WRT uses local, regional and national data and evidence, together with stakeholder engagement, to inform and guide targeted catchment management delivery for an array of ecosystem services-based intended outcomes. Our core ethos revolves around a desire for balanced ecosystems, which may be achieved through conservation actions based on sound science, linked to engagement and education at all levels.
From 2011-2014, WRT developed a Participatory Ecosystem Services Visualisation Framework, which has now been used to create ESS Catchment Evidence Reviews for over 30 catchments in England and Wales. Building this work, WRT have also now been leading on the Defra Urban Ecosystem Services (Local Action) Project for 5 years (3 phases), which has developed a suite of resources (the Local Action Toolkit – LAT) that includes a generic, local adaptable framework for the strategic valuation and targeting of natural capital/ecosystem service benefits enhancement and which can be applied to any urban landscape.
