The approaches to sustainability take many named forms – One Planet Living – ICZM – The Ecosystems Approach. Government and in particular the Cabinet Office seem to have taken to a particular shine to another version ‘Resilience’. If you look at the diagram below based on Cutter et al. (2010), ‘Disaster Resilience Indicators for Benchmarking […]
Ballantine 50 years on RE: This is a landmark paper – the antidote to Defra think on MCZ’s – it illustrates, based on 50 years of work on real – fully protected – marine reserves what we could expect if we ever applied such thinking here … pigs might fly… Bill Ballantine: New Zealand pioneered […]
The winners of the 2014 Guardian Sustainability Business Awards were announced last week – a very interesting range of current work. This website is linked to their sustainability awards process and provides a wealth of good practice across many sectors of business from low carbon, resources and waste, innovation, energy, water and communication. To read […]
Edmund C. Penning-Rowsell: ‘A recent paper of mine analyses the available data on flood damage since 1947 and up to 2010. The results show that annual average economic fluvial and coastal flood damage over the last two decades or so – a period seeing several large flood events – had not amounted to more than […]
Defra: ‘Flood Risk Management Plans (FRMPs) highlight the hazards and risks of flooding from rivers, the sea, surface water, groundwater and reservoirs, and set out how Risk Management Authorities (RMAs) work together with communities to manage flood risk.’ To read more click here
JRF ‘We thought you might be interested to see the first call for proposals has been issued for the JRF’s new climate change and communities programme, seeking an evidence review on locality and community resilience to climate change. Evidence review: Locality and community resilience to climate change. This call for proposals seeks to identify what […]
The current text of the EU Marine Spatial Planning Directive thanks to Steve Collins To read this click here
Palaeoenvironmental assessment of peat samples from the Dogger Bank – new report available The Crown Estate This report may be downloaded from The Crown Estate website at: http://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/media/562878/ei-archaeological-material-from-the-dogger-bank.pdf Summary Wessex Archaeology was commissioned by The Crown Estate to undertake a palaeoenvironmental assessment of peat samples reported through the Offshore Renewables Protocol for Archaeological Discoveries (ORPAD) project, […]