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those details. Where specific details are required about statutory designated
sites, these can be obtained from the websites of the national nature conser-
vation agencies or the JNCC.
The ERA framework was launched in Autumn 2008.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank members of the ERA project board, including representa-
tives from the Environment Agency, Natural England, Countryside Council
for Wales, Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Environmental Protection
Agency, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Welsh Assembly
Government, Local Authorities and industrial partners. In addition, the
authors thank the numerous consultants that contributed to the various Envir-
onment Agency science reports that underpin the ERA framework. Finally, the
authors thank the British Ecological Society for the invitation to present this
work at the Special Symposium on Industrial Pollution.
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