Presentation at RICS on 15 November 2012 launching the RICS Thinkpiece on Challenges to International Professional Practice: from Market Value to Natural Value. This paper reviews the emerging markets and policy emphasis on nature's services and their valuation (ecosystem services) and highlights the implications for estate management, property development and professional valuation practice. The opportunities and implications are wide ranging, and herald a new paradigm in land management.
5. Wimbleball Resr &
Context: Exmoor example R Haddeo
R Exe
Exmoor
R Barle
Replenishment
Exebridge Pumping
Pumping Approx 5 miles,
Station lifting water from
120 to 240 m
CO 2 AOD
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6. Top 10 Business Opportunities
1= Biodiversity Offsetting (BDO) and
Conservation Banking
• Estimated size of market £50 – 300 million
pa from housing, plus other sectors
• Brokerage, certification and registration
• Additional costs to builders/developers
deducted from land value
1= Peatland Carbon Code and Carbon Credits
• Peat restoration for carbon storage
• Management schemes and incentives
• Certification and brokerage
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7. 2. Woodfuel and Woodburning Stoves
3. UK ecosystem knowledge economy
4. Layered PES
– Different Environmental Services
to different buyers
– Eg
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8. 6. Carbon sequestration
7. Sustainability certification
– Opportunities for
intermediaries
8. Sustainable tourism
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9. 9= Global centre of excellence in
ESS certification
9= Water re-use technology
11 Reducing insurance risk
through green infrastructure
12 Environmental bonds
http://www.valuing-nature.net/opportunities-uk-business-
protect-and-value-natures-services-report-published-
today [accessed 19 July 2012]
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27. Key Questions for RICS
• Is this anything to do with us?
• Our Public Interest Function
in this area?
• Our Member Services
Function in this area?
• Our Global Positioning?
• What, if anything, needs to be
done?
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28. Thinkpiece
• Royal Charter
– Promote the usefulness
of the profession to public
advantage
• New opportunities in land
management
• New ways of working in
development
• New points to reflect in
conventional valuations
• New types of valuation
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29. And we should offer:
• Our expertise
• In Land Tenure and its
relationship to land
management and
development
• Our experience of valuation in
challenging commercial
markets
• Our expertise in brokerage
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MBA MRICS FAAV
31. Contact Details
Translating new knowledge for rural professional practice
cdcowap@gmail.com
07947 706505
Twitter: @charlescowap
Blog: http://charlescowap.wordpress.com/
Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/cdcowap
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