1. Sherwood Sustainability & Environmental Associates Ltd., Burrough Court, Burrough-on-the-Hill, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. LE14 2QS
Tel: 01664 400150 Email: admin@ssea.co.uk Web: www.ssea.co.uk
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
What we do…
We can provide support to our clients wishing to explore how they can manage their natural resources
in a more sustainable manner and maximise the value that such approaches can provide. We can
carry our baseline audits of your natural resources and explore potential markets and payments
systems.
We work closely with our clients to understand the importance of ecosystems and the services they
provide, and creating linkages with those who could directly benefit from such services. By linking up
ecosystem providers and potential beneficiaries we can provide better outcomes for the natural
environment, society and the economy.
Why people like us…
As sustainability experts involved in policy and practice, we are fully aware of the wider services that
our ecosystems bring to enhancing our wellbeing and contributing to economic prosperity. Our
experiences match that of environmental policy makers and government authorities in that we have
seen the loss and degradation of valuable ecosystems and species over time.
There is increasing interest in recognising the value of the natural environment and the wide range of
services it provides, including providing us with food, clean water, healthy soils, carbon storage,
nutrient cycling and more intangible benefits such as recreational and cultural services.
Because we work across a wide spectrum of rural businesses, land owners and developers we are in a
unique position to identify opportunities for our clients at the key stages of their project or business
cycle.
Carbon and GHG
Carbon strategy and policy
Woodland carbon code audits
GHG and carbon audits
Biomass and land based renewable
energy
Carbon capture evaluation of existing
natural sites
GHG and carbon mitigation plans and
strategies
Natural resources
Carbon footprinting for land
management
Carbon sequestration
Sustainable urban drainage systems
Flood risk asssessments
Reedbeds
Green roofs
Land based renewable energy
Agri-environment and stewardship
Community supported agriculture
Biodiversity offsetting
Nutrient management planning
Water quality assessment
Payments for ecosystem services
If we are to ensure continued
delivery of the benefits from
nature we need to
understand and value their
importance and invest in
them
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OUR EXPERIENCE
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Adding value to historic landscapes
Our clients, a leading charity in Sherwood Forest,
wished to develop corporate supporter schemes for
landscape work to be carried out on woodlands,
heathlands and wetland within the forest.
The aim of the project was to enable businesses
identify and minimise their environmental impact
and provide positive benefits to their local
communities and landscapes within the Sherwood
Forest area.
Sherwood Forest is typical of many landscapes
threatened by climate change, habitat
fragmentation and pressures from industrial and
urban development.
Our role was to work with the Trust to help develop
the 'Reduce and Restore' concept and link
corporate social responsibility and environmental
activities to saving the ancient landscapes of the
forest against the effects of climate change.
Exploring carbon and biodiversity values
Our clients, a large chain of garden centres, were
developing their awareness of carbon emissions
from their operations as part of their actions
towards sustainable development. The company
owns 3,635 acres of woodland and forests in
Scotland and were interested in determining how
much carbon resources this takes up.
Our approach was to understand firstly the carbon
footprint of the garden centre businesses in
relation to energy use, (8,300 tonnes of CO2e), and
assess whether the carbon emissions reached the
threshold to trigger carbon reporting. We
calculated the carbon baseline scenario (carbon
stock) and carbon leakage from the company's
existing and new forests and woodlands in order to
predict the carbon sequestration of the woodland
over time. As a result we were able to recommend
monitoring methods, and ensure that they
understood the rules on making claims about their
carbon sequestration.
Additionally, our client was keen to explore the
concepts of biodiversity offsetting/ payments for
ecosystem services in areas of their Scottish land
holdings that would be suitable for priority habitat
creation or restoration (heather moorland
specifically).
The aim of biodiversity offsetting is that they must
provide additional benefits (not designed to
undertake works that were going to happen
anyway), and would last in perpetuity. The client
would therefore become the offset provider and
paid according to the type and distinctiveness of
the habitat, the size of the site and the condition of
the existing habitat at the start and end of the
project.
Deer management – Costs only