Living with Environmental Change: Ecosystem challenge

Maintaining a healthy buzz

Ruth Welters — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:59:13 +0000

Understanding the ups and downs of insect pollinators.

Consultation opens on UK Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research Strategy

Ruth Welters — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:49:00 +0000

Living With Environmental Change partners are now inviting your feedback on the new UK Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research Strategy.

Living with Environmental Change and the National Ecosystem Assessment

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:19:22 +0000

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

Ruth Welters — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 09:09:44 +0000

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.

Ecosystems: the Path out of Poverty

Ruth Welters — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:41:51 +0000

An international programme to help the world’s poorest people benefit from their natural resources.

Valuing Nature

Ruth Welters — Mon, 23 May 2011 14:44:21 +0000

Valuing Nature, a new network to help decision-makers put learning from the national ecosystem assessment into practice.

Sustainable Marine Bioresources

Ruth Welters — Wed, 04 May 2011 10:36:22 +0000

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.

Taking a View on Landscape Value

Ruth Welters — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 12:00:52 +0000

An initiative to help people assess the full value of landscape.

Valuing Nature Network

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:37:44 +0000

What is this activity?

Southern Ocean Fisheries and Climate Change

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:20:49 +0000

What is the Southern Ocean Fisheries and Climate Change activity?read more

National Ecosystem Assessment

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:12:18 +0000

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.

Background

What is an ecosystem?
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Marine Renewable Energy

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:07:31 +0000

What is the activity?

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.
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Macronutrient Cycles Programme

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:05:20 +0000

What will the Macronutrient Cycles Programme do?
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BioMara

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:52:47 +0000

What is the BioMara project?

BioMara - the Sustainable Fuels from Marine Biomass project - is a joint UK and Irish activity to find out if making fuel from marine algae is both feasible and viable.

What will the project do?

This project will investigate fuel production from both macroalgae (seaweeds) and microalgae (single celled plants), as an alternative to fuels made from land plants.
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Algal Bioenergy Network

Ruth Welters — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:45:46 +0000

What is the Algal Bioenergy Special Interest Group?
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