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The Landscape Institute is calling for a pragmatic and integrated skills policy to grow the economy and tackle emergencies in climate, nature, health and housing, writes Ian Phillips
faces multiple, interrelated crises – from climate and nature emergencies to public health, wellbeing and housing.
As part of an integrated policy platform that treats these challenges as connected, the next government must focus on addressing the green skills shortage. The skills of landscape professionals are essential for the planning, design and management of a greener, more sustainable built environment – but policy to enable these skills to make a difference on the climate and biodiversity emergencies, and contribute to the economy, is lacking. This is why driving education and green skills are a central tenet of the Landscape Institute’s (LI) recommendations to the next UK government, alongside scaling up climate resilient, low carbon development, promoting a combined approach to environmental policy, and championing the power of nature for health and wellbeing.
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