Catchment Planning and Management Knowledge Exchange Fellowship (open call)

健康的水体提供了我们人类所依赖的多种服务。然而，确保这些水体的可持续管理面临着许多挑战。这是因为水体受到在流入水体的土地上发生的所有活动的影响，也受到取水、用水和回水活动的影响。因此，许多研究表明，只有在流域层面采取协调一致的行动并让所有负责的利益相关者参与进来，才能确保水环境的保护和改善。考虑到需要在流域一级作出更加注重地方的决策，政府于2013年在水资源管理方面采用了基于流域的方法。这导致在全国各地建立了100个利益攸关方集水区伙伴关系。这些伙伴关系为当地社区、慈善机构和企业参与环境规划提供了机会。然而，如果他们要做出充分知情和可持续的决定，他们将需要获得关于其集水区当前和未来风险的信息。它们还需要在开发可用于集水一级规划的工具和方法方面得到支持。NERC在水和土地管理领域的广泛研究组合提供了一个机会，证明了研究不仅可以帮助公共政策的交付，而且可以改善公众对环境问题的讨论和认识。集水规划和管理知识交流奖学金将调查哪里有数据集，监测结果和信息从NERC资助的研究计划有关集水管理和翻译这些使他们可用和访问用于地方决策。该研究员还将与流域伙伴关系、支持团体和国家决策者合作，调查如何提供数据，并展示如何利用这些数据帮助地方了解和规划。确保地方决策者了解其流域内生态系统提供的服务至关重要，只有这样，才能在规划中考虑到这些服务，从而实现多重效益。因此，KE研究员将努力确保NERC调查生态系统服务的研究方案的产出，如重视自然方案和生物多样性和生态系统服务可持续性方案，为流域规划中生态系统服务的使用提供信息。这将有助于更好地了解如何对不同的生态系统服务进行估值和比较，并了解不同的生态系统服务之间可能在何处进行权衡，以促进规划。KE研究员还将在NERC的研究计划和创新计划中工作，为集水合作伙伴提供获取可持续水资源管理重要性的产出的机会。这将有助于确保各种各样的个人、团体和部门参与流域规划。这将包括NERC研究环境与人类健康和福祉以及自然灾害，风险和基础设施之间的联系。这将有助于确保各种个人、团体和部门的参与，如保健专业人员、社会服务、社区团体、地方当局、空间规划者、运输提供者、企业等，以支持地方环境的改善。在展示参与流域规划的重要性之后，KE奖学金将致力于确定NERC研究如何支持吸引地方一级确定的环境改善资金，从而帮助确保对流域管理的长期财政支持。

Healthy water bodies provide a multitude of services that we as humans are dependent on. However, ensuring the sustainable management of these presents numerous challenges. This is because water bodies are affected by all the activities that occur on the land that drains into them, as well as by actions in abstracting, using and returning water. As a result numerous studies have identified that only coordinated action at the catchment level and involving all stakeholders responsible can ensure the protection and improvement of the water environment. In reflection of the need for more locally focused decision making at the catchment level the Government introduced the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) to water management in 2013. This led to 100 Catchment Partnerships of stakeholders being established across the country. These partnerships provide an opportunity to engage local communities, charities and business in environmental planning. However, they will require access to information about the current and future risks to their catchments if they are to make well informed and sustainable decisions. They also require support in developing the tools and methods that can be used to plan at the catchment level. NERC's extensive research portfolio in the areas of water and land management presents an opportunity to provide this, demonstrating the impact that research can have not only in assisting with the delivery of public policy but also in improving public discourse and awareness of environmental problems. The Catchment Planning and Management Knowledge Exchange Fellowship will investigate where there are data sets, monitoring results and information from NERC funded research programmes related to catchment management and translate these making them available and accessible for use in local decision making. The Fellow will also work with the Catchment Partnerships, support groups and national decision makers to investigate how to make data available and to demonstrate how they can be used to aid local understanding and planning. Ensuring that local decision makers have awareness of the services that the ecosystems within their catchments deliver will be essential if these are to be considered in planning that enables multiple benefits to be achieved. Therefore, the KE fellow will work to ensure that outputs from NERC's research programmes investigating ecosystem services, such as the Valuing Nature Programme and the Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services Sustainability Programme, inform the development of the use of ecosystem services within catchment planning. This will improve understanding of how different ecosystem services can be valued and compared as well as understanding where the trade-offs between different ecosystem services may occur in order to facilitate planning. The KE Fellow will also work across NERC's research programmes and innovation programmes to provide Catchment Partnerships with access to outputs that communicate the importance of sustainable water management. This will help to ensure that a diverse range of individuals, groups and sectors are engaged in catchment planning. This will include NERC research into the links between the environment and human health and well-being as well as natural hazards, risks and infrastructure. This will assist with ensuring the involvement of a diverse range of individuals, groups and sectors such as health care professionals, social services, community groups, local authorities, spatial planners, transport providers, businesses etc. in order to support local environmental improvements. Following on from demonstrating the importance of engagement with catchment planning the KE fellowship will work to identify how NERC research can support the attraction of funding for environmental improvements identified at the local level, thus helping to ensure long term financial support for catchment management.