NW2045 Natural Capital baseline assessment and interpretation

To assess the natural capital baseline for North West Highland RLUP area, and to produce a detailed report of this assessment, including:

• Review of the case study area;
• Sources of information available and any data gaps;
• An explanation of the methodology used;
• The findings of the assessment;
• Recommendations on how to integrate the assessment findings into the future decision making and the Regional Land Use Framework requested by Scottish Government;
• Challenges encountered, the lessons learned, and the potential barriers to progressing the RLUP approach in this area;
• Opportunities for further work that will help progress the RLUP, increase local ability to make decisions and be informed
• Presentations to update the RLUP Steering Group and a final presentation to the Steering Group. Both should be recorded and made available on-line so should be in very easy to understand formats which make sense to a broad audience.
• Concise briefing output summarising the report in plain English terms, thought should be given to how this can be disseminated and seen and understood by a wide audience locally.

a detailed report of the natural capital baseline assessment for North West Highland RLUP area, including:

• Review of the case study area;
• Sources of information available and any data gaps;
• An explanation of the methodology used;
• The findings of the assessment;
• Recommendations on how to integrate the assessment findings into the future decision making and the Regional Land Use Framework requested by Scottish Government;
• Challenges encountered, the lessons learned, and the potential barriers to progressing the RLUP approach in this area;
• Opportunities for further work that will help progress the RLUP, increase local ability to make decisions and be informed
• Presentations to update the RLUP Steering Group and a final presentation to the Steering Group. Both should be recorded and made available on-line so should be in very easy to understand formats which make sense to a broad audience.
• Concise briefing output summarising the report in plain English terms, thought should be given to how this can be disseminated and seen and understood by a wide audience locally.