SD0509 REA Evaluating the impact of environmental policies on complex systems

Tender description

A Rapid Evidence Assessment (REA) is required to review literature relevant to the challenge of how to evaluate the effect of complex policies on complex systems, within environmental policy areas. Relevant literature will be identified, synthesised and analysed to consider where there are transferrable lessons. Work will ideally be in the environmental policy field, or in policy areas where lessons can easily be drawn across to the environmental policy field. Throughout the specification “environment” should be taken to mean the range of policies covered by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. This REA will contribute to: i) ensuring the department has awareness of all relevant guidance to this challenge; and ii) providing a steer to work to develop further methodologies to evaluate complex systems - for example, a potential Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) lead centre being scoped.