Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/T002182/1
Programme Coordination Team, Landscape Decisions - Towards a new framework for using land assets
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Professor H Balzter, University of Leicester, Sch of Geog, Geol & the Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor MP Phillips, University of Leicester, Sch of Geog, Geol & the Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor S Schroll, University of Cologne, Mathematics Institute
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor P van Gardingen, University of Leicester, Sch of Geog, Geol & the Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor MJ Whelan, University of Leicester, Sch of Geog, Geol & the Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor IM Gillespie, University of Leicester, Vice Chancellor
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor S Petrovskii, University of Leicester, Mathematics
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor L Smith, University of Leicester, Criminology
- Grant held at:
- University of Leicester, Sch of Geog, Geol & the Environment
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Earth
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Terrestrial
- Overall Classification:
- Unknown
- ENRIs:
- Biodiversity
- Environmental Risks and Hazards
- Global Change
- Natural Resource Management
- Pollution and Waste
- Science Topics:
- Agricultural systems
- Managed landscapes
- Economic decision making
- Behavioural & experimental eco
- Landscape Architecture
- Geography of landscape
- Cultural and Anthrop Geography
- Multi-objective Decisions
- Mathematical Aspects of OR
- Abstract:
- The Strategic Priority Fund (SPF) programme 'Landscape Decisions: towards a new framework for using land assets' is delivering a new framework for land management decisions. It draws on social science, economics, natural science, mathematics and modelling, in order to provide solutions to delivering a 'Green Brexit' that enables the United Kingdom to achieve Defra's ambitious 25-year environment plan: clean air by reducing air pollution, clean and plentiful water under conditions of a changing climate, thriving plants and wildlife by protecting and enhancing biodiversity, reducing the risks of harm from environmental hazards, using resources from nature more sustainably and efficiently, enhancing the beauty, heritage and engagement with our natural landscapes, mitigating and adapting our landscapes to climate change, minimising waste, managing exposure to chemicals and enhancing biosecurity. The Programme Coordination Team will bring together new knowledge from many academic subjects to provide a cohesive programme that will deliver against the research questions articulated for the SPF Landscape decisions into and a new set of decision-making tools. The PCT combines specialist expertise at senior academic level in natural sciences, landscape research, social geography, and mathematics, pure and applied to ecology and ecological complexity. Beyond the discipline specific expertise, the team also includes champions for change, who are senior members of the university, able to navigate the complex, political and institutional landscapes, able to break down the silos and work cross boundaries. We have identified three champions who will be playing a pivotal role in ensuring the delivery of our impact strategy in the areas of policy, academia-business interactions and interdisciplinarity. By fostering interdisciplinarity, establishing a new research community from the diverse research base and with a strong and innovative communication plan we will promote these new tools to landscape decision makers in parliament, government agencies and the private sector. The new tools and knowledge will allow different land users to plan their landscape decisions in a much more coordinated way. This will lead to a better quality of the environment in the United Kingdom under a post-EU regulatory framework. To achieve this vision, the Programme Coordination Team will organise a series of community workshops and other events to bring together experts from different fields with land managers and decision makers. It will coordinate the main work packages in the Programme and ensure that the new knowledge from these is put together into practical solutions.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/T002182/1
- Grant Stage:
- Completed
- Scheme:
- Directed (RP) - NR1
- Grant Status:
- Closed
- Programme:
- Landscape Decisions
This grant award has a total value of £1,395,330
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DA - Estate Costs | DI - Staff | DA - Other Directly Allocated | DI - T&S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £589,525 | £117,961 | £210,014 | £24,541 | £284,141 | £17,328 | £151,820 |
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