These tools aim to help increase participation and cooperation, resulting in more action. They have been created by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management on behalf of the Interreg North Sea Region, WaterCoG project.
Apps & ToolsVolunteers & Citizen Science
This new guide shares Tweed Forum’s coordinated, catchment-wide partnership approach to invasive plant species control, from consultation, fundraising and legal and licensing issues to landowner and volunteer engagement, species control methodology, GPS mapping, planning and monitoring.
Monitoring ChangeApps & ToolsRiver Restoration & WildlifeDelivering Improvements
Inspiration and guidance for mending your river – developed and published by the Wild Trout Trust
This guide has been produced to provide simple, clear advice on the provision of natural flood management measures for lowland areas.
Flood ResilienceDelivering ImprovementsRural Land ManagementApps & Tools
The purpose of this resource is to provide guidance and suggestions for capturing more meaningful metrics on engagement (citizen science, volunteering etc) and the social and economic benefits of work by CaBA partnerships.
Apps & ToolsMonitoring ChangeTechnical Support & TrainingNatural Capital
Three animations by The Rivers Trust to visually introduce natural capital and ecosystem services in three films. The first introduces the subjects, the second provides context for soil and land management, and the third film has been created to provide context for investment decisions.
Engaging StakeholdersNatural CapitalRural Land ManagementWater ResourcesApps & Tools
Guidance, technical manuals, templates and examples of how to setup and run an Outfall Safari to get local volunteers involved in surveying sources of urban pollution.
Water QualityUrban Water ManagementTechnical Support & TrainingTemplatesApps & ToolsVolunteers & Citizen ScienceUsing Data & EvidenceEngaging Stakeholders
Diffuse PollutionOutfall SafariUrban PollutionSewage PollutionCitizen Science
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.
Rural Land ManagementNatural CapitalUsing Data & EvidenceApps & Tools
Natural Capital ValuationNatural CapitalNEVOEcosystem Services
A series of videos to help Farmers easily see how to improve crop productivity, while protecting the environment and reducing soil and nutrient losses.
Apps & ToolsRural Land ManagementEngaging StakeholdersWater Stewardship
The CaBA Biodiversity Pack focusses on the potential to restore natural processes, and the benefits this can have. It encourages practitioners to look to the restoration of natural ecosystem function when planning and delivering catchment projects, in order to make sustainable contributions to WFD and Biodiversity 2020 targets.
Climate ChangeApps & ToolsDelivering ImprovementsTechnical Support & TrainingRiver Restoration & Wildlife
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.
Using Data & EvidenceUrban Water ManagementApps & Tools