Environment Agency: Using local investigations to improve catchment resilience

The Environment Agency wants to ensure that catchments in England are resilient to a range of pressures, both now and in the future. The Environment Agency is currently exploring how it can use resilience in a practical way and understand how we define and measure catchment resilience. Resilience might be an inherent property of or an aspiration for a catchment and might be measured by a catchments ability to recover or bounce back from a disturbance. Resilience maybe framed according to the function(s) of the catchment or elimination (reduction) of problems. Pathways to resilience may include avoiding a disturbance, increasing resistance to a disturbance or enhancing recovery to the di…

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