The 21st River Restoration Conference will be held in Harrogate on the 21st and 22nd April 2020. The theme of this year's conference is " River restoration: scaling-up our ambition". The call for abstracts is now open and will close on the 14th...
Sniffer have announced the dates for Scotland’s Flood Risk Management Conference 2020. The event will take place in Glasgow on the 30th and 31st January 2020. The conference outline includes a session on Natural Flood Management. The event...
An open access paper on "The potential of runoff attenuation features as a Natural Flood Management approach" has been published in the Journal of Flood Risk Management. The study utilised data from the Belford Burn catchment in N.E. England, and in...
A report has been published today by Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters on "Communities at risk of flooding and their attitudes towards natural flood management". The project team at the James Hutton Institute explored factors that affect...
A co-organised event in Edinburgh (May 2019) brought together international experts to discuss the challenges and opportunities for delivering Nature-Based Solutions. The goal of the event was to facilitate the knowledge exchange and share best...
Adding large wood or leaky barriers to rivers is often promoted as a viable NFM technique but there is a lack of clear understanding on how best to represent them in computer models. The open access paper "Representing natural and artificial in‐...
The US Army Corps of Engineers are working on the second edition of their Engineering with Nature Atlas. A call for world-wide case studies is now open. The second edition is due to be published in autumn 2020 with final selection for projects in...
A handbook on Nature-Based Solutions has been published by "ThinkNature" ( https://platform.think-nature.eu/ ). The handbook was developed as part of the ThinkNature project which recieved funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and...
An open access book has recently been published addressing the issue of Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land. It is published by Springer and was edited by Thomas Hartmann, Lenka Slavíková and Simon McCarthy. The authors highlight that...
A practical handbook for farmers has recently been published by SRUC. The handbook is called "Natural Flood Management: A Farmer's Guide" and is available from the link below. The guide aims to give advice on NFM to landowners and farmers in...
The World Bank have published a report on Nature-Based Solutions for Disaster Risk Management. More on this report and background to the work can be found at the link below.
