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KE Fellowship: Delivering Multifunctional Natural Capital Approaches for Future Coasts

KE 奖学金：为未来海岸提供多功能自然资本方法

基本信息

批准号：
NE/V01868X/1
负责人：
Graham Underwood
金额：
$ 24.47万
依托单位：
University of Essex
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2022 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FV01868X%2F1
关键词：
KE Fellowship Delivering Multifunctional Natural

项目摘要

The U.K. has long stretches of sedimentary shorelines and large estuaries that are characterised by extensive salt marshes and mudflats. These environments provide important functions (called ecosystem services) for society: birds, invertebrates and fish use them as feeding grounds and nurseries, micro-organisms living in the sediments clean up water coming down our rivers and from sewage treatment works, and salt marshes store carbon (so helping to mitigate climate change) and absorb the force of waves and tides, protecting our coastlines from flooding. Yet these habitats are threatened by climate change, especially by rises in sea level (potentially up to +1 m by 2105 in south east England) and changing weather patterns. We know that if we can increase the area and quality and biodiversity of these habitats (features collectively termed "natural capital"), they can continue to provide their ecosystem services, and be more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Unfortunately, many of the indicators of ecosystem health are showing negative trends, so a change in policy and deliver by agencies on the coast is needed. The U.K. Government has recognised this, and has a 25 Year Environment Plan to improve our natural world. In this project, the Fellow will work with the Environment Agency, and with local authorities (County and District councils) and with local groups (coastal forums) to develop approaches, based on the best possible science, for working with nature (called nature-based solutions) and to restore and recover our coastal habitats. This requires a blend of new tools and understanding to measure natural capital assets (how much is there, and what it does), and new policy and regulatory approaches to increase natural capital and gain the multiple benefits that healthy and productive coastal habitats can provide. These changes in policy, regulation and implementation have to take place with the understanding and support of local communities living on the coast: people who have a stake in the future and who make, or influence, management decisions. The Knowledge Exchange Fellow will thus work both at a national level with policy and research teams in the Environment Agency, but also with local area Environment Agency teams, and Local Authorities, and local estuary and coastal groups. Building understanding on the nature and value of natural capital, and how increasing natural capital can have multiple benefits to society and the environment, is key to delivering of the U.K. aspirations in their 25 Year Environment Plan, and will contribute to meeting the challenges of climate change, reaching Carbon Net Zero, and addressing the Biodiversity crisis.

英国有很长的沉积海岸线和很大的河口，以大面积的盐沼和泥滩为特征。这些环境为社会提供了重要的功能（称为生态系统服务）：鸟类、无脊椎动物和鱼类将它们作为觅食地和托儿所，生活在沉积物中的微生物清理河流和污水处理厂流出的水，盐沼储存碳（因此有助于减缓气候变化）并吸收波浪和潮汐的力量，保护我们的海岸线免受洪水侵袭。然而，这些栖息地受到气候变化的威胁，尤其是海平面上升（到2105年，英格兰东南部可能上升1米）和天气模式的变化。我们知道，如果我们能够增加这些栖息地的面积、质量和生物多样性（这些特征统称为“自然资本”），它们就可以继续提供生态系统服务，并更能抵御气候变化的影响。不幸的是，许多生态系统健康指标显示出负面趋势，因此需要改变政策并由沿海机构实施。英国政府已经认识到这一点，并制定了一项25年环境计划来改善我们的自然世界。在这个项目中，研究员将与环境署、地方当局（县和区议会）和地方团体（沿海论坛）合作，以尽可能最好的科学为基础，制定与自然合作的方法（称为基于自然的解决方案），并恢复和恢复我们的沿海栖息地。这需要综合使用新的工具和理解来衡量自然资本资产（有多少，有什么作用），并采用新的政策和监管方法来增加自然资本，并获得健康和富有生产力的沿海栖息地可以提供的多重效益。政策、法规和执行方面的这些变化必须得到生活在沿海地区的当地社区的理解和支持：这些社区对未来有利害关系，并作出或影响管理决策。因此，知识交流研究员将在国家一级与环境署的政策和研究小组合作，也将与当地环境署小组、地方当局以及当地河口和沿海团体合作。加深对自然资本的性质和价值的理解，以及增加自然资本如何为社会和环境带来多重利益，是实现英国25年环境计划愿望的关键，也将有助于应对气候变化的挑战，实现净零碳，解决生物多样性危机。