Impact
Impact Case Study REF2021 - 04 08 `23
Government Consultations
Planning for the future DRAFT Response - 11 08 `20
Professional & Practice Publications
A planning policy assessment method for New Zealand based on ecosystem services - 04 08 `23
Essex Green Infrastructure Standards Technical Guidance - 04 08 `23
Improving Strategic Planning for Nature Conservation - 04 08 `23
Green Blue Infrastructure Impacts on Health and Wellbeing A Rapid Evidence Assessment - 04 08 `23
Essex GI Standards Consultation Report - 22 02 `22
Building with Nature Standards Framework - 22 02 `22
Sheffield GIPPAT Assessment - 17 02 `22
Maldon LDP GIPPAT Assessment - 17 02 `22
GI Policies in Central Scotland; assessment - 14 02 `22
Delivering Better Water Management Through the Planning System - 14 02 `22
Assessment of the NPPF - 14 02 `22
Good Practice Example Policies - 14 02 `22
Assessment Criteria for GIPPAT - 14 02 `22
Embedding Nature Based Solutions in Strategic Spatial Planning - 16 12 `21
EU PERFECT Expert paper What goes good green infrastructure policy look like - 24 09 `20
Videos
Climate Emergency Planning Policy and Practice Perspectives - 15 11 `19
what does good GI policy look like - 08 03 `19
Homing in on health in the built environment - 20 02 `19
What kind of health metrics do we need to plan healthy places - 15 11 `18
Evaluating the NPPF through a green infrastructure lens - 15 11 `18
Making the Green Belt more productive - 15 08 `18
Planning for Climate Change - 15 08 `18
Consultation Responses
Submission to Raynsford Review - 15 02 `22
Response to the Consultation on the Defra Net Gain Proposals - 14 03 `19
FINAL Consultation response to NPPF2 - 08 05 `18
Workshops
Adapting to Change using Blue-Green Infrastructure - 17 02 `22
Healthy City Design Workshop - 17 02 `22
WHAT DOES GOOD STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR NATURE CONSERVATION LOOK LIKE - 12 08 `20
Strategic Planning for Nature Conservation workshop January 2020 - 12 08 `20
What health metrics do we need to better value green spaces? - 27 07 `18
Academic and Practitioner surveys on green infrastructure priorities and challenges - 17 05 `18
Green Infrastructure Challenges, Flip Chart Results and Commentary - 31 10 `17
Presentations
Planning More Effective Delivery for Climate Change - 16 02 `22
Mainstreaming Nature Using GI - 16 02 `22
Mainstreaming GI Principles in Local Policy - 16 02 `22
Mainstreaming the Ecosystems Approach - 16 02 `22
Green Infrastructure Wales - 16 02 `22
Making Better Policies for Green Infrastructure Webinar presentation to EKN - 27 03 `19
What kind of health metrics do we need to plan healthy places - 25 09 `18
Mainstreaming GI: Talk given to Green Infrastructure Partnership Sounding Board - 17 05 `18
Planning for environmental change : talk given to RTPI hot topics in Planning 2018 - 17 05 `18
Valuing Nature Network presentation - 21 10 `17
Initial assessment of NERC research impact pathways for green infrastructure practice - 21 10 `17
Academic Papers
Improving Multifunctionality of Green Belts - 22 04 `24
Guerrilla gardening and green activism - 17 02 `22
Places of urban disorder? - 17 02 `22
A Place-Based Approach to Payments for Ecosystems Services - 16 02 `22
Mainstreaming the Environment in Policy and Decision Making - 09 08 `19
Mainstreaming Ecosystem Science in Spatial Planning - 06 11 `17
Policy Papers
Green Blue Infrastructure Impacts on Health and Wellbeing A Rapid Evidence Assessment - 22 04 `24
A planning assessment method for New Zealand based on ecosystem services - 09 03 `21
Strategic Planning Research Paper: Improving Strategic Planning for Nature Conservation - 09 03 `21
A Green Infrastructure proofed NPPF - 02 03 `18
Knowledge Exchange outputs
Is build build build really the best way forward for the English planning system? - 23 02 `22
Should Britain build on its green spaces to solve the housing crisis? - 17 02 `22
Tightening our green belts - 07 10 `19
Making Better Policies and Plans for Green Infrastructure: A Self Assessment Tool - 05 10 `18
Impact pathways for English planning DRAFT briefing note - 17 05 `18
Other
Partnership for Biodiversity in Planning - 17 02 `22
Mainstreaming nature into marine spatial planning - 09 05 `19
Review of the Natural Environment Research Council Green Infrastructure Innovation Programme
22 Feb 2018
The Natural Environment Research Council has commissioned a review of its Green Infrastructure Innovation Programme. Written by Mike Grace and David Proverbs at Birmingham City University, this review profiles each of the 13 projects that were granted awards at the end of 2015 and describes their work and products in the context of the original ambitions of the projects. The review summarises the project outputs individually and describes the nature of the decision support tools and models being created and their impacts. The review also examines their collective experiences across five cross cutting themes.
Whilst it is necessarily a partial picture, as the majority of the awards have yet to submit their final reports and some do not complete their work until June 2018, the review helpfully sets out a number of reflections and recommendations concerning evidence monitoring and knowledge sharing and how they have helped fill the gaps identified in the NERC sponsored review of GI evidence. It identifies some concerns about the long term value and take-up of decision support tools and also some of the challenges and barriers for tools in making an impact on spatial planning and other decisions. It exposes a gap that has opened up around the provision of guidance on GI for practitioners. The outputs and relationships between the 13 projects suggest there is potential for greater collaboration and enhancing the impacts through the emerging tools in NERC’s GI tool-box.
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