With her pithy and engaging style, Amelia Steele takes us to the heart of the new environmental narrative that underlies the Ecosystems Knowledge Network's new strategy.
Read the piece at https://ecosystemsknowledge.net/resources/blog-library/ensuring-green-fu...
RICS has just published an insight paper reviewing environmental valuation from the perspective of a practising valuer, land manager or estate manager.
The principal author is Charles Cowap, a rural surveyor who is a member of the Ecosystems Knowledge Network.
Read the paper at http://www.rics.org/Global/Value%20natural%20capital_insight%20paper_Apr...
The Stroud Rural Sustainable Drainage project is being implemented to reduce the risk of flooding in the Frome Valley, England. Six case studies have been published and are available at https://www.stroud.gov.uk/rsuds
On 23rd July, The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) announced that it has set aside £20m for 13 schemes to be funded through its Landscape Partnership programme. The projects cover diverse landscapes across the UK, including the Ouse Washes (Cambridgeshire) and the Dearne Valley (a Nature Improvement Area in the foothills of the Pennines). HLF’s Landscape Partnerships are designed to help bring together members of the community as well as local, regional, and national organisations to benefit landscapes and rural communities.
This one-day conference, organised by the Countryside and Community Research Insitute, is aimed at all of those involved with rural policy, including practitioners, policy maker and academic researchers. It will reflect on how rural policy has arrived at its present day juncture, as well as look forward to new possibilities. The event takes place on 27th September in Gloucester. For more information see http://www.ccri.ac.uk/Events/2012CCRIPolicyConference.htm