Bulletin of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management Issue 81 | September 2013 Biodiversity Offsetting In this issue Offsetting and the Repeatability of David Stubbs Awarded Planning System Vegetation Mapping the Institute Medal Welcome Information Biodiversity Needs Powerful Narratives, In Practice No. 81, September 2013 Good Stories and the Right Words ISSN 1754-4882 The recent State of Nature report by 25 conservation and research organisations demonstrates Editor the ongoing losses of biodiversity in the UK. The EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 has a target Mr Jason Reeves (
[email protected]) of halting the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystem services by 2020. Three key things are needed to stop the loss of biodiversity and the degradation of ecosystems. Editorial Board 1. A Deliverable Vision and Mechanisms to Deliver the Vision Mr Jonathan Barnes, Mr Matthew Chatfi eld, The overall vision and strategy is John Lawton’s Making Space for Nature report. This recognises Dr Andrew Cherrill, Mr Dominic Coath, the importance of ecosystem services and sets out the future as needing to be coherent and Ms Sally Hayns, Dr William Latimer, made up of resilient ecological networks and More, Bigger, Better and Joined-up sites. Green Mrs Allison Potts, Mr Paul Rooney, and blue infrastructure is a fundamental part of these ecological networks that intersperse and Mr Paul Scott, Miss Katrena Stanhope, join up villages, towns and cities. Miss Emma Toovey, Mr Darren Towers The Landscape Institute (LI) has recently revised its Green Infrastructure position statement. Green and blue infrastructure was the subject of the extremely successful joint CIEEM-LI Opinions expressed by contributors conference in Birmingham in early July.