Skell Valley Enterprising Landscape Evaluation Report

The Skell Enterprising Landscape project aimed to explore how businesses in Ripon and along the
Skell Valley could come together to invest in landscape outcomes in which they have a common
interest such as flood management and silt reduction.

This would be trialled using an adapted
version of the Landscape Enterprise Network model (LENs). The LENs model is a system for
organising the buying and selling of ecosystem functions.

In the context of the Skell Valley, it
connects the tourism businesses along the valley and in Ripon with the farmers and landowners
upstream to improve the resilience of the landscape and local economy.