This study for the Environment Agency trials ways to enhance services provided by natural capital assets and to optimise the catchment planning process through the use of economic tools. This will then support Defra’s 25 year plan for the environment.

RPA (with Cambridge Econometrics) has been commissioned by the Environment Agency to undertake a study looking at the potential impacts different charge scenarios may have on affected sectors. The results of this study will feed into (and draw from) the Strategic Review of Charges (SROC).

Angling is one of the most popular participant sports in England and, as such, has the potential to provide economic inputs to local economies. It also provides opportunities to connect people to the environment, and improve health and well-being in urban as well as rural areas. The Environment Agency has commissioned RPA in association with Accent, PJM Economics and fisheries expert Guy Mawle to undertake a study to value freshwater angling in England.

The purpose of this project is to establish the range of impacts and calculate the financial and economic damages which resulted from the 2013/14 winter floods.

RPA is one of the Framework Contractors providing advice to the Environment Agency for England and Wales on Economics.

RPA provided workshops to improve the economic appraisal capability of the Environment Agency's key National Capital Programme Management Service staff in flood risk management economics.