Ecosystem services

CEP has a wide range of legal, policy, scientific and technical expertise concerning the natural environment and ecosystem services. One of CEP's unique strengths is the strong, multi-disciplinary research experience and approach that the team brings; this is ideally suited to the multifaceted and integrated nature of ecosystem services. We have a breadth of expertise across both natural resources (e.g. air, water, land, biodiversity and soil) and natural functions (e.g. management of water quality, management of air quality by plants, cultural benefits from landscape and wildlife etc).

Example projects include:

Thames Gateway Ecosystem Services Assessment Using Green Grids and Decision Support Tools for Sustainability - Natural Environment Policy Phase II Case Study. For the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) (with GeoData Institute). 2006 - 2008.

Valuing Ecosystem Benefits: A Scoping Study. For the European Environment Agency (with Milieu and eftec). 2009.

South Africa eThekwini Municipality Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) (led by iSeluleko Consulting). For the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA). 2009 - 2011.

Developing a Natural Environment Prioritisation Tool (with GeoData Institute). For the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). 2009-2010.