What's going on in river restoration in Wales?
Guest blog - Natural Resources Wales
RRC Blog
Natural Flood Management: Land Manager’s perspective
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Today NERC held a webinar, with Dr Stewart Clarke (National Trust) presenting on Natural Flood Management (NFM) and the land manager’s perspective. Stewart opened his presentation by outlining what NFM means, including slowing the flow, temporarily storing it, and filtering water in wetlands and floodplains to try and improve water quality. |
CIEEM Conference: Sustainable Management of Freshwater Resources: Bringing our Rivers back to Life
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Earlier this week, on World Wetlands Day, CIEEM held an online conference looking at a range of topics focused on river recovery and bringing our rivers back to life. Penny Lewns, Vice President of CIEEM opened the morning session, with Max Wade, CIEEM President chairing the afternoon. |
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?
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. |