Environmental monitoring review group feedback

The Drought Monitoring workshop of October 1996, held at the Jarvis Leyland Hotel in Preston, England, established 4 priority issues for dealing with the question: How do we monitor the environment to pick up unexpected change ?1. Review existing data, and review related study areas throughout the country. 2. Modelling and analysis of data3. Monitoring / new data / sentinel species' 4. Public relations / Promotion.A group was set up to review issue 1 and feedback to the main group. This report establishes this feedback to the group and refers to existing data / monitoring, other Regional and national work, external Organisations and Recommendations.Appendix 1, is a summary of work completed at the workshop.