Countryside Survey 2000 (CS 2000)

http://www.cs2000.org.uk/

CS 2000 is a major audit of the British countryside. It has involved both detailed field observations and satellite imagery which has provided a complete land cover census for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Separate data is available for Scotland.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Digest of Environmental Statistics

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics

Contains a wide variety of environment statistics, mainly for UK, GB or England and Wales, but also includes some detailed Scottish data.

Environmental Change Network (ECN)

http://www.ecn.ac.uk/

The ECN is the UK's long-term environmental monitoring programme. It is designed to collect, store, analyse and interpret long-term data based on a set of key physical, chemical and biological variables which drive and respond to environmental change at a range of terrestrial and freshwater sites across the UK.

Fisheries Research Services

http://www.frs-scotland.gov.uk/

Includes information on fish and shellfish stocks, the aquatic environment and the ocean climate.

Forestry Commission

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/statistics

The Forestry Commission compiles and publishes statistics on forestry, including information about Britain's woodlands and the primary processing of British timber.

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

http://www.jncc.gov.uk/

The JNCC is the Government's wildlife advisor, undertaking national and international conservation work on behalf of the three country nature conservation agencies, SNH, English Nature and The Countryside Council for Wales.

Macaulay Land Use Research Institute

http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/

The site contains information on a range of Scottish soils, environment, land use and environmental economic issues.
For example,
http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/soilposters/
http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/toolkit/
http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/tipss/
http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/MRCS/gis/

Meteorological Office

http://www.meto.gov.uk/

National Statistics

http://www.statistics.gov.uk/

UK Official statistics site. Environment statistics are located under the Natural and Built Environment Theme. Provides details of all main publications (some of which are held electronically) and via Statbase to selected data tables.

Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) Environmental Data

http://www.nerc.ac.uk/data/

Provides links to NERC Data Centres and the NERC Metadata catalogue.

Scottish Environment Database

http://www.ed.ac.uk/~eco/env/

Links to a variety of sites with an interest in the Scottish environment.
 

Scottish Environment Link (LINK)

http://www.scotlink.org/

LINK is the liaison body for Scotland's voluntary sector environmental organisations. The site provides contact details and links to members' organisations.

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

http://www.sepa.org.uk/

SEPA's site contains a wealth of environmental data for Scotland. See in particular the section Environmental Data.
 

Scottish Natural Heritage

Sources of Environmental Statistics

http://www.lib.gla.ac.uk/Depts/MOPS/Stats/environment.shtml

Provides links to Scottish, UK, European and International statistics on the environment.

 

The SOC (Scottish Ornithologists' Club)

http://www.the-soc.fsnet.co.uk/

The SOC provides details of bird surveys being undertaken in Scotland.
 

United Kingdom Environmental Data Index

http://ukedi.ceh.ac.uk/default.shtm

The UKEDI is a searchable Environmental data index maintained by the Environmental Information Centre, which is the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology's Designated Data Centre responsible for the secure, long term management of Terrestrial and Freshwater data sets.
 

UK National Air Quality Information Archive

http://www.airquality.co.uk/archive/index.php

Contains detailed information on concentrations of various pollutants at all automatic monitoring sites in Scotland together with emissions for the UK, including maps showing emissions and concentrations for 1 km squares. Also data on greenhouse gas emissions for Scotland and information on air quality monitoring networks.