Risk Analysis

Resilience of leaky barriers in Natural Flood Management at the RRC conference

Resilience of leaky barriers in Natural Flood Management at the RRC conference

Zora van Leeuwen presented her poster “A Method for Assessing the Resilience of Leaky Dam Networks” online at the 21st River Restoration Centre conference.

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Air quality and climate change at the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation showcase

Air quality and climate change at the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation showcase

Graduate researcher Suzanne van Zuijlen, working with Dr Paul Young and colleagues, presented a poster on her project to advance knowledge of air quality risks in a changing climate. Suzanne is working on her PhD research within the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation at Lancaster University, with support from JBA Trust as part of our work […]

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Vulnerability of bridges to scour: insights from an international expert elicitation workshop

Vulnerability of bridges to scour: insights from an international expert elicitation workshop

A research paper published in the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences reports on the vulnerability of bridges to scour and the scientific uncertainties involved in estimating the probability of bridges failing as a result.

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Improving statistical models of large scale flood events

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Presentation: National analysis of bridge scour failure risks

Presentation: National analysis of bridge scour failure risks

Professor Rob Lamb, Director of JBA Trust, gave a presentation on our collaborative research at the ITRC’s meeting…

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International expert meeting on bridge scour

International expert meeting on bridge scour

An international expert meeting on bridge scour is taking place on 16-17 February 2015.

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Modelling and estimating the clustering of floods

Modelling and estimating the clustering of floods

Case study of a NERC PURE project to transfer advances in statistics to flood risk science now available

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How well do flood defence models match reality?

How well do flood defence models match reality?

Recently completed research compares flood risk assessment models with real flood defence failures…

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Report on railway asset failures due to flooding and scour

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New research on the probability of widespread flooding

New research on the probability of widespread flooding

We are pleased to announce a new paper on statistical methods to estimate the probability of wide…

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