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03 Jul 2025

Podcast on Magic Margins; helping maintain soil on farm

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A podcast has been released by Farming and Water Scotland that discusses the 'Magic Margin' approach. In this podcast, they talk with David Boldrin from the James Hutton Institute about how magic margins can be used to help reduce diffuse pollution...
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03 Jul 2025

Working with natural processes - webinar recording now available

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A webinar recording is now available that summarises the new Working With Natural Processes Evidence Directory update. Working with natural processes (WWNP) aims to protect, restore and emulate the natural functions of catchments, floodplains,...
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19 Feb 2025

Outputs from Scotland’s Flood Resilience Conference now published

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Scotland’s Flood Resilience Conference 2025 was held in Edinburgh on the 28th and 29th January. The theme of the conference was on taking action to implement the Flood Resilience Stratergy. Organised by Verture, the event built on Scotland’s first...
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19 Feb 2025

Working with natural processes: Evidence directory update published

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The Environment Agency have published an update to the Working with Natural Processes evidence directory. This was developed in collaboration with JBA Consulting. The Working with Natural Processes Evidence Directory was first published in 2017 and...
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30 Jan 2025

Introducing SpongeScapes: Enhancing Europe's Climate Resilience with Sponge Measures

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SpongeScapes is a Horizon Europe project uniting 14 case studies across Europe to advance the understanding and implementation of sponge measures—nature-based solutions that restore landscapes' natural capacity to absorb, temporarily store, and...
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30 Jan 2025

Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) update

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The Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) is now establishing a long term monitoring programme in the UK. FDRI is an innovative long-term programme which, for the first time in the UK, will monitor the whole hydrological system, to...
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30 Jan 2025

Scottish National Flood Resilience Strategy published

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A National Flood Resilience Strategy for Scotland has been published by the Scottish Government. The strategy sets out a vision for a flood resilient Scotland through to 2045 and beyond. It is structured around the themes of People, Places and...
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01 Jul 2024

Assessing the socio-economic impacts of soil degradation on Scotland’s water environment

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A report has just been published by scientists at the James Hutton Institute, SRUC and University of Aberdeen that assesses the socio-economic impacts of soil degradation on Scotland’s water environment. The work was commissioned by Scotland's...
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01 Jul 2024

New data-based analysis tool for functioning of natural flood management measures

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Scientists at the University of Aberdeen and James Hutton Institute have just published a paper on a new approach for characterising temporary storage area (TSA) functioning. The open access paper published in the Journal of Hydrology looks at...
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01 Jul 2024

Scottish Flood resilience strategy: consultation

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The Scottish Government is seeking views on Scotland's first Flood Resilience Strategy. The strategy will focus what needs to be done to make communities more flood resilient over the coming decades. The consultation paper seeks views on the...
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28 Jun 2024

Engineering with Nature: An Atlas, volume 3 now published

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The Engineering with Nature initiative (led by US Army Corps of Engineers) has now published "Engineering with Nature: An Atlas, volume 3". The atlas contains lots of global case studies that are using NbS inspired approaches. 58 projects (including...
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