Restoration of farmland, scrub, bracken or woodland to heathland may require significant soil disturbance, vegetation removal and/or burning. This detailed guidance document describes how to minimise adverse impacts on soil, biodiversity and archaeological features during heathland restoration.
The natural and nature-based features (NNBF) Guidelines are effectively a guide on natural flood management. They include 20 chapters organized into three sections: overarching themes, coastal features, and fluvial features. There is an introductory presentation by a chapter author for each chapter.
This comprehensive report aims to provide an overview and summarise the science, experience and case studies relating to the use of both natural freshwater wetlands and integrated constructed wetlands (ICWs) for improving water quality.
The Green Infrastructure Framework comprises:
Green Infrastructure Principles: the why, what and how of good green infrastructure.
Green Infrastructure Standards: guidance on national standards for green infrastructure quantity and quality.
Green Infrastructure Maps: mapped environmental, socio-economic datasets to support the standards.
The Investment Readiness Toolkit is an online and interactive framework that takes nature-based project developers and enterprises along the eight milestones of a path to ‘Investment Readiness’, providing key considerations and case studies.
The IUCN Global Standard for NbS aims to support users to improve the effectiveness, sustainability and adaptability of their NbS interventions, and to add credibility when speaking to investors, donors and other stakeholders. It consists of 8 Criteria and 28 Indicators.
This guidebook was informed by a series of global workshops and an expert panel, and aims to share lessons learned from kelp restoration efforts globally. It is a starting point for practitioners, researchers, managers, and custodians to learn about restoration and access a community of practice.
A list of essential principles for scientifically sound investments in nature. This encourages the co-design of NbS in collaboration with local communities, using a holistic and adaptive approach that will continue to deliver multiple benefits in the long term.
The TCPA has produced a series of practical online resources to assist those who are planning for long-term stewardship of green urban spaces (such as parks) in their area.
This four page fact sheet shows how flower-rich grasslands can be managed to support insects. Grassland management guidance often focuses mainly on plants; this guidance is important in also considering how it affects invertebrates.
This is a practical guide on how to manage roadside grass verges for biodiversity by cutting less frequently, removing the cuttings, and leaving uncut refuges.
This guide highlights what habitats in urban areas are important and how they can be better managed to encourage pollinators. Management guidance often focuses mainly on plants; this guidance is important in also considering how management affects invertebrates.