From the macro to the micro: analysis from the IES

Nick Cooper
Webinars
July 2025
Deep blue seawater viewed from above, with lighter patches and white foam indicating choppy waters

In this presentation Nick Cooper provided an overview of the scale of the problem presented by historic coastal landfill sites, the threats posed from their erosion and the methods that exist to manage them.


He also covered two case studies from northeast England where contrasting...

Sally Marsh
Article
July 2025
A photo of a British countryside landscape of fields and hedgerows at dusk

environmental SCIENTIST | Are we measuring what matters? | June 2025


Sally Marsh ponders whether we can apply metrics to the beauty of nature.


Metrics have come to dominate environmental policy in the 21st century, but it has not always been like...

Ethny Childs
Article
July 2025
Photograph of large tree in field with spring wildflowers

Enabling interdisciplinary collaboration is vital to unlocking a sustainable society and tackling the complex, interconnected challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution. It is widely acknowledged that no single sector can address these in isolation, and there is...

Joseph Lewis
Article
July 2025
Engineers looking at wind turbine

Joseph Lewis is Policy Lead at the Institution of Environmental Sciences, working to promote the use of the environmental sciences in decision making. Joseph leads the delivery of the IES Policy Programme, standing up for the voice of science, scientists, and the natural world...

Joseph Lewis
Article
July 2025
Wildflowers on a beach

Joseph Lewis is Policy Lead at the Institution of Environmental Sciences, working to promote the use of the environmental sciences in decision making. Joseph leads the delivery of the IES Policy Programme, standing up for the voice of science, scientists, and the natural world...

Teresa Dent
Webinars
July 2025
An image of a river flowing through grassy farmland

Farmers and land managers have a huge influence on Britain’s rural environment, but there is only so much that an individual, acting in isolation, can achieve on their own. By working together, aided by an advisor or ‘facilitator’, farmers and land managers can work more cohesively together in...

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