Our award-winning Ecosystem Services Identification, Valuation and Integration (ESIVI) tool enables users to quickly identify the impact of a proposed scheme (or scheme options) on natural capital, ecosystem services and their beneficiaries. It supports more informed decision making by considering the links between the environment and human wellbeing and revealing the nature and significance of potential trade-offs in pursuing one option over another.
This in turn allows users to identify where mitigation may be necessary and highlights where there may be opportunities to enhance natural capital and ecosystem service delivery.
The tool delivers increased value through: enhancing opportunities for the implementation of natural solutions; increasing awareness and education of environmental and ecosystem service considerations within infrastructure; informing challenges to ‘business-as-usual’ approaches, capitalising on opportunities to not only protect but also enhance ecosystems; improving stakeholder engagement and increasing potential for partnership funding.