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Making a Tool of Yourself: Local Nature Partnerships and the NEA follow on

Making a Tool of Yourself: Local Nature Partnerships and the NEA follow on . Professor Alister Scott BA PhD RTPI “Identify, Develop and Test tools to embed ecosystem thinking in daily policy and decision-making practices”. Ecosystem Research Projects (Reed 2012)

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Making a Tool of Yourself: Local Nature Partnerships and the NEA follow on

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  1. Making a Tool of Yourself: Local Nature Partnerships and the NEA follow on Professor Alister Scott BA PhD RTPI “Identify, Develop and Test tools to embed ecosystem thinking in daily policy and decision-making practices”

  2. Ecosystem Research Projects (Reed 2012) Size of circle is proportional to no. programmes sharing a goal Improve evidence re: relationships between ecosystem processes and natural capital stocks/ecosystem service flows under different scenarios Shared by BESS x2, CEH, ESPA x2, NEA2, SRP x2, VNN, BESS: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services & Sustainability programme CEH: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology biodiversity & water programmes ESPA: Ecosystem Services & Poverty Alleviation programme IPI: Insect Pollinators Initiative NEA2: National Ecosystem Assessment follow-on phase SRP: Scottish Government's Strategic Research Programme Theme 1: Ecosystem Services VNN: Valuing Nature Network Policy instruments for the sustainable management of ecosystem services Shared by CEH, ESPA, IPI, NEA2 Develop tools to measure, track & map changes in ecosystem services under different scenarios Shared by BESS, CEH, NEA2, SRP Understand how different social groups value ecosystem services & incorporate these values in decision-making processes Shared by ESPA, NEA2, VNN Methods to value contribution of natural capital stocks & ecosystem services to human well-being Shared by NEA2, VNN

  3. The NEA follow on phase • Natural Capital Asset Checks • Macro Economics • Economic Values (land and marine) • Cultural Values • Shared and Plural Values • Scenarios • Scenario Response Options • Culture and Behaviour change (Impact Assessments) • Tools 1 • Tools 2

  4. The challenge Research Delivery Policy (adapted from Waters, 2012 )

  5. Our response 1. Build an interdisciplinary team 2. Developing a framework within which we can prioritise tools for ecosystem proofing 3. Developing generic guidance that supports the use of any tools in decision making processes with particular focus on our preferred tools 4. Testing the framework, guidance and tools in real life settings using case studies as appropriate

  6. The Team • Birmingham City University • University of Cranfield • Perth UHI • Collingwood Environmental Planning • National Farmers Union • David Jarvis Associates • Natural England • Localise West Midlands • Pundamilia Ltd • Rural Strategy • RTPI • RICS

  7. Our response 1. Build an interdisciplinary team 2. Developing a framework within which we can prioritise tools for ecosystem proofing 3. Developing generic guidance that supports the use of any tools in decision making processes with particular focus on our preferred tools 4. Testing the framework, guidance and tools in real life settings using case studies as appropriate

  8. Our key assumptions • Champions and innovators in policy and practice are the best people to work with • Many agencies outside the natural environment have no understanding of the ecosystem approach/ecosystem services • Important to develop a toolkit of existing tools that provides additionality and benefit

  9. Assumptions (contd) • Ecosystem services should be used under the umbrella of the ecosystem approach • Tools are not separate from the cultural and governance context in which they are used

  10. Selected Contextual settings • Welsh Government Single Environment Body(National Scale) • Birmingham and Black Country Nature Improvement Area (Landscape Scale) • Cotswold AONB (Landscape scale) • Grow with Wyre Community Trust (Landscape Scale) • Greater Birmingham and Solihull Local Enterprise Partnerships (Landscape Scale) • South Downs National Park and NIA (Landscape Scale) • Gaywood Valley, Kings Lynn Ecosystem Services Assessment (Landscape Scale) • North Devon District Council and Torridge Joint Local Plan: Development plan (Local Authority and Landscape Scale) • Birmingham City Council Green Infrastructure Strategy • Much Wenlock Local Plan (Neighbourhood scale)

  11. Contextual Setting : Local Nature Partnerships • New body using tools and approaches to help achieve your objectives • Focus on engagement/participatory processes • Focus on informing/influencing public behaviours • health and well being • business • planning • Identify nature priorities in your space

  12. Convention of Biological Diversityadapted 1 Management of land, water and living resources is based on societal choices. 2: Management should be decentralized 3. Managers should consider adjacent effects (actual or potential) of their activities 4: Manage the ecosystem in an economic context. 5: Maintain and enhance ecosystem services 6: Identify environmental limits of ecosystems.

  13. Contd. 7: Manage at appropriate spatial and temporal scales. 8: Recognize varying temporal scales & lag-effects and manage for the long term. 9: Manage change to best advantage 10: Seek appropriate balance between, and integration of, conservation and use of biological diversity. 11: Consider all forms of information; scientific and indigenous &local knowledge, innovations & practices. 12:Involve all relevant sectors of society and science

  14. Translate 12 principles into guidance (see draft) • Tools should not be used in isolation • Avoid tick box or bolt-on syndromes. • Glue that binds ecosystem services together • Glue that binds tools together within policy and decision making processes. • No one size fits all tool • Nested hierarchy of tools

  15. TABLES Web resources • Tool reviews / underpinned by • Literature Reviews

  16. Ecosystem service tools • Payment for Ecosystem Services (Lever) • Ecosystem Assessment (Support) • LEDE tool (Support) • Asset Check (Support) • ARIES (Support) • MIMES (Support) • Natural Character Areas (Support) • SCCAN (Support) • Corporate Ecosystem Valuation (Support)

  17. Valuation tools • Cost Benefit Analysis (Support) • Corporate Ecosystem Valuation (Support) • Multi-Criteria Analysis (Support) • Deliberative Monetary valuation • Social Return on Investment (Support) • InVEST (Support) • Polyscape (Support)

  18. Regulatory • Environment Impact Assessment (Support) • Strategic Environmental Assessment (Support) • Regulatory Impact Assessment (Support) • Community Infrastructure Levy (Lever) • Green Belt (Lever) • Building Regulations

  19. Incentives • Taxes (green or otherwise) and conditional tax reliefs (Lever) • Payments for Ecosystem Services (Lever) • Biodiversity Offsets (Lever) • Tax Incremental financing (Lever)

  20. Futures tools • Scenarios (Support) • Foresight (Support) • Backcasting (Support) • Wind Tunnelling • Visioning (Support)

  21. Public engagement tools • Delphi Technique • Participatory Mapping (Support) • Participatory Budgeting (Support) • *Narratives and Stories (Support) • Stakeholder analyses (Support) • *Participatory appraisal (rapid) • Focus groups

  22. Assessment Criteria for selected tools • Easy to use and understand • Currently used and valued • Suitability for incorporating an ecosystem services framework • High impact in current policy and decision making processes • Transparent • Robust (able to data gaps and uncertainty) • Consistency in use, application and assessment across users • Compatible across scales and sectors • Deliverable • Be based on widely available and accessible data • Has mechanisms for meaningful stakeholder engagement

  23. Our Preferred tools • Guidance as to improve use of all tools in decision making processes • Visioning and Back Casting • Ecosystem mappping • National Character Areas (adapt to local scale) • Ecosystem Assessment method (including corporate) • GIS Ecosystem models and tools (INVEST) • Strategic Environmental Assessment • Environmental Impact Assessment • Payment for Ecosystem Services • Cost benefit analysis and multi-criteria analysis

  24. The plans ahead • Ecosystem proofing of selected tools by workshops/team for use by stakeholders and case studies • Production of guidance for effective use of toolkit • Testing of tools in field situation by case studies (LNP?) March-July • Feedback • Final iteration

  25. Summary • To Boldly go • Focus on Process and Outcomes • Best tools are us. Alister.scott@bcu.ac.uk 01213317551

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