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LWEC review of Envirobase

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our review of Envirobase. We have benefited from hearing how people use this resource and suggestions for improvements.

LWEC Partners are now considering the reults of the review and will be making a decison about the future for Envirobase at their meeting on 22nd November. We will publish the result of those deliberations soon after.

More about the Envirobase tool

Envirobase is an online database of information about environmental research and observation activities. It contains information on over 22,000 projects, programmes and activities funded by UK public and third sector organisations, including most LWEC Partners, with more being added at frequent intervals.

Envirobase is designed for people who determine environment-related policy or provide policy advice, people who plan, commission, manage or carry out environment-related research or observation programmes or activities, and people who work in environment-related knowledge exchange or information management. More generally, anyone interested in finding out about or wanting to use the outputs from current and recent environmental research or observation would find Envirobase helpful. It is of particular relevance to LWEC in providing the basis for planning UK environmental research strategies towards Living With Environmental Change.

"Envirobase has grown in scope since its humble beginning as a research database for the Environment Research Funders' Forum. We began to realise just how helpful it could be to a wide range of users and have made many improvements; the latest version not only includes observation work as well as research work and provides an explicit search for LWEC accredited activities, but it's more powerful and provides more useful downloads whilst retaining the quick and easy-to-use Simple Search," says LWEC's Database Project Manager, Marion Bartholomew.

What does Envirobase provide?

On the Envirobase website you can search for information about research or observation work related to the environment, or for organisations, people, or outputs related to such work.  You can download summary or detailed results for further analysis.

You can use a Simple (text) Search to find work, or an Advanced Search based on the environmental classification scheme on which all projects, programmes and activities in Envirobase have been classified.  There is also a simpler version of the scheme which you can use via a Custom Search option.  You can download a brief overview of the classification scheme, to enable you to get the most out of the classification-based search options below.

Full guidance on how to use the search facilities is given in Help files for each search page, and details of the current content are also provided.