Resource management

Pench tiger reserve in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is part of a World Bank project to conserve biodiversity – we assessed its environ-mental and socio-economic impacts on local people and vice versaMott MacDonald works in some of the most complex environmental systems on the planet, studying their diversity, sensitivity and vulnerability to the pressures of development.

Our senior environmental experts are often called in by concerned organisations to assist in long term conservation – our portfolio ranges from rainforests threatened by palm oil development in Indonesia or quarrying in Belize to Pakistan’s Nara wildlife reserve encroached on by oil development, India’s Pench tiger reserve and the UK’s Stonehenge World Heritage Site.

The aquatic environment is particularly sensitive to harm caused by development outstripping regulatory control. Through our work for water companies in the UK, we are now leaders in relating changes in water quality and abstraction to actual impacts on wetlands and surface water ecology in accordance with the EU Water Framework, Birds and Habitats Directives.

Our preferred choice is to conserve resources by design. We seek to ‘design out’ the consumption of energy and resources in low-energy buildings and to minimise the production of waste in construction. We carry out energy audits of property and advise on carbon financing. Our work on the ecos centre in Northern Ireland is a prime example of what can be achieved in minimising resource consumption by good design.

With global climate change now appearing unavoidable, bringing significant impacts on resources, specialists at Mott MacDonald have been providing strategic advice to water companies on the likelihood of reductions in water resources, and to local authorities and environmental regulators on the management and mitigation of increased flooding risks and their consequences.

Services

Catchment management and river basin planning
Carbon financing
Climate change impacts
Coastal zone management
Conservation
Energy management
Environmental surveys and monitoring
Flood risk assessment
Natural resource management
Water resources management
Conservation
Corporate sustainability
Renewable energy
Social impact assessment
Sustainability assessment