Research & Impact
LEEP blends core skills in economics combined with expertise in natural, social, physical and data sciences. Collectively we deliver policy-focused research, outputs and tools that drive real world change, helping to solve local and global environmental challenges.
Find out more on how LEEP is 'Evolving environmental economics for everyone'.
LEEP's work focuses on:
- Woodland planting and carbon sequestration
- Renewable energy
- Carbon capture and storage
- Food demand and security
- Biodiversity net gain, connectivity, rewilding, sparing and sharing
- Intergenerational fairness
- Pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Twins for woodland planting for Net Zero (more here)
- Outdoor Recreation Valuation (ORVal)
- Woodland planting tool for NetZeroPlus
- Natural Environment Valuation Online (NEVO)
- South West Partnership for Environment and Economic Prosperity (SWEEP) suite of tools
- Recreation and health
- Water and air pollution
- Natural hazards and risks
- Regime shifts and tipping points
- Carbon sequestration
- Biodiversity
- Noise and disamenity
- Agri-environment scheme design
- Food systems
- Biodiversity Net Gain
- Carbon sequestration
- Water quality
LEEP collaborates with research groups and partners worldwide and undertakes studies around the globe. Much of its work has been in the UK, where it is based, but it has also carried out research in the EU, Australia, the US, South East Asia and East Africa. Its methods have global relevance and can be applied to land use and natural capital problems and policy decisions anywhere in the world.
