Research

Shaping resilience through collaborative research

Working collaboratively with colleagues, fellow industry academics, universities and non-profit organisations, we’re highlighting significant research papers, reports and technical guidance documents that are helping to shape the way we build resilience to climate change.

  • The importance of retention times in Natural Flood Management interventions

    The importance of retention times in Natural Flood Management interventions

    • Contribution by:Hankin, B.
    • Publish date:18.04.2024

    This study builds on existing research into the importance of retention times in Natural Flood Management to provide guidance on designing effective retention schemes. This includes the development of a spreadsheet tool for retention times.

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  • Illustrating the value of presenting NERC NFM programme findings as effective volumes at flood peaks, flood damages avoided and learning on soil as an NFM tool

    Illustrating the value of presenting NERC NFM programme findings as effective volumes at flood peaks, flood damages avoided and learning on soil as an NFM tool

    • Contribution by:Hankin, B.
    • Publish date:31.08.2023

    A report on cross-programme research to bring together findings using common metrics by teams at Lancaster University, University of Manchester, University of Reading and JBA Consulting working on the effectiveness of Natural Flood Management (i.e., Nature-based Solutions for reducing flood peaks) within the United Kingdom.

  • Investigation of effect of logjam series for varying channel and barrier physical properties using a sparse input data 1D network model

    Investigation of effect of logjam series for varying channel and barrier physical properties using a sparse input data 1D network model

    • Contribution by:Hankin, B.
    • Publish date:01.12.2022

    This report systematically assesses the effect of varying logjam spacing, extent of logjam-generated change in water surface profile, vertical height of lower gap, overflow to local floodplain, and varying channel slope, representing a series of logjams in a sparse input data 1D network model including the jam-generated backwater, which depends on loss of momentum within the jam.

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  • Deciding on fitness-for-purpose-of models and of natural flood management

    Deciding on fitness-for-purpose-of models and of natural flood management

    • Contribution by:Hankin, B.
    • Publish date:31.10.2022

    This article has taken a distributed modelling approach to examine the potential for hillslope storage bunds as a natural flood management (NFM) strategy to mitigate the effects of downstream flooding if deployed extensively in the 209 km² River Kent catchment in Cumbria (UK).

  • Using micro-catchment experiments for multi-local scale modelling of nature-based solutions

    Using micro-catchment experiments for multi-local scale modelling of nature-based solutions

    • Contribution by:Hankin, B., Lamb, R.
    • Publish date:26.10.2021

    This research explores findings from the Q-natural flood management project in Cumbria. Co-developed with the Environment Agency, the project involved monitoring 18 micro-catchments to study the affect of nature-based solutions on the flow of water. This paper demonstrates an approach to applying donor-parameter-shifts obtained from modelling two of the paired micro-catchments to a much larger scale, in order to understand the potential for improved distributed modelling of nature-based solutions in the form of additional tree-planting.

  • How can we plan resilient systems of nature-based mitigation measures in larger catchments for flood risk reduction now and in the future?

    How can we plan resilient systems of nature-based mitigation measures in larger catchments for flood risk reduction now and in the future?

    • Contribution by:Hankin, B.
    • Publish date:28.07.2021

    This paper reports on new hydrometric data collected from one of eighteen small-scale, accurately monitored micro-catchments in Cumbria, UK, to study the effect in more detail.

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  • A new national water quality model to evaluate the effectiveness of catchment management measures in England

    A new national water quality model to evaluate the effectiveness of catchment management measures in England

    • Contribution by:Hankin, B.
    • Publish date:03.08.2019

    This paper examines the potential of a data-driven approach to support decision-making in flood risk management, with the goal of investigating a suitable software architecture and associated set of techniques to support a more data-centric approach.

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