From the macro to the micro: analysis from the IES

Dr Rob Collins
Blog
March 2023

Floods, droughts, sewage, agricultural runoff, hazardous chemicals, straightened concrete banks, barriers and invasive non-native species – our rivers face a perfect storm of pressures that undermine their health and resilience. Only 36% of UK surface waters (rivers, lakes and coastal waters)...

Eleni Antoniades and Ethny Childs
Article
March 2023

Today the IES Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Community Working Group has launched a thought piece exploring the key challenges facing EIA professionals and its vision for EIA moving forward. This work is the culmination of a number of discussions held between the working group over...

Professor Mike Elliott and Professor Sian Davies-Vollum
Webinars
March 2023
View from above of a coastal area with small boats and a pier nearby green tropical plants and houses.

Coastal environments are the nexus of land and sea. Land-based activities have a huge influence on the state and sustainability of coastal and nearshore environments.


This webinar explored the impact that land-based activities are having on marine environments, from both Global South...

Adrian Mill
Webinars
February 2023

Environmental & Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) practitioners work hard to produce detailed studies, but often there is a considerable difference between the measures contained in the ESIA and those which actually get implemented. This is exacerbated in emerging economies, where Western...

Dr Ashish Sharma
Webinars
February 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken global trade and forced companies to redesign their supply chains. It has propelled us to rethink our future. 


Particularly affected were the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and their recovery in the post-pandemic era. SMEs today are...

Luke Douglas-Home
Webinars
February 2023

In this webinar, Luke Douglas-Home outlined the known problems and some suggested solutions of these two enormous environmental issues – foreshore plastic and historic landfills.


Last year was the first year of the UN’s Decade of Ocean Science: these two issues seriously threaten the...

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