Current projects - 2009/10

Training on issues related to anti-dumping laws of the EU and USA. Designed and delivered short training course for Vietnamese Government on the nature and implications of anti-dumping laws and other constraints on international trade in seafood products. The training included appropriate compliance and response strategies.

A framework for measuring sustainable deer management. Analysis of the structure and relationships of deer management systems in Scotland, the social, economic and environmental effects of deer management (including public goods and negative externalities) and the development of a framework for assessing and promoting more sustainable deer management in Scotland. For the Deer Commission for Scotland

Natural heritage trends: piloting a natural capital asset index. The overall aim of this work is to establish Scotland's current position with regard to recent trends in natural capital assets, and more specifically to evaluate and develop an index of Scotland's natural capital assts to be piloted as an additional indicator, and to allow comparison with annual changes in GDP. For Scottish Natural Heritage