The Welsh Information for Nature Bases Solution or WINS Project (previously known as SCCAN), showed a range of national opportunities to manage natural resources more sustainably in the SoNaRR report. This current phase has looked at a more local level to provide input to the Area Statement process. The result is a comprehensive map atlas of opportunity, demand and constraint maps, with accompanying spatial data, to facilitate broad, cross-sectorial discussions on sustainable management of natural resources (SMNR).
SCCAN aims to promote more holistic management of natural resources through spatial mapping of opportunity areas for land management interventions. The mapping focusses on priorities of the Welsh Government Natural Resources Policy (2017) arising from the Environment (Wales) Act (2016), which puts an emphasis on taking a place-based approach and delivering nature-based solutions.
The five policy themes considered by the project: Ecological Resilience and Connectivity; Marine and Freshwater Water Quality; Natural Flood Management; Woodland Planting (for various objectives); Urban and Peri-Urban Green Infrastructure.
