Sustainability

Our commitment to sustainability

Sustainability is embedded into everything we do at UCR.

Our sustainability agenda is designed to enhance the sustainability of Reaseheath and embed goals and targets into all aspects of our education, training, operations, infrastructure and interactions with stakeholders.

Our Sustainability Strategy has the following themes: • Energy and water • Resource and waste management • Biodiversity and habitat management • Land and estate management • Sustainability within the curriculum

We work in partnership with the Student Association to reach our goals and UCR students are actively involved in projects to support our sustainability objectives.

Our curriculum reflects our commitment to sustainability supporting our students to progress to careers that meet the challenges for a sustainable future.

Sustainability is at the heart of our commercial farm production and the wider Reaseheath estate, through the adoption of new technologies to support sustainable farming practices and landscape recovery programmes.

Sustainability in action

• Level 6 BSc (Hons) Landscape

Architecture students are developing the campus landscape strategy plan to provide an attractive and functional space for people and nature, identifying landscape character areas, habitat creation and management principles and landscape maintenance objectives. • Level 6 BSc (Hons) Wildlife and

Conservation students are developing a sustainability action plan to support the delivery of sustainable environmental management of habitats and resources. •The Student Association Conservation

Society are leading habitat creation and restoration projects around the campus to secure additional and improved quality biodiversity.