Ecosystem challenge
Ecosystem challenge
National Ecosystem Assessment achieves international impact
The UK's National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA) continues to generate international interest and is proving influential in the way other nations approach their own assessments.
Nature's trail attracts new followers
People from all walks of life become climate change investigators.
Living With Environmental Change and the National Ecosystem Assessment
Living With Environmental Change played a major role in putting together the funding from partners and enabling partners to participate in the National Ecosystem Assessment.
UK economic growth depends on the health of our ecosystems
Future economic growth will be undermined unless we understand the full value of the natural world on which our wealth, health and well-being depend.
Valuing Nature
Valuing Nature, a new network to help decision-makers put learning from the national ecosystem assessment into practice.
Sustainable Marine Bioresources
What is the Sustainable Marine Bioresources activity?
This is a five-year collaborative research programme to improve ecosystem-based fisheries management.
The oceans and fishing
The oceans have the capacity to provide food, maintain water quality, and recover from disturbances, but now there are concerns that the marine ecosystem is changing as a result of human activity.
Valuing Nature Network
What is this activity?
Southern Ocean Fisheries and Climate Change
What is the Southern Ocean Fisheries and Climate Change activity?
National Ecosystem Assessment
What is the National Ecosystem Assessment?
The UK National Ecosystem Assessment is the first analysis of the UK’s natural environment in terms of the benefits it provides to society and continuing economic prosperity. It is based around the processes that link human societies and their well being with the environment and emphasises the role of ecosystems in providing services that bring well-being to people.
Marine Renewable Energy
Renewable energy from wind and wave power can make a large contribution to meeting the energy needs of the UK and the UK Government wants 35 giga watts of offshore wind and 2 giga watts each of tidal and wave energy by 2020, with further substantial increases planned for 2050.
Marine Renewable Energy aims to go beyond simple environmental impact statements and to predict the impact of large offshore wind farms, wave and tidal energy devices on the environment.