The Climate Resilience Podcast
Sep 15, 2026 · 38 min · 12 segments
Climate change is putting growing pressure on the landscapes, ecosystems and communities we value most. In this episode of the Climate Resilience Podcast, host Phil Emonson is joined by Ben Eardley…
And what you've just touched on there actually in terms of the social, the environmental and the financial impacts that you're seeing directly with tenant farmers plays right in the conversations that we have on this podcast all the time about the very interconnected nature of resilience and building resilient landscapes simply because of the very dependent and multi- and cross-sectoral dependencies that exist.
This summer, as you have alluded to, we have seen record-breaking temperatures, successive heat waves, from late may i think and we're now in late august um and and and the temperature continues to be high um that has had an impact on the landscape as you have alluded to habitats wildlife um probably also water resources and very acutely um what has that revealed to you working in North Somerset at Hanako, which we'll talk about, by the way, in terms of those vulnerabilities to our landscape.
We've got a lot of the same thing in regard to habitat and land management at the moment.
You haven't got a mosaic of habitats, which I think very simply is probably what you want if you want to develop more resilience in the landscape.
And what this long dry period has really revealed to me at Hunnicutt and elsewhere is that We don't have that in the landscape at the moment.
We haven't got that, you know, looking at the Lawton principle, we haven't got bigger, better, more and more joined up.
You know, we've got fragments of disconnected habitat, if you're thinking about natural habitats, but even then in the farmed landscape, I think historically it's very much been geared around still is, you know, food production and efficiency and going down a certain route.
And I think with the more extreme weather that we're seeing, this flick-flacking of very hot, very dry through to very wet, there's that extreme flip-flacking in the weather, and that's going to be amplified in the coming decades.
And I don't think we're preparing for that with a landscape that's adapted and is able to cope.
And again, we'll come back to that as we move through this conversation, but really interesting in these sort of opening exchanges and discussions just to get your thoughts on that.
And what you've just touched on there actually in terms of the social, the environmental and the financial impacts that you're seeing directly with tenant farmers plays right in the conversations that we have on this podcast all the time about the very interconnected nature of resilience and building resilient landscapes simply because of the very dependent and multi- and cross-sectoral dependencies that exist.
This summer, as you have alluded to, we have seen record-breaking temperatures, successive heat waves, from late may i think and we're now in late august um and and and the temperature continues to be high um that has had an impact on the landscape as you have alluded to habitats wildlife um probably also water resources and very acutely um what has that revealed to you working in North Somerset at Hanako, which we'll talk about, by the way, in terms of those vulnerabilities to our landscape.
We've got a lot of the same thing in regard to habitat and land management at the moment.
You haven't got a mosaic of habitats, which I think very simply is probably what you want if you want to develop more resilience in the landscape.
And what this long dry period has really revealed to me at Hunnicutt and elsewhere is that We don't have that in the landscape at the moment.
We haven't got that, you know, looking at the Lawton principle, we haven't got bigger, better, more and more joined up.
You know, we've got fragments of disconnected habitat, if you're thinking about natural habitats, but even then in the farmed landscape, I think historically it's very much been geared around still is, you know, food production and efficiency and going down a certain route.
And I think with the more extreme weather that we're seeing, this flick-flacking of very hot, very dry through to very wet, there's that extreme flip-flacking in the weather, and that's going to be amplified in the coming decades.
And I don't think we're preparing for that with a landscape that's adapted and is able to cope.
And again, we'll come back to that as we move through this conversation, but really interesting in these sort of opening exchanges and discussions just to get your thoughts on that.
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