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Open KE Fellowship: Developing best-practice for natural process restoration in the British uplands

开放 KE 奖学金：开发英国高地自然过程恢复的最佳实践

基本信息

批准号：
NE/P005926/1
负责人：
Christopher Sandom
金额：
$ 2.83万
依托单位：
University of Sussex
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FP005926%2F1
关键词：
Open KE Fellowship Developing best

项目摘要

The EU and UK Biodiversity Strategies have set ambitious goals of halting the decline in biodiversity and restoring ecosystems to maximise the services nature provides society by 2020. This Open NERC Knowledge Exchange Fellowship will help policy-makers and practitioners achieve these goals by producing best-practice guidelines for upland natural process restoration or 'rewilding'. This will be achieved by bringing together a network of primarily NERC funded academics, with practitioners, policy-makers, professional bodies and businesses to exchange knowledge and experience. Success will help safe guard natural heritage for future generations, alleviate major national challenges such as flooding and water quality, and provide more resilient rural communities and economies. Rewilding is an emerging approach within inter-disciplinary conservation science. It is proposed as a complementary method to established biodiversity conservation by re-establishing natural processes to allow ecosystems to restore and sustain themselves. Where successful it will deliver a sustainable and cost-effective approach to conservation by reducing the recurrent costs associated with direct management.The overall aim of this Knowledge Exchange fellowship is to facilitate the restoration of naturally functioning upland ecosystems in Britain. The uplands are an important starting point because the impacts of actions here cascade down through river catchments with the flow of water, sediments and nutrients. The critical, overarching, natural processes considered for restoration will be predation, herbivory, disturbance and hydrology. The key objectives are: 1) to bring together academics, practitioners, policy makers and businesses in three workshops to co-produce best-practice guidelines to inform policy on natural process restoration; and 2) to disseminate these guidelines through direct engagement with stakeholders and through the creation of an online platform of resources. Rewilding Britain is a UK charity that aspires to see habitats expand, wildlife multiply, and communities flourish with new opportunities. An important ambition for Rewilding Britain is to work with the academic community to collate, synthesise and disseminate the best available research to their partners, government bodies, landowners and the public. They wish to use this collaboration to create and maintain an online 'Rewilding Knowledge Hub' to engage stakeholders and the public.While rewilding presents an exciting opportunity, it currently lacks a specific evidence base to properly assess its feasibility, value, risks and associated costs. There is, however, a considerable amount of relevant fundamental and applied conservation, ecology, ecohydrology, and socio-economics research that could aid the development of rewilding policy and best-practice. NERC has been an integral funder of much of this research. This Knowledge Exchange project will collate and synthesise the research of academic partners including Prof. Y. Malhi, Prof. D.W. Macdonald, Prof. W. Sutherland, Prof. R. Brazier, Prof. A. Newton, Dr. S. Carver, Dr. P. Jepson, and the applicant Dr. C.J. Sandom. This synthesised knowledge will serve as a primer for a two-way knowledge exchange with the project's practical and policy partners through two workshops on the approaches, value, risks and costs of rewilding. A third workshop will be dedicated to co-produce best-practice guidelines for natural process restoration. Project partners include Rewilding Britain, John Muir Trust, Wild Europe, Woodland Trust, and Conservation Capital. Through stakeholder engagement and the development of best-practice guidelines, land managers will be able to identify and select appropriate cost-effective actions to reinstate upland natural processes as a result of this project. This will result in nature-based socio-economic development in the uplands that cascades downstream with the flow of water.

欧盟和英国的生物多样性战略制定了雄心勃勃的目标，即阻止生物多样性的下降，恢复生态系统，以最大限度地增加自然在2020年前为社会提供的服务。这一开放的NERC知识交流奖学金将帮助政策制定者和实践者通过制定高地自然过程恢复或重新野生化的最佳实践指南来实现这些目标。这将通过将主要由NERC资助的学者、从业人员、政策制定者、专业机构和企业组成的网络聚集在一起，交流知识和经验。成功将有助于为子孙后代安全地保护自然遗产，缓解洪水和水质等重大国家挑战，并提供更具弹性的农村社区和经济。重新野生保护是跨学科保护科学中的一种新兴方法。建议将其作为建立生物多样性保护的一种补充方法，方法是重新建立自然过程，使生态系统能够恢复和维持自身。如果成功，它将通过减少与直接管理相关的经常性成本，提供一种可持续和具有成本效益的保护方法。这项知识交流奖学金的总体目标是促进英国自然功能正常的山地生态系统的恢复。高地是一个重要的起点，因为这里的行动的影响随着水、沉积物和营养物质的流动而通过河流集水区层叠而下。考虑恢复的关键的、最重要的自然过程将是捕食、草食、干扰和水文。主要目标是：1)将学者、从业人员、政策制定者和企业聚集在三个讲习班上，共同编制最佳做法准则，为自然过程恢复政策提供信息；2)通过与利益攸关方直接接触和创建在线资源平台来传播这些准则。ReWilding British是一家英国慈善机构，渴望看到栖息地扩大，野生动物繁衍，社区蓬勃发展，带来新的机会。ReWilding British的一个重要目标是与学术界合作，整理、综合并向他们的合作伙伴、政府机构、土地所有者和公众传播可用的最佳研究成果。他们希望利用这种合作来创建和维护一个在线“野生动物知识中心”，以吸引利益相关者和公众。虽然野生动物保护提供了一个令人兴奋的机会，但目前它缺乏具体的证据基础，无法正确评估其可行性、价值、风险和相关成本。然而，有相当数量的相关基础和应用保护、生态学、生态水文学和社会经济学研究可以帮助制定退耕还林政策和最佳做法。NERC一直是这项研究的重要资助者。这项知识交流项目将整理和综合学术伙伴的研究成果，包括Y.Malhi教授、D.W.Macdonald教授、W.Sutherland教授、R.Braier教授、A.牛顿教授、S.Carver博士、P.Jepson博士和申请者C.J.Sandon博士。这些综合知识将作为一个入门读物，通过两个讲习班，与该项目的实际合作伙伴和政策伙伴进行双向知识交流，讨论重新开垦的方法、价值、风险和成本。第三期讲习班将专门为自然过程恢复共同编制最佳做法准则。项目合作伙伴包括ReWilding British、John Muir Trust、Wild Europe、Woodland Trust和Protection Capital。通过利益攸关方的参与和制定最佳做法准则，土地管理人员将能够确定和选择适当的具有成本效益的行动，以恢复由于这一项目而产生的高地自然进程。这将导致高地以自然为基础的社会经济发展，这些高地随着水流向下游倾泻而下。