Resources

ERAMMP 

Year 1 Reports

A series of reviews and reports were produced in the first year of the ERAMMP Programme:
(Some documents have been revised since their original publication as version 1.0; this is indicated by their version numbers on this page. The changes will be detailed in the version history box within the document)

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 11: Year 1 Summary (Sept 2019) 35 pages, 1.5MB ERAMMP Rpt 11 Year-1 Summary v1.1.pdf

Emmett, B., Alexander, M., Alison, J ., Anthony, S., Ballinger, R., Bell, C., Bowgen, K., Cooper, D., Cosby, J., Dickie, I., Ditchburn, B., Edwards, F., Engledew, M., Fitch, A., Frost, N., Garbutt, R.A., Gooday, R., Hatfield, J., Henrys, P., Hull, S., Jenkins, T., Jones, L., Kettel, E., Logie, M., Lyons, H., Maclean, K., Mant, J., Maskell, L.C., Matthews, R., Petr, M., Powney, G.R., Read, D., Robinson, D.A., Siriwardena, G., Smart, S.M., Steadman, C., Thomas, A., Thomas, D., Thomas, T., Tye, A., Vieno, M., Williams, B. & Wood, C. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme – ERAMMP Year 1 Report 11: Year 1 Summary. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 12: ‘Quick Start’ Modelling (Phase 1) (Sept 2019) 78 pages, 5.5MB  ERAMMP Rpt 12 QuickStart-1 v1.1.pdf and the technical annex (71 pages, 8.1MB) ERAMMP Rpt 12TA1 QuickStart-1 Technical Annex v1.1.pdf

Cosby, B.J., Thomas, A., Emmett, B.A., Anthony, S.,  Bell, C., Carnell, E., Dickie, I., Fitch, A., Gooday, R., Kettel, E., Jones, M.L., Matthews, R., Petr, M., Siriwardena, G.,  Steadman, C., Thomas, D., Williams, B. & Vieno, M. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme – ERAMMP Year 1 Report 12: ‘Quick Start’ Modelling (Phase 1). Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 13: Integrated Modelling Platform (IMP) Update (Sept 2019) 16 pages, 690KB ERAMMP Rpt 13 IMP v1.0.pdf

Harrison, P., Dunford, R., Alison, J., Anthony, S., Beauchamp, K., Bell, C., Brown, M., Cooper, J., Cosby, B., Dickie, I., Emmett, B.A., Gooday, R., Hollaway, M., Holman, I., Matthews, R., Norris, D., Petr, M., Smart, S.M., Sandars, D., Thomas, A., Trembath, P., Van Oijen, M., Vieno, M., Watkins, J., West, B. & Williams, A. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme - ERAMMP Year 1 Report 13: Integrated Modelling Platform (IMP) - Update. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 14: Development of Reduced Habitat Mapping Methods (Sept 2019) 8 pages, 145KB ERAMMP Rpt 14 Habitat mapping v1.0.pdf

Smart, S.M., Freeman, S. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP) - ERAMMP Year 1 Report 14: Responsive Monitoring Part 2 - Development of Reduced Habitat Mapping Methods. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 15: Selection of ERAMMP Field Survey Squares (Sept 2019) 14 pages, 225KB ERAMMP Rpt 15 Square Selection v1.0.pdf

Alison, J., Henrys, P., Smart, S.M., Siriwardena, G. & Emmett, B.A. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme – ERAMMP Year 1 Report 15: Responsive Monitoring Part 1 - Selection of ERAMMP Field Survey Squares. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 16: NRW & ERAMMP Monitoring Activities Review (Sept 2019) 14 pages, 195KB ERAMMP Rpt 16 NRW Monitoring Review v1.0.pdf and the technical annex (18 pages, 455KB) ERAMMP Rpt 16TA1 NRW Monitoring Review Technical Annexes v1.0.pdf

Emmett, B.A., Maskell, L., Read, D., Robinson, D.A., Smart, S.M., Garbutt, R.A., Williams, B. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme – ERAMMP Year 1 Report 16: NRW & ERAMMP Monitoring Activities Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 17: Woodland Monitoring Review (Sept 2019) 24 pages, 290KB ERAMMP Rpt 17 Woodland review v1.0.pdf

Emmett, B.A., Ditchburn, B., Jenkins, T., Maskell, L., Smart, S.M. & Williams, B. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme – ERAMMP Year 1 Report 17: Woodland Monitoring Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 18: Technologies to Capture Evidence of Soil Erosion (Sept 2019) 26 pages, 530KB ERAMMP Rpt 18 Soil Erosion v1.0.pdf

Tye, A., Robinson, D.A. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme – ERAMMP Year 1 Report 18: Technologies to Capture Evidence of Soil Erosion. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 19: Review of Monitoring at the Land-Sea Interface (Sept 2019) 20 pages, 490KB ERAMMP Rpt 19 Land-Sea v1.0.pdf and the technical annex (46 pages, 1.1MB) ERAMMP Rpt 19TA1 LSI Technical Annex v1.0.pdf

Garbutt, R.A., Alexander, M., Ballinger, R., Bowgen, K., Cooper, D., Frost, N., Hull, S., Jones, L. & Mant, J. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme – ERAMMP Year 1 Report 19: Review of Monitoring at the Land-Sea Interface. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 20: Re-analysis of data for SoNaRR (Sept 2019) 20 pages, 1.2MB ERAMMP Rpt 20 SoNaRR v1.0.pdf

Maskell, L., Alison, J. & Smart, S.M. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme - ERAMMP Year 1 Report 20: GMEP Outstanding Analysis Part 1 - Re-analysis of data for SoNaRR. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 21: Revisiting Trends in Topsoil Carbon (Sept 2019) 26 pages, 785KB ERAMMP Rpt 21 Soil Carbon v1.0.pdf

Alison, J., Emmett, B.A., Robinson, D.A., Smart, S.M. & Thomas, A. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP) – ERAMMP Year 1 Report 21: GMEP Outstanding Analysis Part 2 – Revisiting Trends in Topsoil Carbon from CS2007 to GMEP 2013-2016. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 22: A Review of the Contribution of Species Records held by Local Environmental Record Centres in Wales to ERAMMP Evidence Needs (Sept 2019) 52 pages, 1.9MB ERAMMP Rpt 22 LERCS v1.0.pdf and the data-file (Spreadsheet 1.5MB) ERAMMP Rpt 22D LERCS - Species classification datafile 5Apr2019.xlsx

Smart, S.M., Maskell, L.C., Hatfield, J., Logie, M. & Powney, G.R.  (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme - ERAMMP Year 1 Report 22: A Review of the Contribution of Species Records held by Local Environmental Record Centres in Wales to ERAMMP Evidence Needs. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 23: Options for a Synthetic ‘Well-being of Future Generations’ Indicator 44 (Sept 2019) 13 pages, 260KB Placeholder-dummy-PDF.pdf ERAMMP Rpt 23 Indicator 44 v1.0.pdf

Smart, S.M. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme – ERAMMP Year 1 Report 23: Options for a Synthetic ‘Well-being of Future Generations’ Indicator 44 (Biodiversity). Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

ERAMMP Year 1 Report 24: Welsh National Natural Capital Accounts (Sept 2019) 47 pages, 540KB ERAMMP Rpt 24 NNCA v1.0.pdf

Engledew, M., Maclean, K., Thomas, T., Fitch, A., Robinson, D.A. & Jones, L. (2019) Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme – ERAMMP Year 1 Report 24: Welsh National Natural Capital Accounts: Ecosystem Service Accounts for Woodland, Farmland and Freshwater Habitats. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

Sustainable Farm Scheme (SFS) Evidence Pack Review

The SFS Evidence Pack Review is a set of reports and technical annexes distilling current academic thinking on a range of agricultural and environmental specialist topics.

Review Report 10a: Integrated Analysis (July 2019) 27 pages, 391KB 10a. Integrated Analysis.pdf

Emmett, B.A., Alison, J., Braban, C., Dickie, I., Gunn, I.D.M., Healey, J., Jenkins, T., Jones, L., Keenleyside, C.B., Lewis-Reddy, E., Martineau, A.H., Newell-Price, J.P., Old, G.H., Pagella, T., Siriwardena, G.M., Williams, A.G., Williams, A.P. & Williams, J.R.. (2019). Report 10a: Integrated Analysis. In Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP): Sustainable Farming Scheme Evidence Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

Review Report 10b: Considerations for the new scheme (July 2019) 26 pages, 314KB ERAMMP SFS Evidence Review 10b Considerations for the new scheme.pdf

Emmett, B.A., Alison, J., Braban, C., Dickie, I., Gunn, I.D.M., Healey, J., Jenkins, T., Jones, L., Keenleyside, C.B., Lewis-Reddy, E., Martineau, A.H., Newell-Price, P., Old, G.H., Pagella, T., Siriwardena, G.M., Williams, A.G., Williams, P. & Williams, J.R.. (2019). Report 10b: Considerations for the new scheme. In Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP): Sustainable Farming Scheme Evidence Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

Technical Annex 1: Soil Nutrient Management (SNM) for improved land (July 2019) 22 pages, 472KB ERAMMP SFS Evidence Review 1 Soil Nutrient Mgt.pdf

Williams J.R., Newell Price, J.P., Williams, A.P., Gunn, I.D.M. & Williams A.G. (2019). Technical Annex 1: Soil nutrient management for improved land. In Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP): Sustainable Farming Scheme Evidence Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

Technical Annex 2: Sward Management (July 2019) 30 pages, 619KB ERAMMP SFS Evidence Review 2 Sward.pdf

Newell Price, J.P., Siriwardena, G.M., Williams, A.P., Alison, J. & Williams, J.R. (2019). Technical Annex 2: Sward management. In Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP): Sustainable Farming Scheme Evidence Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

Technical Annex 3: Soil Carbon Management (SCM) (July 2019) 70 pages, 929KB ERAMMP SFS Evidence Review 3 Soil Carbon v1.1.pdf

Alison, J., Thomas, A., Evans, C.D., Keith, A.M., Robinson, D.A., Thomson, A., Dickie, I., Griffiths, R.I., Williams, J., Newell-Price, J.P., Williams, A.G., Williams, A.P., Martineau, A.H., Gunn, I.D.M. & Emmett, B.A. (2019). Technical Annex 3: Soil Carbon Management. In Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP): Sustainable Farming Scheme Evidence Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

Technical Annex 4: Building Ecosystem Resilience (July 2019) 62 pages, 746KB ERAMMP SFS Evidence Review 4 Ecosystem resilience.pdf

Keenleyside, C.B., Beaufoy, G., Alison, J., Gunn, I.D.M., Healey, J., Jenkins, T., Pagella, T. & Siriwardena, G.M. (2019). Technical Annex 4: Building ecosystem resilience. In Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP): Sustainable Farming Scheme Evidence Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297

Technical Annex 5: Building Resilience in Farm Systems (July 2019) 26 pages, 384KB ERAMMP SFS Evidence Review 5 Farm Resilience.pdf

Lewis-Reddy, E., Turner, C. & Williams, P. (2019). Technical Annex 5: Building resilience in farm systems. In Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP): Sustainable Farming Scheme Evidence Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

Technical Annex 6: Public and Private Funding (July 2019) 24 pages, 406KB ERAMMP SFS Evidence Review 6 Funding.pdf

Keenleyside, C.B., Dickie, I., Alison, J., Lewis-Reddy, E. & Siriwardena, G.M. (2019). Technical Annex 6: Public and private funding. In Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP): Sustainable Farming Scheme Evidence Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

Technical Annex 7: Systems Approach to GHG Emissions Reduction (July 2019) 31 pages, 887KB ERAMMP SFS Evidence Review 7 GHG.pdf

Martineau, A.H., Williams, A.G., Chadwick, D. & Thomson, A. (2019). Technical Annex 7: Systems approach to GHG emissions reduction. In Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP): Sustainable Farming Scheme Evidence Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

Technical Annex 8: Improving Air Quality and Well-being (July 2019) 68 pages, 677KB ERAMMP SFS Evidence Review 8 Air Quality.pdf

Jones, L., Bealey, B., Braban, C., Martineau, H., Williams, A. & Dragosits, U.  (2019). Technical Annex 8: Improving air quality and well-being. In Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP): Sustainable Farming Scheme Evidence Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

Technical Annex 9: Flood Mitigation (July 2019) 24 pages, 375KB ERAMMP SFS Evidence Review 9 Flood.pdf

Keenleyside, C.B., Old G.H. (2019). Technical Annex 9: Flood mitigation. In Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP): Sustainable Farming Scheme Evidence Review. Report to Welsh Government (Contract C210/2016/2017). Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Project NEC06297.

"Future Options" - Options for a new integrated Natural Resources Monitoring Framework for Wales

A project to identify options and develop agreed recommendations for an integrated natural resources monitoring framework for Wales. This project was the precursor to ERAMMP.

Project Report - Executive Summary (Nov 2016) - a 3-page listing of the report's 10 recommendations
804KB Options-for-Integrated-NRMF-for-Wales-Report-Phase-1-Executive-Summary-2016-11-30.pdf

Project Report - Report Summary (Nov 2016) - a 13-page summary of the project report and recommendations
1.5MB Options-for-Integrated-NRMF-for-Wales-Report-Phase-1-Report-Summary-2016-11-30.pdf

Project Report - Phase I : The full project report (56 pages) (Nov 2016)
2.3MB Options-for-Integrated-NRMF-for-Wales-Report-Phase-1-Report-2016-11-30.pdf

Project Report - Phase I : Appendices: The supporting appendices, supplementing the project report (254 pages) (Nov 2016)
5.6MB Options-for-Integrated-NRMF-for-Wales-Report-Phase-1-Appendices-2016-10.pdf

Future Options Technical Briefing Papers

Project Document - Technical Briefing Paper: Citizen Science (Nov 2016)
1.8MB Options-for-Integrated-NRMF-for-Wales-Report-Phase-1-Technical-Briefing-Paper-Citizen-Science-2016-11-30.pdf

Project Document - Technical Briefing Paper: Earth Observation (Nov 2016)
2.8MB Options-for-Integrated-NRMF-for-Wales-Report-Phase-1-Technical-Briefing-Paper-Earth-Observation-2016-11-30.pdf

Project Document - Technical Briefing Paper: Molecular/Environmental-DNA (Nov 2016)
1.4MB Options-for-Integrated-NRMF-for-Wales-Report-Phase-1-Technical-Briefing-Paper-Molecular-Environmental-DNA-2016-11-30.pdf

Project Document - Technical Briefing Paper: Data and Informatics (Nov 2016)
520KB Options-for-Integrated-NRMF-for-Wales-Report-Phase-1-Technical-Briefing-Paper-Data-Informatics-2016-11-30.pdf 

Project Document - Technical Briefing Paper: Freshwater Monitoring (Nov 2016)
Options-for-Integrated-NRMF-for-Wales-Report-Phase-1-Freshwater-Monitoring-2016-11-30.pdf

Project Document - Technical Briefing Paper: Emergency Response (Nov 2016)
700KB  Options-for-Integrated-NRMF-for-Wales-Report-Phase-1-Emergency-Response-2016-11-30.pdf

GMEP

The Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) was commissioned by the Welsh Government to assess the performance of Glastir.

'GMEP at a glance' (July 2017) 1.2MB  GMEP-Glance-2017.pdf

GMEP Final Report, Executive Summary (July 2017) GMEP-Final-Report-Exec-Summ-2017.pdf

GMEP Final Report (July 2017) 5.9MB 6.6MB GMEP-Final-Report-2017.pdf

GMEP Final Report, Annexes (July 2017) 33MB GMEP-Final-Report-Annexes2017.zip

Main GMEP Project website - http://gmep.wales