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We are responsible for improving and protecting the environment. We aim to grow a green economy and sustain thriving rural communities. We also support our world-leading food, farming and fishing industries. Defra is a ministerial department, supported by 34 agencies...
Indicators monitoring agricultural change in England.
The department was created in 1997 to replace the Department of the Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and Department for Transport. It was dissolved in 2001.
Background, evidence and analysis on challenges affecting the water environment.
This series brings together all documents relating to Environment key facts publication
Impact of transport on energy consumption and the environment, including electric vehicle charging, greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution.
This paper focuses on the implications of treating the natural environment as an internal element, of the concepts of wellbeing and poverty
This Topic Guide sets out the existing knowledge around the links between education, climate and environment
The effect of the environment on the development of scanning capabilities in LICs is unclear
Our first monitoring report on the government’s 25 Year Environment Plan.
A guide for inspectors about physical intervention and restrictions of liberty.
Details of fees and charges including information on how to pay.
Results from surveys of land under environmental management.
Information on our relationship with and impact on the environment around us.
Explains requirements of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017.
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