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Forest of Bowland AONB Climate Change Adaptation Plan

Forest of Bowland AONB Climate Change Adaptation Plan . Wednesday 13 th July 2011. Nikki van Dijk, Atkins . Overview of presentation . Context of Forest of Bowland Adaptation Action Plan Overview of method Summary of more vulnerable assets Adaptation action plan Strategic actions

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Forest of Bowland AONB Climate Change Adaptation Plan

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  1. Forest of Bowland AONB Climate Change Adaptation Plan • Wednesday 13th July 2011 • Nikki van Dijk, Atkins

  2. Overview of presentation • Context of Forest of Bowland Adaptation Action Plan • Overview of method • Summary of more vulnerable assets • Adaptation action plan • Strategic actions • Specific actions • Next steps

  3. Context • Natural England Character Area Climate Change Project • Natural England North West Region vulnerability assessment • NCA assessments • Forest of Bowland AONB

  4. Step 3: Assess the vulnerability of assets Step 1: Identify landscape character, ecosystem services and biodiversity Overview of method Step 2: Identify assets that contribute to landscape character, ecosystem services and biodiversity Step 4: Summarise implications of vulnerability assessment for landscape character, ecosystem services and biodiversity Step 5: Identify possible adaptation options Step 6: Screen options for multiple benefits or negative side effects

  5. Definitions • Landscape Character Types – FoB landscape character assessment • Ecosystem services – Millennium Ecosystem Assessment • Provisioning e.g. food, timber, energy and water • Regulating e.g. climate regulation, water purification • Supporting e.g. soil formation, pollination • Cultural e.g. recreation, sense of place http://www.forestofbowland.com/landscape_character

  6. Vulnerability Exposure Sensitivity + + Potential impact Adaptive capacity - /+ Vulnerability

  7. Relative vulnerability

  8. Summary of more vulnerable assets

  9. Adaptation action plan • Two types of action identified • Strategic actions - high-level, reduce vulnerability across whole AONB • Specific actions - apply to specific assets, landscape character types or ecosystem services • ‘Dip-in’ resource for practitioners http://www.forestofbowland.com/climatechange#adaptation

  10. Strategic actions • Increase area and connectivity of semi-natural habitats • Promote environmental heterogeneity • Where possible, adopt adaptive management approaches • Seek to reduce sources of harm and pressure not linked to climate change

  11. Strategic actions (continued) • Monitor assets • Review management plans to take account of climate change • Ensure current agreements are enforced and plans are adhered to • Opportunities for adaptation within the spatial planning agenda

  12. Specific actions

  13. Specific actions - uplands • Return semi-improved rough pasture and grass moorland to upland heath communities, where appropriate • Restore areas of eroded and exposed peat • Encourage appropriate levels, cycles and types of stocking • Review heather burning plans • Monitor peat depth • Plant new woodlands, extend and connect existing woodlands • Create and extend upland hay meadows • Review soil management plans

  14. Specific actions – lowlands • Adapt the management of lowland hay meadows • Restore and re-create wet grassland and wet woodland • Promote the return of semi-improved grasslands to species-rich grassland • Review hedgerow management

  15. Specific actions – ecosystem services • Provide shelter for livestock in summer • Monitor pests and diseases • Increase genotypic variation in plantation woodlands • Woodland creation and management linked to wood-fuel production • Review reservoir operations • Increase frequency of vegetation management at important historic and geological sites • Increase maintenance on rights of way and amenity areas

  16. Adaptation actions • Drawn from current understanding of good conservation practice • Existing management – uplands • Focus action on fringe and lowland landscapes • Embedding adaptation • Prioritise actions with multiple benefits • Recognise potential conflict between actions – further assessment

  17. Next steps • Highlighted areas for further work: • Consider in-direct impacts – response of other sectors • Monitoring of species at risk • Monitoring of adaptation actions – enable review of action plan • Research peat soil conservation methods

  18. Nikki van Dijk • Environmental Scientist • Climate Change and Environmental Futures, Atkins Ltd. • nikki.vandijk@atkinsglobal.com

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