- CIWEM & FRM (20Mar12)
- Water supply and flood risk – a marriage for 2012 ??
- Both conveyed to the altar by UK Rivers
- Environment Agency brief on “The Greening of Flood Risk Management”
- NFM Roll-out: Moorland; Farmed-Upland; Floodplains; Infrastructure; SUDS
- max features for minimum impact
- Ecosystem Services
- Paid ecosystem resource
- Section 106 offset; PR09; PR14
- CSF; Catchment Sensitive Farming
- Multiple Benefits from rural buffer-strips: a Welsh perspective.
- Outcome realization: Uncertainty v. Delivery
- 2D v 1D models; convergence v. divergence; anuga
- Run-off Attenuation:
- 1D theory
- Remote sensing of potential RAF locations; Perfect coursework for geographers
- Networked research groups
- NFF Conference (7th March 2012, SOAS, London)
- No mention of NFM, RAF’s, SUDS, Green Reservoirs, etc
- Nor the EA’s “Greening of Flood Risk Management” (above )
- More to Flood risk than insurance and resilience ??
- Point v. Diffuse sources
- Point-source pollution relatively easy; DWPA by culture and best practice, both more difficultLikewise attenuation:
- DWAA still on the drawing board
- Open source v. proprietary modelling code
- ownership; flexibility; economy
- anuga; R2D
- Main river as listed conveyance structure as canals – regulated by local trusts briefed to deliver WFD good water by best practice
Keys: FIRM, NFM, WFD, CFD, POST, RAF, PLOT, SUDS, NFF, FRCM, NEAS
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