Job share: Embedding environmental and geospatial science in nature recovery and rewilding

工作分享：将环境和地理空间科学融入自然恢复和野化中

• 批准号: NE/Y005163/1
• 负责人: Gemma Louise Harvey
• 金额: $ 12.28万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2024 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FY005163%2F1
• 关键词: Job; share; Embedding; environmental; geospatial

Nature recovery projects that enable and support nature-driven processes and promote wilder nature for the benefit of people and wildlife are central to addressing the global environmental challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution. Large-scale and radical approaches such as landscape rewilding are rapidly gaining popularity. In addition to delivering dramatic biodiversity gains, rewilding can offer potential for carbon storage and water regulation (e.g. flood and drought mitigation), and possibly some risks, but these changes are not being captured in a comprehensive and standardised way. Science-led monitoring and appropriate use of metrics to capture rewilding-driven change is essential to support improved understanding of landscape change, enable landowners to access investment through emerging nature finance initiatives (e.g., carbon credits and biodiversity credits) and transform policy to centralise nature for the benefit of nature and society.The applicants currently work in collaboration with pioneering rewilding sites, environmental charities and best practice organisations, government agencies, local authorities, nature recovery groups, residents and community groups to develop new insights into rewilding approaches and outcomes. We have established major knowledge gaps and infrastructure limitations that are preventing evaluation of the hydrological outcomes of rewilding. Expanding monitoring infrastructure to quantify the contribution of nature recovery to water regulating ecosystem services (e.g. flood and drought mitigation) and any risks is therefore an urgent priority. We have also established that existing data sets for quantifying vegetation change at rewilding sites are insufficient and landowners urgently require decision-support to effectively quantify vegetation change and create access to emerging financial markets in biodiversity and carbon credits. Rewilding momentum is growing rapidly and protocols for ensuring change is captured in a standardised way are being developed, including Rewilding Britain's Rewilding Monitoring Protocol. Now is the critical time to ensure that core environmental processes are embedded within metrics and monitoring practices, and that data acquisition services and data sharing and processing mechanisms are in place to support the capture of essential data for evaluation metrics.Specifically, we will:Identify and engage with a wide range of stakeholders to bring diverse perspectives on rewilding monitoring and evaluation needs. This will range from individual landowners and project managers to networks of sites, supporting and advisory organisations including Rewilding Britain, and government agencies with monitoring infrastructure responsibilities.Raise awareness of the benefits and risks of rewilding and nature recovery for water regulation (e.g. floods and droughts) and use knowledge exchange to drive an increase in hydrological monitoring across national programmes and individual projects and networks.Provide signposting and decision-support tools to enable rewilding projects to capture vegetation change and access emerging nature finance initiatives including carbon credits and biodiversity credits through application of remote sensing technologies. Embed the environmental processes that underpin key ecosystem services (carbon storage, water regulation) into a national monitoring protocol to capture change across all rewilding sites in a standardised way and establish innovative options for funding monitoring and sharing data to support the evaluation of projects and leverage investment in nature recovery.

自然恢复项目能够促进和支持自然驱动的进程，并促进怀尔德自然，以造福人类和野生动物，是应对气候变化、生物多样性丧失和污染等全球环境挑战的核心。大规模和激进的方法，如景观重新野化正在迅速普及。除了提供巨大的生物多样性收益外，野化还可以提供碳储存和水调节（例如减轻洪水和干旱）的潜力，并可能带来一些风险，但这些变化并没有以全面和标准化的方式被捕获。以科学为主导的监测和适当使用衡量标准来捕捉再野生化驱动的变化，对于支持更好地理解景观变化、使土地所有者能够通过新兴的自然融资举措（例如，申请人目前与开拓性的野化地点、环境慈善机构和最佳实践组织、政府机构、地方当局、自然恢复团体、居民和社区团体合作，对野化方法和结果提出新的见解。我们已经确定了主要的知识差距和基础设施的限制，阻碍了对恢复野生动物的水文结果进行评估。因此，当务之急是扩大监测基础设施，以量化自然恢复对水调节生态系统服务的贡献（如减轻洪水和干旱）和任何风险。我们还确定，现有的数据集，量化植被变化在重新野化网站是不够的，土地所有者迫切需要决策支持，以有效地量化植被变化，并创造进入新兴金融市场的生物多样性和碳信用额。野化的势头正在迅速增长，确保以标准化的方式捕捉变化的协议正在开发中，包括英国的野化监测协议。现在是确保核心环境流程嵌入到指标和监测实践中的关键时刻，数据采集服务以及数据共享和处理机制也已到位，以支持获取评估指标所需的基本数据。具体而言，我们将：确定并与广泛的利益相关者合作，为重新开发的监测和评估需求带来不同的观点。这将包括从个人土地所有者和项目经理到网站网络，支持和咨询组织，包括英国野化，提高人们对恢复野生环境和自然恢复对水资源管理的益处和风险的认识（例如水灾和旱灾）并利用知识交流来推动国家方案、单个项目和网络之间水文监测的增加。支持各种工具，使恢复野生环境项目能够通过应用遥感技术来捕捉植被变化和获得新出现的自然融资举措，包括碳信用额和生物多样性信用额。将支持关键生态系统服务（碳储存、水调节）的环境过程嵌入国家监测协议，以标准化方式捕捉所有野化地点的变化，并为资助监测和共享数据建立创新选项，以支持项目评估和利用自然恢复投资。