02 Feb 2017
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 […]
29 Jan 2017
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 […]
29 Jan 2017
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’ […]
29 Jan 2017
UK offshore wind power costs tumble 32 per cent in four years UK offshore wind power costs have plummeted by almost a third in four years, putting the technology on course to soon be level with the cost of conventional power generation, a report by the UK’s Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (ORE) has revealed. The […]
29 Jan 2017
The title of the paper is: Forming shared values in conservation management: An interpretive-deliberative-democratic approach to including community voices A new paper by S.Ranger, J.O. Kenter, R.Bryce, G.Cumming, T.Dapling & E.Lawes, & P.B.Richardson Read online at this link Highlights include: Socio-economics and culture need to be part of complex environmental decision-making. We explore the potential […]
29 Jan 2017
French fishermen fined £84k for fishing in Jersey waters Two French fishermen were fined £84,000 in Jersey’s Royal Court today, after pleading guilty to beam trawling in Jersey waters. The men were on the trawler, ‘Louis Pauline’, in June 2015 before being caught by Fishery Officers within the Jersey Territorial Sea. Data showed that the […]
29 Jan 2017
Links to recent JNCC reports relating to the marine environment – from John Henson Webb Our most recent publications are the abrasion and extraction JNCC Pressure Mapping Methodology reports: Report 515 Physical Damage (Reversible Change) – Penetration and/or disturbance of the substrate below the surface of the seabed, including abrasion (2016) Church, N.J., Carter, A.J., […]
26 Jan 2017
Chair speaks to the BBC MPs today criticised the Government for missing opportunities to act on its report on improving flood protection for communities at risk across England. The Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s future flood prevention report published in November 2016 recommended action to tackle fragmented, inefficient and ineffective flood management. MPs were disappointed with […]
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