Now Available Marine Transboundary Conservation and Protected Areas Edited by Peter Mackelworth The marine environment does not naturally respect arbitrary international boundaries. The establishment and management of transboundary marine protected areas therefore presents major governance challenges. This book analyses a series of marine transboundary conservation initiatives embedded in varying contextual situations to examine the underlying […]
Research opportunity – Environmental effects of offshore wind The go-ahead for an offshore windfarm (the European Offshore Wind Deployment Centre, EOWDC) off Aberdeen has recently been announced https://corporate.vattenfall.co.uk/projects/wind-energy-projects/european-offshore-wind-deployment-centre/ The EOWDC project plan includes a budget of €3million, part funded by the EU, for research on the environmental effects of windfarm development and operation – with […]
Brexit: Water & Farming In the UK we have an excellent, world beating understanding of how farming and land-use affects the water cycle and catchment management and various programmes in place to address this. This theme will address how this theme is being addresses in Brexit debate; it now contains five articles (August 4th) see […]
Thérèse Coffey Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for the Environment and Rural Life Opportunities Responsibilities include: natural environment, including biodiversity, the marine environment, and international wildlife trafficking rural life opportunities, covering rural childcare, education and skills, and health floods, water and waterways air quality waste management More about this role George Eustace Minister of State […]
Thanks to Richard Ashley for these four articles Urban adaptation to climate change in Europe 2016 — Transforming cities in a changing climate EEA Report No 12/2016 This report builds on and complements existing products and initiatives on urban adaptation in Europe. It focuses on the state of actions in the field and progress achieved […]
‘Southern Water is set to launch a pioneering integrated water cycle management programme (IWCM), according to its annual report for 2015-16. Via the IWCM the water company will develop collaborative partnerships with a range of industries, such as agriculture and tourism, in order to look holistically at all the factors influencing water supply, demand and […]
Brexit Overview – 4th August Bob Earll Everything underlined is a web link. Thanks to Louise Earll, Martin Brocklehurst, Bruce Horton Introduction Trying to make sense of the Brexit decision has been a major task. This blog covers the big picture because it is from this that other major decisions will flow. Whether these are […]
Brexit Themes August 4st 2016 Bob Earll, CMS – Communications & Management for Sustainability Thanks to Louise Earll, Martin Brocklehurst, Bruce Horton, Daniel Owen The idea behind this simple listing is to enable me to keep track of what has been covered so far. I’m keeping some of the commentary in single themes which are […]