Local community involvement in Flood Risk Management in England
Guest blog - Tom Harrison, MSc
Results: How should local residents be involved in managing flood risk?
RRC Blog
Webinar: Nature-based solutions for water quality improvements
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Earthwatch hosted this webinar today on nature-based solutions for water quality improvements. Dr Steven Loiselle, Senior Research Lead at Earthwater Europe opened the webinar by mentioning the growing problems with water quality across the globe, and the impacts on society and economy. This can relate to excess pollutants entering watercourses due to fragmented land management, and Wastewater Treatment plants. |
Webinar: Woodlands & NFM
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Dr Tom Nisbet from Forest Research, working on the Landwise NFM project, presented a webinar today on Woodlands and NFM. Tom went through the base mechanisms of how woodlands can effect flood conveyance. Reducing the volume of flood water at source by increasing evaporation |
Webinar: Nature-based solutions for flood management
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Louise Hartley, Senior Programme Manager at Earthwater Europe opened up the webinar today. She set the scene, stating how in the UK, heavy rainfall represents about one third of all flood risk. There are challenges in urban areas with impermeable surface areas such as tarmac and paved areas. Plus, climate change risk is likely to provide more frequent and intense extreme rainfall events, alongside population growth pressures. |
Natural River Recovery- thoughts from the virtual beaver and Stage Zero workshops, RRC Conference 2020
Guest blog - Fiona Bowles, RRC Vice-Chair
River Restoration with 2020 vision webinar
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As part of the London Rivers Week, this webinar looked at river restoration with 2020 vision. |
Webinar: Monitoring infiltration and retention to support assessment of Ecosystem Services
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Kathi Bauer, Natural Capital coordinator at South East Rivers Trust, gave an overview of her experience of monitoring infiltration and retention to support assessment of Ecosystem Services. This project considered water resources management and scarcity, alongside NFM, natural resources and achieving healthy ecosystems. |
Webinar: Watering the Garden - landscape led approaches to managing water in Garden Communities
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This half day online conference, hosted by the Urban Flood Resilience Research Consortium, looked at the latest landscape-led approaches to managing water in large scale developments and new communities. This is a great way to incorporate water landscapes into projects from the initial stages. |
Catchment Leadership Network webinar: The enabling environment for catchment management
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Gemma Cranston (University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership) started the webinar by explaining more about the webinar series. The Catchment Leadership Network aims to drive a step change in the level of activity on catchment management. |
Webinar: Mapping River Habitats From the Air
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CIEEM held a webinar today on mapping river habitats from the air, and the use of drones for field surveys. The webinar started with a quick poll to determine how many of the audience had previously used aerial data to map habitats. The results came back with 45% of the audience having used this method before, and 55% having not used this before – a pretty even split! |