- AONB Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- CaBA Catchment Based Approach
- CEFAS Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
- CIL Community Infrastructure Levy
- CO2 Carbon Dioxide
- D&SIFCA Devon and Severn Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority
- DCC Devon County Council
- Defra Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- DLPG Devon Landscape Policy Group
- DWT Devon Wildlife Trust
- EA Environment Agency
- EC European Commission
- ECC Exeter City Council
- EDDC East Devon District Council
- EEMP Exe Estuary Management Partnership
- EEO Exe Estuary Officer
- EU European Union
- F&CERMS Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy
- FWAG Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group
- GDP Gross Domestic Product
- GLA General Lighthouse Authority
- HMO Habitat Mitigation Officers
- HRA Habitats Regulations Assessment
- LiCCo Living with a Changing Coast
- LNR Local Nature Reserve
- LPA Local Planning Authority
- MCA Maritime and Coastguard Agency
- MMO Marine Management Organisation
- MSFD Marine Strategy Framework Directive
- NE Natural EnglandNEPNational Environmental Programme
- NLO Net Limitation Order
- NNR National Nature Reserve
- NVZ Nitrate Vulnerable Zone
- OS Ordnance Survey
- PML Plymouth Marine Laboratory
- PUG Port User Group
- RBMP River Basin Management Plan
- RSPB Royal Society for the Protectionof Birds
- RYA Royal Yachting Association
- SAC Special Area of Conservation
- SANG Sustainable Alternative Natural Greenspace
- SEDHRP South East Devon Habitat Regulations Partnership
- SMP Shoreline Management Plan
- SPA Special Protection Area
- SRC Shoreline Response Centre
- SSSI Site of Special Scientific Interest
- SWW South West Water
- TH Trinity House
- UST Upstream Thinking
- WCO Western Channel Observatory
- WFD Water Framework Directive
- WRT Westcountry Rivers Trust
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