Coastal habitat restoration, towards good practice

The good practice guide provides an information resource for operating authorities and other practitioners and guides them as to how they can deliver habitat restoration and re-creation works. It refers to existing works and demonstration sites that address individual coastal habitats such as sand dune, shingle ridge, saline lagoon, salt marsh, mudflats, reed beds and grazing marsh; and identify best practice in the re-creation and restoration of these habitats.

Much work already exists on the specific European features covered by SAC and SPA designations and how they are managed; this guide collates and reviews such existing literature and management experience from the UK and overseas. It identifies any gaps in current best practice for the specified habitats and produce interim guidance based on existing expert knowledge. It also refines such guidance based on feedback from the North Norfolk Habitat creation schemes. It includes a description of the planning process needed to deliver such schemes, including the consent and approvals needed from government departments and agencies and suggest current sources of grant and additional funding that may be available to practitioners.

To assist in the collation of data required, a series of three regional workshops were held to obtain details of practical experience, promote discussion of management techniques and identify key ecological criteria for each of the habitats involved in the study. The end product is an interactive manual which will enable habitat re-creation and management to be advanced without the need for repeated technique trialling and testing and unnecessary expenditure.

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Coastal habitat restoration, Towards good practice - An introductory leaflet

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