What's going on in river restoration in Scotland?
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Guest blog - Angus Tree, NatureScot |
RRC Blog
Nature-based Solutions, Business as Usual webinar
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This afternoon CIWEM hosted a webinar “Beyond Assets: Nature Based Solutions, Business as Usual, West Midlands". Alex Cooke and Jodie Rettino from Severn Trent Water (STW) presented on water company involvement within catchment management. |
Floodplain Reconnection (Stage 0) webinar
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Today I attended the Floodplain Reconnection (Stage 0) GIS data release webinar hosted by the Dorset Catchment Partnerships. The webinar introduced the Environment Agency's Floodplain Reconnection (Stage Zero) Opportunity map GIS layers. Natural Flood Management lead Aly Maxwell and consultant hydrogeomorphologist Peter Stone explained how the layers have been created and used in project planning for multiple benefits. |
International Surface Velocimetry workshop
Author: James White, RRC
What's going on in river restoration in Ireland?
Guest blog - Andrew Griggs, CatchmentCARE
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CatchmentCARE Project improving water quality |
Thames Eel Project Workshop
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Author: James White, RRC |
Webinar: Developing and deploying low-cost, distributed monitoring to evaluate NFM
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Today I attended a NERC webinar on developing low-cost monitoring to evaluate Natural Flood Management (NFM). Marc Mulligan from Kings College London talked about how each NFM technique is different and will vary in design and scale. It’s important to consider geographical context, therefore Mark’s approach aims to monitor a wide range of interventions extensively rather than a single site intensively. |
Webinar: Reimagining Irish Rivers: working with nature
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This week I attended the ‘Reimagining Irish Rivers: working with nature’ conference online. This was a partnership between The Rivers Trust, Local Authority Waters Programme, European Green Leaf, and Maigue Rivers Trust. |
Rivers Trust Conference
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The last 2 days I have attended the online Rivers Trust Conference – ‘Water at the heart of climate resilience’. Loads of interesting information was shared, and I’ve tried to collate a summary of all the panel discussion sessions, and projects and schemes which were presented! Day 1: |
Webinar: Nature-Based Solutions Report Launch
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Today RRC attended a webinar hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group (APPCCG), focusing on the launch of the Nature-based Solution Report from RSPB and Cambridge Econometrics. Fiona Harvey chaired the webinar, opening the session by highlighting that Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are a beneficial approach to mitigating the impacts of climate change, and how there is an economics concept to NbS. |