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Good News for Beavers and Natural Flood Management.

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Miles King

Good news on nature and the environment is pretty thin on the ground these days – we obsess over how bad Brexit is going to be for nature, how Trump is going to destroy the planet and make us pay … Continue reading →

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Time to Put Chemical Farming Indoors by Chris Rose

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Miles King

I’m republishing this (with permission) from Chris Rose’s Three Worlds blog.   Time to put Chemical Farming Indoors A current side-effect of the prospect of Brexit is that Britain’s* green, countryside and wildlife groups are in an unusual fever of … Continue reading →

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The Nature of our State

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Miles King

I was looking forward to attending the State of Nature launch, but decided in the end to stay at home at get on with some writing that is now becoming urgent. But despite my noble intentions, I became swept up … Continue reading →

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Blog update

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Miles King

Some of you will have noticed that I have not written anything on here for a little while. We were on holiday in the mountains of Austria and since returning, it has been very busy. I am really pleased to … Continue reading →

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Theresa May places muzzle on Brexit cheerleader & Peterborough MP Stewart Jackson.

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Miles King

So Stewart Jackson has been given a job in Government (again). Jackson is now on the lowest rung of the Governmental ladder, as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Brexit Minister David Davis. He had previously briefly reached the same position, as … Continue reading →

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Stewart continues his journey, and it’s Coffey Time at Defra

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Miles King

We now know which ministers will work with Andrea Leadsom at Defra. Rory Stewart, who was apparently punished by David Cameron for disagreeing with him over Afghanistan, has now been rehabilitated. Having served his time at Defra, he is now … Continue reading →

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New head of Defra Andrea Leadsom has already laid out her plans for farm subsidy reform.

Posted on July 15, 2016 by Miles King

The dust is settling following the brutal excision of the Cameron/Osborne cliques from power. One Department has been knocked down, or split asunder – the Department for Energy and Climate Change. Energy has gone to Business and Industry, Climate Change … Continue reading →

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A vote for Brexit is an attack on public spending and the public sector

Posted on June 14, 2016 by Miles King

Once again today we hear pro-Brexit ministers claim that all the things that are funded via the EU will continue to be supported, from the Treasury. So, according to Farm minister Eustice, things like farm subsidies will stay the same … Continue reading →

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Shared from Ruth Davis’ blog nature and the common good : Five things I’ve learnt during the referendum campaign.

Posted on May 26, 2016 by Miles King

I enjoyed reading this piece from Ruth Davis, formerly of Plantlife, RSPB and Greenpeace, now at E3G. Ruth writes at Nature and the Common Good.  I thought I would share it with you: 1) Project fear is really Project Common … Continue reading →

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Paper recommendation: power relations in ecosystem services work

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Miles King

Originally posted on Ideas for Sustainability:
By Joern Fischer I’d like to recommend the following paper: Berbés-Blázquez M, González JA, Pascual U. 2016. Towards an ecosystem services approach that addresses social power relations. Curr Opin Environ Sustainability 2016 Apr; 19:134-43. DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2016.02.003 With the…

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