Post on 19-Nov-2021
Local Environment and Economic Development (LEED) Toolkit
Chris Saville Senior Advisor Sustainable Places
Keith Moore Eastern Area Sustainable Communities Account Manager
Tim Sunderland Economist
Tom Butterworth Senior Adviser – Local Government
Mark Durk Policy Advisor - Green Infrastructure
Presenters
Introduction to LEED
1) Purpose of the LEED toolkit
2) The Defra Network Offer
3) How does it work?
4) Trial and development
5) Where are we now?
6) Key messages and communication
7) The support we can provide
1) Purpose of the LEED toolkit
The toolkit will support Local Enterprise Partnerships to make operational sense of complex environmental information, so that it can support vision development through feeding in to SWOT analysis.
Internal External
Strength Opportunities Positive
Weaknesses Threats Negative
Outputs
• an assessment of the opportunities and threats to the LEPs plans for increasing local Gross Value Added (GVA),
• based on the economy’s dependencies upon the environment
• Solutions which require a change in the economic plan (strategic solutions)
or
• Solutions which do not require a change in the economic plan, and can be addressed through specific programmes of projects (tactical solutions)
Disclaimers
• Not new research – making sense of existing data
• Quantitative and qualitative
• Varying levels of accuracy, confidence and uncertainty
• Will not provide a ‘value of the natural environment in x’
• Will not provide the optimal development pathway for your area (i.e. provides input into the planning process. Does not do any planning).
Defra Network Offer to LEPs and City Deals
• Defra network will ‘make available a toolkit that helps LEPs and their partners better understand the relationship between the economy and the environment in strategic economic planning.’
HOW DOES IT WORK?
3) How does it work?
1.Economic planning
socio-economic situation
Goals
2. Physical economy
resource usewaste &
emissions
3. Relationship with the
environment
Provisioning services
Regulating services
Cultural services
4. OutputsOpportunities and Threats
Strategic Solutions
Tactical Solutions
Inputs and outputs
Ecosystem Services
• Producing goods and services requires natural capital as well as human and manufactured capital
• As well as direct products – such as apples for cider - nature offers many less tangible, but equally important services
Apples •Natural capital
Staff •Human capital
Factory•Manufactured
capital
The Ecosystem Service Framework Provisioning services
Fresh water
Food (eg crops, fruit, fish, etc)
Fibre and fuel (eg timber, wool, etc)
Genetic resources (used for crop/stock breeding and biotechnology)
Biochemicals, natural medicines, pharmaceuticals
Ornamental resources (eg shells, flowers, etc)
Regulatory services
Air quality regulation
Climate regulation (local temp. /precipitation, GHG sequestration, etc)
Water regulation (timing/scale of run-off, flooding, etc)
Natural hazard regulation (ie storm protection)
Pest regulation
Disease regulation
Erosion regulation
Water purification and waste treatment
Pollination
Cultural services
Cultural heritage
Recreation and tourism
Aesthetic value
Spiritual and religious value
Inspiration of art, folklore, architecture, etc
Social relations (eg fishing, grazing, cropping communities)
Supporting services
Soil formation
Primary production
Nutrient cycling (water recirculation in landscape)
Water recycling
Photosynthesis (production of atmospheric oxygen)
Provision of habitat
The Ecosystem Service Framework Provisioning services
Fresh water
Food (eg crops, fruit, fish, etc)
Fibre and fuel (eg timber, wool, etc)
Genetic resources (used for crop/stock breeding and biotechnology)
Biochemicals, natural medicines, pharmaceuticals
Ornamental resources (eg shells, flowers, etc)
Regulatory services
Air quality regulation
Climate regulation (local temp. /precipitation, GHG sequestration, etc)
Water regulation (timing/scale of run-off, flooding, etc)
Natural hazard regulation (ie storm protection)
Pest regulation
Disease regulation
Erosion regulation
Water purification and waste treatment
Pollination
Cultural services
Cultural heritage
Recreation and tourism
Aesthetic value
Spiritual and religious value
Inspiration of art, folklore, architecture, etc
Social relations (eg fishing, grazing, cropping communities)
Supporting services
Soil formation
Primary production
Nutrient cycling (water recirculation in landscape)
Water recycling
Photosynthesis (production of atmospheric oxygen)
Provision of habitat
The Ecosystem Service Framework Provisioning services
Fresh water
Food (eg crops, fruit, fish, etc)
Fibre and fuel (eg timber, wool, etc)
Genetic resources (used for crop/stock breeding and biotechnology)
Biochemicals, natural medicines, pharmaceuticals
Ornamental resources (eg shells, flowers, etc)
Regulatory services
Air quality regulation
Climate regulation (local temp. /precipitation, GHG sequestration, etc)
Water regulation (timing/scale of run-off, flooding, etc)
Natural hazard regulation (ie storm protection)
Pest regulation
Disease regulation
Erosion regulation
Water purification and waste treatment
Pollination
Cultural services
Cultural heritage
Recreation and tourism
Aesthetic value
Spiritual and religious value
Inspiration of art, folklore, architecture, etc
Social relations (eg fishing, grazing, cropping communities)
Supporting services
Soil formation
Primary production
Nutrient cycling (water recirculation in landscape)
Water recycling
Photosynthesis (production of atmospheric oxygen)
Provision of habitat
The Ecosystem Service Framework Provisioning services
Fresh water
Food (eg crops, fruit, fish, etc)
Fibre and fuel (eg timber, wool, etc)
Genetic resources (used for crop/stock breeding and biotechnology)
Biochemicals, natural medicines, pharmaceuticals
Ornamental resources (eg shells, flowers, etc)
Regulatory services
Air quality regulation
Climate regulation (local temp. /precipitation, GHG sequestration, etc)
Water regulation (timing/scale of run-off, flooding, etc)
Natural hazard regulation (ie storm protection)
Pest regulation
Disease regulation
Erosion regulation
Water purification and waste treatment
Pollination
Cultural services
Cultural heritage
Recreation and tourism
Aesthetic value
Spiritual and religious value
Inspiration of art, folklore, architecture, etc
Social relations (eg fishing, grazing, cropping communities)
Supporting services
Soil formation
Primary production
Nutrient cycling (water recirculation in landscape)
Water recycling
Photosynthesis (production of atmospheric oxygen)
Provision of habitat
The Ecosystem Service Framework Provisioning services
Fresh water
Food (eg crops, fruit, fish, etc)
Fibre and fuel (eg timber, wool, etc)
Genetic resources (used for crop/stock breeding and biotechnology)
Biochemicals, natural medicines, pharmaceuticals
Ornamental resources (eg shells, flowers, etc)
Regulatory services
Air quality regulation
Climate regulation (local temp. /precipitation, GHG sequestration, etc)
Water regulation (timing/scale of run-off, flooding, etc)
Natural hazard regulation (ie storm protection)
Pest regulation
Disease regulation
Erosion regulation
Water purification and waste treatment
Pollination
Cultural services
Cultural heritage
Recreation and tourism
Aesthetic value
Spiritual and religious value
Inspiration of art, folklore, architecture, etc
Social relations (eg fishing, grazing, cropping communities)
Supporting services
Soil formation
Primary production
Nutrient cycling (water recirculation in landscape)
Water recycling
Photosynthesis (production of atmospheric oxygen)
Provision of habitat
Research Approach
Local Commissioning Consortium
• Local Enterprise Partnership•Local Nature Partnership• Local Authorities• Others
In-house experts and/or consultants
• One day workshop focussed on identifying opportunities threats and potential solutions
• 2.5 days (1 to set up, 1 to run, 0.5 to write up)
Level 1
• Initial consideration of environmental relationships for opportunities and threats
• Meeting with key experts and representatives for each environmental relationship (0.5 days per relationship)
• Final workshop (2.5 days - 1 to set up, 1 to run, 0.5 to write up)
• Another 25 days work - approx £10K if using consultants
Level 2
• Detailed consideration of environmental relationships for opportunities and threats
• Detailed data collection and analysis on environmental relationships (3 days per relationship)
• Ranking of opportunities and threats
• Final workshop (2.5 days - 1 to set up, 1 to run, 0.5 to write up)
• Up to another 50 days work - up to another £20K if using consultants
Level 3
4) TRIAL AND DEVELOPMENT
New Anglia / Wild Anglia feedback
Trial 1: Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Cornwall & Scilly Isles (11/12)
Trial 2: New Anglia LEP, Wild Anglia LEP, Norfolk and Suffolk CC (12/13)
Roll Out (July 2013)
Timeline
6) Key messages
Growth that’s in tune with the environment: using the Local Environment and Economic Development (LEED) Toolkit
The LEED toolkit:
• systematically considers the economy’s relationship with the environment
• supports planning for growth which is resilient to environmental change
• identifies clear opportunities and threats to the economy from its dependence on the environment
• is an optional, non-regulatory method designed for Local Enterprise Partnerships and Local Authorities
• builds positive partnership working around issues of common concern
• has been piloted by New Anglia LEP who recommend it to other LEPs
7) Support from the Defra Network
• Defra-Network support the use of LEED as a means to:
– Help LEPs and their partners understand the relationship between the economy and the environment; and
– Encourage constructive dialogue between local partners.
Finding out more
• For more information on the toolkit please contact Tom Butterworth at:
– Tom.Butterworth@NaturalEngland.org.uk
– Mobile: 07500 608 458
Local Environment and Economic Development (LEED) Toolkit
Contacts
Environment Agency – Chris Saville
Forestry Commission – Mark Durk
Natural England – Tom Butterworth