Catchment Hydrology, Resources, Economics and Management (ChREAM): Integrated Modelling of WFD Impacts upon Rural Land Use & Farm Incomes
Lead Research Organisation:
University of East Anglia
Department Name: Environmental Sciences
Abstract
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Publications
Ian Bateman (author)
(2009)
The future for water quality
Carlo Fezzi (author)
Structural agricultural land use modelling
Paulette Posen (author)
Interpolating land use data to hydrological units : implications for diffuse pollution modelling
| Description | (i) The ChREAM (Catchment Hydrology, Resources, Economics and Management) analysis shows that market, policy and environmental drivers all significantly influence agricultural land use. For example, forecast climate change is likely to increase farm incomes in those (mainly upland) areas which are currently disadvantaged by lower temperatures and higher rainfalls. (ii) FIO levels cannot be adequately controlled through purely rural land use measures such as reductions in livestock intensities, urban measures are the major issue here. (iii) significant improvements in river water quality can be generated by policies aimed at altering agricultural land use, but that these will lower farm incomes. iv) The major potential beneficiaries of such river improvements are in urban areas. Comparison of these and the prior results suggest that such schemes would pass cost - benefit rules but would cause a marked redistribution of welfare from rural to urban populations raising concerns about the equity implications of satisfying WFD requirements. (v) Within any given locality, the value of additional river quality enhancements diminishes significantly once an initial river is improved. |
| Exploitation Route | Turn research findings into a tool for decision makers |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| URL | http://www.cserge.ac.uk/past-research-projects/ |
| Description | SEER findings under pin both the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (which in turn supports the 2011 Environment White Paper) and the 'State of Natural Capital' reports from the Natural Capital Committee (which underpin the Governments ongoing 25 Year Plan for the Environment) |
| First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
| Description | A common approach for valuing water quality across the EU |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the Advisory Board and Policy Executive Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Analyzing water framework directive impacts using a multinomial logit land use model |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper prepared for presentation at the 107th EAAE Seminar "Modelling of Agricultural and Rural Development Policies". Sevilla, Spain, January 29th -February 1st, 2008 Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | AquaMoney - UK case study : integrating revealed and stated preference approaches to valuing benefits of the water framework directive |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Second Plenary AquaMoney Meeting Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Background and proposed methodology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given at the first economic analysis meeting of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA). Informing collaborators of the proposed methodology sparked discussion and debate around ways forward |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Catchment hydrology, resources, economics and management (ChREAM) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presented by Ian Bateman to Axis 2/ Ecosystems Group Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| URL | http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/research/relu/index |
| Description | Catchment hydrology, resources, economics and management (ChREAM) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to HRH Prince Charles and other visiting dignitaries. Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/research/relu/index |
| Description | Catchment hydrology, resources, economics and management (ChREAM) integrated modelling of WFD impacts on rural land use and farm incomes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | RELU workshop on expert systems for natural resources management Interest n tools potentially useful to other projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| URL | http://www.relu.ac.uk/events/RELU%20workshop%20on%20Expert%20Systems%20summary.pdf |
| Description | Catchment hydrology, resources, economics and management : ChREAM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | PDF Poster Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| URL | http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/ |
| Description | Farm land use modelling in the ChREAM project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Farm Production Modelling Workshop Research ideas and potential inputs collected |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| Description | Integrated modelling of WFD impacts upon rural land use and farm incomes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Powerpoint presentation Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2007 |
| URL | http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/research/relu/ChREAM_MFTF_presentation.pdf |
| Description | Land use change : economic and water quality impacts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Northern Rural Network and RELU conference Rural Land Use in the North: Future Challenges outcomes from the days discussion were fed into the Government's Foresight project on land use. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| URL | http://www.relu.ac.uk/events/Majorprogrammeevents.htm |
| Description | Modelling and valuing the impacts of the water framework directive |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presented by Ian Bateman at the People and the Rural Environment Forum Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| URL | http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/research/relu/index |
| Description | Modelling the full effects of policy, market or environmental change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the Right Hon. Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, John Innes Research Centre Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Predicting faecal organism pollution in riverine environments in response to land use changes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the Environmental Social Science Lunchtime seminar series. Interest in water quality locally |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Preferences : from construction to discovery? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presented to the Research Seminar Series, Commerce Division. N/A |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006 |
| Description | Proposals for a trans-EU common design aquamoney study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The third plenary AquaMoney meeting Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Reducing gains/loss asymmetry : a virtual reality choice experiment (VRCE) valuing land use change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at the ESRC Preference Elicitation Group (PEG) workshop: 'Responding to anomalies in stated preference studies'. Sparked discussion and questions regarding VR |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| URL | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucesswo/PEG%20Workshop%2005-12-06.htm |
| Description | Structural agricultural land use modelling : a spatial analysis using high-resolution data |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 11th Occasional California Workshop on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Higher than expected interest |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | The ecosystem services approach to economic planning : is there a role for economics in biodiversity conservation? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented to the Communist Party of China's Central Committee (CPCCC) and the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection as part of the Senior Chinese Policy Maker Study Visit: "Low-carbon industrialisation and ecologically balanced environments" Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | The way forward |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presentation given at the first economic analysis meeting of the National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA). Debate around how the economic analysis should proceed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Using geographical information systems (GIS) and virtual reality (VR) to bring the environment into economic analyses |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The School of Geography and Environmental Science (SGES) seminar series Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Valuing environmental costs and benefits |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) : advanced leadership programme for officials of the Chinese Government. Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Valuing environmental preferences : new tools for policy appraisal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | DEFRA seminar : economic valuation of the environment : policy applications Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| Description | Valuing spatially dispersed environmental goods : a structural and econometric model |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presentation by Silvia Ferrini at the EAERE 2008 conference in Gothenburg Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2008 |
| Description | Valuing the non-market benefits of water quality improvements in rivers and wetlands : incorporating spatial and visual complexity |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presented at Wetlands and Aquatic Ecosystems: Their Functions and Values, a knowledge exchange workshop for research scientists and practitioners from Europe and Southern Africa. Unknown |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |
| Description | Which crops will we grow in the future? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at the Royal Norfolk Show 1-2 July 2009. Expressions of interest in environmental research at the UEA |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2009 |