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.

自然恢复项目可以实现和支持自然驱动的过程并促进对人和野生动植物的利益促进荒野性质，这对于应对气候变化，生物多样性损失和污染的全球环境挑战至关重要。大规模和激进的方法（例如景观复制）迅速越来越受欢迎。除了带来巨大的生物多样性增长外，重新野生还可以为碳存储和水调节（例如洪水和干旱）提供潜力，可能有一些风险，但是这些变化并未以全面和标准化的方式捕获。由科学领导的监控和适当使用指标来捕获重生驱动的变化对于支持对景观变化的了解至关重要，使土地所有者能够通过新兴的自然财务计划获得投资机构，地方当局，自然恢复团体，居民和社区团体，以开发新的见解，以重新野蛮的方法和结果。我们已经建立了主要的知识差距和基础设施局限性，以阻止评估重新野生的水文结果。因此，扩大监测基础设施，以量化自然恢复对调节生态系统服务的水的贡献（例如洪水和减轻干旱）以及任何风险是紧急的重点。我们还确定，现有的数据集用于量化重新野生地点的植被变化是不足的，土地所有者迫切需要决策支持，以有效地量化植被变化，并在生物多样性和碳信用额方面访问了新兴金融市场。重新野生动力正在迅速增长，并开发了以标准化的方式捕获变更的协议，包括重新野生英国的重新野生监测协议。现在是确保将核心环境过程嵌入指标和监视实践中的关键时刻，并且有数据获取服务以及数据共享和处理机制，以支持捕获基本数据以评估指标的捕获。我们将：识别并与各种利益相关者互动，以带来各种各样的监视需求。 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决策支持工具，以使重新野生项目捕获植被变化并访问新兴自然财务计划，包括通过应用遥感技术，包括碳信用额和生物多样性信用。将基础关键生态系统服务（碳存储，水调节）的环境过程嵌入到国家监测方案中，以以标准化的方式捕获所有野野站点的变化，并为资助监控和共享数据建立创新的选择，以支持对项目的评估并利用自然恢复的投资。