Making Environmental Decisions Better
RPA has substantial experience in environmental policy, with hundreds of projects having been conducted across a plethora of environmental policy fields. RPA’s environmental work puts them at the forefront of four policy areas – flooding and erosion, water and natural capital, marine and fisheries, and environmental economics.
Our work focuses on supporting decision-makers at local, national and international level make evidence-based policy decisions, through evaluation, analysis, appraisal, impact assessment, as well as through mixed methods approaches to data collection using both primary (engagement) and secondary (existing data) sources.
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Projects
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Coastwise Transition Plan
Status - Ongoing
RPA are supporting Royal HaskoningDHV in a study commissioned by North Norfolk District Council to review and appraise evidence and develop blueprints to inform the development of NNDC’s envisaged Coastal Change Transition Plan
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Kelp monitoring survey and workshop
Status - Ongoing
RPA is supporting the Environment Agency (EA) with the collation of data on kelp monitoring and research as part of the Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) programme.
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Regional Fisheries Group Evaluation
Status - Ongoing
The Regional Fisheries Groups Evaluation will design a framework and a set of associated indicators against which a process evaluation can be carried out to examine the engagement techniques used by the Regional Fisheries Group team and examining if the regional bespoke arrangements used are appropriate and what key lessons/best practices can be extrapolated
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Project Groundwater Placemaking Planning Solutions Workstream Lead
Status - Ongoing
Project Groundwater is one of the 25 projects across England which make up the Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme (FCRIP), with the aim of increasing awareness of groundwater flooding- often nicknamed ‘the forgotten type of flooding’, across Buckinghamshire and beyond.
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Natural England risk register
Status - Ongoing
RPA’s Environment and Society team is working with Natural England and Natural Capital Solutions to produce the risk register annex for a report on the state of natural capital, compiling risks to the relationships between natural capital assets (e.g. woodlands) and the ecosystem services they provide.
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Industrial Decarbonisation Cluster Plan: Economic Impact Analysis
Status - Completed
RPA worked with lead consultant Cambridge Econometrics to carry out an economic impact analysis for the Tees Valley Combined Authority (TVCA).
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Reports
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Final report: North Norfolk Coastal Change Pathfinder Programme: Wolferton Creek to South Hunstanton
Kings Lynn BC
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Further evaluation of partnership funding
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A survey of freshwater angling in England and associated economic activity and value – Phase 2
Environment Agency
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A survey of freshwater angling in England and associated economic activity and value – Phase 1
Environment Agency
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Guidance for Biodiversity Duty Reporting
Scottish Government
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Integrated planning and natural capital economic appraisal methodology report
Environment Agency
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News
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RPA has gained ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems Certification
RPA Ltd is Now ISO 9001:2015 Certified
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RPA is now 100% employee owned
We are very pleased to announce - We are now 100% employee owned!!
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Evaluation of the Covid-19 Rapid Response Grant Programme
Key points considered within the study included the grant’s impact on retention of jobs, creation of new employment, increased profits, links with local communities, and increased awareness of locally caught seafood. The Fishmongers’ Company has published the report highlights in their article ‘Making a difference when the world changed – how our Covid-19 Rapid Response Grants landed in the seafood community’ with links to the final report and executive summary developed by RPA.
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