In the more remote areas and communities of the Scottish Highlands and Islands there is an increasing awareness of the issues facing the future sustainability of community, economy and ecology and the impact that these realities have on a good collective quality of life. Our broad ambition in this symposium is to openly explore these issues with a diverse range of participants and aspire to build upon existing success and to construct, together, some ways and means of further developing them for the benefit of current and future inhabitants living in the remoter areas of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.

Questions:
• What might constitute and how may we identify a good “quality of life” for those living in the more remote communities of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland?
• What may be some elements and defining constituents of this and how may it be further developed and sustained?
• How might such a quality of life be further defined, developed, fostered and sustained; in the maintaining of existing, support for emerging and the creation of new communities in the remoter areas of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland?
• What may be examples of current best practice that connects community, economy and ecology for the continuing generation of a good quality of life for the remoter areas of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland and how may this be adopted, adapted and further enriched?
• What may be the best forms and modes of social, ecological and economic activity to nurture sustained quality of life in the remoter areas of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland?
• How may this be further constructed, enabled, delivered and sustained?