Wholescape thinking guidance note: Towards integrating the management of catchments, coast and the sea through partnerships

Maltby, Ed; Acreman, M; Maltby, A; Bryson, P; Bradshaw, Natasha

Abstract

Our aim is to achieve a common vision of wholescape partnership working that helps overcome barriers and deliver effective environmental management. Wholescape thinking will bring different interests together rather than prescribing a fixed agenda. This Guidance Note aims to seed ideas and help the concept evolve. 'Partnership working' (working together for specific reasons) and the wider concept of 'partnerships' (that have long-term governance arrangements) are established concepts. We seek to integrate these ways of working with the need to work at larger spatial scales-combining landscapes, coastal zones and seascapes-which we term wholescape thinking. It offers an opportunity to underpin best practice for managing the natural environment sustainably, making best use of its natural capital. Our long-term goal is to see partnerships amongst and between government, civil society and businesses that operate at the wholescale-linking, where appropriate, land, the coast and sea. Although wholescape is based on geography (bio-physical scale), we need a transformation in human behaviour to affect a cultural change at this scale. Putting this concept into practice remains a challenge; the idea is being taught, but not acted upon.

Citation

Maltby, E., Acreman, M., Maltby, A., Bryson, P., & Bradshaw, N. Wholescape thinking guidance note: Towards integrating the management of catchments, coast and the sea through partnerships

• Deposit Date: Nov 28, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 29, 2022
• Keywords: Coastal management, Coastal governance, Environment
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10194474
• Related Public URLs: www.naturalcapitalinitiative.org.uk/wholescapes