Impact Summaries
The range and diversity of SWEEP impact projects has been written up as a series of accessible, public-facing Impact Summaries. Each Impact Summary contains a high-level, succinct overview of the project’s rationale, activities and outputs, and the impact and benefits delivered. They conclude by looking to the future, explaining how the work is continuing and include references to the most relevant underpinning NERC research.
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- Protecting the South West through improved hazard forecasting
- Protecting the South Wales coastline – extending the impact of OWWL
- Strengthening business decision making – OWWL forecasting for Offshore Shellfish Ltd, Lyme Bay, Devon
- Strengthening the wave energy sector – OWWL forecasting for Bombora Wave Energy, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Enhancing South African coastal management and beach safety through improved hazard forecasting
- Integrating Natural Capital Approaches into marine management and beyond (Phase 1)
- Pioneering marine Natural Capital Approaches to enable a new way of considering, valuing and managing the marine environment in the South West and beyond (Phase 2)
- Enhancing seafood labelling schemes that support sustainable fishing practices
- Transforming leak detection capabilities using landscape modelling and drone thermal imaging
- Enabling Dartmoor National Park Authority to prepare for future population growth and the increasing impact of recreation
- Local Natural Capital Accounting: A case study of Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks
- Managed saltmarsh realignment: Exploring economic and natural processes
- Sustainable Drainage Solutions (SuDS): Developing ‘landscape-scale’ approaches in the South West
- Tackling pollinator decline in Cornwall through enhanced natural capital management policies and practices
- Developing an integrated ‘whole-catchment’ approach to water management – building evidence to support investment and mechanisms for monitoring and evaluation (Phase 1 & 2)
- One Coast project – creating a Cornish coastal corridor for nature and people
- Strengthening nature-based decision-making capacity in Cornwall
- Strengthening the climate change science behind marine planning to deliver economic, social, and environmental benefits to the South West
- Enhancing access to NEVO – the Natural Environment Valuation Online Tool
- Supporting the sustainable expansion of aquaculture in the South West: integrated understanding of water quality and policy influence, including:
- Strengthening policy, practice and investments in nature for human health and wellbeing
- Driving innovative opportunities for enhanced landscape-scale pollinator policies and practices
- Enabling sustainable landscape management through novel remote-sensing tools for mapping woodlands, moorlands and key habitats
- Strengthening longer term sustainable development decisions for the future of the South West’s coastline
- Saving lives through enhanced hazard forecasting and public messaging at Crantock Beach
- Tackling the climate crisis by scientifically-underpinning seagrass restoration in the Isles of Scilly
- Protecting the Australian coastline via a coastal erosion Early Warning System
- Delivering Biodiversity and Environmental Net Gain in practice
- Roger Auster PhD – Renewed Coexistence: Human dimensions of reintroducing the Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) into England
- Sophie Corrigan PhD – Maximising environmental benefits of South West seaweed farming potential
- Ben Balmford PhD – Enhancing the design of ground-breaking market-based Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes
- Matt Holden PhD – Applying the natural capital approach to farm-scale land management decision-making and evaluation: Exploring the impacts of management intensity and organic agriculture on natural capital and ecosystem services
- Research being undertaken from the remaining three part-funded SWEEP PhD projects: Josie Alice Kirby, Cara Patel, Hannah Forbes