Description:
The Lewes and Ouse Valley eco-nomics Group is working with local communities to value what nature does for people.
Partners, organisations and stakeholders involved:
- Lewes Railway Land Wildlife Trust
- Sussex Wildlife Trust
- Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre
- Lewes District Council
- Lewes Town Council (via Lewes Neighbourhood Plan Steering Group)
- Transition Town Lewes
- The Environment Agency – Coastal Communities 2150
- Natural England
- Brighton and Lewes Biosphere
- South Downs National Park Authority
- Sussex Flow Initiative
- University of Brighton
Aims of the project/initiative:
- Work with the local community to explore and document the benefits to wellbeing in Lewes from the local environment (with a focus on the chalk downs)
- Raise and spread awareness of the gains for the Lewes local economy from locally provided ecosystem services