Measuring change enables us better target action to secure a healthy environment and support our rural communities and economies. It also helps us to evaluate the effectiveness of those actions. As well as meeting legislative and policy commitments to report on the state of our environment, both domestically and internationally.
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Nature conservation organisations have two new and interrelated challenges in the 21st century: conserving species in a changing climate and conserving ecosystem functioning at large spatial scales. Habitat loss and frag...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: University of Liverpool
The project aims to develop a mapping and prioritisation software tool to improve the planning of ecological networks, which directly addresses the question of measuring ecological connectivity and designing ecological networks through nature restoration.
One of the biggest challenges for society in the 21st century will be to reconcile competing demands on land use while avoiding environmental degradation. Supplies of food, fresh water and energy and overall quality of l...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: University of Liverpool
The project focuses on facilitating the application of decision support tools for habitat creation, which is directly relevant to measuring ecological connectivity and designing ecological networks through nature restoration.
There is a global biodiversity crisis driven by mounting pressures including land degradation and climate change. Within the UK, responses include the Government's 25 Year Environment Plan, which sets out a vision to sec...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: National Trust