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Demonstration Test Catchments‐ building our capacity for catchment management
Bob Harris
A joint project of Defra, WAG and the Environment Agency
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http://www.defra.gov.uk/evidence/science/how/strategy.htm
The BIG Challenges
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River catchments are complex systems…
… providing ecosystem services which are out of balance
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Demonstration Test CatchmentsOverall Initial Objective and Hypothesis
DTC Programme will:‐– assess the effectiveness of on‐farm mitigation measures for reducing diffuse pollution from agriculture to water
– produce evidence to test the hypothesis that it is possible through the implementation of multiple on‐farm measures to:
• cost‐effectively reduce the impact of agricultural diffuse pollution to water on ecological function,
• while maintaining food security
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The Challenges
• Water and river ecosystems have little identifiable “value” in our society;
• We have lost the connectivity of people to their (environmental) surroundings
• Tendency to work a top‐down system and find it difficult to capture “local learning”;
• Some river basins do not lend themselves to large scale joined‐up planning ‐ geographically and institutionally;
• Science/research has not been closely involved in “the (WFD) process”
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The Challenges
• WFD allows adaptive approaches and encourages synergies, but the RBPs so far have been developed with little built in.– Focus has been on the process of preparing them
• we need to address diffuse pressures – but all our processes and culture for past 40 years have been honed to address point sources– We collect data from the wrong places
– Our approach is not holistic
• we tend to deal with one issue at a time, in isolation – whatever’s in the public eye
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To balance and maximise ecosystem services we need to understand the complexities as well as we can/need to, work holistically, and integrate…
• Integrated understanding
• Integration between scales
• Integrated approaches….
• Integrated working
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Today?
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Tomorrow?
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Science & knowledge
Policy & regulation
Community & stakeholders
Integrated Catchment Management
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Learning from Europe• Be well informed
– Have a sound understanding of the functioning of the soil‐water system and its interaction with the socio‐economic system
• Manage Adaptively– “Learn to manage by managing to learn” as a way of addressing uncertainties in the system
• Take a participatory approach– Learn and manage together to develop “win‐wins”
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DTC – Three Objectives• To test the hypothesis ‐ it is possible to cost effectively reduce the impact of agricultural diffuse water pollution on ecological function while maintaining food security through the implementation of multiple on‐farm measures.
• To develop a research platform to host collaborative research and thus test:– More efficient and effective ways of undertaking research
– How interdisciplinary working can inform integrated policy.
• To explore a new model for catchment managementcentred around local knowledge and understanding.
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Delivery of objectives by:• Developing “communities of practice” with wider stakeholder groups
• Obtaining and using existing data, information and knowledge more effectively, better definition of the weight of evidence on agricultural diffuse pollution for policy and regulation
• Linking currently disparate research on interrelated impacts of agriculture on the environment
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Overall project broken down into five work streams (components)
1. Design and implementation of monitoring approach for each catchment ‐ catchment conceptual model
2. On‐farm measures to mitigate diffuse pollution by monitoring outcomes at a range of scales
3. Knowledge exchange and knowledge transfer,
4. Development of infrastructure for data management and dissemination
5. Predictive Modelling and DSS
3 and 4 undertaken in close co‐operation with the NERC VO
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Focusing effort on 3 catchments but linking closely to other catchment work – and an additional Welsh catchment to be added in 2010/11
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DTC – some figures
• 3 (4) Catchments• 9 sub‐catchments• each 10 square Km in area• 5 year programme• £6 million budget• >40 Institutions
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Demonstration Test Catchments
• Testing measures to protect water• Using new monitoring approaches• Making data available• Sharing knowledge• Linking monitoring to modelling• Building research platforms• Building Communities of Practice• Being adaptive, participatory, collaborative
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Shared visionof Integrated Catchment
Management
DTC
Water company schemes and investigations
NERC & RCUK Programmes ‐ VO
EA & NE activities Catchment Sensitive Farming etc
Catchment Management Objective of DTC project –working with “family”
of otheractivities
Defra Programmes
Local schemes/other projects – LA and Rivers Trusts etc
Scottish and Irish Catchment projects
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DTC as a Research Platform• Researchers working collaboratively with themselves stakeholders and policy‐makers/regulators;
• Multi‐disciplinary approaches lead to interdisciplinary working;
• Local stakeholders bring local knowledge, policy‐makers bring challenges;
• State of the art monitoring producing data which will be made available to others;
• Data linked closely to models; an iterative process develops our knowledge and understanding
• Communities of practice develop and…• Knowledge exchange just happens!
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Integrated Approaches
• Win‐wins– Rely on knowledge, understanding and education
• Incentives– Rely on a funding source– If consumers and taxpayers pay – they have to understand why ‐ the value of ecosystems and how people relate to them
• Regulation– Minimal, but always some who won’t conform; and it needs to be joined up – e.g. water and land use
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Regulation‐where they
won’t
Incentives‐where you
can’t
Win‐wins‐where you can
A mix of approaches
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What DTC project can offer
• links to existing research consortia working with local stakeholder communities on real problems;
• close links with policy and regulatory communities at local and national levels;
• opportunities to explore new techniques and technologies with the ability to rapidly verify resultant data;
• early take‐up of successful techniques in support of scientific research that is policy‐relevant.
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DTC Project Contacts
General enquiries: [email protected]
Defra Project Manager: Dan McGonigle, [email protected]
EA Project Manager: Sean Burke sean.burke@environment‐agency.gov.uk
DTC Secretariat: Bob Harris, : [email protected]
Avon Consortium:Prof Adrian Collins, ADAS
Eden Consortium: Prof Phil Haygarth, Lancaster Uinversity
Wensum Consortium:Dr. Kevin Hiscock, UEA
GHG Platform: Luke.Spadavecchia, [email protected]