Policy Resources
We are providing a series of contacts to Policy documents and resources that will be relevant to our members.
Diversity in the work force and Governance
From Wildlife and Countryside Link
From other organisations
- Heritage Fund – Racial equity nature toolkit
- Equity Office – Guide to positive action recruitment
- Sufolk County Council Positve action Guidance
Natural England report on Carbon storage and sequestration by habitat: a review of the evidence (second edition)
Using Behavioural Insights to reduce Recreation Impacts on Wildlife
- Guidance and Case Studies from Thames Basin Heath and the Solent
- Responsible Recreation Trial report
- Responsible Recreation Explore Report
- Behavioural Insights quick guide
The Econmics of Biodiversity –Dasgupta Review or Headline messages
The English Village and Community hall survey 2020
Review of Peatlands in North West Europe
Webinar on payments for Agricultural services
- Environment bill – policy statement
- Glover review –landscapes-review-final-report
- Agricultural Bill – policy statement
- UK Government (2018) A Green Future: Our 25 Year Plan to Improve the Environment
- Government established National Parks and AONBs Review in May 2018 – . Led by Julian Glover (journalist and special adviser to Number 10), Nicola Blackwood (former Conservative MP, Oxford West and Abingdon. Minister for Public Health and Innovation from 2016 to 2017), Lord Ewen Cameron of Dillington (cross-bench peer, farmer and landowner, former Chair of the Countryside Agency), Jim Dixon (Chief Executive of the Peak District National Park Authority for 12 years), Sarah Mukherjee (BBC Environment correspondent and Chief Executive of the Crop Protection Association), Dame Fiona Reynolds (formerly the Director-General of the National Trust and current Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Chair of the Green Alliance).
- The review will report in 2019 (the 70th Anniversary of the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act). A more detailed timetable will be developed following commencement of the review.
- Welsh Office (2017) Future Landscapes – Delivering for Wales, Response to the 2015 review of national parks and AONBs in Wales
- Public Health England (September 2017) – Improving health and wellbeing through our national parks – This accord represents the commitment between National Parks England and PHE to improve health and wellbeing through our national parks.
- Defra (February 2018) – Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment in a Green Brexit
- Iceland, Minister for the Environment and Natural Resources (2017) – Report proposing new national park area (40% of the whole country)
- Natural Capital Committee’s fifth state of natural capital report published in January 2018.
