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Synthesising environmental evidence to inform policy challenges

The Environmental Evidence for the Future (EEF) Initiative funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council emerged from the need to build on and strengthen the environmental evidence base in the long-term, by working in close collaboration with relevant UK policy makers and agencies to identify and define crucial environmental policy challenges. Priority challenges were listed through a series of stakeholder workshops and consultations, and responses also indicated that there was a need to undertake a synthesis of existing knowledge. This article collection contains the first systematic evidence maps conducted under this programme in response to the stakeholder challenges.



Articles 

  1. This systematic map principally sought to understand the different forms of effectiveness that existing studies evaluate in relation to Natural Flood Management (NFM) in the UK with a supplementary question of...

    Authors: Angela Connelly, Andrew Snow, Jeremy Carter, Jana Wendler, Rachel Lauwerijssen, Joseph Glentworth, Adam Barker, John Handley, Graham Haughton and James Rothwell
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2023 12:12
    Content type: Systematic Map Published on:

  2. Reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is vital for mitigating climate change and meeting commitments to international agreements such as the COP 21 Paris Agreement of 2015. Agriculture is reported ...

    Authors: Alexandra Mary Collins, Neal Robert Haddaway, James Thomas, Nicola Peniston Randall, Jessica Jean Taylor, Albana Berberi, Jessica Lauren Reid, Christopher Raymond Andrews and Steven James Cooke
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2022 11:24
    Content type: Systematic Map Published on:

  3. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is predicted to become the leading cause of death by 2050 with antibiotic resistance being an important component. Anthropogenic pollution introduces antibiotic resistant bacteri...

    Authors: Isobel Catherine Stanton, Alison Bethel, Anne Frances Clare Leonard, William Hugo Gaze and Ruth Garside
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2022 11:8
    Content type: Systematic Map Published on:

  4. Anthropogenic degradation of marine ecosystems is widely accepted as a major social-ecological problem. The growing urgency to manage marine ecosystems more effectively has led to increasing application of spa...

    Authors: Bethan C. O’Leary, Joshua P. Copping, Nibedita Mukherjee, Sandra L. Dorning, Bryce D. Stewart, Emma McKinley, Prue F. E. Addison, Chris Williams, Griffin Carpenter, David Righton and Katherine L. Yates
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2021 10:13
    Content type: Systematic Map Published on:

  5. The concept of nature-based solutions (NBS) has evolved as an umbrella concept to describe approaches to learning from and using nature to create sustainable socio-ecological systems. Furthermore, NBS often ad...

    Authors: Jan Dick, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Steve Carver, Anne J. Dobel and James D. Miller
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2020 9:25
    Content type: Systematic Map Published on:

  6. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a public health crisis that is predicted to cause 10 million deaths per year by 2050. The environment has been implicated as a reservoir of AMR and is suggested to play a role...

    Authors: Isobel C. Stanton, Alison Bethel, Anne F. C. Leonard, William H. Gaze and Ruth Garside
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2020 9:12
    Content type: Systematic Map Protocol Published on:

  7. Natural flood management (NFM) measures seek to protect, enhance, emulate, or restore the natural function of rivers as part of approaches to flood risk management (FRM). While there is agreement in both acade...

    Authors: Angela Connelly, Andrew Snow, Jeremy Carter and Rachel Lauwerijssen
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2020 9:11
    Content type: Systematic Map Protocol Published on:

  8. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a vital step in limiting climate change and meeting the goals outlined in the COP 21 Paris Agreement of 2015. Studies have suggested that agriculture accounts for around 11...

    Authors: Alexandra M. Collins, Neal R. Haddaway, Biljana Macura, James Thomas, Nicola Randall, Jessica J. Taylor, Steve Cooke and Alyssa Gilbert
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2019 8:38
    Content type: Systematic Map Protocol Published on:

    The Systematic Map to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2022 11:24

  9. The concept of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) has evolved as an umbrella concept embracing concepts such as Green/Blue/Nature Infrastructure, Ecosystem Approach, Ecosystem Services, but at their core, they clust...

    Authors: Jan Dick, James D. Miller, Jonathan Carruthers-Jones, Anne J. Dobel, Steve Carver, Angus Garbutt, Alison Hester, Rosie Hails, Victoria Magreehan and Melina Quinn
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2019 8:37
    Content type: Systematic Map Protocol Published on:

    The Systematic Map to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2020 9:25

  10. Anthropogenic degradation of marine ecosystems is widely accepted as a major social-ecological problem. The growing urgency to better manage marine ecosystems has led to the increasing application of ‘spatial ...

    Authors: Bethan C. O’Leary, Bryce D. Stewart, Emma McKinley, Prue F. E. Addison, Chris Williams, Griffin Carpenter, David Righton and Katherine L. Yates
    Citation: Environmental Evidence 2019 8:34
    Content type: Systematic Map Protocol Published on:

    The Systematic Map to this article has been published in Environmental Evidence 2021 10:13