āPlastic is made of oil and if we donāt stop it, itāll get into the ground and burns.ā More and more volunteers are waking up to the pervasive problem of plastic pollution in landscapes both home and abroad, and the James Hutton Instituteās Glensaugh Research Farm is no exception. A group of Mearns Academy pupils visited Glensaugh to help stop the āplastic tideā by collecting tree guards and nets used to protect young trees against grazing animals, including sheep and deer. Donald Barrie, Glensaugh farm manager, said: āThe world has woken up to the problem of plastic pollution in all
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"We'd love to hear what you think of it, so please send us your comments" The latest issue of Hutton Highlights, the James Hutton Institute's quarterly review, is now available from our Hutton Highlights pages. Read in our May 2018 issue: Related content Hutton Highlights More information from: Bernardo Rodriguez-Salcedo, Media Manager, Tel: +44 (0)1224 395089 (direct line), +44 (0)344 928 5428 (switchboard) or +44 (0)7791 193918 (mobile). read more
This event will feature keynote speeches by both industry and policy and highlight how the latest research from the Scottish Government funded strategic research programme is increasing our understanding and identifying new ways to manage AMR. Please register for the event using this form on the SRUC website. SRUC will confirm your place by early August A leaflet with additional information can be found here. Contact: Bouda Ahmadi, Research Economist, SRUC: bouda.v.ahmadi@sruc.ac.uk
This yearās conference will focus on identifying the most valued public environmental goods and exploring how land managers can be encouraged and incentivised to prioritise and deliver these public goods. Abstracts and papers centred on these themes should be submitted by the 15 th of June 2018. For further details please contact: karen.mccracken@sac.co.uk You can find more guidance on the preparation of abstracts here. This event will also feature a panel-debate centred on the policy and governance issues around making a shift towards prioritising public environmental goods cost-effective and
"There has never been a more crucial time to pool resources and bring scientists and stakeholders together to act" More than 60 experts and stakeholders from the diverse worlds of forestry, horticulture, the environment and agriculture gathered at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to hear about the aims and vision of a new virtual Plant Health Centre for Scotland. Chief Plant Health Officer for Scotland, Professor Gerry Saddler of Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA), spoke at the official stakeholder launch event having marked the occasion by planting a Sorbus arranensis tree ā
To understand how pressures such as problems arising from agricultural and urban land use and, increasingly, climate change affect the biophysical and ecological processes within our catchments. The focus of the research is on understanding how the biophysical and ecological processes within water bodies operate and contribute to the delivery of ecosystem function and health. The core of this work will provide information and knowledge that is needed to address one of the fundamental research questions of the programme (How do Scotlandās natural assets function, how healthy are they, what are
To support a range of Scottish policy priorities These include: 1) Flooding e.g. helping local authorities incorporate uncertainty into Flood Risk Management (FRM) plans; meeting the requirements of the Floods Directive (FD); 2) Water quality e.g. providing evidence for the Nitrates Directive (ND) review; informing regulation of shellfish and bathing water protected areas; reducing water treatment costs through improved catchment management; and meeting the requirements of the Drinking Water Directive (DWD) and WFD. The project will address questions such as: What changes may take place in the
To evaluate the capacity of water resources to adapt to changing environmental and socio-economic conditions, in order to maintain key functions, goods and services (resilience) This RD addresses one of the fundamental research questions of the programme: How resilient are Scotlandās natural assets to climate change and other risks (invasive non-native species (INNS), pollution, etc.), and what are the key interventions to make them more resilient or to protect them from further harm? To do this, RD 1.2.3 considers components of natural and managed water systems (and their interactions), their