Catchment Management

Flood hydrology for the next 25 years and beyond

Flood hydrology for the next 25 years and beyond

A flood hydrology roadmap released in March 2022 sets out a vision to help scientists and practitioners better predict future flood events and improve flood resilience across the UK. 
JBA Trust helped in shaping and peer reviewing the roadmap

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New maps show areas of potential for working with natural processes

New maps show areas of potential for working with natural processes

New data added to our online catalogue shows areas where different types of potential river and catchment management approaches could help to reduce flood risk by working with nature

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Reducing flood risk by working with nature: PhD research being put into practice to help plan catchment flood mitigation strategies

Reducing flood risk by working with nature: PhD research being put into practice to help plan catchment flood mitigation strategies

PhD researcher Peter Metcalfe, based at Lancaster University’s Environment Centre (LEC), has been working on new methods to predict the impacts of “natural” measures to mitigate flood risk.

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Working with natural processes to reduce flood risk

Working with natural processes to reduce flood risk

New interactive map catalogues UK schemes that use natural processes in flood management and highlights the need to evaluate the effectiveness of these projects.

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Catchment modelling tools published on CRAN

Catchment modelling tools published on CRAN

Peter Metcalfe, a PhD student at Lancaster University, has published the initial outputs of his work with JBA Trust.

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Catchment change and multi-objective flood risk management

Catchment change and multi-objective flood risk management

The JBA Trust has contributed to a case study on multi-objective flood management based at the National Trust’s Holnicote Estate in Somerset.

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Strategies for resilient and sustainable integrated catchment management

Strategies for resilient and sustainable integrated catchment management

The JBA Trust is co-funding a PhD studentship with the Lancaster Environment Centre to research intermediate complexity models for catchment scale analysis of natural and engineered systems in river catchments.

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