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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 |
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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. |
Guest blog - Fiona Bowles, RRC Vice-Chair
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As part of the London Rivers Week, this webinar looked at river restoration with 2020 vision. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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! |
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Gerard Stewart started the webinar, which is part of a webinar series to help practitioners share knowledge and experience in Natural Flood Management (NFM). 140 attendees dialled into the call today to hear Chris Utley from the Environment Agency give a presentation on getting the most for nature based flood risk reduction from ELMS. |
Guest blog - Fiona Bowles, Hamish Moir, Ben Eardley, John Phillips, Will Bond & Matt Parr