03 Aug 2017
Eager beavers experts at recreating wildlife-rich wetlands, study reveals Four re-introduced beavers in Scotland engineered a network of dams, canals and ponds that left the landscape ‘unrecognisable’ from the original Research on Scottish beavers reveal how they re-engineer the river landscape; natural flood management Damian Carrington Guardian The extraordinary ability of beavers to engineer degraded […]
01 Aug 2017
Now Available Reconnecting People and Water: Public Engagement and Sustainable Urban Water Management By Liz Sharp Water management in industrialised western countries has long been seen as a technical process associated with pipes, drains and bureaucracies. This technical model of water management is now being questioned. This book examines the nature of contemporary water […]
01 Aug 2017
Now Available Governing the Coastal Commons: Communities, Resilience and Transformation Edited by Derek Armitage, Anthony Charles, Fikret Berkes Coastal communities depend on the marine environment for their livelihoods, but the common property nature of marine resources poses major challenges for the governance of such resources. Through detailed cases and consideration of broader global trends, […]
01 Aug 2017
Countries meet at UN Headquarters in New York for the final round of negotiations toward a possible treaty for the high seas, a new scientific review of recent ocean research has been launched to show the importance of ocean resources to humans. The report, authored by scholars at the University of Oxford for the High Seas Alliance, […]
01 Aug 2017
Phil Williamson writes: With regard to ocean acidification, research effort has been reduced. But there have been new findings from observations – as featured in the new MCCIP report, out today and at www.mccip.org.uk/arc10, with associated Science Reviews. Marine Climate Change Impacts This report card summarises how our understanding of marine climate change impacts has […]
01 Aug 2017
Guardian article picks up on MCCIP report cards and other reports – lots of links: Squid and anchovies, more commonly eaten by Britons holidaying abroad, are being drawn into UK waters in large numbers by climate change, according to major new report that suggests the nation’s long-lost bluefin tuna is also returning. However, global warming […]
01 Aug 2017
EU funds development of integrated observing system for Atlantic Ocean EU-funded researchers are driving the development of an integrated system to apply a common strategy to a range of data about the state of the Atlantic which is collected by a variety of organizations via a number of means including buoys, floats, moorings and research vessels. […]
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