Aims
& Objectives
The overall aim of the project is
to engage and empower local communities to manage land
use in a sustainable way to protect and enhance Cornwall's
rivers.
The project has been designed to deliver a series of carefully
targeted outputs that will bring significant improvements
to both the environment and to the economic viability
of local rural communities. WRT will achieve this through
the delivery of a unique approach (developed as part of
its Tamar 2000 project) combining environmental improvements
with economic gains.
Specific objectives of the project are outlined below:
Objective 1: To
extend a well proven programme of guidance and technical
support on economic and environmentally sound land use
practices
The achievement of this objective will be met by:
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Applying the practical
and economic lessons from previous projects and further
developing a cost-effective, streamlined method of transferring
them
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Implementing measures
to address the causes of riverine decline as well as
the symptoms
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Providing assistance
toward improvements found to be important in river maintenance
and improvement.
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Extending and applying
operational guidelines for practical wetland restoration
and management
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Development of
guidelines for more strategic and targeted investment
at the catchment scale
Objective 2: To raise public awareness of the importance
of water resources and related habitat issues and to
engage the wider community in the conservation and enjoyment
of our river heritage
The achievement of this objective will be met by:
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Developing partnerships
and links between other organisations to spread the
message
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To give training
and advice directly to stakeholders and target groups
in the community
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To undertake a
public awareness programme
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To provide relevant
and understandable information for the widest possible
audience
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To involve local
communities in addressing local water resource issues
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To provide innovative
recreational river visits / walks with an educational
theme
To develop demonstration sites of best management practice
Objective 3: To
facilitate the transfer of experience, information and
good land use practices to those who own and manage the
resource
The achievement of this objective will be met by:
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Promoting widely
the methodology for encouraging holistic land and water
resource management which was developed under the WRT's
Tamar 2000 programme
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Producing a training
system to provide the opportunity to raise the skills
base of landowners, encourage technology transfer and
provide help to those giving advice
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Keeping the data
and information base and the overall methodology up
to date to ensure validity and delivery of best restoration
and management practices
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Providing demonstration
sites
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