Feedback from a limited number of self-selected respondents to the draft framework, suggests that there needs to be more focus and emphasis on the economics of landscape and community engagement (Hirst, 2020), which would be very apt for NFM. The respondents were also invited to self-assess their skills, but there is insufficient detail in the reporting to draw meaningful conclusions.
Figure 7: Proposed competency framework (Landscape Institute, 2020)
What about the LI’s NFM activity as a professional body? What lobbying activity has there been on the part of the LI regarding flood management or NFM? In the 2016, the then president of the LI, Sue Illman, wrote in the LI’s magazine, ‘Landscape’, that she had been
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