The Government’s marine Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (mNCEA) programme is delivering evidence, tools and guidance to integrate natural capital approaches into policy and decision making for marine and coastal environments.

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The mNCEA has announced the release of year two research outputs:

• A Seascape Natural Capital Approach for Sustainable Management (Cefas) – This project develops comparative case studies for natural capital-based evaluations and assessments for applied marine management and strengthens the evidence base for evaluating cultural services provided by the marine and coastal environment.
• Place-Based Assessment – Natural Capital Approaches to Support Local and Strategic Planning for Marine Recovery (Natural England) – This project develops our understanding of different local contexts and priorities to provide evidence and tools to support nature recovery on the ground.
• Marine Natural Capital Approach to Achieving Good Environmental Status (JNCC) – This project evaluates how marine natural capital approaches can be used to strengthen the assessment of Good Environmental Status (GES) in UK seas. It develops a series of foundational evidence products to better understand the socioeconomic impacts of achieving, or failing to achieve, GES for different ecosystem components in the UK Marine Strategy.

Please contact marineNCEA@defra.gov.uk if you have questions or would like to be put in touch with project leads. Search ‘ME45’ on https://randd.defra.gov.uk/ to see all reports.