NIEL Recommendations
- Land use and strategic decision making that recognises and seeks to enhance the condition and ‘value’ of our natural assets
- Investment to protect and restore our natural capital to enhance the benefits to society
- Partnerships to enable the delivery of a number of natural capital pilots to showcase the ‘value’ of natural assets in Northern Ireland
- A fully integrated cross–departmental and inter–sectoral approach is needed to align policy and ensure that natural capital is reflected in decision making
- Greater understanding of natural capital is required at public and political levels
- Further research on the value of ecosystem services in the UK, in particular the Northern Ireland context, to establish financial values for service delivery, is required
- Effective ecosystem management at appropriate spatial scales –the island of Ireland, as a bio–geographical unit, should be considered as a whole for ecosystem management
- Carbon management should be seen as an important part of management for multiple service delivery
- Establish a natural capital Index as a baseline from which to measure gains and losses in natural capital over time
- A network of ecologically coherent sites should form a core for integrated management within the wider environment, delivering ecosystem services and minimising environmental degradation
- Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) should be seen as a key way forward in encouraging land management for the delivery of ecosystem services
Links
- Council for Nature Conservation and the Countryside
- Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Ecosystems Knowledge Network
- Irish Forum on National Capital
- Northern Ireland Environment Agency
- Rivers Agency
- Scotland: Natural Capital Asset Index
- Sustainable Northern Ireland
- Tree Charter
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