• Minimise the demand for primary aggregates.
• Promote environmentally friendly extraction and transport.
• Reduce the effect of local aggregate extraction.

New in year progress reports - December 2007

18 December 2007

New in year progress reports December 2007, available from the projects section:

• MEPF04/00 Assessment of The Rehabilitation of The Seabed Following Marine Aggregate Dredging. Part II
• MEPF04/01 Eastern English Channel seabed habitat mapping
• MEPF04/02a Predictive Framework for Assessment of Recoverability of Marine Benthic Communities Following Cessation of Aggregate Dredging
• MEPF04/02b The significance of benthic communities for higher levels in the marine food-web at aggregate dredge sites using the ecosystem approach
• MEPF04/03 Development of a Risk Assessment Framework - Marine Aggregate Extraction Risk Assessment (MARA) Framework
• MEPF07/04 Scale and impact of fishing activities in the Eastern English Channel: an initial assessment based on existing geophysical survey data
• MEPF07/06 Feasibility study for an assessment of the relative impacts from exploitation of marine and land sand and gravel reserves
• MEPFMAL0027 Dissemination & raised awareness of the recoverability of Sabellaria spinulosa aggregations following aggregate extraction