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Rivers as Natural Capital Assets: A Quick Scoping Review to Assess the Evidence Linking River Asset Condition to Changes in the Flow of Ecosystem Services

Rivers as Natural Capital Assets: A Quick Scoping Review to Assess the Evidence Linking River Asset Condition to Changes in the Flow of Ecosystem Services

Summary

This paper examines the Quick Scoping Review (QSR) methodology and findings from the Environment Agency's Natural Capital Condition Indicator Mapping Evidence Review. It reviews research into river asset condition and ecosystem service delivery to explore the current state of knowledge, outlines the existing evidence base and identifies where there are evidence gaps. This is an emerging area of science, and outputs will be of interest to natural capital practitioners, academics, and policymakers. The evidence and evidence gaps identified could inform further research, evidence development or monitoring.

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Attribution-Non Commercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

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The study conducted a Quick Scoping Review (QSR) of the research into river asset condition and ecosystem service delivery to explore the current state of knowledge. The review team developed a PICO (Population, Intervention, Control, Outcome) model to transpose the concepts of the research enquiry into a search strategy for the evidence base and used a Delphi screening exercise to prioritise a subset of literature for the narrative findings. VOSviewer was used to analyse the high-level linguistic themes from the full list of references.

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http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

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Latitude from: 49.8647926358421 to 55.8111151497005
Longitude from: -6.41866722959945 to 1.76370560966352

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English

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224ff3c1-a4ac-44b3-b17a-90eb92c2dc58

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Environment Agency

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Defra Data Services Forum

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14 March 2025

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18 March 2025

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