
Subject and repository information
DOI: https://doi.org/10.24377/LJMU.d.00000288
Repository record: https://opendata.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/288
URI: https://opendata.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/288
2025


README for LJMU Data Repository record 288