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02 Jun 2023

Eddleston Water Community engagement and sharing best practice in Catchment Restoration.

Chris Spray (University of Dundee and Tweed Forum) has written a case study for the Ecosystem Knowledge Network based on Tweed Forum's experiences of working on the Eddleston Water Project, entitled Putting People first: Community engagement and...
21 Mar 2023

Field visit of Japanese catchment Research team to Eddleston

On 14 th March, The Eddlston Water project was visited by a tem of 14 researchers from 4 universities across Japan who together work on a catchment approach to flood risk management. Representing a variety of disciplines, the research team is led by...
23 Feb 2023

Eddleston Water designated UNESCO Ecohydrology Demonstration Site

The Eddleston Water project, Tweed Forum and Scottish Government's long-running empirical study of the effectiveness of Natural Flood Management (NFM) has just been designated by UNESCO as one of their new Ecohydrology Demonstration sites, becoming...
23 Feb 2023

Nature Restoration Fund 2023 - current round is live

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The Helping Nature strand is now open for Expessions of Interest, which must be submitted by Monday 6 March 2023 . NatureScot invite protects requesting a grant of £25k - £250k to be delivered over a maximum of two years. The priorities under...
24 Jan 2023

Paper published reviewing temporary storage areas in headwaters

A focus review paper on mitigating floods and attenuating surface runoff with temporary storage areas (TSAs) in headwaters has been published in the journal WIRES (Wiley Interdiciplinary Reviews) Waters. TSAs represent a category of soft-engineered...
19 Jan 2023

Environment Agency produces Natural Flood Management Programme evaluation report

A report has been produced by the Environment Agency that evaluates their Natural Flood Management programme. Between 2017 and 2021, £15 million of government funding was invested in 60 pilots across England. The report looks at 4 phases of NFM...
12 Dec 2022

PhD opportunity on NFM in Scotland

Are you interested in researching natural flood management? We're currently advertising a PhD focussed on land use change and natural flood management at the Eddleston NFM pilot site in the Scottish Borders. A great opportunity for someone with a...
12 Dec 2022

Eddleston Water study Highly Commended in Nature of Scotland Awards

Scottish Government's Eddleston Water project was Highly Commended in the annual Nature of Scotland Awards in Edinburgh last month. Project Managers, Tweed Forum, along with partners in SEPA, Dundee university and BGS joined other colleagues at the...
12 Dec 2022

New Eddleston Water study Report published

The Eddleston Water study has just produced its second comprehensive report, covering work upto 2021. Building on the earlier 2016 report, as well as published papers in the intervening period, this brings together key results since 2010 across all...
07 Dec 2022

New paper on NFM restoration monitoring published, with lessons from 12 years of monitoring the Eddleston Water project

A paper has just been published in the international journal, Water focussing on lessons learned from 12 years of monitoring of Scottish Government’s Eddleston Water study. The paper reviews the monitoring strategy and assesses how the monitoring...
27 Oct 2022

First ever UK woodland natural flood management guide published

The Forestry Commission, Scottish Forestry, Natural Resources Wales and Northern Ireland Forest Service have published a new UK-wide guide outlining how our forests and woodlands can reduce the damaging effects and financial impact of flooding on...