This article is in part a response to the research study published a year ago. The Ecologist: Governing Marine Protected Areas: Lyme Bay Horatio Morpurgo The scientific case for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is now overwhelming. The bigger question is how can they be managed more effectively? HORATIO MORPURGO reports. When conservation and utilitarian aims […]
Important outputs looking at strategic innovation across Europe How can we realise the true value of water for our environment, economy and society? Is it possible to reduce the impact of Europe’s society on our natural water resources? Ιn what way can we boost the European water market? How can we secure long-term resilience, stability, […]
Two articles – one on Defra’s ‘business led’ approach to resource efficiency whilst at the same time signalling it will plays it’s part in negotiating EU proposals on the circular economy. Hmm … perhaps this is going to be like the business led approach to plastic bags …. and air quality. Terry A’Hearn SEPAs new […]
Another change (to me) in the way fines are managed. A few years ago the sentencing rules changed and water companies in particular have been paying out much larger sums in fines – often in excess of a millions pound. In another twist of the legal system there have been a wave of payments made […]
Water resources and efficiency Waterwise has produced a Think Piece on Water Efficiency and Climate Change. It looks at some of the potential threats posed by climate change to water resources as well as outlining actions to help safeguard water resources against these threats. Not surprisingly, it calls for a scaling up of water efficiency, […]
New CaBA booklet The Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) brings people together to enhance rivers at a catchment scale, as well as achieve the aspirations of local communities. More than 1500 organisations are now taking this approach in over 100 river catchments in England and Wales, and there have been many successes and achievements. To illustrate […]
Interesting times for communicating science and climate change – two new terms (to me) – Guerrilla archiving and Ctrl-Alt-Delete policies. I wonder where he got the idea of gagging environmental agencies from? How this will work in practice remains to be seen because as usual there is inconsistency, see the piece on NOAA not being […]
Several generations of us have grown up knowing what good process looks like. A great success was the Defra work leading to the Marine & Coastal Access Act which was deliberate and clear from the outset through to the completion of the Act. The unfolding ‘process’ of the T3 MCZs is a rather strange, ‘soundings’ […]