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Measuring change
How to measure ecological connectivity and design coherent ecological networks through nature restoration?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
environment
ecology
nature restoration
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Measuring change
What is the status of our natural environment, is it being effectively monitored to note change in the UK and globally? We require robust, reliable data and information that can be used to assess status and trends in the natural environment (genetic and species diversity and trends, invasive species, habitats extent, condition and character, as well as soils and ecosystem services and functions)
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
environment
monitoring
data
ecosystems
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Environmental monitoring and data science
Risk management: Novel approaches to assessment and analysis of risk and resilience
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
risk management
data analysis
geospatial data
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Environmental monitoring and data science
Advanced electronics: How will sensors, omics, geographical information systems, internet of things, be used to support regulation and enforcement needs across the agri-envrionmental and food sectors?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
geospatial data
sensors
omics
GIS
IoT
agriculture
environment
food
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Environmental monitoring and data science
Molecular biology: The ongoing evolution in the costs, speed, and ease of DNA measurements will allow entirely new approaches to complement traditional biodiversity monitoring and increase understanding of ecosystems, biodiversity, diseases, and other aspects of the environment
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
biodiversity
DNA
molecular biology
environment
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Environmental monitoring and data science
Consistent and long-term environmental monitoring: Time-series increase in value for ecology and policy making as they grow in length. Decades of data are required to answer emerging questions around, for example, climate change impacts on biodiversity and the efficacy of management measures
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
environment
biodiversity
data architecture
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Environmental monitoring and data science
Data science: Application of techniques, including AI and block chain, to unlock opportunities for improved and more efficient environmental monitoring, regulatory compliance, and land management
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
data science
AI
block chain
environmental monitoring
regulatory compliance
land management
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Systems and futures
Horizon scanning and futures: Challenges to the UK can be varied and diverse, ranging from manmade deliberate actions by foreign states to naturally occurring events such as flooding, soil erosion and so on. Assessment of current and future challenges will need to be combined with risk management approaches
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
environment
risk management
futures
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Systems and futures
How can we assess and mitigate systemic risks involving environmental factors? What are the best approaches for monitoring that tracks system dynamics based on key ‘watchpoints’ to trigger mitigation actions?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
environment
risk assessment
system dynamics
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Systems and futures
How can we best develop an inclusive societal vision for a just transition towards sustainability? At what spatial scale should such visions be developed and how to reconcile across scales? How can we best manage the polycentric governance to implement these visions?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
sustainability
societal vision
polycentric governance
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Systems and futures
Development of models to support decision making on complex and wicked problems (for example on land use, environmental trade-offs, food systems)
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
land use
environment
food systems
decision making
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Systems and futures
Development of systems approaches that can be used to inform policymaking. This includes approaches to provide insights into complex systems, identify points of intervention, account for multiple perspectives, and frame policy decisions
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
policymaking
systems approaches
complex systems
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Systems and futures
Systems analysis that considers human-environmental systems as a complex set of interactions, and the novel use of systems thinking to consider the feedbacks and consequences of action in this system
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
environment
systems thinking
human-environmental systems
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Behavioural and social science
What do we know about the public acceptability of necessary restrictions such as counter disease measures? What lessons are applicable from public acceptability of the coronavirus restrictions to the animal and plant health domain?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
society
public acceptability
animal health
plant health
disease control
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Behavioural and social science
How will different groups of society, particularly in rural communities, be affected by changes associated with the move towards Net Zero and the goals of the 25 Year Environment Plan? How can positive effects be adopted more widely and negative impacts be mitigated?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
environment
society
25 Year Environment Plan
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Behavioural and social science
How can we encourage the development and dissemination of innovations in the agri-environment sector? What are the right conditions for success?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
environment
agriculture
innovation
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Behavioural and social science
How can we balance devolved responsibilities with the need to avoid a weakening of national guidelines/ standards?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
politics
devolution
standards
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Behavioural and social science
What principles should be used to delegate responsibilities to local communities, and how can these areas be empowered to deliver?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
society
environment
local communities
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Behavioural and social science
How can local governance best be coordinated with national?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
governance
society
local government
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Behavioural and social science
Which techniques are best for estimating the effects of interacting risks? How do we ensure that communication of risk is relevant and effective? What lessons can we take from the response to the coronavirus pandemic about the communication of risk and of the need for behavioural change?
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, 2021
risk assessment
communication
coronavirus
behavioural change
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