Research Reports and Publications

 

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Campaign for the Farmed Environment Reports

• Campaign for the Farmed Environment (Leaflet - undated)
• Campaign for the Farmed Environment: Guide to voluntary measures (2011 edition)
• Campaign for the Farmed Environment: Summary of key in-field Entry Level Stewardship Options (undated)

DEFRA Reports

• Appraising UK Ecosystems – report envisions greener horizon (DEFRA News Report June 2011)
• MITIGATION METHODS – USER GUIDE: An Inventory of Mitigation Methods and Guide to their Effects on Diffuse Water Pollution, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Ammonia Emissions from Agriculture (DEFRA, 2011)
• The Natural Choice: securing the value of nature: DEFRA Natural Environment White Paper (June 2011)
• Water for Life: DEFRA Water White Paper (December 2011)

Department for Communities and Local Government Reports

• Living Working Countryside: The Taylor Review of Rural Economy and Affordable Housing (2008)

Environment Agency Reports

• Best Farming Practices: What’s in it for you... Profit from a good environment (2008)
• Catchment Sensitive Farming: ECSFDI Phase 1 & 2 Full Evaluation Report (June 2011)
• Catchment Sensitive Farming: Summary of Phase 1 & 2 Evaluation Report (June 2011)
• River Wensum SSSI and Potter and Scarning Fens SSSI: Diffuse Water Pollution Plan (Environment Agency and Natural England (December 2010)
• Water for people and the environment: Water resources strategy regional action plan for Anglian Region (2009)
• Wensum catchment description and background research (draft, Oct 2009)
• Woodland for Water: Woodland measures for meeting Water Framework Directive objectives (Forestry Commission and Environment Agency Summary Report, July 2011)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Reports

• Global survey of agricultural mitigation projects (mitigation of climate change in agriculture series) (2010)

Government Office for Science Reports

• The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and choices for global sustainability EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (2011)
• The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and choices for global sustainability FINAL PROJECT REPORT (2011)
• The Future of Food and Farming: Challenges and choices for global sustainability ACTION PLAN (January 2011)

Independent Reports

• A Rapid Assessment of Sediment Sources on the Wensum above Norwich, with particular emphasis on road crossings (R Evans, 2011)
• A Rapid Assessment of Sediment Sources on the Wensum above Norwich, with particular emphasis on road crossings (Photos)

Living with Environmental Change(LWEC) Reports

• UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Understanding nature’s value to society: Synthesis of the Key Findings (LWEC, 2011)

National Farmers Union Reports

• Why Farming Matters More Than Ever (2009)

Natural England Reports

• Entry Level Stewardship: Environmental Stewardship Handbook (Third edition, Feb 2010)
• Farming for cleaner water and healthier soil (Make the most of Environmental Stewardship and the Campaign for the Farmed Environment) (2009)
• Higher Level Stewardship: Environmental Stewardship Handbook (Third edition, Feb 2010)
• HLS Target Area Statement EE02: The Broads and Norfolk River Valleys Target Area (2008)
• Minimising Sediment runoff into Wensum and North Norfolk Rivers catchments (McNeill 2005)
• Natural England Catchment Sensitive Farming Capital Grant Scheme: Farmer Handbook (CSF 3) (2011)
• River Wensum: Conservation objectives and definitions of favourable condition for designated features of Interest (March 2011)
• River Wensum Restoration Strategy (2009)
• River Wensum Restoration Strategy: Appendix 2 Mill Summary Sheets (2009)

Research Papers

Unfortunately not available to download due to copyright restrictions.

• Modelling land-use scenarios to reduce groundwater nitrate pollution: the European Water4All project. Hiscock, K. et al. 2007. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology 40: 417-434.