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.
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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).
- Tags: Catchment Management and Natural Flood Management Hydrology
- Published by:Hydrological Processes
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The temporal clustering of storm surge, wave height, and high sea level exceedances around the UK coastline
- Contribution by:Pender, D., Lamb, R.
- Publish date:01.10.2022
Understanding the prevalence of storm clustering at inter- (between) and intra (within)-annual timescales around the UK coastline. Analysis was undertaken and compared using modelled hindcasts and recorded observations of wave conditions and sea levels.
- Tags: Marine and Coastal Risk Management
- Published by:Natural Hazards
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Spatial scale evaluation of forecast flood inundation maps
- Contribution by:Shelton, K.L., Bevington, J.
- Publish date:14.07.2022
This paper focusses on the development of a metric to quantify how well the generated flood maps for events compare to observed flooding from remote sensing.
- Tags: Flood Resilience
- Published by:Journal of Hydrology
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Does the E in EnvCoW stand for evolution
- Contribution by:Sargent, D.
- Publish date:01.03.2022
This article explores the importance of environmental management by highlighting opportunities to increase understanding to ensure it from stands out from standardised mitigation measures.
- Tags: Environmental Management
- Published by:CIEEM In Practice Magazine
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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.
- Tags: Catchment Management and Natural Flood Management Hydrology
- Published by:Hydrological Processes
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Sampling uncertainty of UK design flood estimation
- Contribution by:Hammond, A.
- Publish date:12.10.2021
Using resampling approaches adapted to the Flood Estimation Handbook methods, this paper quantifies the sampling uncertainty for single site, pooled (ungauged), enhanced single site (gauged pooling) and across catchment types.
- Tags: Hydrology
- Published by:Hydrology Research
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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.
- Tags: Catchment Management and Natural Flood Management
- Published by:Environmental Challenges Journal
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Review of groundwater flood risk management in England
- Contribution by:Wagstaff, S., McFadden, B., Ngai, R., Chorlton, K., Zaidman, M., Faulkner, D.
- Publish date:01.06.2021
JBA led this rapid evidence review, funded by the Environment Agency, to support the National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England (2020) for England.
- Tags: Flood Resilience Hydrology
- Published by:Environment Agency