LTLS-FE Stakeholders

Current stakeholders

Our current stakeholders who are kindly providing their expertise and advice to the project include:

Coal Authority
Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs of Northern Ireland (DAERA)
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
Environment Agency (EA)
Freshwater Biological Association (FBA)
UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR)
National Trust
Natural England
Natural Resources Wales (NRW)
Scottish Government
Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
The River Fly Partnership

If you would like to get involved with LTLS-FE, please use the link:

River Thames at Shillingford Bridge, taken by Ellie Pinches

Our stakeholders are essential to LTLS-FE, through the entire life cycle.

Involvement so far includes:

Chemical prioritisation

The expertise of our stakeholders were pivotal for the chemical prioritisation in WP1.

Their knowledge allowed us to condense and focus a long list of potential pollutants identified from literature, highlighting those that were important to policy at present and in the near future, and also highlighted some that had not been picked up.

Scenario Co-development

Our stakeholders have been and continue to be essential in the co-development of the different scenarios, or future 'pathways', of societal and environmental change that will be used to drive the model to produce projections of future river quality and health.

The scenarios will be heavily based around the UK-SSP scenarios (see right) and the CHESS-SCAPE UK climate projections. Stakeholder engagement will help us identify trends in 'proxies'. These proxies are immediate drivers of the trends in pollutant emissions to the freshwater environment, for example an increase in population will result in an increase in pharmaceuticals in waste water.

LTLS-FE Scenario Co-development Workshop

The co-development process was initiated by a successful series of online workshops. The workshops, held on Monday 25th and Wednesday 27th September 2023, involved the discussion of the first 4 proxies, identifying the major drivers and then considering the temporal trend in these drivers under the 5 different UK SSPs and their potential temporal trends were hypothersised.

We are currently in the process of finishing the co-development process, asking for stakeholder participation to identify drivers of 10 more proxies.

Current stakeholder engagement

Stakeholders will again be consulted to identify key drivers of more proxies. Rather than further workshops, consultation will take the form of online surveys. Please get in contact if you would like to get involved.

Future involvement

WP3, which aims to communicate and disseminate the results, will be guided by the advice from our stakeholders. We will explore how best to present our projections and findings, such as approaches to biodiversity impacts and geographical and temporal subdivisions of model projections. In particular we will work with our stakeholders to design an online tool to disseminate the scenario results.