This page provides a narrative to explain what natural capital is, why it is important for catchment partnerships and guides you through the growing list of resources available to help you incorporate natural capital into the work of the partnership

This report captures findings from the project River Remedies: Improving Wellbeing through Nature and concludes that river-based prescriptions have a positive effect in managing mental health risks and improved wellbeing.

How much can natural measures reduce flooding at large scales? To answer this question over the next three years the Q-NFM investigator team, lead by Lancaster University, will work in three large Cumbrian catchments (‘test basins’), the Eden, Derwent and Kent with their partners who are delivering NFM interventions .

NEVO is a map-based decision support tool to inform decisions that affect the natural environment of England and Wales. It makes use of state-of-the-art environmental and economic models developed by the University of Exeter in a user-friendly interface.

In this review, Westcountry Rivers Trust explores the data and evidence available, which, taken together, demonstrate qualitatively and quantitatively that the delivery of integrated catchment management interventions can realise genuine improvements in water quality.

Used by the WaterCoG project, this Climate Scan tool is an open source website for international knowledge exchange on sustainable urban drainage and spatial transformation in urban areas.

Encourage and facilitate the use of the spatial data in ARCGIS. Train practitioners to develop their GIS and spatial data skills and, in so doing, build capability in their organisations. Environmental professionals are often highly ‘geographically literate’, but they do still require specialised, application-based training to become skilled GIS technicians who can then incorporate the robust and effective use of GIS into their day-to-day work.

Citizen Science is a fundamental data gathering and engagement tool for Catchment Based Approach (CaBA) partnerships to help develop an understanding of the issues in catchments and also to engage their local communities in identifying and delivering solutions.

NFM Modelling finds that large-scale NFM could have made a significant difference to flood risk in Storm Desmond.

The Rivers Trust Mapping Portal provides CaBA partnerships with online access to a selection of datasets from the desktop GIS package, plus some newly released layers. 

The Desktop CaBA GIS Data Package is a set of over 120 data layers, which is provided to CaBA Catchment Hosts under a license negotiated centrally with the data providers. Version 4 is the latest release and version 5 will be released soon.

An evidence base for Working With Natural Processes (WWNP) to reduce flood risk – tools and apps available to CaBA groups.