The Reap Software Portfolio
Existing Reap Users
Introducing Reap Tourism
REAP Tourism is a software tool designed to calculate the environmental footprint of visitors to any area in the UK. The basic foundation of the tool is a calculator which uses day visitor and staying visitor data combined with data on visitor expenditure, accommodation choices and recreational behavior for any user-defined area.
At a more advanced level REAP Tourism also provides users with the means to build scenarios, create footprint profiles for different visitor types and estimate the footprint of specific events.
This means that a user can:
- Measure the environmental impact of visitor behaviour in a consistent fashion at all spatial levels
- Identify areas of visitor behaviour with a high environmental impact
- Demonstrate the impact of attracting different types of visitor to your area
- Explore the impact of promoting particular visitor behaviours
- Understand the impact of tourism in the context of lifestyles as a whole
REAP Tourism was designed through a collaboration between South West Tourism and the Stockholm Environment Institute. Version 1 of the software tool comes with 2006 data sets constructed for all districts, counties and DMOs within the South West of England. This copy of REAP Tourism is available for free to all agencies and organisations working within the South West of England.
Because REAP Tourism is essentially a calculator, as a user you can define both the area that you want to look at and the time period that you are interested in. You can collect new data that fits your purposes or adjust and update the existing data set.
Should you have any further questions about the software use and distribution please contact Anne Owen
Should you wish to find out about training opportunities or to discuss the use of REAP Tourism in the South West of England please contact Emma Whittlesea
For more information, download REAP Tourism Working Paper
REAP Petite has been updated and improved.
To download a free copy click here
If you are a license holder, contact SEI to get your new version.
SEI have just released a policy brief on Scotland's Footprint.
Our study has shown that Scotland's carbon footprint has grown by 11 per cent since 1992.
The figure includes greenhouse gases released overseas during the production of goods later consumed in Scotland and so is the most accurate gauge of the country's emissions to date.
While emissions generated in Scotland fell by 13 percent between 1995 and 2004, when trade is taken account, greenhouse gases rose by 11 per cent over the same period.
The full policy brief can be found on SEI's website.
An article has also be published in the Sunday Herald and can be found here.
The NHS England successfully launched their Carbon Reduction Strategy ‘Saving Carbon, Improving Health' on 27th January 2009. SEI contributed to the evidence base for the strategy, carrying out a consumption-based carbon footprint of the NHS England, who represents 25% of England's public sector emissions. The first part of the project examined historical emissions and identified the drivers behind a rising carbon footprint. This forms the first report published in 2008. The second phase of the project projects future emissions and models a range of policy options and their carbon reduction potential.
Further information can be found at the NHS Sustainable Development Unit website
Our phase 1 report for the NHS England carbon analysis project is available online.
This report provides a 2004 baseline for the NHS, a time series and a supply chain analysis of the pharmaceutical and medical equipment sectors (the highest impact procurement sectors of the NHS England).
We are in the process of developing a carbon scenario tool to contribute to the NHS England Carbon Strategy and target setting. The deadline for this is January and another report will be issued. We are also looking into repeating the study for the NHS Scotland, Wales and NI.