30/06/11
The Natural Environment White Paper, The Natural Choice, provides an innovative framework that will help begin the process of placing a value on the many public goods - good water quality among them - that our environment provides.
We all agree that the value of water is huge, and we would welcome a more robust and flexible mechanism for calculating that value, in order to ensure that future schemes, for example for catchment management, are working from a basis upon which all parties can agree.
We support the principle behind valuing the full suite of services the environment provides and eagerly await the forthcoming guidance on how to measure these components. In particular we will be interested to see the results of the Natural Capital Committee's work.
Natural Environment White Paper
Defra website
