Workstream: Final conference March 31st
Key Resources to support conference
Mainstreaming nature using green infrastructure final conference ALL TALKS AVAILABLE AS VIDEO
Workstream: Improving policy processes and outcomes for GI
Building with Nature Chair of Standards Board 2018-2022
Green Infrastructure Partnership Evaluation
Green Infrastructure Planning Policy Assessment Tool
Improving Multifunctionality of Green Belts
Introducing the Nature Assessment Tool for Urban and Rural Environments NATURE
Introducing The Environmental Benefits from Nature Tool
Strategic Planning Research Project: Improving Strategic Planning for Nature Conservation
Workstream: Key Research on Green Infrastructure: what is the science telling us?
EU Projects on Green Infrastructure
NERC projects and programmes relevant to Green Infrastructure
Other Academic Research on Green Infrastructure
Other Research Council UK projects on Green Infrastructure
Workstream: Policy and Practice on Green Infrastructure: What are the key lessons emerging?
Capturing Green Infrastructure Policy and Practice
Workstream: Understanding our growing environmental vocabulary & how green infrastructure fits in
Introducing the Nature Assessment Tool for Urban and Rural Environments NATURE
The NATURE tool
WSP and the Ecosystems Knowledge Network, in collaboration with Alister Scott from Northumbria University, co-developed the tool together with over 30 built environment industry and stakeholder partners to assess and implement net gains for the environment at project-scale. We believe the NATURE Tool will enable a step-change in how the built environment professions think about new development, enabling them to implement net-gains for the environment through transparent and objective assessments against clearly defined objectives. Overall, the NATURE Tool will not only help to make future land-use more sustainable, but also to enable the built environment sector to play a more positive role by becoming a net-contributor to tackling environmental issues – a potential game-changer.
Ihave also led the production of an interim reportt from workshops across the UK involving built and natural environment professionals. This helped to identify key hooks for the tool within diffrent stages of the policy and development pipelines that forms part of our planning systems.
