Demand for land in Europe is high. Food and biomass production, housing, infrastructure and recreation all compete for space, with impacts on our climate, biodiversity and ecosystem services. In a recent assessment, the European Environment Agency (EEA) analysed land use change in Europe, concluding that we need an integrated policy approach...
Environment secretary Caroline Spelman has revealed that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is to invest £110m in overhauling England's rivers. The funding is to be used to...
Coed Cadw Cymru (The Woodland Trust) announced the launch of its new manifesto - Growing Wales' future – to coincide with the National Assembly elections on 5 May.
The Woodland Trust Scotland has recently completed the purchase of Maryland Farm a 240 hectare (600 acre) site, the first step towards creating the largest new native woodland on Glasgow’s doorstep at Lang Craigs.
The Environment Agency is supporting a new trading scheme that will pay farmers to convert their land into a threatened coastal habitat.Use of conservation credits in the UK has come a step closer, with the Environment Agency entering into an agreement with the Environment Bank, a small company set up to promote the concept four years ago.
We would like to encourage members to submit articles and landscape images for inclusion in future newsletters. These guidelines will hopefully provide some assistance in preparing any material.
Regions are spatial key units for the sustainable management of natural and human resources. Major challenges in regional resource management (RRM) will be (i) globalization, (ii) demographic change and migration, (iii) climate change, (iv) sustainable provision of energy from various sources and (v) conservation of natural resources and ecosystem services as cross-cutting issue...
