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Natural Capital for Rural Estate Professionals

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Perrot-Maitre, D. (2006) The Vittel payments for ecosystem services: a “perfect” PES case? International Institute for Environment and Development, London, UK

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Stanlow Oil Refinery

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Gowy Meadows

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Holnicote Estate – National Trust

• Leaky sluices• Low profile mounds• New barn for a tenant farmer• Restoration of woodland water bodies• 2013/14 Experience

– Positive– Maize and Organic Swedes

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Peat’s Story

Charles CowapMBA MRICS FAAVThe mires on Exmoor

Drainage for agricultural improvement

Charles CowapMBA MRICS FAAVContext: Exmoor example

Exmoor

R Barle

R Exe

Wimbleball Resr & R Haddeo

ExebridgePumping Station

Replenishment PumpingApprox 5 miles, lifting water from 120 to 240 m AOD

CO 2

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Pumping Costs

Treatment Costs

Future Storage/Abstraction

Costs

Incentive payments to landowners – managers

- occupiers

Savings for water buyers

Profit for reinvestment or distribution

CARBON

Economics+ OTHER ESS

PAYMENTS???

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New land management and valuation requirements are emerging

New markets

New challenges to professional practice

New environmental, social and economic opportunities and challenges

Charles CowapMBA MRICS FAAVKey Questions for

professional advisers

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LET’S HAVE A GO

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