882
Views
18
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Article

Mitigation banking: Securing no net loss to biodiversity? A UK perspective

Pages 155-175 | Published online: 12 Oct 2007

References

  • Angold , P. G. , Sadler , J. P. , Hill , M. O. , Pullin , A. , Rushton , S. Austin , K. 2006 . Biodiversity in urban habitat patches . Science of the Total Environment , 360 : 196 – 204 .
  • Barker , K. 2006 . Barker Review of Land Use Planning. Final Report – Recommendations , Norwich : HMSO .
  • Bean , M. J. and Dwyer , L. E. 2000 . Mitigation banking as an endangered species conservation tool . Environmental Law Reporter News and Analysis , 30 ( 7 ) : 10537 – 10556 .
  • Bird , W. 2006 . Natural Thinking , Sandy : RSPB .
  • Bright , C. 1997 . Tracking the Ecology of Climate Change. Report on Progress Towards a Sustainable Society: State of the World 1997 , Washington, DC : Worldwatch Institute .
  • Brown , C. and Grant , M. 2005 . Biodiversity and human health: What role for nature in healthy urban planning? . Built Environment 4 (Planning Healthy Towns and Cities) , : 326 – 338 .
  • Crooks , S. and Ledoux , L. 2000 . Mitigation banking: Potential applications in the UK . Environmental and Waste Management , 3 ( 4 ) : 1 – 8 .
  • Crooks , S. , Turner , R. K. , Pethick , J. S. and Parry , M. L. 2000 . Managing Catchment Coastal Floodplains: The Need for a UK Water and Wetlands Policy, Working Paper PA 01‐01 , Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment . Available at http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/pub/wp/pa/pa_2001_01.pdf (accessed 6 September 2007)
  • Dawson , D. 1994 . Are Habitat Corridors Conduits for Animals and Plants in a Fragmented Landscape? A Review of the scientific Evidence, English Nature Research Report No. 64 , Peterborough : Natural England .
  • DEFRA . 2002a . Working with the Grain of Nature: A Biodiversity Strategy for England , London : DEFRA . Available at http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-countryside/biodiversity/biostrat/biostrategy1to4.pdf
  • DEFRA . 2002b . Strategy for Sustainable Farming and Food – Facing the Future , London : DEFRA . Available at http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/policy/sustain/newstrategy/strategy/strategy.pdf
  • DEFRA . 2004 . The Rural Strategy , London : DEFRA . Available at http://www.defra.gov.uk/rural/strategy/default.htm
  • Ecoscope . 2001 . Habitat Creation and Wildlife Management on Landfill Sites , Cambridge : Ecoscope Applied Ecologists .
  • English Nature . 2005 . Thames Basin Heaths: Pulling Together for Access, Conservation and Development. A New Approach to Housing Allocations and Nature Conservation , Sheffield : English Nature . Available at http://www.english-nature.org.uk/about/teams/team_photo/Thames1.pdf
  • Europa . 2005 . Leading Cases of the European Court of Environmental Justice: EC Environmental Law Available at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/law/pdf/leading_cases_2005_en.pdf
  • Everett , S. 2004 . The quality of nature in England . British Wildlife , 15 ( 3 ) : 168 – 173 .
  • Forum für Wissenschaft, Industrie und Wirtschaft . 2001 . Conservationists Patch It Up. Urban Wildlife may Not Use Green Corridors, Innovations Report , Forum für Wissenschaft : Industrie und Wirtschaft . Available at http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/umwelt_natureschutz/bericht-6777.html
  • Gilbert , O. L. and Anderson , P. 1998 . Habitat Creation and Repair , Oxford : Oxford University Press .
  • Henwood , K. 2003 . “ Environment and health: Is there a role for environmental and countryside agencies in promoting benefit to health? ” . In Issues in Health Development , Wetherby, Yorkshire : Health Development Agency, National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence . Available at www.hda-online.org.uk/documents/environmentissuespaper.pdf (accessed 17 July 2004)
  • Hodcroft , D. and Alexander , D. 2004 . Ecological frameworks in north-west England . Planning: Practice and Research , 19 ( 3 ) : 307 – 315 .
  • ICMM . 2005a . Biodiversity Offsets: A Proposition Paper, 21 July 2005 , London : International Council on Mining and Metals . Available at http://www.icmm.com
  • ICMM . 2005b . Biodiversity Offsets: A Briefing Paper for the Mining Industry, 25 July 2005 , London : International Council on Mining and Metals . Available at http://www.icmm.com
  • IEEM . 2006 . Guidelines for Ecological Impact Assessment in the United Kingdom , Winchester : Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management .
  • Joint Nature Conservation Committee . 2002 . Population Status of Birds in the UK – Birds of Conservation Concern: 2002 – 2007 , Peterborough : Joint Nature Conservation Committee . Available at http://www.jncc.gove.uk/species/Birds/ (accessed 6 September 2007)
  • Jongman , R. H. G. 2002 . Landscape planning for biological diversity in Europe . Landscape Research , 27 ( 2 ) : 187 – 196 .
  • Jongman , R. H. G. 2003 . Ecological networks and greenways in Europe: Reasoning and concepts . Journal of Environmental Sciences , 15 ( 2 ) : 173 – 181 .
  • Jongman R. H. G. Pungetti G. Ecological Networks and Greenways: Concept, Design, Implementation, Cambridge Studies in Landscape Ecology Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2004
  • Lawson , C. S. , Ford , M. A. , Mitchley , J. and Warren , J. M. 2004 . The establishment of heathland vegetation on ex-arable land: The response of Calluna vulgaris to soil acidification . Biological Conservation , 116 ( 3 ) : 409 – 417 .
  • Ledoux , L. , Crooks , S. , Jordan , A. and Turner , R. K. 2000 . Implementing EU Biodiversity Policy: A UK Case Study, Working Paper GEC 2000 – 03 , Norwich, University of East Anglia, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment . Available at http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/cserge/pub/wp/gec/gec_2000_03.pdf. (accessed 6 September 2007)
  • Liley , D. and Clarke , R. T. 2002 . Urban Development Adjacent to Heathland Sites in Dorset: The Effect on the Density and Settlement Patterns of Annex I Bird Species, English Nature Research Reports No. 463 , Peterborough : Natural England .
  • [email protected] . 2001 . Urban Wildlife May Not Use Green Corridors , London : Nature Publishing Group . Available at http://www.nature.com/search/executeSearch?sp-q=wildlife+corridors+mark+hill&sp-c=10&sp-x-9=cat&sp-s=date&sp-q-9=NEWS&submit=go&sp-a=sp1001702d&sp-sfvl-field=subject%7Cujournal&sp-x-1=ujournal&sp-p-1=phrase&sp-p=all (accessed 22 February 2007)
  • New Scientist . 2004 . Organic farming boosts biodiversity . 11 October Available at http://www.newscientist. com/article.ns?id=dn6496 (accessed 6 September 2007).
  • Office of the Deputy Prime Minister . 2002 . Planning Policy Guidance 17: Planning for Sport, Recreation and Open Space , London : ODPM .
  • Office of the Deputy Prime Minister . 2005a . Planning Policy Statement 9: Biodiversity and Geological Conservation , London : ODPM .
  • Office of the Deputy Prime Minister . 2005b . Government Circular to Accompany Planning Policy Statement 9. Biodiversity and Geological Conservation – Statutory Obligations and Their Impact within the Planning System , London : ODPM .
  • Rodwell J. S. British Plant Communities, Volume 1: Woodlands and Scrub Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Cambridge University Press 1991a
  • Rodwell J. S. British Plant Communities, Volume 2: Mires & Heaths Cambridge Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Cambridge University Press 1991b
  • Rodwell J. S. British Plant Communities, Volume 3: Grasslands and Montaine Communities Cambridge Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Cambridge University Press 1992
  • Rodwell J. S. British Plant Communities, Volume 4: Aquatic Communities, Swamps and Tall-herb Fens Cambridge Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Cambridge University Press 1995
  • Rodwell J. S. British Plant Communities, Volume 5: Maritime Communities and Vegetation of Open Habitats Cambridge Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Cambridge University Press 2000
  • Tattersall , F. H. 2000 . Managing set-aside for field voles (Microtus agrestis) . Biological Conservation , 96 ( 1 ) : 123 – 129 .
  • TCPA . 2004 . Biodiversity by Design: A Guide to Sustainable Communities , London : Town and Country Planning Association .
  • ten Kate , K. , Bishop , J. and Bayon , R. 2004 . Biodiversity Offsets: Views, Experience and the Business Case , Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, , UK : IUCN; London, Insight Investment . Available at http://www.iucn.org/themes/business/Biodiversity%20Offsets/ten%20kate%20et%20al%20paper.pdf (accessed 6 September 2007)
  • UK Government . 2005 . Sustainable Development Strategy: Securing the Future , London : DEFRA . Available at http://www.sustainable-development.gov.uk/publications/uk-strategy/index.htm (accessed 6 September 2007)
  • Underhill-Day , J. C. 2005 . A Literature Review of Urban Effects on Lowland Heaths and Their Wildlife, English Nature Research Report No. 623 , Peterborough : Natural England .
  • UNEP/CMS Secretariat & DEFRA . 2006 . Migratory Species and Climate Change: Impacts of a Changing Environment on Wild Animals , UNEP/CMS Secretariat . Bonn, Germany; London, DEFRA
  • US EPA. Federal Guidance for the Establishment, Use and Operation of Mitigation Banks (last updated March 2005). Available at http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/pdf/TEA-21Guidance.pdf (PDF) (accessed 6 September 2007)
  • US EPA. Wetland Factsheet: Mitigation Banking (last updated November 2005). Available at http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/wetlands/facts/fact16.html (accessed 6 September 2007)
  • Vuilleumiers , S. and Prelaz-Droux , R. 2002 . Map of ecological networks for landscape planning . Landscape and Urban Planning , 58 ( 2 – 4 ) : 157 – 161 .
  • Wall , T. 2006 . Inching towards conservation at the landscape scale . Conservation Land Management , 4 ( 2 ) : 4 – 7 .
  • Wende , W. , Herberg , A. and Herzberg , A. 2005 . Mitigation banking and compensation pools: improving the effectiveness of impact migration regulation in project planning procedures . Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal , 23 ( 2 ) : 101 – 111 .
  • Wickramasinghe , L. P. , Harris , S. , Jones , G. and Vaughan Jennings , N. 2004 . Abundance and species richness of nocturnal insects on organic and conventional farms: Effects of agricultural intensification on bat foraging . Conservation Biology , 18 ( 5 ) : 1283 – 1292 .
  • Winspear , R. and Davies , G. 2005 . A Management Guide to Birds of Lowland Farmland , Sandy : RSPB .
  • Wood , B. C. and Pullin , A. S. 2002 . Persistence of species in a fragmented urban landscape: The importance of dispersal ability and habitat availability for grassland butterflies . Biodiversity and Conservation , 11 ( 8 ) : 1451 – 1469 .

UK Legislation

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.