{"id":197600,"date":"2021-05-14T10:52:29","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T09:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.burohappold.com\/specialisms\/environmental-planning-consulting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:01:42","slug":"regional-and-strategic-environmental-planning","status":"publish","type":"specialism","link":"https:\/\/www.burohappold.com\/de\/specialisms\/nature-and-biodiversity-consultants\/regional-and-strategic-environmental-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Regional and strategic environmental planning\u200b"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Regional and strategic environmental planning<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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At 海角视频, we take a holistic approach to understand our environment across multiple scales. This allows our environmental planning and biodiversity management\u200b consultants to help clients achieve their vision, whilst also securing the long-term protection of sensitive areas.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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When considered on a landscape\u202fscale, while development has the\u202fpotential to have adverse effects on\u202fbiodiversity that need to be controlled and managed; sensitively done, and combined with Biodiversity Net Gain actions, it also offers\u202fopportunities to create\u202fbiodiversity benefits. This can be achieved through a combination of protecting important biodiversity\u202fareas, restoring native habitats and\u202fstrengthening connectivity between\u202fhabitats to increase ecological\u202ffunctionality.\u202f\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key part of the work of the\u202fnature and biodiversity team\u202finvolves strategic regional\u202fand landscape scale assessment\u202fand planning.\u202f\u200bWe undertake spatial assessments and collaborate closely with global experts and specialist organisations to understand ecosystem functionality over large areas. This forms the evidence base on which regional environmental zoning plans are produced, which help our clients make informed decisions regarding large-scale development that complies with international environmental best practice<\/a>.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our environmental planning and biodiversity management\u200b experience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Our consultants have experience in developing regional marine, coastal and terrestrial zoning plans in line with IUCN and UNESCO best practice guidelines. These zoning plans consider sensitive biodiversity features and apply an integrated, sustainable development approach to guide development away from sensitive areas and protect them, whilst also enabling zones to be identified where\u202fcertain types of development and\u202factivities should be placed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We take an ecosystem-based approach, looking at the interactions between habitats and species, both spatially and over time (to include seasonality and the important habitats that species rely on throughout their lifecycles). This incorporates consideration of habitat corridors, migratory species routes and existing impacts on biodiversity. We also investigate Biodiversity Net Gain objectives by looking at additional habitat restoration, rehabilitation and management opportunities. In this way our strategic assessments provide holistic plans that outline how large areas (often entire regions) can be planned to enable sustainable development, and to proactively support and restore biodiversity in the long-term.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Talk to us<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Sam Holliday<\/h4>Head of Nature and Biodiversity<\/span><\/a><\/article>
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Pernille Olsen<\/h4>Associate Director<\/span><\/a><\/article>
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Callum Foster<\/h4>Senior Environmental Consultant<\/span><\/a><\/article><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n
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Project highlights<\/h3>\n\n\n
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AlUla Framework Plan Endorsed in G20 Leaders\u2019 Declaration<\/h4><\/a><\/article><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n
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