Prof Chris Spray gave an invited presentation in the opening Plenary Session of the major CIWEM/Rivers Trust annual Floods and Coasts 2023 conference in Telford on Nature-based Solutions for reducing flood risk This focussed on four main areas: a)...
The terms restoration and nature-based solutions are both commonly used these days, and sometimes used interchangeably. But are they identical? This new 4-page briefing by the James Hutton Institute explores the basic concepts and the implications:...
The Environment Agency have commissioned Qa Research to research NFM training needs amongst people with a role in NFM in England. The Environment Agency wants to ensure that everyone involved in NFM has the skills, knowledge and expertise they need...
The Scottish FRM2023 Conference took place in Perth in February this year. The topic of the conference was "Water Resilient Places". It was a 2-day conference which over 200 people attended (both in person and online). There were 59 speakrs and a...
Peatland ACTION has recently launched a suite of films to help encourage more landowners to get involved in peatland restoration, and promote the value of the work that peatland contractors do to make that happen. The films can be accessed via a...
The River Restoration Centre (RRC) have a long history of running river related training events (inc. on the topic of NFM). The RRC have just released a number of training events that will take place over the next 6-months. These included courses on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
