With a 6 step approach recommended by the review and endorsed by partners, the project is now set to develop the foundation of a LNCP – an open, accessible and consistent evidence base that utilises the best available data. We have provided direction and leadership by working with data owners, to challenge assumptions and existing ways of working to facilitate creating an evidence base that meets these objectives. We are also providing an account and valuation to demonstrate the benefits of the natural environment in the Arc, whilst clearly outlining the gaps and limitations in an economic approach to assessing environmental values in isolation.
We are taking forward a small number of collaborative projects with partners across the Arc to explore specific aspects relating to a natural capital approach in more detail and at the more local scale. We have chosen projects that can deliver within our timescales, and add to the work of the LNCP and other local natural capital approaches and provide evidence for use in the Arc and beyond.
You can click on the icons below to view our work to date – making it easy to see the correlation between pieces of work and the type of evidence or information they provide.