9/12/2009: First Living with Environmental Change Pilot Reviews Published

Six pilot reviews are now published under Living with Environmental Change Objective B – ‘To manage ecosystem services for human well-being and to protect the natural environment in a changing world’.

The LWEC partners are keen to support activities that cover both aspects of Objective B. These include the assessment of links and feedbacks between the natural environment, ecosystem services and human well-being; how these might continue to develop within environmental limits in the face of major environmental change; and how decision-making and local and national planning can take account of these links and feedbacks to help in the development of new social, environmental and economic opportunities.

Each of the six reports provides an initial characterisation of the evidence base on their chosen subjects. This provides a resource with which to judge the potential value of full systematic reviews and the likely need for primary research.

The Pilot Reviews offer the opportunity to scope academic literature and public reports published on specific questions. It is intended that the reports of the reviews: outline the existing data and highlight the trends and gaps in knowledge, contain details of the search strategy employed, provide critical appraisal of the quality of the sample of the studies and may produce a draft protocol for a full systematic review.

This project was funded by The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (project NR0133) with the support of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) Objective B.

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