NERC Advanced Training Short Course: Natural Flood Risk Management

Date: 
Monday, November 20, 2017 - 09:00 to Friday, November 24, 2017 - 16:00
Location: 
Hotel in English Lake District

The course, designed for 

PhD students, postdocs, MSc students and other early career researchers, is taught by experts in flood risk management and modelling from JBA Consulting and Lancaster University

The course covers:

• Fundamentals of hydrological processes and measurement with field exercises

• Evaluation of the NFRM evidence base

• NFRM framework illustrated with exercises in opportunity mapping, modelling and stakeholder co-production

• Flood ‘event set’ analyses using hands-on 2D flood inundation modelling and physical sandbox modelling

• Risk & resilience estimation with spatial joint probability analysis

• Detailed NFRM modelling practical using Dynamic-Topmodel with uncertainty estimation including decision analysis software

• Co-benefits of NFRM with hands-on Benefits-Cost analyses

The course is free to successful applicants (including accommodation & a travel subsidy). If you would like further details and/or an application form, please write to Dr Nick A Chappell via

n.chappell@lancaster.ac.uk

Closing date for applications is 22nd September 2017