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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
