I got involved with the first phase of Operation Earth, an engagement programme run by the Association for Science & Discovery Centres and NERC as part of the Soil Security Programme .
Through community collaboration, Changing Minds, Changing Coasts has used 300 images and 5 hours of oral history to map coastal change on Mersea Island, Essex to successfully show the impact of both human and natural changes on the fragile saltmarsh environment.
In the UK, as across the world, there is growing interest in the use of schemes which pay landowners to change their behaviour to benefit the wider world.
