Services & techniques

Broadly speaking, the work we do can be broken down into four service streams, set out below. In order to provide these services, we utilise a wide range of tools, listed further down the page. While there is inevitably some overlap - facilitating stakeholder meetings is both a stand-alone service and a tool, for instance - this page should help to demonstrate our key competencies.  

What we do...

...and how we do it

Gardening - istockphoto

Brook Lyndhurst Blog

  • Rules of the game

    I experienced an intriguing juxtaposition of meetings last Wednesday that revealed much about the challenges facing us if we are truly to embed sustainability within the decision-making mindsets of the powerful. The first meeting comprised a lunchtime seminar organised by Consumer Focus. Drawing on a recently published paper, the seminar had been convened to discuss a [...] 

  • The A-B-C of CBA

    Cost-benefit analysis [CBA] techniques currently have a central place in policy evaluation in the UK. CBA assesses projects and policies by assigning monetary values to the costs and benefits expected from them. These values are then summed, allowing policy makers to make judgements about whether those initiatives with higher net benefits should be prioritised over those with [...] 

  • The Daily Mail and the value of evaluation

    We generally don’t bother commenting on misleading reporting of environmental issues. Journalists (and I speak as someone who used to be one) have been putting a sensationalist spin on stories (and non-stories) since newspapers began. Moreover, anecdotal evidence from discussion groups we’ve run suggests that much of the sceptical coverage on environmental issues has very [...]