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How can evidence emerging from COVID- 19 global pandemic response and impact be used to update current approaches to Wales’s response to the nature and climate emergencies?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
To improve our assessment of healthy places
Keywords (discipline, other): Healthy places
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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How can habitat condition affect carbon sequestration potential in marine and coastal blue carbon habitats?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
The evidence would better our understanding of how this ecosystem service is altered by habitat condition and allow us to better understand the carbon sequestration of marine habitats
Keywords (discipline, other): Marine
Coastal Margins
Biodiversity
Ecosystem resilience
Climate Change
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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How can incentives for using nature-based solutions, such changes to land management, improve water efficiency?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Restoration of upstream peatland will reduce runoff and improve base flows during dry periods. This will increase dilution of contaminants and reduce impacts on aquatic ecology and need for intense treatment at water treatment works.
Keywords (discipline, other): Water efficiency
Mountains, moorland, and heath
Freshwater
Land use and soil
Enclosed farmland
Energy
Biodiversity
Climate change
Semi-natural grassland
Ecosystem resilience
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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How can open source data be made easily available for use with sea or landscape scale assessment tools?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
To improve our assesment of ecosystem resilience
Keywords (discipline, other): Ecosystem Resilience
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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How can pro-environmental behaviour be promoted to build connections between people and nature from childhood to adulthood?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
To improve our assessment of healthy places
Keywords (discipline, other): Healthy places
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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How can the benefits of natural flood management measures be predicted and quantified?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Restoration of freshwater ecosystems is key to improving their resilience to multiple pressures and addressing the climate and nature emergencies. Knowledge and tools are required to facilitate sucessful and cost effective ecosystem restoration.
Keywords (discipline, other): Freshwater
Climate change
Biodiversity
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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How can the benefits of sustainable drainage systems on freshwater ecosystems be predicted and quantified?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Restoration of freshwater ecosystems is key to improving their resilience to multiple pressures and addressing the climate and nature emergencies. Knowledge and tools are required to facilitate sucessful and cost effective ecosystem restoration.
Keywords (discipline, other): Freshwater
Urban
Enclosed farmland
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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How can Wales make a just transition to sustainable land use and agriculture?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
According to the latest IPCC report on Wales’s progress towards net zero, one of the areas where progress has been poor is in the agricultural sector. Sheep farming is one of the most destructive forms of agriculture in terms of GHG emissions and natural habitat destruction but 86% of agricultural land in Wales is used for livestock grazing.
Keywords (discipline, other): Land use, agriculture, politics, GHG emissions
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Looking for collaborators: Yes External Partner: No Organisation:
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Name: Caspar Harris Email Address: petes.shop.ponty@gmail.com Phone: NA
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How can we achieve reliable source-apportionment for diffuse pollution?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Pollution from rural sources is the second biggest factor in preventing Welsh rivers from achieving Good Ecological Status. In order to address this issue, we need to develop an improved ability to identify source apportionment for diffuse pollution.
Keywords (discipline, other): Freshwater
Marine
Mountains, moorland, and heath
Urban
Semi-natural grassland
Enclosed farmland
Land use and soil
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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How can we address the Molinia caerulea or Juncus squarrosus monocultures? Are there mechanical or chemical mechanisms of control to use in tandem with grazing management?
Summary of the Research Question / Evidence Need:
Purple moor grass Molinia caerulea and heath rush Juncus squarrosus can form persistent monocultures on peatland, undermining bog restoration measures. Methods for addressing this need to be reviewed, trialled and reported.
Keywords (discipline, other): Mountains, moorland, and heath
Land use and soil
Enclosed farmland
Ecosystem resilience
Biodiversity
Website/URL links: https://naturalresources.wales/evidence-and-data/research-and-reports/state-of-natural-resources-report-sonarr-for-wales-2020/evidence-needs-table/?lang=en
Looking for collaborators: n/a External Partner: Y Organisation: Natural Resources Wales
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