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    Aligning strategic and participatory approaches to agri-environment scheme design and implementation to enhance nature recovery outcomes
    (2025-01-19)
    Baker, D. J.
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    Nye, C.
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    Wheeler, R.
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    Masquelier, C.
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    Binner, A.
    1. Nature recovery requires the provisioning of resources in the right place and in sufficient quantities to support wildlife populations and improve ecological processes. Agri-environment schemes (AES) have been a major mechanism for delivering environmental management across EU-farmed landscapes, but measured benefits to nature are often negligible in large part due to a lack of strategic spatial targeting of management actions. 2. As an example, AES in England are often delivered using a participatory strategy, typically at individual farm scale, with types of management agreements and uptake reflecting the business model and interests of each farm. However, this implementation model can result in poorly distributed conservation resources and, consequently, a failure to recover nature across larger scales, even if individual agreements are delivered well. 3. Achieving effective, large-scale nature recovery through AES requires aligning its implementation with spatially targeted approaches that prioritise specific conservation goals. We discuss the rationale for, and major barriers to, aligning AES design and implementation to these approaches. We then highlight how, through the framework of systematic conservation planning, both the strategic and participatory components of AES could be aligned better to enhance nature recovery outcomes. 4. To ensure AES help achieve nature recovery goals, clear and measurable targets must be set with the type and spatial configuration of actions designed to enable meeting targets. Strategic spatial targeting must also be carried out with the implementation phase in mind, accounting for socio-economic opportunities and barriers to engagement and acknowledging that uncertainties around farm-scale implementation mean plans must be adaptable. Participatory approaches for AES design and implementation that support the delivery of spatially targeted management actions are required, most notably by facilitating collaboration or cooperation across farm holdings. 5. For AES to contribute effectively to nature recovery goals, aligning strategic and participatory approaches in its design and implementation is crucial. This requires uniting knowledge across disciplines and cultures and ensuring that information is shared to support progressive refinement of scheme design and guidance towards achieving overall nature recovery goals.
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    From tiny acorns to mighty oaks: inspiring stories of community action for the UK's urban forest
    (2025)
    Bissell, Clare
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    Twena, Michelle
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    Aitchison, Bryony
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    Bavin, David
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    Crowley, Sarah
    From tiny acorns to mighty oaks: inspiring stories of community action for the UK’s urban forest is a beautifully illustrated booklet showcasing eight inspiring stories of grassroots action that provide practical models which can be replicated or adapted. It is aimed at anyone seeking ideas or motivation to get involved in their community urban tree initiatives or start their own project.
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    Seeing the Forest for the Deer: a participatory process to support stakeholder collaboration in landscape management
    (2024)
    Bavin, David
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    Bissell, Clare
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    Twena, Michelle
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    Crowley, Sarah
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    Heard, Matthew
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    Seeing the Forest for the Deer: a participatory process to support stakeholder collaboration in landscape management (Short Summary)
    (2024)
    Bavin, David
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    Bissell, Clare
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    Twena, Michelle
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    Crowley, Sarah
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    Heard, Matthew
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    The Future of Biodiversity Renewal
    (2025-08-08)
    Clare, Bissell
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    Bavin, David
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    Michelle, Twena
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    Crowley, Sarah
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    Matthew, Heard
    This ExCASES mission, 'The Future of Biodiversity Renewal’, explored the diversity of values, worldviews and understandings that shape aspirations towards biodiversity renewal amongst the RENEW community. The aim of the mission was to identify and better understand areas of agreement, divergence, tension, and shared aspirations around the five key themes in biodiversity conservation: 1) Decision making, finance, justice and equity; 2) Relationships and relational values; 3) Land use, farming and food systems; 4) Resilient and functioning ecosystems, and 5) Conservation approaches. Embracing diverse perspectives and approaches can be powerful, but it requires deliberate effort to build coherence and shared direction to ensure that diversity enhances rather than hinders collective impact. The outcomes of this mission shed light on how we might work better together to support this.
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    Paws for Thought: towards environmentally friendly dog walking in the UK
    (2025-04)
    Bavin, David
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    Crowley, Sarah
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    Bissell, Clare
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    Twena, Michelle
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    Heard, Matthew
    Paws for Thought: An ExCASES mission Towards environmentally friendly dog walking in the UK ExCASES is part of the RENEW project – a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded partnership between the University of Exeter and the National Trust that takes a ‘people-in-nature’ approach towards the challenges of biodiversity renewal. The role of ExCASES is to undertake agile, focused work (which we term ‘missions’) on pressing biodiversity renewal issues. This report, with its supporting outputs, are outcomes of the ExCASES’s mission, ‘Paws for Thought’.
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    Opportunities and challenges in using life cycle assessment for organisational-level biodiversity impacts: a case study on the National Trust, UK
    (2026-03)
    Correa-Cano, Maria Eugenia
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    Hails, Rosemary S.
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    Yan, Xiaoyu
    Global biodiversity loss is accelerating, threatening ecosystems and our society. Because biodiversity underpins all economic activities, organisations need robust methods to understand both their impacts and dependencies on nature. We applied a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) framework to conduct a screening-level analysis of biodiversity impacts associated with the operations of the National Trust, the largest conservation charity in Europe. The organisation's carbon account data were integrated into the Life Cycle Inventory (LCI), distinguishing between economic and non-economic components. Biodiversity impacts were quantified using ReCiPe2016 endpoint indicators, expressed as the 'potentially disappeared fraction of species'. Land use dominates the Trust's biodiversity footprint, accounting for 68-69% of total impacts across the 2020-2022. This was followed by global warming impacts on terrestrial ecosystems (15-16%) and terrestrial acidification (8-9%). Tenant agricultural activities were the principal driver, contributing approximately 84% of total biodiversity impacts in the reference year (2022), largely associated with livestock grazing and feed production. Construction-related activities within purchased goods and services also represent a substantial upstream contribution. Our findings demonstrate the value of applying LCA at organisation scale to identifying biodiversity hotspots and inform targeted mitigation strategies. We discuss methodological constrains, including data availability, spatial resolution, and the treatment of positive biodiversity outcomes. Despite these limitations, organisational LCA provides a transparent and practical starting point for organisations seeking to assess and reduce their nature-related impacts on their journey to becoming nature positive.
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    Paws for Thought: Adopting a standardised, holistic approach towards managing the impacts of dog walking on the environment in the UK
    (2025)
    Bavin, David
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    Crowley, Sarah L
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    Beynon, Gary
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    Bissell, Clare
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    Twena, Michelle
    Dogs are important to the lives of many people in the UK, and dog walking is a popular activity that encourages people to exercise, providing physical and psychological benefits to them and their animals. Ownership of a dog is positively associated with the amount of time people spend outdoors. However, the presence or behaviour of dogs can have adverse effects on wildlife and ecosystems. With an estimated 12.5 million dogs in the UK this impact could, in some places, be substantial. Managing interactions between dog walkers, wildlife, other domestic animals, and other people is a major priority for land managers. In this document, we highlight considerations and make recommendations intended to support a more consistent approach towards facilitating and managing sustainable and equitable coexistence. These were co-developed with experts, practitioners, policy makers and professional bodies and individuals.
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    Who decides for Nature? Embedding deliberative democracy in biodiversity renewal
    (2025)
    Twena, Michelle
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    Bissell, Clare
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    Bavin, David
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    Crowley, Sarah
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    Heard, Matthew
    This report presents findings from an ExCASES/RENEW research project which explores how we can use learning from the People’s Plan for Nature – and other innovative participatory public engagement processes – to embed deliberative democracy within the nature sector. It evaluates the impacts of the People’s Plan for Nature citizens’ assembly, and draws on the expertise of the study’s diverse, transdisciplinary and cross-sectoral participants to offer lessons for policymakers, practitioners and academics wanting to integrate more democratic decision-making processes for biodiversity renewal. A spotlight is cast on deliberative innovations and recommendations are provided for how the sector can apply these lessons to pull together as a more holistic, deliberative democratic system to benefit people and nature.
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    Cultivating communities who care for urban trees
    (2025-11-23)
    Bissell, Clare
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    Twena, Michelle
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    Bavin, David
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    Crowley, Sarah
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    Heard, Matthew
    Cultivating communities who care for urban trees is a concise mission report aimed at place-based urban tree initiatives, local authorities, and environmental NGOs with an interest in urban trees. It presents the mission’s key insights, offers practical guidance to support effective stakeholder collaboration, and advocates for the establishment of an ‘Urban Forest Network’.
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