Valuing our Environment

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Valuing our Environment

• Dr Simon Bilsborough
• Sustainable Development Division
• Welsh Assembly Government

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Valuing our Environment

• Protecting and enhancing the environment
• Intensive users of environmental resources
• Dependent on the quality of the environment

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Valuing our Environment

• Terrestrial environment
• 6bn GDP (9 Welsh GDP)
• 169,000 jobs (1 in 6 Welsh jobs)
• 1.8bn in wages)

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Valuing our Environment

• Marine activities which involve working in or
  on the sea
• Coastal activities that take place on land
  which depend on proximity to the sea

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Valuing our Environment

• Marine oil gas leisure recreation defence
  shipping ports marinas fisheries aggregates
  safety salvage education research.

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Valuing our Environment

• Coastal leisure tourism maritime heritage
  coastal defence marine conservation water
  quality dredging intensive users (metalwork
  oil refining energy fish processing).

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Valuing our Environment

• Employment
• Direct 52,400 jobs
• Indirect induced 40,300 jobs
• Total 92,600 jobs

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Valuing our Environment

• Output
• Direct 4.78bn
• Indirect 2.0bn
• Total 6.78bn

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Valuing our Environment

• GDP
• Direct 1.53bn
• Indirect 0.93bn
• Total 2.46bn

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Valuing our Environment

• Employment regional breakdown
• North Wales 29 (direct jobs)
• West Wales 36
• South East Wales 35

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Valuing our Environment

• Tourism 21,700 jobs (41)
• Metal manufacturing 6,300 (12)
• Construction 6,500 (12)

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Valuing our Environment

• Important for whole of economy
• Way forward
• ICZM Spatial planning
• Development of local skills training
• Supply chain management