Kent Wildlife Trust and Kent County Council are working in partnership with Nausicaá and CPIE Val d'Authie on H2O:Source2Sea - an Interreg France-Channel-England funded project aiming to create new solutions for environment and land management across the Kent and the Pas-de-Calais regions. Both regions face water management challenges including flooding, drought and pollution of waterways. Part of the project is to use a
natural capital approach to evaluate impact and build a business case for
nature-based solutions to address these water management challenges.
The expected outcomes of the Source2Sea project are:
- Demonstrated value of natural flood and drought management in the Channel area;
- Reduced pollution of transnational and coastal waters;
- Restoration of degraded ecosystems;
- Improvement of water quality (reduced amount of nutrients, pollution and sediment);
- Reduction of water stress and improvement of fresh water usage; and,
- Tools and guidance to deliver adaptive water management measures tailored to the local context.
You have been asked to participate in this survey as a stakeholder of the Source2Sea project. The survey will help the project understand current engagement with
nature-based solutions and the
natural capital approach in the catchment areas, and how these approaches can better support on the ground action. Please note that any responses you provide will be treated as confidential and not attributed directly to you.
The survey uses terminology some people are not familiar with. In some cases, people may be familiar with the concepts, but not the terminology used to describe them. If you are not familiar with the terminology or the concepts described, please take this into consideration when answering the questions.
The key terms and definitions used in the survey are below.
Terms and definitions
| Nature-based solutions |
The sustainable use of nature to solve problems (such as planting hedges to reduce soil loss). |
Natural capital
|
All the ‘stuff’ that makes up the natural environment (such as trees, rivers or soil). |
| Natural capital approach |
Viewing the natural environment as an asset that provides valuable benefits to people (such as food, clean air and beautiful landscapes). |
| Natural capital valuation |
Economic valuation of the benefits provided by environmental assets (‘natural capital’) (such as woodland reducing the amount of damage caused by flooding). |