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Natural England has commissioned a review and evaluation of tools for valuing green infrastructure (or specific green infrastructure features such as street trees, hedges, ponds, green walls/roofs, canal corridors, etc.). This work is part of the Green Infrastructure Partnership. eftec, the consultancy that is leading the work, would like the help of Ecosystems Knowledge Network Members as follows:

• Suggest tools or methods for consideration in the study. These could be ready-made spreadsheet calculators or applications that take features of Green Infrastructure and outputs values, or a toolkit which leads you through your own calculations. (Examples of tools already identified are i-Tree and the calculator from Green Infrastructure North West.)

• Provide details of experiences with using any of these tools.

Please send responses to angela@eftec.co.uk by Monday 19thNovember.