Delivering and evaluating multiple flood risk benefits
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Nottingham
Department Name: Sch of Geography
Abstract
Summary
New strategies for managing urban flood risk are required, necessitating radical changes in the ways cities are managed, planned and developed. Previous research has identified multiple options and measures for future urban flood risk management that align with more general targets for water centric, sustainable communities. However, it remains unclear how these options and measures can be:
(1) delivered in practice, and;
(2) comprehensively evaluated in terms of their benefits and costs.
Recognising this, the project proposed here will develop novel ways of driving new, resilient urban forms and fabrics through delivering measures to manage flood events sustainably while enhancing urban life; providing scope for radical solutions under new build; and, realising possibilities for improving existing performance through retrofit and urban renewal.
New strategies for managing urban flood risk are required, necessitating radical changes in the ways cities are managed, planned and developed. Previous research has identified multiple options and measures for future urban flood risk management that align with more general targets for water centric, sustainable communities. However, it remains unclear how these options and measures can be:
(1) delivered in practice, and;
(2) comprehensively evaluated in terms of their benefits and costs.
Recognising this, the project proposed here will develop novel ways of driving new, resilient urban forms and fabrics through delivering measures to manage flood events sustainably while enhancing urban life; providing scope for radical solutions under new build; and, realising possibilities for improving existing performance through retrofit and urban renewal.
Planned Impact
Pathways to Impact
Flooding adversely affects people, communities, businesses, insurers, governments and the environment nationally and internationally, and research that can help reduce the probability and/or consequences of flood has huge potential for impact. The fact is that the great majority of flood-related risks are associated with cities, because that is where the consequences of flooding are particularly severe.
Managing the risks of urban flooding to individuals, communities, businesses, property, infrastructure, commerce and the environment in cities, lies at the heart of this project. The project objectives include studies of the impact on, and feedback from stakeholders including not only FRM planners and decision-makers, but also individual citizens, community leaders, businesses, etc. In this respect, the pathways to impact are in fact an integral part of the project. For example, we note the following project objectives:
"Put competent authorities, businesses and communities at the centre of the research by establishing feedback pathways between them and the FRM modellers, planners and decision makers to ensure co-production of knowledge." and
"Illustrate how this approach can be used to support learning from multiple feedback loops at every stage of FRM appraisal, decision making, implementation, evaluation and adaptation."
Research in the project will start by drawing on the procedures already adopted by practitioners in designing urban fabrics, spaces and green corridors including, amongst others, the SuDS Manual, the RRC Manual, FRA Channel Design Options and relevant CIRIA Reports. This means that the project's outputs will be set in a framework that is readily usable by practitioners. For example, CIRIA (Paul Shaffer) have agreed to organise a dissemination workshop for UK stakeholders andto publish a CIRIA Report based on our research outcomes. They will also serve on the Steering Panel which we will have in place when the project starts. In this context, we already have commitments from DEFRA, the Environment Agency, SEPA, Arup, CIRIA and UKWIR to serve on the Steering Panel.
We will engage with professional associations such as the IWA internationally and CIRIA nationally. IWA already have a "Cities of the Future" initiative that we will interact with. We will present work at national and international conferences such as the biennial International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design. In the later stages of the project we will publish in appropriate, peer-reviewed international journals, such as the Journal of Flood Risk Management. Internationally, we will engage with other projects such as the Delft Flood Resilience Group (www. floodresiliencegroup.org) and the highly regarded, "Grey to Green" initiative in Portland, Oregon. The latter link has already been agreed in principle with Mike Reed (Chief Environmental Officer) of Portland City Council. We will communicate the research on an on-going basis through internet-base tools including a project website, twitter feed and LinkedIn group maintained by the Nottingham PDRA.
The Investigators all have prior experience of working with end-users in other projects. In particular Thorne and Wright have been involved in generating user-focused research outputs in FRMRC. In this context, Thorne was deputy Chair Dissemination) for the FRMRC and he chaired FRMRC's Dissemination Committee. Nottingham University were responsible for the two User-focused Deliverables produced during FRMRC 1 and were involved in producing 3 out of the 4 CIRIA Reports coming out of FRMRC 2. In this respect, the professional and stakeholder networks already developed under FRMRC will bring a large group of end-users to this project.
Other co-investigators are involved in a number of other funded projects (EU, Research Councils, etc.) both in the UK and internationally that will ensure two-way engagement with this project.
Flooding adversely affects people, communities, businesses, insurers, governments and the environment nationally and internationally, and research that can help reduce the probability and/or consequences of flood has huge potential for impact. The fact is that the great majority of flood-related risks are associated with cities, because that is where the consequences of flooding are particularly severe.
Managing the risks of urban flooding to individuals, communities, businesses, property, infrastructure, commerce and the environment in cities, lies at the heart of this project. The project objectives include studies of the impact on, and feedback from stakeholders including not only FRM planners and decision-makers, but also individual citizens, community leaders, businesses, etc. In this respect, the pathways to impact are in fact an integral part of the project. For example, we note the following project objectives:
"Put competent authorities, businesses and communities at the centre of the research by establishing feedback pathways between them and the FRM modellers, planners and decision makers to ensure co-production of knowledge." and
"Illustrate how this approach can be used to support learning from multiple feedback loops at every stage of FRM appraisal, decision making, implementation, evaluation and adaptation."
Research in the project will start by drawing on the procedures already adopted by practitioners in designing urban fabrics, spaces and green corridors including, amongst others, the SuDS Manual, the RRC Manual, FRA Channel Design Options and relevant CIRIA Reports. This means that the project's outputs will be set in a framework that is readily usable by practitioners. For example, CIRIA (Paul Shaffer) have agreed to organise a dissemination workshop for UK stakeholders andto publish a CIRIA Report based on our research outcomes. They will also serve on the Steering Panel which we will have in place when the project starts. In this context, we already have commitments from DEFRA, the Environment Agency, SEPA, Arup, CIRIA and UKWIR to serve on the Steering Panel.
We will engage with professional associations such as the IWA internationally and CIRIA nationally. IWA already have a "Cities of the Future" initiative that we will interact with. We will present work at national and international conferences such as the biennial International Conference on Water Sensitive Urban Design. In the later stages of the project we will publish in appropriate, peer-reviewed international journals, such as the Journal of Flood Risk Management. Internationally, we will engage with other projects such as the Delft Flood Resilience Group (www. floodresiliencegroup.org) and the highly regarded, "Grey to Green" initiative in Portland, Oregon. The latter link has already been agreed in principle with Mike Reed (Chief Environmental Officer) of Portland City Council. We will communicate the research on an on-going basis through internet-base tools including a project website, twitter feed and LinkedIn group maintained by the Nottingham PDRA.
The Investigators all have prior experience of working with end-users in other projects. In particular Thorne and Wright have been involved in generating user-focused research outputs in FRMRC. In this context, Thorne was deputy Chair Dissemination) for the FRMRC and he chaired FRMRC's Dissemination Committee. Nottingham University were responsible for the two User-focused Deliverables produced during FRMRC 1 and were involved in producing 3 out of the 4 CIRIA Reports coming out of FRMRC 2. In this respect, the professional and stakeholder networks already developed under FRMRC will bring a large group of end-users to this project.
Other co-investigators are involved in a number of other funded projects (EU, Research Councils, etc.) both in the UK and internationally that will ensure two-way engagement with this project.
Organisations
- University of Nottingham (Lead Research Organisation)
- Freemen of Newcastle Upon Tyne (Collaboration)
- Oregon State University (Collaboration)
- University of Connecticut (Collaboration)
- Living Streets (Collaboration)
- AECOM Technology Corporation (Collaboration)
- Reed College (Collaboration)
- Nottinghamshire County Council (Collaboration)
- Natural England (Collaboration)
- Portland Bureau of Environmental Services (Collaboration)
- BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Collaboration)
- Portland State University (Collaboration)
- Royal HaskoningDHV (Collaboration)
- UK Water Industry Research (Collaboration)
- Northumbrian Water (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- Natural History Society of Northumbria (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Clean Water Services (Collaboration)
- NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Collaboration)
- Newcastle University (Collaboration)
- Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARDNI) (Collaboration)
- NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Local Enterprise Partnerships (Collaboration)
- Moray council (Collaboration)
- Tyne Rivers Trust (Collaboration)
- Johnson Creek Watershed Council (Collaboration)
- Wildlife Trusts (Collaboration)
- National Flood Forum (Collaboration)
- NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (Collaboration)
- Environment Agency (Collaboration)
- West Lothian Council (Collaboration)
- Arup Group (Collaboration)
Publications
Zeng Z
(2019)
Flood footprint assessment: a new approach for flood-induced indirect economic impact measurement and post-flood recovery
in Journal of Hydrology
Wright. N.
(2014)
Delivering and Evaluating Multiple Flood Risk Benefits in Blue-Green Cities
in 6th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM6 2014)
Wright. N.
(2014)
Delivering and Evaluating Multiple Flood Risk Benefits in Blue-Green Cities. International Conference on Hydroinformatics
in International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2014)
Woods-Ballard B
(2015)
C753 - SuDS Manual, CIRIA
Willis T
(2016)
Uncertainty with friction parameters and impact on risk analysis
in E3S Web of Conferences
Wilkinson S
(2015)
Technical considerations in green roof retrofit for stormwater attenuation in the Central Business District
in Structural Survey
Wilkinson S
(2016)
Sustainable Surface Water Management - A Handbook for SuDS
Thorne, C. R.
(2014)
After Sandy, New York plans to rebuild by blue-green design
Thorne C
(2014)
Geographies of UK flooding in 2013/4
in The Geographical Journal
| Title | Audio blog (Colin Thorne, Johnson Creek Watershed Council Dinner Speech May 2014) |
| Description | This audio blog comprises a speech given by Prof. Colin Thorne at the Johnson Creek Watershed Council dinner in May 2014, Portland, Oregon, USA. The speech (~18 mins) was uploaded to the University of Nottingham's media space and included in a blog post about the event on the Blue-Green Cities Research Project blog site (http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2014/06/10/restoring-the-dignity-of-johnson-creek-portland-oregon/). |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Impact | Johnson Creek Watershed Council were a pivotal stakeholder in Blue-Green Cities research in Portland, Oregon, as part of the Clean Water for All project, and supplied data, equipment and expertise to the team during their stay in Portland in May 2014. Over 100 people attended the dinner where Prof. Thorne gave his speech. Subsequently, 14 people have listed to the audio blog and 26 different people have viewed the blog page (as determined by google analytics). We also received several requests for further information on the Blue-Green Cities research project and helped stimulate thinking and possible changes in public attitudes surrounding river restoration and the importance of blue-green infrastructure for a range of benefits to the environment and society. |
| URL | https://mediaspace.nottingham.ac.uk/media/Colin+Thorne+Johnson+Creek+Watershed+Council+Dinner+Speech... |
| Title | Audio blog (Nick Mount, University of Nottingham) |
| Description | This audio blog takes the form of a short (~13 minute) interview between Dr Emily Lawson and Dr Nick Mount (School of Geography, University of Nottingham) and the discussion of the current drainage structure in São Paulo, Brazil, and potential for future implementation measures to reduce the flood risk and transform the character of the city and deliver multiple benefits to the region. The audio blog was uploaded to the University of Nottingham's media space and included in a blog post about the event on the Blue-Green Cities Research Project blog site (http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2014/01/31/nick-mount-talks-drainage-in-sao-paulo-brazil-audio-blog/). |
| Type Of Art | Artefact (including digital) |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Impact | The surface water management issues of São Paulo, Brazil, were described in detail, thus stimulating thinking around effective water management for the creation of multiple benefits in mega-cities with large populations and often, limited research, development and funding for water management infrastructure. The blog also contributes to the growing debate surrounding the pros and cons of structural, grey engineering as a method for flood risk management, and has been cited as a reference in undergraduate student reports. 14 people have listed to the audio blog and 41 different people have viewed the blog page (as determined by google analytics). |
| URL | https://mediaspace.nottingham.ac.uk/media/Nick+Audio+22.1.14+edit2/1_lk9lwli7 |
| Title | Blue-Green Cities diagram |
| Description | This diagram illustrates the concept of a Blue-Green City and the comparison of the hydrologic (water cycle) and environmental (streetscape) attributes in conventional and Blue-Green Cities. It includes colour images and photographs. |
| Type Of Art | Image |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Impact | The image has been used in several Blue-Green Cities academic publications and presentations, and is illustrated on our website and in the promotional material, e.g. fliers and fact sheets. The image is also included in the Wikipedia entry for "Blue-Green Cities". Wikipedia article traffic statistics shows that it has been viewed 58 times in the last 90 days (dated March 2016) (viewings per month can also be calculated). Several organisations have requested to use this image in their own publications, e.g. National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility Australia. |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/about/blue-greencitiesdefinition.aspx |
| Title | Blue-Green Cities logo |
| Description | The artwork has been adopted as the logo for the Blue-Green Cities Research Project. |
| Type Of Art | Image |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Impact | The logo is included on all Blue-Green Cities presentations, talks, handouts and promotional material, including a flier and fact sheets. The logo has helped the project be remembered by wider stakeholders, and makes our work easily recognizable. It is also our twitter and LinekedIn group image. |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/bgcleafletv2.pdf |
| Description | A range of research outputs that demonstrate the multiple environmental, economic and social benefits of using Blue-Green infrastructure for urban flood risk and water management have not only been developed, but are now being adopted and delivered in practice in the Blue-Green Cities demonstration case study city [Newcastle upon Tyne] AND in the new Garden City of Ebbsfleet, Kent.. Outputs being taken up and implemented include: A model of urban flood inundation (pluvial+fluvial) that will; produce inundation predictions across a range of events of different frequencies and lengths, leading to a probability map for inundation in an urban area; track the movement of sediments from catchment surfaces through Blue-Green features; model the movement of water through Blue-Green features including blue and green roofs, retention ponds, permeable paving, green space, and bioswales; and investigate the probability of culvert blockage by debris and how this may influence urban flooding Impact assessment of Blue-Green design on receiving watercourse sediment, water quality levels, and habitat biodiversity GIS Multiple Benefits Evaluation tool to quantify and value benefits from individual components of Blue-Green infrastructure installations within flood risk management (FRM) strategies A decision support tool for option of appraisal of appropriate Blue-Green Infrastructure and FRM strategies within a Blue-Green approach to integrated urban planning and urban renewal A flood footprint analysis for economic impacts of floods at the city/regional scale, and a corresponding analysis to determine how the addition of Blue-Green infrastructure can reduce the flood risk and associated economic impacts of flooding A framework to identify the uncertainties and barriers to widespread implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure, and strategies to overcome the barriers A developed understanding of the perceptions and behaviors of publics around Blue-Green infrastructure Development of a wider understanding of economic impacts of floods at higher spatial scales through a flood footprint analysis |
| Exploitation Route | These findings are being used by local authority and industry practitioners when designing flood and water management infrastructure, not only in Newcastle and Ebbsfleet, but also in Rotterdam Netherlands, Portland Oregon, Ningbo, China and Calgary and Toronto Canada, as well as other cities globally that have taken on the 'Blue-Green City' mantle. The Multiple Benefits GIS Evaluation Tool is available download from the Blue-Green Cities website and was distributed to interested parties at a dissemination event in Newcastle in February 2016 and it was applied to three real urban development and renewal projects in summer 2016. The research outputs have been written up as academic research papers to add to the growing literature on the physical characteristics and advantages of Blue-Green infrastructure for flood risk management. Key stakeholders in Newcastle (from the EA, Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, Arup and Royal HaskoningDHV) have already signed a pledge to commit to partnership working and collaboration and the consideration of Blue-Green infrastructure for future flood risk management schemes, leading to formation of the Newcastle Declaration Group - which is now implementing Blue-Green thinking, approaches and infrastructure in the context of devilering the City's commitment to become a Blue-Green City. In these ways, the research is now being utilised. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Creative Economy,Education,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Transport,Other |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/blue-green-cities-key-project-outputs.pdf |
| Description | Research on Blue-Green Cities has engendered a change in mindset, policy and practice among decision makers in Newcastle and other UK cities towards greater support for resilient, multifunctional and multi-beneficial Blue-Green infrastructure to manage urban water and flood risk, while addressing numerous issues facing the environment (e.g. climate change) and society (e.g. health). Our research has been used by local authorities, water companies and environmental consultancies as evidence of the advantages of Blue-Green over traditional grey infrastructure leading to greater implementation of Blue-Green systems and widespread utilisation of our concept of a 'Blue-Green City'. For instance, our research has influenced local policy on flood and water management in Newcastle, including the Surface Water Management Plans in the Ouseburn and City Centre. The Newcastle Local Flood Risk Management Plan (March 2016) cites the Learning and Action Alliance (LAA, established under this project), Blue-Green Cities project and Blue Green Declaration when stressing a change in mindset to managing flooding: "we have recently signed up to the Blue Green pledge which commits the City to managing flooding in a more natural way whilst still obtaining the benefits from using green infrastructure for the benefit of the environment, our residents and visitors and the economy" (Foreword by Cllr Jed Bell). Our research has also engendered a change in mindset to managing urban water. In 2016, a Blue-Green Vision was co-developed by Emily O'Donnell and the Newcastle LAA. The 'Newcastle Blue and Green Declaration' was subsequently signed by senior stakeholders from Newcastle City Council (the Cabinet Member for Investment and Development), Northumbrian Water, the EA, Newcastle University and local consultancies, at a dissemination event (Feb 2016) that attracted over 120 delegates and included presentations from Local Councillors, industry leaders and senior academics. The Declaration commits the organisations to greater implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure, collaborative working and a move towards partnership funding strategies. Since signing the Declaration in Feb 2016, the number of Blue-Green infrastructure projects in Newcastle and the NE has increased. For example, Northumbrian Water, the EA and North Tyneside Council are working together on the Killingworth and Longbenton project, investing over £5 million in sustainable water management that includes wetlands, ponds, swales and detention basins (to be competed in December 2019). The 'Newcastle Blue and Green Declaration' was relaunched in March 2019, with initial signatories reaffirming their commitment to greater implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure through partnership working, and new signatories joining (e.g. Groundwork NE & Humber and the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)). Our research has increased the use of the term 'Blue-Green City' in other international projects, e.g. Los Angeles, New York, Leeds, and Leicester. Developing a Blue-Green City is a vision of Leicester City Council, which is directly attributable to Thorne and O'Donnell's research. Leicester City Council, the Environment Agency and Trent Rivers Trust have recently invested in a conveyance scheme along the River Soar targeting underused public space of low ecological value and transforming this into an area for flood storage. In addition to reducing local flood risk the scheme has created a space for wildlife, including waterfowl, bats, amphibians and invertebrates, and improved recreational opportunities for the local community. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Education,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Transport |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic,Policy & public services |
| Description | CIRIA |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The SuDS Manual (C753) has been published to influence engineering design and construction of urban drainage; this includes the output moniotred field data and interpretation from the funded EPSRC project. |
| Description | Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (18.02.16) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/bluegreencities-dissemination-event-pledg... |
| Description | BeXChange: Adaptation and Resilience in the context of Change Co-ordination Network (ARCC CN) (the "Project") |
| Amount | £5,495 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 07/2016 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities |
| Amount | £75,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Government of Northern Ireland |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2013 |
| End | 02/2016 |
| Description | Capacity building to Reduce diaster risk in the UK and Malaysia |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2015 |
| End | 02/2015 |
| Description | Clean Water for All |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2014 |
| End | 12/2014 |
| Description | Decision Making Under Uncertainty |
| Amount | £329,042 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/P016847/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | Delivering Blue-Green infrastructure to drive economic growth and place making: a case study of the River Leen, Nottinghamshire (University of Nottingham Interdisciplinary Research Cluster Initiative) |
| Amount | £59,432 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2020 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | Doctoral Training Centre in Future Infrastructure for the Built Environment (FIBE) Cambidge University (PhD student) |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| End | 10/2020 |
| Description | EPSRC SECURE Network feasibility studies |
| Amount | £3,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| End | 01/2017 |
| Description | EPSRC Studentship |
| Amount | £52,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2012 |
| End | 09/2015 |
| Description | IAPETUS2 - Impact of blue/green infrastructure interventions and future land use scenarios on dynamic evolution of natural capital |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Durham University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2019 |
| End | 09/2023 |
| Description | Investigation of the potential for SUDS retrofitting at Industrial Estates |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Centre for Regeneration Excellence Wales (CREW) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2018 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | National Centre for Atmospheric Research summer colloquium |
| Amount | $4,000 (USD) |
| Organisation | NCAR National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 07/2014 |
| End | 08/2014 |
| Description | OVE ARUP Global Research Challenge |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | BH153908 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 08/2016 |
| Description | Rain Rivers and Reservoirs Workshop |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2015 |
| End | 09/2015 |
| Description | ReCover pilot studies |
| Amount | £23,814 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 07/2016 |
| Description | Research Project with Northumbrian Water Ltd. |
| Amount | £22,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Northumbrian Water |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2016 |
| End | 08/2016 |
| Description | Scottish Forestry Trust |
| Amount | £15,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Scottish Forestry Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 01/2019 |
| Description | Sustainable Cities Workshop |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 01/2015 |
| Description | Tackling the UK's International Challenges |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The British Academy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 07/2020 |
| Description | UK - Bangladesh Researcher Links Travel Grant |
| Amount | £4,018 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2014 |
| End | 12/2016 |
| Description | UK - Bangladesh Researcher Links Workshop 2014 - Building Sustainable and Peaceful Cities: Bangladesh in Comparative Global Perspective |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2014 |
| End | 03/2014 |
| Description | UK - Indonesia Researcher Links Workshop 2014 - Towards Sustainable Building and Infrastructure in Indonesia |
| Amount | £1,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | British Council |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2014 |
| End | 03/2014 |
| Description | Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: the Blue-Green Advantage - A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange and Collaborative Opportunities Event |
| Amount | £11,806 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N008103/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2015 |
| End | 09/2015 |
| Title | Blue-Green Cities Multiple Benefits Toolbox |
| Description | The Blue-Green Cities Multiple Benefits Toolbox was created in 2015 by Dr Malcolm Morgan at the University of Cambridge as part of WP4 research). The tool was developed as a proof of concept to show that it is possible to assess the multiple benefits of Sustainable Urban Drainage Schemes (SuDS) in a manner that is spatial and context aware. The tool showcases a new methodology for the robust evaluation of the multiple functionalities of Blue-Green infrastructure and demonstrates the relative significance of benefits in context specific locations. The toolbox was developed for and requires ArcGIS 10.X with the Spatial Analysist add-on, and is available to download from the Blue-Green Cities website. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | There has been a lot of interest in the tool especially from CIRIA who have developed a similar tool (Benefits of SuDS Tool) that works alongside the Multiple Benefit Toolbox. The tool has been given to them for testing and distributed to participants at the Newcastle 18th Feb 2016 dissemination event and Flood and Coast 2016 event on USB sticks. As the tool was only released in February 2016 it is tool early to discern any notable impacts. |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/publications/multiple-benefit-toolbox.aspx |
| Title | CWFA Topic 1 interview transcripts |
| Description | This database consists of 12 transcripts from interviews (~45 mins in duration) conducted with stakeholders from different government departments in Portland, Oregon (May 2014), such as the Bureau of Environmental Services. The interviews were designed to investigate the major challenges with current and future implementation of green infrastructure for water management and climate change adaptation in the city of Portland. We have written permission to use the results of the interviews in our research but the transcripts would need to be made anonymous prior to sharing this database with others. This is a new database that we are currently using as the basis of a journal publication and hence, have not yet made this available to others. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The database has significantly informed the thinking of the five academics working on writing up this research and changed our perceptions on what the major challenges to the design and implementation of green infrastructure actually are. This research is due to be presented at a knowledge exchange event in Ningbo, China, in June 2015, and hence we anticipate notable impacts following on from this event, including the stimulation of thinking surrounding alternative surface water management strategies for Chinese cities. The methodology used to conduct this research will be replicated as part of the Blue-Green Cities demonstration case study in Newcastle, UK, in 2015, demonstrating its transferability. |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.17639/nott.24 |
| Title | CityCAT flood inundation model |
| Description | "CityCat" is an urban flood modelling, analysis and visualisation tool which uses very accurate and computationally efficient solutions for free surface flow equations. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | A new storm sewer network model has been developed which can handle the flashy and pressurised flows found in sewers. For the first time, the link between the gullies/drains and the sewer pipes is included in the model which is fully coupled with the surface to model both inflows and outflows. New features have been added to represent key Blue-Green infrastructure such as permeable pavements and surfaces, green and blue roofs, swales and water butts to allow for application in an innovative and flood resilient city environment. |
| Title | Newcastle interview transcripts and audio files - barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure |
| Description | This database consists of 19 transcripts and 19 audio files from interviews (25-67 mins in duration) conducted with stakeholders from different organisations in Newcastle, UK, conducted in April-June 2015, including representatives from Newcastle City Council, the Environment Agency, Northumbrian Water, local consultants such as Arup, the Freemen of Newcastle Upon Tyne and Newcastle University. The interviews were designed to investigate the major challenges with current and future implementation of blue-green infrastructure for water management and flood risk management. We have written permission to use the results of the interviews in our research but the transcripts would need to be made anonymous prior to sharing this database with others. This is a new database that we are currently using as the basis of a journal publication and hence, have not yet made this available to others. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This database has informed our thinking on barriers to the widespread implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure in Newcastle and other UK cities. This forms the basis of an academic paper and presentations given in early 2016. |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | AECOM Technology Corporation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The contributions of the research team to the partnership provides early access to research plans and findings and an opportunity to help steer the direction of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide the research team with expert feedback, commentary and suggestions for enhancing the Consortium's research. They give their time to attend two meeting per year in person (2-day events) and also provide detailed written feedback. The team then respond to each point made and inform the Strategic Advisory Board on how they have addressed the points raised in the feedback. This will substantially increase the impact that the Consortium's research has on practice. |
| Impact | The external impacts will become apparent at the end of the project. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The contributions of the research team to the partnership provides early access to research plans and findings and an opportunity to help steer the direction of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide the research team with expert feedback, commentary and suggestions for enhancing the Consortium's research. They give their time to attend two meeting per year in person (2-day events) and also provide detailed written feedback. The team then respond to each point made and inform the Strategic Advisory Board on how they have addressed the points raised in the feedback. This will substantially increase the impact that the Consortium's research has on practice. |
| Impact | The external impacts will become apparent at the end of the project. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Clean Water Services |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The contributions of the research team to the partnership provides early access to research plans and findings and an opportunity to help steer the direction of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide the research team with expert feedback, commentary and suggestions for enhancing the Consortium's research. They give their time to attend two meeting per year in person (2-day events) and also provide detailed written feedback. The team then respond to each point made and inform the Strategic Advisory Board on how they have addressed the points raised in the feedback. This will substantially increase the impact that the Consortium's research has on practice. |
| Impact | The external impacts will become apparent at the end of the project. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARDNI) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The contributions of the research team to the partnership provides early access to research plans and findings and an opportunity to help steer the direction of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide the research team with expert feedback, commentary and suggestions for enhancing the Consortium's research. They give their time to attend two meeting per year in person (2-day events) and also provide detailed written feedback. The team then respond to each point made and inform the Strategic Advisory Board on how they have addressed the points raised in the feedback. This will substantially increase the impact that the Consortium's research has on practice. |
| Impact | The external impacts will become apparent at the end of the project. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The contributions of the research team to the partnership provides early access to research plans and findings and an opportunity to help steer the direction of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide the research team with expert feedback, commentary and suggestions for enhancing the Consortium's research. They give their time to attend two meeting per year in person (2-day events) and also provide detailed written feedback. The team then respond to each point made and inform the Strategic Advisory Board on how they have addressed the points raised in the feedback. This will substantially increase the impact that the Consortium's research has on practice. |
| Impact | The external impacts will become apparent at the end of the project. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The contributions of the research team to the partnership provides early access to research plans and findings and an opportunity to help steer the direction of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide the research team with expert feedback, commentary and suggestions for enhancing the Consortium's research. They give their time to attend two meeting per year in person (2-day events) and also provide detailed written feedback. The team then respond to each point made and inform the Strategic Advisory Board on how they have addressed the points raised in the feedback. This will substantially increase the impact that the Consortium's research has on practice. |
| Impact | The external impacts will become apparent at the end of the project. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Moray Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The contributions of the research team to the partnership provides early access to research plans and findings and an opportunity to help steer the direction of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide the research team with expert feedback, commentary and suggestions for enhancing the Consortium's research. They give their time to attend two meeting per year in person (2-day events) and also provide detailed written feedback. The team then respond to each point made and inform the Strategic Advisory Board on how they have addressed the points raised in the feedback. This will substantially increase the impact that the Consortium's research has on practice. |
| Impact | The external impacts will become apparent at the end of the project. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Newcastle City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The contributions of the research team to the partnership provides early access to research plans and findings and an opportunity to help steer the direction of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide the research team with expert feedback, commentary and suggestions for enhancing the Consortium's research. They give their time to attend two meeting per year in person (2-day events) and also provide detailed written feedback. The team then respond to each point made and inform the Strategic Advisory Board on how they have addressed the points raised in the feedback. This will substantially increase the impact that the Consortium's research has on practice. |
| Impact | The external impacts will become apparent at the end of the project. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Portland Bureau of Environmental Services |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The contributions of the research team to the partnership provides early access to research plans and findings and an opportunity to help steer the direction of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide the research team with expert feedback, commentary and suggestions for enhancing the Consortium's research. They give their time to attend two meeting per year in person (2-day events) and also provide detailed written feedback. The team then respond to each point made and inform the Strategic Advisory Board on how they have addressed the points raised in the feedback. This will substantially increase the impact that the Consortium's research has on practice. |
| Impact | The external impacts will become apparent at the end of the project. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Royal HaskoningDHV |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The contributions of the research team to the partnership provides early access to research plans and findings and an opportunity to help steer the direction of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide the research team with expert feedback, commentary and suggestions for enhancing the Consortium's research. They give their time to attend two meeting per year in person (2-day events) and also provide detailed written feedback. The team then respond to each point made and inform the Strategic Advisory Board on how they have addressed the points raised in the feedback. This will substantially increase the impact that the Consortium's research has on practice. |
| Impact | The external impacts will become apparent at the end of the project. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | UK Water Industry Research Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The contributions of the research team to the partnership provides early access to research plans and findings and an opportunity to help steer the direction of the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners provide the research team with expert feedback, commentary and suggestions for enhancing the Consortium's research. They give their time to attend two meeting per year in person (2-day events) and also provide detailed written feedback. The team then respond to each point made and inform the Strategic Advisory Board on how they have addressed the points raised in the feedback. This will substantially increase the impact that the Consortium's research has on practice. |
| Impact | The external impacts will become apparent at the end of the project. |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Co-location research in Portland, Oregon |
| Organisation | Johnson Creek Watershed Council |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The research team hosted a 5-day event in the UK in March 2015. This comprised workshops, field trips and opportunity for knowledge exchange. The research team then visited Portland, Oregon, for 1 week (faculty members) and 1 month (researchers and PhD students) to conduct research in Johnson Creek. The team are also planning a knowledge exchange workshop in Ningbo, China, June 2015, and all members of the collaboration are invited to participate. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners shared the results of the NSF funded ULTRA project. They also conducted and facilitated research with the team in Portland and are involved in ongoing preparation of manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals. The team have presented this research at international conferences. The academic partners have secured funding for the Ningbo workshop. |
| Impact | This project is a work in progress and outputs are expected in 2015. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Co-location research in Portland, Oregon |
| Organisation | Oregon State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team hosted a 5-day event in the UK in March 2015. This comprised workshops, field trips and opportunity for knowledge exchange. The research team then visited Portland, Oregon, for 1 week (faculty members) and 1 month (researchers and PhD students) to conduct research in Johnson Creek. The team are also planning a knowledge exchange workshop in Ningbo, China, June 2015, and all members of the collaboration are invited to participate. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners shared the results of the NSF funded ULTRA project. They also conducted and facilitated research with the team in Portland and are involved in ongoing preparation of manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals. The team have presented this research at international conferences. The academic partners have secured funding for the Ningbo workshop. |
| Impact | This project is a work in progress and outputs are expected in 2015. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Co-location research in Portland, Oregon |
| Organisation | Portland Bureau of Environmental Services |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The research team hosted a 5-day event in the UK in March 2015. This comprised workshops, field trips and opportunity for knowledge exchange. The research team then visited Portland, Oregon, for 1 week (faculty members) and 1 month (researchers and PhD students) to conduct research in Johnson Creek. The team are also planning a knowledge exchange workshop in Ningbo, China, June 2015, and all members of the collaboration are invited to participate. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners shared the results of the NSF funded ULTRA project. They also conducted and facilitated research with the team in Portland and are involved in ongoing preparation of manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals. The team have presented this research at international conferences. The academic partners have secured funding for the Ningbo workshop. |
| Impact | This project is a work in progress and outputs are expected in 2015. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Co-location research in Portland, Oregon |
| Organisation | Portland State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team hosted a 5-day event in the UK in March 2015. This comprised workshops, field trips and opportunity for knowledge exchange. The research team then visited Portland, Oregon, for 1 week (faculty members) and 1 month (researchers and PhD students) to conduct research in Johnson Creek. The team are also planning a knowledge exchange workshop in Ningbo, China, June 2015, and all members of the collaboration are invited to participate. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners shared the results of the NSF funded ULTRA project. They also conducted and facilitated research with the team in Portland and are involved in ongoing preparation of manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals. The team have presented this research at international conferences. The academic partners have secured funding for the Ningbo workshop. |
| Impact | This project is a work in progress and outputs are expected in 2015. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Co-location research in Portland, Oregon |
| Organisation | Portland State University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team hosted a 5-day event in the UK in March 2015. This comprised workshops, field trips and opportunity for knowledge exchange. The research team then visited Portland, Oregon, for 1 week (faculty members) and 1 month (researchers and PhD students) to conduct research in Johnson Creek. The team are also planning a knowledge exchange workshop in Ningbo, China, June 2015, and all members of the collaboration are invited to participate. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners shared the results of the NSF funded ULTRA project. They also conducted and facilitated research with the team in Portland and are involved in ongoing preparation of manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals. The team have presented this research at international conferences. The academic partners have secured funding for the Ningbo workshop. |
| Impact | This project is a work in progress and outputs are expected in 2015. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Co-location research in Portland, Oregon |
| Organisation | Reed College |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team hosted a 5-day event in the UK in March 2015. This comprised workshops, field trips and opportunity for knowledge exchange. The research team then visited Portland, Oregon, for 1 week (faculty members) and 1 month (researchers and PhD students) to conduct research in Johnson Creek. The team are also planning a knowledge exchange workshop in Ningbo, China, June 2015, and all members of the collaboration are invited to participate. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners shared the results of the NSF funded ULTRA project. They also conducted and facilitated research with the team in Portland and are involved in ongoing preparation of manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals. The team have presented this research at international conferences. The academic partners have secured funding for the Ningbo workshop. |
| Impact | This project is a work in progress and outputs are expected in 2015. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Co-location research in Portland, Oregon |
| Organisation | University of Connecticut |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team hosted a 5-day event in the UK in March 2015. This comprised workshops, field trips and opportunity for knowledge exchange. The research team then visited Portland, Oregon, for 1 week (faculty members) and 1 month (researchers and PhD students) to conduct research in Johnson Creek. The team are also planning a knowledge exchange workshop in Ningbo, China, June 2015, and all members of the collaboration are invited to participate. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners shared the results of the NSF funded ULTRA project. They also conducted and facilitated research with the team in Portland and are involved in ongoing preparation of manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals. The team have presented this research at international conferences. The academic partners have secured funding for the Ningbo workshop. |
| Impact | This project is a work in progress and outputs are expected in 2015. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Co-location research in Portland, Oregon |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Department | Department of Geography |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The research team hosted a 5-day event in the UK in March 2015. This comprised workshops, field trips and opportunity for knowledge exchange. The research team then visited Portland, Oregon, for 1 week (faculty members) and 1 month (researchers and PhD students) to conduct research in Johnson Creek. The team are also planning a knowledge exchange workshop in Ningbo, China, June 2015, and all members of the collaboration are invited to participate. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners shared the results of the NSF funded ULTRA project. They also conducted and facilitated research with the team in Portland and are involved in ongoing preparation of manuscripts for publication in peer-reviewed journals. The team have presented this research at international conferences. The academic partners have secured funding for the Ningbo workshop. |
| Impact | This project is a work in progress and outputs are expected in 2015. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 Dissemination Event Working Group |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Blue-Green Cities research team payed the majority of the costs (~£8000) for the Feb 18th Newcastle dissemination event including room hire, delegate packages for 100 delegates, PA system and mics, printing and delegate packs, and hotel accommodation for the Blue-Green Cities team and strategic advisory board from funds specifically set aside for end of project dissemination. Emily O'Donnell (Blue-Green Cities and University of Nottingham) organised the event with help from the other partners, invited speakers, made delegate packs and printed posters, ran social media, created a new webpage for the event, and organised the PowerPoint presentations. Chris Kilsby (Blue-Green Cities and Newcastle University) funded delegate packages for 20 delegates (£700). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Northumbrian Water payed for all delegates over the 120 that were paid for by Blue-Green Cities and Newcastle University. This comprised two delegates (14 cancelled before the event) and costed £70. Northumbrian Water also provided keyrings and DVD (Flood Force film) for each delegate pack. All partners were involved in planning the event and inviting speakers and worked with Emily O'Donnell to create material for the delegate packs. Four 2 hr long planning meetings were held which all partners attended. |
| Impact | The main outcome from the partnership was the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Newcastle 18th Feb 2016 entitled 'Improving Flood Resilience: The Blue-Green Advantage'. This event led to the signing of the Newcastle Declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure by representatives from key stakeholder organisations. The event also generated local/regional interest around Blue-Green infrastructure for flood and water management and commitment from participants to try and work towards using more Blue-Green infrastructure to generate multiple benefits. This collaboration was multi-disciplinary involving engineering, geography, policy and communications, waste water management and planning. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 Dissemination Event Working Group |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Blue-Green Cities research team payed the majority of the costs (~£8000) for the Feb 18th Newcastle dissemination event including room hire, delegate packages for 100 delegates, PA system and mics, printing and delegate packs, and hotel accommodation for the Blue-Green Cities team and strategic advisory board from funds specifically set aside for end of project dissemination. Emily O'Donnell (Blue-Green Cities and University of Nottingham) organised the event with help from the other partners, invited speakers, made delegate packs and printed posters, ran social media, created a new webpage for the event, and organised the PowerPoint presentations. Chris Kilsby (Blue-Green Cities and Newcastle University) funded delegate packages for 20 delegates (£700). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Northumbrian Water payed for all delegates over the 120 that were paid for by Blue-Green Cities and Newcastle University. This comprised two delegates (14 cancelled before the event) and costed £70. Northumbrian Water also provided keyrings and DVD (Flood Force film) for each delegate pack. All partners were involved in planning the event and inviting speakers and worked with Emily O'Donnell to create material for the delegate packs. Four 2 hr long planning meetings were held which all partners attended. |
| Impact | The main outcome from the partnership was the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Newcastle 18th Feb 2016 entitled 'Improving Flood Resilience: The Blue-Green Advantage'. This event led to the signing of the Newcastle Declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure by representatives from key stakeholder organisations. The event also generated local/regional interest around Blue-Green infrastructure for flood and water management and commitment from participants to try and work towards using more Blue-Green infrastructure to generate multiple benefits. This collaboration was multi-disciplinary involving engineering, geography, policy and communications, waste water management and planning. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 Dissemination Event Working Group |
| Organisation | Newcastle City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Blue-Green Cities research team payed the majority of the costs (~£8000) for the Feb 18th Newcastle dissemination event including room hire, delegate packages for 100 delegates, PA system and mics, printing and delegate packs, and hotel accommodation for the Blue-Green Cities team and strategic advisory board from funds specifically set aside for end of project dissemination. Emily O'Donnell (Blue-Green Cities and University of Nottingham) organised the event with help from the other partners, invited speakers, made delegate packs and printed posters, ran social media, created a new webpage for the event, and organised the PowerPoint presentations. Chris Kilsby (Blue-Green Cities and Newcastle University) funded delegate packages for 20 delegates (£700). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Northumbrian Water payed for all delegates over the 120 that were paid for by Blue-Green Cities and Newcastle University. This comprised two delegates (14 cancelled before the event) and costed £70. Northumbrian Water also provided keyrings and DVD (Flood Force film) for each delegate pack. All partners were involved in planning the event and inviting speakers and worked with Emily O'Donnell to create material for the delegate packs. Four 2 hr long planning meetings were held which all partners attended. |
| Impact | The main outcome from the partnership was the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Newcastle 18th Feb 2016 entitled 'Improving Flood Resilience: The Blue-Green Advantage'. This event led to the signing of the Newcastle Declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure by representatives from key stakeholder organisations. The event also generated local/regional interest around Blue-Green infrastructure for flood and water management and commitment from participants to try and work towards using more Blue-Green infrastructure to generate multiple benefits. This collaboration was multi-disciplinary involving engineering, geography, policy and communications, waste water management and planning. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 Dissemination Event Working Group |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Blue-Green Cities research team payed the majority of the costs (~£8000) for the Feb 18th Newcastle dissemination event including room hire, delegate packages for 100 delegates, PA system and mics, printing and delegate packs, and hotel accommodation for the Blue-Green Cities team and strategic advisory board from funds specifically set aside for end of project dissemination. Emily O'Donnell (Blue-Green Cities and University of Nottingham) organised the event with help from the other partners, invited speakers, made delegate packs and printed posters, ran social media, created a new webpage for the event, and organised the PowerPoint presentations. Chris Kilsby (Blue-Green Cities and Newcastle University) funded delegate packages for 20 delegates (£700). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Northumbrian Water payed for all delegates over the 120 that were paid for by Blue-Green Cities and Newcastle University. This comprised two delegates (14 cancelled before the event) and costed £70. Northumbrian Water also provided keyrings and DVD (Flood Force film) for each delegate pack. All partners were involved in planning the event and inviting speakers and worked with Emily O'Donnell to create material for the delegate packs. Four 2 hr long planning meetings were held which all partners attended. |
| Impact | The main outcome from the partnership was the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Newcastle 18th Feb 2016 entitled 'Improving Flood Resilience: The Blue-Green Advantage'. This event led to the signing of the Newcastle Declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure by representatives from key stakeholder organisations. The event also generated local/regional interest around Blue-Green infrastructure for flood and water management and commitment from participants to try and work towards using more Blue-Green infrastructure to generate multiple benefits. This collaboration was multi-disciplinary involving engineering, geography, policy and communications, waste water management and planning. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 Dissemination Event Working Group |
| Organisation | Northumbrian Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Blue-Green Cities research team payed the majority of the costs (~£8000) for the Feb 18th Newcastle dissemination event including room hire, delegate packages for 100 delegates, PA system and mics, printing and delegate packs, and hotel accommodation for the Blue-Green Cities team and strategic advisory board from funds specifically set aside for end of project dissemination. Emily O'Donnell (Blue-Green Cities and University of Nottingham) organised the event with help from the other partners, invited speakers, made delegate packs and printed posters, ran social media, created a new webpage for the event, and organised the PowerPoint presentations. Chris Kilsby (Blue-Green Cities and Newcastle University) funded delegate packages for 20 delegates (£700). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Northumbrian Water payed for all delegates over the 120 that were paid for by Blue-Green Cities and Newcastle University. This comprised two delegates (14 cancelled before the event) and costed £70. Northumbrian Water also provided keyrings and DVD (Flood Force film) for each delegate pack. All partners were involved in planning the event and inviting speakers and worked with Emily O'Donnell to create material for the delegate packs. Four 2 hr long planning meetings were held which all partners attended. |
| Impact | The main outcome from the partnership was the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Newcastle 18th Feb 2016 entitled 'Improving Flood Resilience: The Blue-Green Advantage'. This event led to the signing of the Newcastle Declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure by representatives from key stakeholder organisations. The event also generated local/regional interest around Blue-Green infrastructure for flood and water management and commitment from participants to try and work towards using more Blue-Green infrastructure to generate multiple benefits. This collaboration was multi-disciplinary involving engineering, geography, policy and communications, waste water management and planning. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Newcastle Blue-Green Declaration Group |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The University of Nottingham, and the research projects more broadly, set up the group to highlight the importance of changing working practices towards greater collaboration, working with developers to maximise the uptake of blue-green infrastructure across Newcastle and the wider northeast. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners drive the content of the meetings, drawing on outputs from the Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance. They may bring items that they wish to discuss (i.e. potential projects, upcoming developments, opportunities for collaboration, etc...) that they wish to discuss with other group members. The group is chaired by a representative from a partner institution. |
| Impact | The group meet less frequently than the Learning and Action Alliance, and has a smaller membership, that consists mainly of decision-makers. The group regularly feeds into policy decisions across the city. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Newcastle Blue-Green Declaration Group |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The University of Nottingham, and the research projects more broadly, set up the group to highlight the importance of changing working practices towards greater collaboration, working with developers to maximise the uptake of blue-green infrastructure across Newcastle and the wider northeast. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners drive the content of the meetings, drawing on outputs from the Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance. They may bring items that they wish to discuss (i.e. potential projects, upcoming developments, opportunities for collaboration, etc...) that they wish to discuss with other group members. The group is chaired by a representative from a partner institution. |
| Impact | The group meet less frequently than the Learning and Action Alliance, and has a smaller membership, that consists mainly of decision-makers. The group regularly feeds into policy decisions across the city. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Newcastle Blue-Green Declaration Group |
| Organisation | Newcastle City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The University of Nottingham, and the research projects more broadly, set up the group to highlight the importance of changing working practices towards greater collaboration, working with developers to maximise the uptake of blue-green infrastructure across Newcastle and the wider northeast. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners drive the content of the meetings, drawing on outputs from the Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance. They may bring items that they wish to discuss (i.e. potential projects, upcoming developments, opportunities for collaboration, etc...) that they wish to discuss with other group members. The group is chaired by a representative from a partner institution. |
| Impact | The group meet less frequently than the Learning and Action Alliance, and has a smaller membership, that consists mainly of decision-makers. The group regularly feeds into policy decisions across the city. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Newcastle Blue-Green Declaration Group |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The University of Nottingham, and the research projects more broadly, set up the group to highlight the importance of changing working practices towards greater collaboration, working with developers to maximise the uptake of blue-green infrastructure across Newcastle and the wider northeast. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners drive the content of the meetings, drawing on outputs from the Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance. They may bring items that they wish to discuss (i.e. potential projects, upcoming developments, opportunities for collaboration, etc...) that they wish to discuss with other group members. The group is chaired by a representative from a partner institution. |
| Impact | The group meet less frequently than the Learning and Action Alliance, and has a smaller membership, that consists mainly of decision-makers. The group regularly feeds into policy decisions across the city. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Newcastle Blue-Green Declaration Group |
| Organisation | Northumbrian Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The University of Nottingham, and the research projects more broadly, set up the group to highlight the importance of changing working practices towards greater collaboration, working with developers to maximise the uptake of blue-green infrastructure across Newcastle and the wider northeast. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners drive the content of the meetings, drawing on outputs from the Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance. They may bring items that they wish to discuss (i.e. potential projects, upcoming developments, opportunities for collaboration, etc...) that they wish to discuss with other group members. The group is chaired by a representative from a partner institution. |
| Impact | The group meet less frequently than the Learning and Action Alliance, and has a smaller membership, that consists mainly of decision-makers. The group regularly feeds into policy decisions across the city. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Newcastle Blue-Green Declaration Group |
| Organisation | Royal HaskoningDHV |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The University of Nottingham, and the research projects more broadly, set up the group to highlight the importance of changing working practices towards greater collaboration, working with developers to maximise the uptake of blue-green infrastructure across Newcastle and the wider northeast. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners drive the content of the meetings, drawing on outputs from the Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance. They may bring items that they wish to discuss (i.e. potential projects, upcoming developments, opportunities for collaboration, etc...) that they wish to discuss with other group members. The group is chaired by a representative from a partner institution. |
| Impact | The group meet less frequently than the Learning and Action Alliance, and has a smaller membership, that consists mainly of decision-makers. The group regularly feeds into policy decisions across the city. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Department | Newcastle Branch |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Freemen of Newcastle Upon Tyne |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Living Streets |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Local Enterprise Partnerships |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Natural England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Natural History Society of Northumbria |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Newcastle City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Northumbrian Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | The Wildlife Trusts |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Tyne Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) was established by the Blue-Green Cities research project to create a cooperative, horizontal forum where key stakeholders can bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. The aim was to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits for the City of Newcastle and the wider region. Emily Lawson (Blue-Green Cities team member) is the coordinator and organises meeting every 6-10 weeks, including booking rooms, writing the agenda, contacting speakers to present, recruiting members and keeping existing members interested in attending meetings. Other Blue-Green Cities team members regularly attend meetings and give updates on their research and share recent research findings with the Newcastle stakeholders. The Blue-Green Cities team have also taken suggestions from the LAA and included these in flood inundation simulations, co-producing knowledge on flood risk in Newcastle. The partnership will host a dissemination event in Feb 2016 to showcase Blue-Green Cities research outputs plus invite key stakeholders in Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, Newcastle University, and the EA to sign up to a pledge for continued support and progression towards the Blue-Green vision. Blue-Green Cities team members will organise, advertise, present at, and run the event (with help from Newcastle partners). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners regularly attend LAA meetings as organised by the coordinator. They contribute their time, knowledge of flood and water management in Newcastle, and wider expertise and helped develop a Blue-Green vision for the City. Useful local knowledge and connections are shared. Some of the partners have hosted LAA meetings at their offices and are currently working towards developing a plan to ensure longevity of the LAA when the Blue-Green Cities research project has finished. Partners are also involved in planning, organising, advertising and presenting at the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Impact | This collaboration is multi-disciplinary, involving partners working in flood risk management, sustainable sewerage, planning, transport, environment, rivers and habitats, sustainable places, policy and communications, estate management, plus all the Blue-Green Cities team members. Outcomes include new and improved working relationships between key Newcastle stakeholders, development of a Blue-Green vision for Newcastle (available on website) and the Feb 2016 dissemination event. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Nottingham Green Partnership |
| Organisation | Nottingham City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I am a member of the Nottingham Green Partnership due to my expertise in water management and Blue-Green Cities. I have been involved in drafting the 2050 Sustainable Strategy, which has recently been halted due to changes in personnel at Nottingham City Council. I will continue to attend meetings of this group to progress a Blue-Green Vision for Nottingham. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Nottingham City Council leads this partnership and progresses outcomes from meetings and activties to create documents that can facilitate the transition of Nottingham to a more sustainable city. |
| Impact | Nothing material yet due to change in personnel at Nottingham City Council. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Participatory modelling of flood risk in Southwell |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Organisation of a series of inter-agency participatory workshops to model understanding of flood risk in Southwell, Nottinghamshire; pertaining to the flooding events of July 2013. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners attended the workshops, supplying data and expertise as requested. Partners kept the research organisation updated of any additional inter-agency meetings, modelling updates (hydraulic and hydrological modelling undertaken by consultancies). |
| Impact | Five workshops (see separate outcomes). Community model of flood risk - to be made publicly available. Report on the participatory process (currently being written up as a paper) forthcoming. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Participatory modelling of flood risk in Southwell |
| Organisation | National Flood Forum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Organisation of a series of inter-agency participatory workshops to model understanding of flood risk in Southwell, Nottinghamshire; pertaining to the flooding events of July 2013. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners attended the workshops, supplying data and expertise as requested. Partners kept the research organisation updated of any additional inter-agency meetings, modelling updates (hydraulic and hydrological modelling undertaken by consultancies). |
| Impact | Five workshops (see separate outcomes). Community model of flood risk - to be made publicly available. Report on the participatory process (currently being written up as a paper) forthcoming. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Participatory modelling of flood risk in Southwell |
| Organisation | Nottinghamshire County Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Organisation of a series of inter-agency participatory workshops to model understanding of flood risk in Southwell, Nottinghamshire; pertaining to the flooding events of July 2013. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners attended the workshops, supplying data and expertise as requested. Partners kept the research organisation updated of any additional inter-agency meetings, modelling updates (hydraulic and hydrological modelling undertaken by consultancies). |
| Impact | Five workshops (see separate outcomes). Community model of flood risk - to be made publicly available. Report on the participatory process (currently being written up as a paper) forthcoming. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | SEPA |
| Organisation | Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Dissemination of flood modelling R&D; field monitoring of SuDS and rivers for flow, sediment transport and pollutants |
| Collaborator Contribution | Flow gauge data availability; modelling expertise and guidance documents, proposal co-authorship and support, post flood survey advice/data etc. |
| Impact | Successful related funding proposal to Scottish Forestry Trust (awarded 2015) for flood risk management and modelling approaches Direct collaboration on EPSRC Impact Acceleration Award funding (2014-2015) into flood risk management |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Sustainable Flood Risk Management in Dhaka City |
| Organisation | Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology |
| Country | Bangladesh |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The purpose of this research is to jointly explore potential integrated sustainable urban flood resilience measures to minimise the flood risk in part of the Dhaka city with Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology. 1) Understand existing flood risk in Dhaka city and explore potential resilient and adaptive measures to deal with flood events 2) Mutually exchange effective flood resilient and adaptive lessons between the UK and Bangladesh 3) Promote integrated sustainable flood resilience approaches in Bangladesh cities through evidence based case studies 4) Establish trust and long term relationships between UK and Bangladesh academics |
| Collaborator Contribution | Introduce to key stakeholders and flood professionals such as Dhaka Water Supply and Drainage Authority, Institute to Water Modelling, Drainage board |
| Impact | We have got the chance to write a paper based on this visit yet. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: the Blue-Green Advantage - A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange and Collaborative Opportunities Event |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Department | Department of Geography |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Members of the Blue-Green Cities Research Consortium, travelled to the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus (UNNC) for a week of knowledge exchange, project dissemination, engagement with City officials and cultural learning. The Ningbo event, ran from 15-18th June, brought together UK-US-Chinese academics who had worked together since 2014 on the 'Clean Water for All' (CWFA) initiative. The event was an opportunity to present some of the results of the CWFA project and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experience on the advantages of using integrated drainage systems, best management practices and Blue-Green infrastructure to provide sustainable and resilient urban water, flood risk and environmental management. Specifically, the Blue-Green Cities team helped the Ningbo academics to organise a Knowledge Exchange Workshop and Symposium; presented papers on their recent research, and engaged in discussions with other academics and local practitioners and institutional/governmental stakeholders in the City of Ningbo. Contributions from the Blue-Green Cities research team included intellectual input and expertise. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Ningbo academics organised the Knowledge Exchange Workshop and Symposium; they hosted the event, invited participants from the local Government and interested academics, and contributed intellectual input and expertise through the presentation of recent research and contributions to Q+A and discussed sessions. Other contributions include access to facilities and the organisation and running of a field trip. Partners from Portland State University contributed intellectual input and expertise through the presentation of recent research and contributions to Q+A and discussed sessions. The event was also supported by the Ningbo Association of Science and Technology and the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies. |
| Impact | This is an interdisciplinary collaboration including researchers from the following disciplines: hydrodynamics, geomorphology, ecology, physics, social sciences, engineering, geography, urban planning and environmental economics. Outcomes: collaboration on research journal papers for a special issue of the Journal of Flood Risk Management (two of which have been published to date (4th Dec 2015)); DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12218 and DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12225. More papers are in review/in prep. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: the Blue-Green Advantage - A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange and Collaborative Opportunities Event |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Members of the Blue-Green Cities Research Consortium, travelled to the University of Nottingham Ningbo Campus (UNNC) for a week of knowledge exchange, project dissemination, engagement with City officials and cultural learning. The Ningbo event, ran from 15-18th June, brought together UK-US-Chinese academics who had worked together since 2014 on the 'Clean Water for All' (CWFA) initiative. The event was an opportunity to present some of the results of the CWFA project and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and experience on the advantages of using integrated drainage systems, best management practices and Blue-Green infrastructure to provide sustainable and resilient urban water, flood risk and environmental management. Specifically, the Blue-Green Cities team helped the Ningbo academics to organise a Knowledge Exchange Workshop and Symposium; presented papers on their recent research, and engaged in discussions with other academics and local practitioners and institutional/governmental stakeholders in the City of Ningbo. Contributions from the Blue-Green Cities research team included intellectual input and expertise. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Ningbo academics organised the Knowledge Exchange Workshop and Symposium; they hosted the event, invited participants from the local Government and interested academics, and contributed intellectual input and expertise through the presentation of recent research and contributions to Q+A and discussed sessions. Other contributions include access to facilities and the organisation and running of a field trip. Partners from Portland State University contributed intellectual input and expertise through the presentation of recent research and contributions to Q+A and discussed sessions. The event was also supported by the Ningbo Association of Science and Technology and the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies. |
| Impact | This is an interdisciplinary collaboration including researchers from the following disciplines: hydrodynamics, geomorphology, ecology, physics, social sciences, engineering, geography, urban planning and environmental economics. Outcomes: collaboration on research journal papers for a special issue of the Journal of Flood Risk Management (two of which have been published to date (4th Dec 2015)); DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12218 and DOI: 10.1111/jfr3.12225. More papers are in review/in prep. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | West Lothian Council |
| Organisation | West Lothian Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | SuDS monitoring of J4M8 flow, sediment and pollutant including River Almond CFMP |
| Collaborator Contribution | Access, plans etc. |
| Impact | Multiple publications listed in other areas of research fish |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Title | Blue-Green Cities website |
| Description | The website provides information on the Blue-Green Cities (BGC) research objectives and deliverables, the project team, plus a summary page of the work packages and linked projects and initiatives. The outputs from BGC research (conference papers and journal articles) are also listed with links to access the documents. The website also includes information on events and news, project partners and associates, and contact details for the team. There is also a live feed on the website to the Blue-Green Cities blog. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Impact | There has been increased engagement on social media (Blue-Green Cities twitter feed and LinkedIn Group) since the Blue-Green Cities website was released. The website also provides an outlet for BGC outputs (conference and journal papers) to be downloaded, thus enabling the research findings to be disseminated to a wider community. Requests for information on the project have also directly come through the website. |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: industry panel discussion: Delivering Blue-Green Cities - implications for academia, policy and practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This industry panel discussion was hosted at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) and included members from Northumbrian Water, Royal HaskoningDHV, Arup, Newcastle City Council, MWH, the Environment Agency and University of Nottingham ). The intended purpose was discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. Questions for the panel were tweeted and asked by audience members on the day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: presentation from Clare Rogers and Chris Kilsby on Newcastle University collaborative approach to flood management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by Chris Kilsby and Clare Rogers (Newcastle University). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: presentation from David Wilkes on his reflections from the day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by David Wilkes (Arup). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: presentation from Jessica Lamond and Glyn Everett on changing perceptions and behaviours around Blue-Green infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by Jessica Lamond and Glyn Everett (UWE). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: presentation from Kit England on next steps for the Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by Kit England (Newcastle City Council). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: presentation from Marie Fallon on Pooling our Resources - The North of England Floods: Flood Recovery and Resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by Marie Fallon (Environment Agency). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: presentation from Mary Dhonau on Investing in personal resilience: What is it like to be flooded? How to plan, prepare and mitigate against it |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by Mary Dhonau (Chair of the Flood Protection Group for the Property Care Association). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: presentation from Paul Shaffer and Chris Digman on delivering and valuing the multiple benefits of SuDS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by Paul Shaffer (CIRIA) and Chris Digman (MWH). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: presentation from Vassilis Glenis and Chris Kilsby on using the CityCAT flood model for design of Blue-Green infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by Vassilis Glenis and Chris Kilsby (Newcastle University). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | 2015 Livable Cities Forum: Building Flood Resiliency (Calgary, Canada) talk on Flood Resilient Cities: the Blue-Green Advantage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colin Thorne presented some of the recent outputs of the Blue-Green Cities research consortium which led to questions and discussions around sustainable water management. No specific impacts to date aside from requests for further information on Blue-Green Cities research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/eventsnews.aspx |
| Description | 2020 International Conference on Resource Sustainability - China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gave a virtual keynote presentation on 'Urban Flood Resilience in an Uncertain Future: the Blue-Green Advantage' at the 2020 International Conference on Resource Sustainability - Sustainable Urbanisation in the BRI Era (icRS Urbanisation 2020), December 13-15, 2020, Ningbo, China. The presentation led to discussion around the benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure for managing flood risk and delivering other benefits to the environment and society and lots of questions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.icrsconf.com/icrs_urban2020.html |
| Description | 4th Urban Flood Control Forum Guangzhou, China, Nov. 14-15, 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Urban Flood Risk Management in the UK: Towards Flood Resilient Blue-Green Cities' by Enda O'Connell, acknowledging the research of Chris Kilsby and the Blue-Green Cities and Urban Flood Resilience Projects (at the 4th Urban Flood Control Forum Guangzhou, China, Nov. 14-15, 2019 ) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | ARCC Early Career Researchers Workshop 1: Effective communication |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Networked with researchers from other projects within the ARCC network Email exchanges regarding future collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | ARCC assembly - Urban areas as systems: adapting for the future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Approx 30-40 people attended the talk Stakeholders expressed interest in participating in and being informed of the project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Achieving sustainable flood-risk management in the UK (RGS invited talk) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Colin Thorne gave a presentation at the Royal Geographical Society event on Achieving sustainable flood-risk management in the UK. This led to interest in Blue-Green infrastructure for flood risk management with further requests for information from Colin and the wider research team. The presentation sparked discussion afterwards and Colinw as asked many questions during the panel discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://21stcenturychallenges.org/policy-network/policy-seminars/past-events/achieving-sustainable-f... |
| Description | Achieving urban flood resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage. Water New Zealand's Stormwater Conference 2016 (invited keynote presentation) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation led to discussion and questions on the Blue-Green Cities research project and outputs (project finished April 2016) and potential applications in New Zealand to help address some of their flood and water management problems. The presentation also allowed Colin Thorne to network with the New Zealand audience and gain contacts for potential collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Anglian Branch CIWEM presentation May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This invited presentation has not yet happened. This entry will be updated subsequently. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Annual Colorado Watersheds Symposium, Vail, Colorado - September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Biomic River Restoration and Stage Zero approach to creating Blue-Green Systems' which sparked much discussion about the potential for a Stage Zero approach in Colorado Watersheds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Annual conference of the Network of European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Emily Lawson and Jenny Mant attended the annual conference of the Network of European Environment and Sustainable Development Advisory Councils (EEAC), titled "Managing ecosystems for people, nature and economy". In the conference breaks and lunch there was discussion of the blue-green cities concept and how this links with work on ecosystem services. There was more interest in the project via the website and social media. A blog was also written about the event which has been viewed 38 times. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2013/12/18/eeac-conference-on-managing-ecosystems-for... |
| Description | Attendance at the EU Beyond Risks Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Attendance at the EU Beyond Risks Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia from 16-18 September 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | BBC Inside Out West Midland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Nigel Wright talked about urban flooding in BBC, Inside Out West Midland programme on 25th Feb 2014. Not possible to measure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | BBC Radio - Inside Out West |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Nigel Wright was interviewed for BBC, Inside Out West on February on 11th 2014. This talks stimulate importance of natural flood risk management. Not possible to measure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | BBC Radio Cambridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Nigel Wright was interviewed for BBC Radio Cambridge, Naked Scientist programme on 9th March 2014. This talk stimulate thoughts around urban flood resilience. Not possible to measure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Beyond the National Flood Resilience Review: Building resilient infrastructure and communities. CIWEM, London, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation on 'Achieving urban flood resilience through Blue-Green Cities' introduced the main outputs from the Blue-Green Cities research project and gave insight into the new Urban Flood Resilience research project that some of the team are involved in (EPSRC funded, EP/P004180/1). The presentation spaked discussion on using Blue-Green infrastructure to address flood risk management issues in the UK and present and in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Blog Post - water@leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
| Results and Impact | The water@leeds is a largest interdisciplinary research centre for water related research in the UK. Sangaralingam Ahilan wrote a blog post based about his initial research experience in Portland, Oregon, USA in water@leeds website. This research visit is part of the Clean Water for All initiative. After this blog post Sangaralingam Ahilan requested to give talk on 'challenges and opportunities in urban flood risk management in UK' in Pathogen Control Institute, School of Civil Engineering. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://wateratleeds.wordpress.com/2014/06/04/clean-water-for-all-cwfa-research-initiative-dr-sangara... |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities - project summary. Managing flood risk and delivering multiple benefits with Blue-Green infrastructure, Belfast, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk highlighted the main project outputs from the Blue-Green Cities research and sparked discussions of potential application in Northern Ireland. The presentation led to discussions on future projects and collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The Blue-Green Cities blog has been running since Aug 2013, with a new post once or twice a month, typically written by researcher and PhD students involved in the project. Since its inception, the blog has been viewed 2667 times (2068 unique viewers, google analytics). The blog has stimulated discussion surrounding blue-green infrastructure and some of the research and conferences that the team have been involved in. The blog is promoted on social media, e.g. twitter, and thus may be viewed nationally, or internationally. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/ |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities blog posts 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The Blue-Green Cities project has a blog that has fresh posts ~ once a month. Blog generally stimulate thinking around Blue-Green infrastructure and the research that is being undertaken. Some requests for further information on certain Blue-Green Cities topics. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/ |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities factsheet on Learning and Action Alliances: defining and establishing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | The factsheet can be downloaded and gives non-specialist information on one section of Blue-Green Cities research; how to define and establish learning and action alliances. Giving the factsheets out at events has sparked some discussion. Increased requests for information and request to speak at a Moray Council flood risk management event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/laas-defining-and-establishing.pdf |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities factsheet on Scientific uncertainty and lack of confidence as barriers to wide adoption of Blue-Green infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This factsheet presents information on a recent piece of research published in the Journal of flood risk management on barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure. The factsheet is aimed at non-specialists and condense the paper into two sides of A4. Not aware of any specific impacts although downloads of journal paper could have increased. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/uncertainty-challenges-bgi-portland-el.pd... |
| Description | Blue-Green Cities twitter feed |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Blue-Green Cities twitter feed currently has 927 followers and is used to tweet about new research outputs, dissemination events, and research and literature in the field of sustainable drainage and the multiple benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure. Followers increase after dissemination events and conferences and requests for further information and questions are asked over twitter. The twitter feed has introduced people who may not otherwise have heard about the Blue-Green Cities project to our research and created a platform for informal discussion and networking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/BlueGreenCities |
| Description | Blue-Greening University Park (May 2020) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event will take place in May 2020 so no impact yet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Blue-green infrastructure stakeholder workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 9 professional stakeholders interested in blue-green infrastructure, public understanding and engagement and community welfare & safety. Glyn Everett presented upon UWE research and volunteered to attend a planned event and share information with the general public. Much interest was generated in the work and the audience were keen to have our participation. Due to staffing changes at the organising body, the event sadly did not take place in the end, but the relationships that were developed from this meeting have been useful in further work on both sides. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Bonneville Power Administration, Portland Oregon - January 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and Q&A on 'Stage Zero River Restoration - your questions answered' which led to much discussion on the potential for a Stage Zero approach in Oregon |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Book chapter on researching BGI from a wheelchair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A book published by Columbia University Press, focusing upon disabled researchers. My chapter addressed conducting research using a wheelchair, and also directly addressed public understanding & preferences around Blue-Green Infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CIRIA Delivering and monitoring blue-green infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Part of an expert paper discussing the Future of Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI): understanding why 'best practice' BGI worked, at the CIRIA webinar Delivering and monitoring blue-green infrastructure. Lots of questions from the participants on BGI and my related research with requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ciria.org/CIRIA/Navigation/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=E20236 |
| Description | CIRIA-hosted webinar (Collaboration to become more water resilient in Newcastle) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented (and helped plan) a webinar hosted by CIRIA on the topic of 'Collaboration to become more water resilient in Newcastle'. I gave a presentation on 'Establishing, coordinating and overcoming barriers in the Newcastle LAA (Learning and Action Alliance)' and answered several questions asked by the virtual audience. Lots of interest in the LAA approach to help with collaborative planning and deliver of blue-green infrastructure for flood risk management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ciria.org/CIRIA/Navigation/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=E19723&WebsiteKey=3f18c87a... |
| Description | CIWEM East Midlands Branch Meeting "Floods and SuDS" Presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 70 people attended the event and asked a variety of questions about the Blue-Green Cities research project and using natural processes for flood risk management. The event was reported on several websites and social media. Those who attended were able to take away promotional material on the project. Views of the Blue-Green Cities website increased and there were several direct requests for the presentation (which is now available for download from the BGC website). I was also asked to give a similar presentation at the Institution of Energy and Technology (Aug 2015). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/lawson2013urbandrainagegroup.pdf |
| Description | CIWEM River and Coastal Group Study weekend May 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on Blue-Green Cities was given by Colin Thorne (invited talk) at the study weekend and sparked discussion between the scientists and practitioners, and requests for further information on the Blue-Green Cities research project. The weekend was a great networking opportunity and links were made with local authority, water company and industry practitioners, and students/academics (mostly early career). The event was also hosted at the University of Nottingham and included site visits that Colin Thorne attended. Other Blue-Green Cities team members were asked to give presentations at other events and Blue-Green Cities research was disseminated more widely. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ciwem.org/events/events-calendar/2015/apr/10/rcg--udg-study-weekend.aspx |
| Description | CIWEM UDG Autumn Conference & Exhibition 2015. Presentation on Evaluating the multiple benefits of a Blue-Green vision for urban surface water management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the CIWEM UDG Autumn Conference in a session on 'future visions and challenges'. The talk encourage much discussion on the role of Blue-Green infrastructure for flood and water management. To finish... |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ciwem.org/media/1671201/udg_final_web_programme.pdf |
| Description | COP26 Water Pavilion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colin Thorne and Liberty Mgbanyi were expert speakers in the COP26 Water Pavilion session 'Adaptation and resilience in urban water: lessons from practice' (November 2021), giving a presentation on Blue-Green Cities and Urban Flood Resilience. This provided an opportunity to discuss the role blue-green cities can play in urban water resilience, and used recent work in Abuja, Nigeria, as an example of how the blue-green approach can manage water and flooding in developing Nigerian cities. Questions were asked about the approach and how it aligns with climate change adaptation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.waterforclimate.net/people/ZaSZMpAZims5YoFDq |
| Description | Catchment composition influence on the urban heavy metal and mineral pollution of urban waterways. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions and discussion about sediment movement through Blue-Green infrastructure and potential for heavy metal accumulation. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Centre for Floods, Communities & Resilience, Flood Seminar Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Glyn Everett gave a presentation entitled 'Understanding Behaviours and Attitudes Around 'Blue-Green' Approaches to Flood-Risk Management' to an audience of undergraduate, postgraduate and academic staff from across two departments (Geography & Environmental Management and Architecture & the Built Environment) at the University of the West of England. The paper prompted strong interest & conversation around the value in pursuing such approaches for their multiple benefits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Climate Change Preparedness: Drinking Water Supplies in the Portland metropolitan region. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions and discussion on climate change preparedness and how this may impact on drinking water supplies. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Climate Just workshop (University of Nottingham 18th December 2015) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop helped participants use the new online 'Climate Just' mapping tool and encouraged them to share this knowledge with their colleagues and use the tool in their working environment. The tool will be useful for mapping and exploring social vulnerabilities in the Blue-Green Cities case study area (Newcastle) to compliment the environmental data we already have for this area. There were many questions about the tool and its possible applications. Workshop participants asked about the Blue-Green Cities research project and expressed interest in working together in future, e.g. with Nottingham City Council's public health team exploring the health and wellbeing benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/sustainability/documents/climate-just-training-flyer.pdf |
| Description | Climate SCience Day on Capitol Hill 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussions with congressmen as part of the ASA 5th Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2015/04/01/climate-science-day-2/ |
| Description | Climate Science Day on Capitol Hill 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meetings with congressmen as part of the ASA Advisory Committee on Climate Change Policy (ACCCP) 6th Annual Climate Science Day 2016 meeting, Capitol Hill, Washington DC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www2.ametsoc.org/ams/index.cfm/policy/get-involved/participate-in-a-congressional-visits-day... |
| Description | Columbia River Treaty Renegotiation, University of California (Berkeley), CA, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Invited participant in a 2-day workshop on the 'Columbia River Treaty Renegotiation - a conversation between representatives of the sovereign stakeholders from the US, Canada, First Nations and Tribes'. I was the only non-native stakeholder invited to this event, which was hosted by the prestigious Center for US and Canadian Studies on the UC Berkeley campus. I spoke about identifying, respecting and meeting the diverse needs of the sovereign stakeholders through development of a shared vision of the Columbia River as a priceless piece of 'Blue-Green Infrastructure'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Conference on Floodplain Management: Adapting to Change, Oregon USA 2013 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited presentation given by Richard Fenner entitled 'Reflections on Stormwater Systems and their Urban Value'. The talk introduced the Blue-Green Cities project which sparked questions and discussion on proposal research and specifically plan for research in Oregon. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | Conference paper presentation at the CIWEM UDG Autumn Conference and Exhibition 2015 entitled 'Evaluating the multiple benefits of a Blue-Green vision for urban surface water management' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My talk on developing Blue-Green vision for surface water management sparked questions and discussions with other academics and practitioners who were interested in the work of the Blue-Green Cities team. There were several requests for further information and published research from the project and the talk was advertised on social media. Increased page views on the Blue-Green Cities website and discussions of future projects with academics/practitioners |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.ciwem.org/media/1725959/Paper%201%20Evaluating%20the%20multiple%20benefits%20of%20a%20Blu... |
| Description | Conference presentation at 7th International Conference on Flood Management , Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fenner R.A., O'Donnell E . ( 2017) Overcoming barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure through multiple benefit evaluation. Presented at 7th International Conference on Flood Management, Leeds September 5-9 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Delivering and evaluating the multiple benefits in Blue-Green Cities. CIBSE Resilient Cities Group meeting, London. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The talk aimed to introduce Blue-Green infrastructure and sustainable drainage to the CIBSE (The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers) Resilient Cities group. The talk sparked discussion and debate on urban water management and how such activities could help meet other climate change and city regeneration objectives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.cibse.org/networks/groups/resilient-cities/past-events-and-presentations |
| Description | EA TAG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk on FCERM related research and future requirements from EPSRC FRMsandpit grants. Questions over "national" (England, Scotland) and engineering (EPSRC) focus. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | EGU 2015 Evaluating the effect of river restoration techniques on reducing the impacts of outfall on water quality |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This describes a poster created for the 2015 EGU General Assembly. The poster prompted questions and discussions around using river restoration techniques to reduce the impact of outfalls on water quality, and wider interest in the Blue-Green Cities project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | East Midlands Lead Local Flood Authority Network Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a presentation on Blue-Green Infrastructure: Perceptions, Barriers and Solutions at the East Midlands Lead Local Flood Authority Network Meeting. This led to questions on my research and opportunities for involvement in future events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Ecobuild presentation Blue-green benefits - are they perceived differently by communities, designers and decision-makers? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel discussion generated discussion afterwards with several individuals requesting further information and publication details afterwards increased number of hits o project website and requests for copies of research publications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Ecobuild presentation on Blue-Green Cities: delivering environmental and social benefits |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | After the talk there was a discussion session (~30 minutes) and there were many questions about Blue-Green Cities and how local authorities and water companies could start working together to implement some of the approaches. Several people asked for further information on the project and were given the website address. The Blue-Green Cities website received more views following on from this event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/conferences.aspx |
| Description | Ecobuild/Aco technologies long table on SuDs |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion was recorded for wider dissemination After the panel interest was expressed in the project and publications were requested |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://storify.com/ACOWater/ecobuild-design-fringe-brought-to-you-by-aco |
| Description | Ecosystem Services of Urban Rivers conference, Krtiny, Czech Republic |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Glyn Everett presented a paper entitled 'The Centrality of Felt Voice and Ownership to Developing Sustainable 'Sustainable Drainage Systems' to a conference organised by the University of Brno serving to increase awareness of the multiple benefits of rivers & blue-green infrastructure, sharing best practice ideas around engagement & measuring across European countries. The paper prompted a healthy debate around the importance of felt local ownership of devices in order to encourage better behaviour and voluntary help with maintenance and clearing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.icabr.com/rivers/ |
| Description | Effects of delta extension on base level rising of the Lower Yellow River. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions and discussion about the Yellow River Delta and natural processes. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Evaluating multiple benefits of blue green urban flood management practices. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academic only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions about how the multiple benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure can be evaluated. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Evaluating the Multiple Benefits of Blue Green Infrastructure. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions about how the multiple benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure can be evaluated. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Evaluating the multiple benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure. Managing flood risk and delivering multiple benefits with Blue-Green infrastructure, Belfast, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk at the Northern Ireland conference 'Managing flood risk and delivering multiple benefits with Blue-Green infrastructure' introduced a toolkit to evaluate the multiple benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure, which the participants could download from the Blue-Green Cities website. the talk sparked questions and discussion of the tools capabilities and interest in the next steps. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Everyone loves a bit of nature |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation "Everyone loves a bit of nature .. I think it's a great idea: Business perspectives on increasing BGI in Newcastle's CBD" to Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance relaunch event. Questions and discussions around the implications for the Newcastle blue green vision. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Exhibition stand at Flood and Coast 2016 Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Blue-Green Cities research team, alongside the Flood Memory and SESAME research teams, had an exhibition stand at the Flood and Coast 2016 event. The objective was to further disseminate the research outputs from the three EPSRC projects funded at the 2012 sandpit. This involved talking to interested delegates, giving away written documents (e.g. key project outputs summary, factsheets) and USBs that contained conference papers, journal papers, factsheets and other Blue-Green Cities outputs. We estimate that ~120 people engaged with the stall, 80 took USBs and another 70 took project reports and/or factsheets. The stall led to discussion around the implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure for flood risk management in other cities and to requests for further information on the project outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.floodandcoast.com/2list.php#E |
| Description | Exploring cultural influences of communication among green infrastructure development and maintenance stakeholders in Portland, Oregon. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions about how different cultures interpret and behave towards green infrastructure. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | FCERM General Assembly |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Academic and stakeholder workshop in flood risk management - dissmination of new research, identification of R&D gaps to be addressed and funding mechanisms available |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
| Description | FCERM.Net webinar on Learning and Action Alliances to develop a Blue-Green vision for urban flood risk management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked questions and discussion on the role of learning and action alliances to help inter-agency collaboration and development of a Blue-Green vision. Requests for further information on Blue-Green Cities outputs, especially how to set up and run Learning and Action Alliances |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.fcerm.net/fcermnet-october-webinar-1 |
| Description | FCERM.net Annual Assembly May 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on the outputs from the Blue-Green Cities Research project sparked questions and discussion on the research methods, results and next steps. Emily Lawson was asked to give a webinar for the FCERM network on Learning and Action Alliances. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://fcerm.net/Assembly-Register |
| Description | Factsheet - Participatory Modelling in Hebden Bridge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Factsheet produced for the Blue-Green cities research consortium on 'participatory modelling in Hebden Bridge' detailing the workshops and events held in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire 2012-14 to co-produce a Bayesian network model of flood risk in the Hebden Water catchment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/publications/newslettersebulletins.aspx |
| Description | Factsheet - Participatory modelling in Southwell, Nottinghamshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Factsheet produced for the Blue-Green cities research consortium to summarise participatory workshops and modelling work conducted in Southwell, Nottinghamshire (primarily in 2015). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/publications/newslettersebulletins.aspx |
| Description | Factsheet - Recognising barriers to the implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure: a Newcastle case study |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This factsheet presents information on a recent piece of research published in the Urban Water Journal on barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure in Newcastle. The factsheet is aimed at non-specialists and condense the paper into two sides of A4. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/documents/newcastlebarriersfactsheet.pdf |
| Description | Factsheet on Flood Footprint assessment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of the collection of factsheets available for download on the Blue-Green Cities website and given out at dissemination events, each highlighting a particular aspect of the research and either explaining a new methodology or application of an existing methodology, or explaining key research findings and messages. The factsheets page on the Blue-Green Cities website has been viewed 691 times since inception in February 2015, and spark discussion around Blue-Green Cities research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/floodfootprintassessment-dm.pdf |
| Description | Factsheet on Functional Complexity of SuDS/GI and Grey Infrastructure under non-flood conditions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of the collection of factsheets available for download on the Blue-Green Cities website and given out at dissemination events, each highlighting a particular aspect of the research and either explaining a new methodology or application of an existing methodology, or explaining key research findings and messages. The factsheets page on the Blue-Green Cities website has been viewed 691 times since inception in February 2015, and spark discussion around Blue-Green Cities research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/bgc-factsheet-functional-complexity-non-f... |
| Description | Factsheet on Green Infrastructure Evaluation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of the collection of factsheets available for download on the Blue-Green Cities website and given out at dissemination events, each highlighting a particular aspect of the research and either explaining a new methodology or application of an existing methodology, or explaining key research findings and messages. The factsheets page on the Blue-Green Cities website has been viewed 691 times since inception in February 2015, and spark discussion around Blue-Green Cities research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/green-infrastructure-evaluation-benefit-i... |
| Description | Factsheet on Public Perceptions around Blue-Green Infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of the collection of factsheets available for download on the Blue-Green Cities website and given out at dissemination events, each hihghlighting a particular aspect of the research and either explaining a new methodology or application of an existing methodology, or explaining key research findings and messages. The factsheets page on the Blue-Green Cities website has been viewed 691 times since inception in February 2015, and spark discussion around Blue-Green Cities research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/publicperceptionsfactsheet.pdf |
| Description | Factsheet on Relational Complexity of SuDS/GI Non-Flood and Flood Conditions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of the collection of factsheets available for download on the Blue-Green Cities website and given out at dissemination events, each highlighting a particular aspect of the research and either explaining a new methodology or application of an existing methodology, or explaining key research findings and messages. The factsheets page on the Blue-Green Cities website has been viewed 691 times since inception in February 2015, and spark discussion around Blue-Green Cities research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/relational-complexity-of-sudsgi-factsheet... |
| Description | Factsheet on River restoration for flood alleviation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of the collection of factsheets available for download on the Blue-Green Cities website and given out at dissemination events, each highlighting a particular aspect of the research and either explaining a new methodology or application of an existing methodology, or explaining key research findings and messages. The factsheets page on the Blue-Green Cities website has been viewed 691 times since inception in February 2015, and spark discussion around Blue-Green Cities research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/factsheet-riverrestorationouseburn.pdf |
| Description | Factsheet on functional Complexity of SUDS/GI and Grey Infrastructure under flood conditions |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of the collection of factsheets available for download on the Blue-Green Cities website and given out at dissemination events, each highlighting a particular aspect of the research and either explaining a new methodology or application of an existing methodology, or explaining key research findings and messages. The factsheets page on the Blue-Green Cities website has been viewed 691 times since inception in February 2015, and spark discussion around Blue-Green Cities research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/bgc-factsheet-functional-complexity-excee... |
| Description | Factsheet on river habitat scoring: an assessment tool |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of the collection of factsheets available for download on the Blue-Green Cities website and given out at dissemination events, each highlighting a particular aspect of the research and either explaining a new methodology or application of an existing methodology, or explaining key research findings and messages. The factsheets page on the Blue-Green Cities website has been viewed 691 times since inception in February 2015, and spark discussion around Blue-Green Cities research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/factsheet-river-habitat-scoring.pdf |
| Description | Flood & Coast conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk and roundtable addressing flood risk, resilience and response in a changing climate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.floodandcoast.com/conference.php |
| Description | Flood Force Film |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talks at several forums advertised the film, which was premiered in Newcastle in June 2013. Increased awareness and uptake of our methods in industry and local authorities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
| URL | http://www.lwec.org.uk/stories/flood-force-launched |
| Description | Flood resilience in an uncertain future: The role of Blue-Green Infrastructure (keynote address). Climate Change for Local Councils: Innovations, Developments and Practical Actions. APSE Policy Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a presentation to the Association of Public Service Excellence (APSE) group on the topic of Flood resilience in an uncertain future: The role of Blue-Green Infrastructure. There were ~80 people at the event. The talk sparked interesting discussion on the benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure and requests for further information on the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.apse.org.uk/apse/assets/File/Screen%20RGB%20January%20Policy%20(2).pdf |
| Description | Guardian article on living with floods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Colin Thorne published an article in the Guardian titled "What Britain has to do if it doesn't want to live with floods (no, it's not dredging)". This resulted in online discussion and sharing of information related to natural flood risk management techniques and what the government could do to reduce future risks. The article was published online and mentioned in the social media sphere, e.g. Twitter and LinkedIn. This article generated much discussion on possible flood risk management efforts for the UK, and the potential use of Blue-Green infrastructure. The Blue-Green Cities website received a larger number of hits following on from the publication of this article (214 page views on the day the article was released, and 397 in the week after) and there were several requests for further information on the project and requests for other media work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/10/britain-floods-chief-scientist-sewage-coastal-d... |
| Description | Guest lecture, University of Derby |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Approx. 50 people attended the lecture "Keeping your head above water: coping with flooding in the UK", given by Colin Thorne. There was opportunity for discussion following the lecture and interested parties were directed to the Blue-Green Cities website for further information on natural flood risk management in urban areas. The lecture sparked interest in the Blue-Green Cities research project, resulting in over 300 views of the website in the week following the event. Students and staff at Derby University learned more about alternative, blue-green methods for flood risk management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.derby.ac.uk/thorne |
| Description | HR Wallingford Collaborative Research Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting entitled, 'Green Approaches in River Engineering: Supporting implementation of Green Infrastructure'. This was meeting of the collaborative research team convened to develop guidance on using green infrastructure to stabilise eroding river banks. The team included HR Wallingford, the River Restoration Centre and the universities of Glasgow, Liverpool and Nottingham. The collaboration produced a new guidance document published by HR Wallingford that draws and 'Blue-Green' approaches and principles developed by the Blue-Green Cities research consortium The project was funded by NERC under grant NE/N017560/1. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IAHR 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | International conference of practitioners in FRM engineering and academics in R&D. International perspective on risks and requirements for further R&D. Invitation to influence future conference sessions towards current EPSRC reearch. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | IAHR conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research findings for the J4M8 research undertaken as part of EPSRCEP/J501335/1 and EP/K50337X/1 to the international academic community focused on water research. Presentation was titled: Multiple event analysis of fine sediment pollutant transport through Sustainable urban Drainage Systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | ICUD2015(Malaysia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | International workshop of SE Asia engineers and R&D teams - invitation to publish in internationally-facing journal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) webinar - Newcastle/East Midlands |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presenting the fourth of a series of four webinars as part of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) East Midlands Chair's Programme: 'Blue-Green Infrastructure: the theory and practice'. Focusing on policy and practice in Newcastle/East Midlands. Lots of questions from the audience on local examples of blue-green infrastructure and how this can be used to meet carbon net zero targets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ice.org.uk/eventarchive/blue-green-infrastructure-east-midlands-webinar |
| Description | Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) webinar - Ningbo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presenting the second of a series of four webinars as part of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) East Midlands Chair's Programme: 'Blue-Green Infrastructure: the theory and practice'. Focusing on policy and practice in Ningbo, China (18th February 2021). The talk inspired a lot of questions from the participants which led to networking opportunities and requests for further information on my research. ~120 participants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ice.org.uk/events/blue-green-infrastructure-ningbo-china-webinar |
| Description | Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) webinar - Portland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presenting the third of a series of four webinars as part of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) East Midlands Chair's Programme: 'Blue-Green Infrastructure: the theory and practice'. Focusing on policy and practice in Portland. Questions and discussion after the presentation on how best practice examples from Portland can be applied in UK cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ice.org.uk/eventarchive/blue-green-infrastructure-portland-oregon-webinar |
| Description | Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) webinar - Rotterdam |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presenting the first of a series of four webinars as part of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) East Midlands Chair's Programme: 'Blue-Green Infrastructure: the theory and practice'. Focusing on policy and practice in Rotterdam (5th November 2020). The talk inspired a lot of questions from the participants which led to networking opportunities and requests for further information on my research. ~150 participants |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ice.org.uk/eventarchive/blue-green-infrastructure-rotterdam-webinar |
| Description | Integrating water and energy saving with urban planning and design. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. The talk sparked questions and discussions about how water and energy saving can be included in new urban design in China. Increased links with academics and practitioners in China, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | International Conference on Urban Drainage, Kuching, Malaysia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | Gave a presentation on the finding of one of Blue Green Cities's work packages Expression of interest for future knowledge exchange from both practitioners and academics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Introduction to Ningbo Urban Water Resources and Flood Risk Management. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. The talk sparked questions about the Ningbo planning system and potential incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure. Increased links with academics in China, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. Discussion between Ningbo planning officials and invitations to meet other city stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Invited conference paper, Reed College, Portland, OR, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited paper titled, 'Restoring the Dignity of Johnson Creek'. This invited presentation reported research performed in Johnson Creek under the 'Clean Water for All' initiative and funded by the EPSRC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Invited expert to World Build Environment Online debates |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Live Panel discussion on Flood Risk Management with selected experts from around the globe. Organised by the World Build Environment Forum. Recording made available. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited presentation at 2016 Liveable Cities Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation on 'Overcoming barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure through multiple benefit evaluation' introduced the Nova Scotia audience to the idea of Blue-Green Cities and challenges associated with developing Blue-Green infrastructure. The presentation led to discussion and questions on the Blue-Green Cities research project and outputs (project finished April 2016) and potential applications in Canada to help address some of their flood and water management problems. The presentation also allowed Emily O'Donnell to network with the Canadian audience and gain contacts for potential collaboration. A request to use one of the Blue-Green Cities tools (GIS tool) was also made. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.livablecitiesforum.com/ |
| Description | Invited presentation at the CIWEM Surface Water Management Conference 2014 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was an invited presentation given at the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM)'s Surface Water Management Conference 2014. Over 100 practitioners, academics and policy makers from throughout the UK attended and there was much discussion around the topic of sustainable urban water management and blue-green infrastructure. CIWEM have produced an online summary of the event (http://www.ciwem.org/media/1285268/swm_delegate_notes.pdf) which guides interested parties to the Blue-Green Cities website, where further information on the project can be found. The content of the presentation may have stimulated thinking by policy makers and practitioners regarding the multiple benefits that blue-green infrastructure can provide. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/ciwemthorne2014.pdf |
| Description | Johnson Creek Science Symposium 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A poster will be presented on Blue-Green Cities research into the perceptions and behaviours of communities around Blue-Green infrastructure in Portland, building on research completed during our 2014 Portland case study. The event will be held in May 2016 and the audience will comprise approximately 200 people that represented a variety of stakeholders in the Johnson Creek watershed (i.e. non-profit groups, city officials, county officials, Metro officials, scientists, Tribes, home-owners). The impacts from the event will be added to this entry in due course. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Journal article submission (unpublished): Green roofs: Perceptions in the Newcastle, UK CBD (Journal of Corporate Re2al Estate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article written by Glyn Everett and Jessica Lamond and submitted to the Journal of Corporate Real Estate; accepted and currently under revision. The article looks at perceptions of green roofs and senses of costs & benefits amongst businesses that currently own them, and this in the Newcastle Central Business District who do not. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange Session I Overview of current research findings. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. The talk sparked questions and discussion of the ongoing research at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China Campus. Increased links with academics in China, UK and US, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange Session II Overview of current research findings. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. The talk sparked questions about some of the recent research into Blue-Green infrastructure, river restortion and urban growth in Portland, Oregon. Increased links with academics in China, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange Session III, Overview of current research findings. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. The talk sparked questions and discussions around the potential for Blue-Green infrastructure in China. Increased links with academics in China, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Knowledge exchange skills development for early career researchers in the built environment and infrastructure sectors |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 25 Early Career Researchers (ECRs) attended the event, which was focused on stakeholder engagement and knowledge exchange. This resulted in discussion of many EPSRC research projects, including Blue-Green Cities, and questions regarding the research goals and objectives. This was a good networking opportunity for ECRs and potential for future collaboration on projects. Several members of the workshop requested information on the Blue-Green Cities research project and the rationale behind blue-green flood risk management was disseminated to a wider academic audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.arcc-network.org.uk/early-career-researchers/how-to-engage-with-those-elusive-stakeholder... |
| Description | LBC Radio |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Nigel Wright was interviewed on Feb 10th, 2014 for LBC radio. This talk stimulates questions and discussion about urban flooding. After my talk, the radio programme is active to include more urban flood resilience related interviews |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | LSE Works talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk given as part of the 'LSE Works' series which aims to showcase the research of LSE faculty in an accessible manner. The talk, entitled 'Coping with Deep Uncertainty: jellyfish, super-storms and nuclear stewardship' was delivered to an audience: approximately 200 people - a mix of academic, industry/business and general public. One of the discussants was a member of industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.lse.ac.uk/Events/2017/03/20170315t1830vHKT/Coping-with-Deep-Uncertainty |
| Description | Learning and Action Alliances to develop a Blue-Green vision for urban flood risk management, A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This presentation was to academics only and resulted in discussions and questions around Learning and Action Alliances in other cities and countries. Increased links with academics in China and Portland (US), potential for future work in Ningbo, contributions to collaborative journal paper writing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Learning and Action Alliances to develop a Blue-Green vision for urban flood risk management, A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This presentation was to academics only and resulted in discussions and questions around Learning and Action Alliances in other cities and countries. Increased links with academics in China and Portland (US), potential for future work in Ningbo, contributions to collaborative journal paper writing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Lecture & discussion with BA Planning students |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A cohort of Planning students (20) attended for a lecture on 'Green Infrastructure And Community Engagement'. Students expressed strong interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Lincoln University, UK - April 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stage Zero Workshop: Reconnecting Rivers and Floodplains to create Blue-Green Systems. Created discussion on the role of Stage Zero river restoration in creating blue-green systems to manage flood risk and deliver environmental and social benefits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.therrc.co.uk/sites/default/files/files/Conference/2019/Presentations/programme_v30.pdf |
| Description | Lincoln University, UK - April 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stage Zero Workshop: Reconnecting Rivers and Floodplains to create Blue-Green Systems at Lincoln University. Created opportunities for discussion on the Stage Zero river restoration concept and the role of blue-green infrastructure in flood risk management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Living with water: Changing human-water interactions in the Pacific Northwest streams. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions and discussion about how human-water interactions in the Pacific Northwest streams could change. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Local Action Aliance presentation- 07/01/2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presention of Blue-Green Cities project findings (EPSRCEP/J501335/1 and EP/K50337X/1) for the Newcastle Great Park field study specifically regarding the long term water quality treatment efficiencies found for the study site. Key outcomes from this research include: -SuDS assets do provide sediment detention, but not necessarily the way or to the level existing manuals suggest -SuDS to provide water quality improvement, but different SuDS assets provide different levels of benefit -SuDS assets can change the PSD in stormwater (removing the larger sediment), but again each asset acts differently -This research has provided field data that shows individual SuDS asset benefits: a step towards detention and pollutant remediation ranking of studied SuDS - Research as illustrated the benefit of networks, and that the composition of the network is more important than the number of assets in the network - Moving forwardwe now have data and analysis that can help shape and improve SuDS asset and network design, and the implementation of SuDS in the urban B-G City |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Managing flood risk and delivering multiple benefits with Blue-Green infrastructure workshop, Belfast, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop aimed to present some of the outputs of the Blue-Green Cities project to the Department for Infrastructure Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Rivers Agency, and discuss potential application of Blue-Green infrastructure in Northern Ireland. It was also an opportunity for local practitioners to learn about successful Blue-Green schemes in Northern Ireland as local presentations were also given. The workshop was a networking opportunity to discuss future collaborations and research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Media during floods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Yorkshire Evening Post - January 10th, 2014 LBC Radio - February 10th, 2014 BBC, Inside Out West - February 11th, 2014 BBC, Inside Out West Midland - February 25th, 2014 Radio 5 Live, Victoria Derbyshire, - February 14th, 2014 Sky News, February 11th and 16th, 2014 BBC Radio Cambridge, Naked Scientist - March 9th, 2014 University of Leeds Alumni Magazine: http://www.alumni.leeds.ac.uk/document.doc?id=168 Not possible to measure this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Meeting with Wakatu Incorporated (Cambridge University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My colleague and I met with three members of the New Zealand Wakatu Incorporated to discuss flood and water management and the potential to implement Blue-Green solutions to manage some of the flood risk issues that members of Wakatu Inc. are currently dealing with in areas of New Zealand. The meeting sparked questions on the feasibility of different flood risk management options in the New Zealand case study sites, and potential for future collaboration between the wider research team and Wakatu Inc. and their associates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Mid-Atlantic Stream Restoration Conference, Baltimore Maryland - October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Biomic River restoration and the Stream Evolution Triangle - towards a Blue-Green Future', which sparked much discussion on the potential for biomic river restoration in Mid-Atlantic watersheds. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Modelling floodplain influence on flow and sediment dynamics of the urbanised creek. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions and discussion about floodplain and sediment modelling. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Monte Carlo simulation of the combined probability of pluvial and tidal flooding in Ningbo. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions and discussion on pluvial and tidal flooding in Ningbo. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Municipal incentives for floodplain protection, and the origin of the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions about the incentives for floodplain protection on the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Nature Nights' Deschutes Land Trust, Bend Oregon - February 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Restoring the Dignity of Rivers - achieving resilience in an uncertain future'. This was attended by 466 people (a sell out) plus 250 on the waiting list for tickets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.deschuteslandtrust.org/hikes-events/nature-nights |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: Opening Remarks (Cllr Jed Bell) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by Councillor Jed Bell (Newcastle City Council). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: interview with Colin Thorne |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Colin Thorne was interviewed by a Newcastle City Council press officer during the 18th February dissemination event about the role of Blue-Green infrastructure for flood risk and water management and the generation of multiple benefits. This was posted on the Newcastle City Council Facebook page and was viewed by the public (385 views and one comment on 02.03.16). This encourage the public to think about sustainable water management in a changing climate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.facebook.com/NewcastleCityCouncil/videos/10153509762698790/ |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: presentation from Colin Thorne on The multiple benefits of living in a Blue-Green City |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by Prof Colin Thorne (University of Nottingham). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: presentation from Richard Fenner and Malcolm Morgan on evaluating multiple benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure schemes through GIS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by Richard Fenner and Malcolm Morgan (Cambridge University). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle 2016 dissemination event: presentation from Richard Warneford on Leading the way - putting blue-green cities into practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk was given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event in Feb 2016 (Improving Flood Resilience: the Blue-Green Advantage) by Richard Warneford (Northumbrian Water). The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings, sharing of Blue-Green good practice by stakeholders in the NE/Newcastle, and discussion with regional stakeholders to encourage the wider incorporation of Blue-Green infrastructure into flood risk and water management plans. Impacts from the event included requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations (now available on the Blue-Green Cities website), interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. There was also a lot of social media activity (twitter, LinkedIn) and increased interest in the Blue-Green Cities website and wikipedia page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/newcastle-dissemination-event-2016.aspx |
| Description | Newcastle Blue and Green Declaration Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I represent the Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance and Urban Flood Resilience research project on the Newcastle Blue and Green Declaration Group. The group aims to promote the Newcastle Declaration (http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/newcastle-blue-and-green-declaration/newcastle-blue-green-declaration.aspx) and encourage implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure to deliver multiple benefits to the environment, society and the economy of Newcastle and the wider NE region. Contributing to this group has helped with dissemination of our research and requests for further involvement in projects, events and engagement activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| Description | Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) formed in February 2014 and aims to work in partnership with stakeholders in the City of Newcastle to develop a Blue-Green vision that includes flood risk and surface water management plus the delivery of multiple diverse ecological, socio-cultural and economic benefits. The LAA meets every ~3 months to discuss innovative solutions to flood and water management, and implementation of multi-functional Blue-Green infrastructure. LAA activities have led to many requests for information on the Blue-Green Cities and Urban Flood Resilience projects (as it is a component of both) and invitations for collaboration and further work with the stakeholder members. The LAA meetings will continue throughout the lifetime of the Blue-Green Cities project (Jan 2016) and then be taken over by the urban Flood resiience Project until May 2020, with the goal for Newcastle stakeholders to take ownership and continue the group after both projects ends. The meetings have allowed Newcastle stakeholders to bring their expertise, but talk freely outside of any organisational constraints in an atmosphere of mutual trust and ownership. We have facilitated open knowledge-sharing and discussions between stakeholders who may not typically get the opportunity to have frank discussions. The group is developing strategies for incorporating blue-green infrastructure into Newcastle master plans for urban regeneration, with a hope to influence policy and imp |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/research/learning-and-action-alliance.aspx |
| Description | Newsnight (TV) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Colin Thorne participated in a Newsnight special on the flood crisis, live from the Thames Valley, 12th February 2014. Approx. 120 people attended the Newsnight event which was hosted by Jeremy Paxman and shown on BBC2. Colin asked and answered questions during the event, which sparked discussion with the audience and host. The importance of natural flood risk management was highlighted during the event and the blue-green approach was mentioned. There was more interest in the Blue-Green Cities research project and the website received over 200 views on the days surrounding the event. The event also sparked discussion on social media, e.g. twitter, which has a national extent. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03vgnq5 |
| Description | Nigerian Blue-Green Cities networking meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Establishment of a network of Nigerian academics currently working in the UK to explore potential for delivering blue-green infrastructure in Nigerian cities, such as Abuja. We have hosted several networking meetings and shared resources. Arup (consultancy) are currently getting involved and future meetings/workshops will invite academics, practitioners and policy makers from Abuja to explore options. Meetings to date have led to requests for further information on the blue-green cities project outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | Nottingham Sustainable Development Plan - Water and Climate Change task group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I am a member of the Nottingham Sustainable Development Plan - Water and Climate Change task group, that is working towards developing a Sustainable Development Plan for the city of Nottingham. The plan will be published in 2017 and aims to encourage the development of Nottingham into a Blue-Green City, plus improve energy efficicency, health and wellbeing,sustainable development and resilient infrastructure. There is thus potential to influence this plan to include aspects of research from the Blue-Green Cities and Urban Flood Resilience research projects. Although the plan is non-statutory, input could lead to inclusion of our academic research in other plans, such as the Nottingham City Council Green and Blue Strategy that will also be published in 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| Description | OUP Oxford Philosophy Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Leonard Smith took part in the Oxford University Press (OUP) Second Oxford Philosophy Festival 'speed dating' event, which aimed to answer the question 'What's Philosophy got to do with...Anything?', 7-12 November 2016, Blackwell's Bookshop, Oxford. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-philosophy-festival |
| Description | Ochoco National Forest, Oregon - August 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Stage Zero River Restoration - creating Blue-Green Systems', which sparked discussion on potential Stage Zero restoration activities in the Ochoco National Forest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Overcoming uncertainties and barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure. Urban Water Management Workshop April 12th (CaBA Working Group) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The presentation introduced some of the barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure and sustainable drainage and sparked questions and discussions from the audience. Emily subsequently joined the Soar Catchment partnership and has had the opportunity to engage in further research and events. The activity also led to networking with East Midlands practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | PaCE Institute presentation - School of Civil Engineering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Sangaralingam Ahilan talked about 'Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Flood Risk Management'. This talked sparked questions and discussed about sustainable urban flood risk management in UK cities. Researchers and students from the school of civil engineering and geography department mostly attended this event. Invited to give a lecture on water engineering module for 3rd year civil engineering student. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Papplewick Pumping Station Annual Lecture 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was part of the expert panel for the 2021 Papplewick Pumping Station Annual Lecture discussing Sustainable management of water for the city'. My talk sparked questions from the audience on the role of blue-green infrastructure in urban sustainability and requests for further information on my research. I was also asked to give a guest lecture in a different department within the University on urban futures and sustainability. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/policy-and-engagement/events/events-2021/the-papplewick-lecture-2021-su... |
| Description | Participatory workshops in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Six evening workshops to build a Bayesian network around the issue of reducing flood risk in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. A group of residents and professionals (practitioners, Environment Agency staff, local authority) worked through several modelling activities, culminating in the co-generation of a cause-effect conceptual model of flood risk in Netica. This focussed on nine catchment objectives (identified by participants), alongside their respective causes, drivers, and possible solutions (or 'interventions'). This model was then run through four different future socio-economic scenarios. Work was supported by Calderdale Council and Environment Agency staff, amongst others, who attended the workshops, and disseminated the findings more widely within their respective organisations. The work has since been presented to DEFRA, the National Flood Forum, the EA Innovation Team (Leeds Office) and in academic institutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/140228-bgc-factsheet.pdf |
| Description | Participatory workshops in Southwell, Nottinghamshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
| Results and Impact | A series of five 2-hour participatory workshops with approximately 12-15 participants drawn from a pool of 40. Participants generally consisted of local residents, with a smaller number of representatives from partner agencies (Nottinghamshire County Council, EA, Severn Trent Water). Participants worked through a series of structured modelling activities, that culminated in the co-construction of a conceptual model of flood risk, based on the 2013 flooding events that affected Southwell, Nottinghamshire. The model borrowed elements from system dynamics to investigate how the risk to different receptors changed throughout the flooding event. This was achieved by identifying eight risk hotspots across the town, and discussing each of these in detail. Testing and validation of the model was carried out by participants in the later workshops. Participant numbers were maintained around 15 per workshop. The Lead Local Flood Authority (LLFA) showed interest in the results from the participatory research, which will be available in late 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.southwellfloodforum.org.uk/archive/university-nottingham-community-participation-flood-mo... |
| Description | Partnering with Nature's River Restorers, 15th Annual River Restoration Symposium, River Restoration Northwest (RRNW) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Colin Thorne attended this conference and discussed how Blue-Green infrastructure could help river restoration. This led to discussions around the multiple benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure particularly for society and the environment. Conference attendees were interested in learning more and were directed to the BGC website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Perceptions of natural and social landscape characteristics between cities and across scales. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions and discussion about people's perceptions of different natural and man-made landscapes. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Perspectives on Urban Flood Resilience - blog by Richard Fenner, February 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog by Richard Fenner summarising the recent special issue of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transactions A Journal on urban flood resilience, published in February 2020, which featured several paper by the urban Flood Resilience project team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2020/02/18/perspectives-on-urban-flood-resilience/ |
| Description | Planning for Sustainable Flood Risk Management: Northern Ireland workshop, 2nd September 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop was to discuss the potential for Blue-Green infrastructure and natural flood management to be included as part of Northern Ireland flood risk management plans. Several presentations were given by members of the Blue-Green Cities team which led to questions and discussion from the audience (Northern Ireland water practitioners, planners, farmers, engineers). A blog written by Emily Lawson was circulated with the Northern Ireland Rivers Agency to all relevant parties. There were also requests for further information on the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/09/17/planning-for-sustainable-flood-risk-manage... |
| Description | Portland Blue-Green City sharing experience - presentation to Nottingham City Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Practitioners and policy makers at Nottingham City Council learned more about flood risk management using Blue-Green infrastructure and the advantages that this could bring to the city. This sparked questions and discussion regarding future regeneration of flood risk areas in Nottingham and the potential addition of green infrastructure. Continued contact with Nottingham City Council and discussions with their flood risk management team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Post-project interviews in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Short (30-45 minute) interviews held to evaluate the Hebden Bridge case study and any associated improvements in social capacity. Assisted with the design of second case study process (Southwell, Nottinghamshire). Gave participants opportunity to evaluate process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/140228-bgc-factsheet.pdf |
| Description | Post-project interviews in Southwell, Nottinghamshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 30-40 minute interviews held with participants in the Southwell case study workshops, in order to formally evaluate the participatory process. Semi-structured with a structured likert element. (n=13) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Poster presentation at Flood and Coast 2016, Telford, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presented at conference, "Building a community understanding of flood risk through participatory modelling' on 24 February 2015 at Flood and Coast 2016, Telford International Centre, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Poster presentation at the V REFORM International Conference on River and Stream Restoration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jenny Mant and Victoria Janes (Cranfield University) presented a poster entitled 'Evaluating the effect of river restoration techniques on reducing the impacts of outfall on water quality' at the REFORM International Conference on River and Stream Restoration "Novel Approaches to Assess and Rehabilitate Modified Rivers". Wageningen, The Netherlands, 30 June - 2 July 2015. This sparked discussion on how Blue-Green infrastructure and river restoration techniques can help rehabilitate modified rivers and led to request for further information on this work and the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Poster presentation on uncertainties and barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure at Flood and Coast 2016 (23-25th Feb, Telford UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This poster was presented during a session at the Flood and Coast 2016 event in Telford, UK (23-25th Feb). The poster was available for viewing over the three days. The Blue-Green Cities team were also involved in an exhibition stand and so the poster generated questions that were asked at the stand. The poster sparked discussion around the barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure and how these can be overcome. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Preliminary interviews in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Short (30-45 minute) interviews held to identify priority objectives for managing flood risk in the Hebden Water catchment (sub catchment of the River Calder, West Yorkshire, UK). Interviews were held with representatives from organisations (e.g. National Trust, Environment Agency, Moors for the Future, Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council) including local NGOs and charities, and local residents with an interest or 'stake' in flood risk management. Participants went on to participate in further activities, notably a workshop schedule. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/140228-bgc-factsheet.pdf |
| Description | Preliminary interviews in Southwell, Nottinghamshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
| Results and Impact | Series of interviews prior to a workshop schedule in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. Interviews were approximately 45 minutes in length on a 1:1 or 1:2 basis. The aim was to build a collective understanding of the risk facing Southwell, particularly in reference to flooding events in July 2013. A secondary goal was to identify and recruit participants to take part in the workshops. After the interviews, a group of c.40 local stakeholders were formed, of which 12-15 attended each of five workshops. Interviews helped to identify further stakeholders to interview (referral sampling). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation and discussion with Emersons Green residents |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation (and discussion) to interested parties at a meeting assembled by Local Authority professionals. Glyn Everett presented upon past and current work in order to generate interest in participation in the Urban Flood Resilience project. Significant interest was observed, and requests for further information followed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation and discussion with Hanham Hall residents |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to and discussion with residents of the Hanham Hall development about past and current work. Great interest was shown, and residents expressed and desire to be involved with the Urban Flood Resilience project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at 14th International, Conference on Urban Drainage (2017) - Institutional perspectives on impacts and benefits of an urban flood management project, Portland, Oregon (Richard Fenner) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The conference has not yet happened - to be updated in due course. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at CABA workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation generated questions and delegates collected factsheets j |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation at Cambridge University Flood Resilience meeting in May 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation on 'Delivering and Evaluating Multiple Flood Risk Benefits in Blue-Green Cities' was delivered at the 'Building Flood Resilience in the UK : defining the research agenda' meeting at Magdelene College, Cambridge, by Dr Richard Fenner. The talk sparked questions on the role of Blue-Green infrastructure in flood resilience strategies and led to requests for further information on project outputs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016 (Deonie Allen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Deonie Allen's presentation on 'Pollution from urban development and setback outfalls as a catchment management measure for river water quality improvement' at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016, 17th-22nd April 2016, Vienna, Austria, led to discussion of her research with the audience and requests for more information on the research project and outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at Flood and Coast 2016: A GIS tool for the spatial distribution of the multiple benefits of blue-green infrastructure (Malcolm Morgan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was given by Malcolm Morgan (Cambridge University) at the Flood and Coast 2016 event with the objective to disseminate the outputs from WP4 (multiple benefit evaluation). The talk sparked questions from the audience and requests for further information on the research and the Blue-Green Cities project, including a request for the Multiple Benefits GIS Toolkit (available on the BGC website). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at FloodRisk2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Glyn Everett gave a presentation entitled 'SuDS and human behaviour: Co-developing solutions to encourage sustainable behaviour' at FloodRisk2016 in Lyon, France. The presentation prompted debate around public perceptions, awareness and behaviour around SuDS devices and a healthy conversation around legislation and practices in different countries. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://floodrisk2016.net |
| Description | Presentation at Planning for Sustainable Flood Risk Management: Northern Ireland workshop 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jenny Mant (Cranfield University) gave a presentation entitled 'The Concept of NFM with examples: What could be done where and what are the benefits?' at the Northern Ireland Workshop (organised by the Blue-Green Cities project) in September 2015. The presentation led to questions about using natural flood management and Blue-Green infrastructure in Northern Ireland and discussion about where this could be incorporated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Presentation at The Liveable City workshop - London 2018. The Danish Embassy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colin Thorne gave a presentation on Creating Liveable + Flood Resilient Cities: the Blue-Green Advantage, at The Liveable City woprkshop, hosted by The Danish Embassy, June 2018, London. Colin discusssed research objectives and outputs from the Blue-Green Cities and Urban Flood Resilience research projects and the role of Blue-Green infrastructure for creation of multiple benefits. This sparked discussion and questions about the research and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://storbritannien.um.dk/en/the-trade-council/projects/the-liveable-city/the-liveable-city---lond... |
| Description | Presentation at an event organised by the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS) and The School of Geographical Sciences University of Nottingham (Colin Thorne) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Colin Thorne gave a presentation entitled 'Flood Resilient Cities: the Blue-Green Advantage' at an event at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China campus, organised by the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies (IAPS) and The School of Geographical Sciences University of Nottingham. It was an opportunity for staff and students to learn more about the Urban Flood Resilience project and discuss options for Ningbo. The talk sparked discussion and debate on urban water management options. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting 2016 - Shaun Maskrey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Shaun Maskrey gave a presentation entitled 'Building a community understanding of flood risk through participatory modelling' at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 29th March-2nd April 2016, San Francisco, USA. The presentation sparked questions on participatory modelling and the advantages of a community-led approach to flood risk management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation at the Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience event, Newcastle 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation entitled 'Our Journey along the Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience' introduced the research from our last two ESRC projects at a dissemination event in Newcastle (7th March 2019), and pointed the delegates to the research presentations as part of the afternoon session. This talked sparked questions from the audience on key research project outputs and practical applications of the research, and contributed to discussion on Blue-Green infrastructure throughout the day. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/events-news-and-blog/newcastle-dissemination-event-2019.aspx |
| Description | Presentation at the Institute of Water (IWA) Northern Ireland Area Conference: Flushed Away! Sewerage - The Poor Relation? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I gave a presentation at the IWA conference on "Delivering and Evaluating Multiple Flood Risk Benefits in Blue-Green Cities" which stimulated thinking around alternative methods to address the issues that Northern Ireland are facing regarding urban surface water management. This sparked discussions after the presentation and created new network opportunities. Over 100 people attended the event (mainly from the Northern Ireland water industry) but also those from England, Scotland and Wales. Two members of the Blue-Green Cities team attended this event and participated in the presentation. The impacts from this activity include greater interest in Blue-Green surface water management and dissemination of the project objectives and ongoing work, increased engagement from stakeholders via social media and the project website, and other requests for further information on the project. The contacts made at this event may also help facilitate future research in Northern Ireland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/conferences.aspx |
| Description | Presentation at the Open University Geology Society East Midlands branch event on 'Urban Flood Resilience' Dec 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The intended purpose of this presentation on 'Achieving urban flood resilience through Blue-Green Cities' was to disseminate recent researach outputs from the Urban Flood Resilience research project and to enhance the knowledge of even participants in order for them to better consider Blue-Green solutions in their professional or academic remits. The talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards on how to overcome the barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure and stimulated increased interest in Blue-Green Cities and Urban Flood Resilience research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Blue-Green Cities for Urban Flood Resilience' at the CIWEM RCG Study Weekend April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The intended purpose of this presentation on Blue-Green Cities was to enhance the knowledge of CIWEM members attending the study weekend in order for them to better consider BLue-Green solutions in their professional or academic remits. The talk sparked questions and discussion afterwards and Blue-Green approaches were included in the workshop session in the afternoon of the event. This talk stimulated increased interest in Blue-Green Cities and Urban Flood Resilience research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation on 'Public Perceptions of Greenway work around Orangefield / Greenville Park' at Managing flood risk and delivering multiple benefits with Blue-Green infrastructure event (Glyn Everett) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Glyn Everett's presentation on 'Public Perceptions of Greenway work around Orangefield / Greenville Park' led to interesting disucssions with stakeholders in Northern Ireland about the benefits and costs of the Greenway work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/documents/g-everett-belfast-ccg-2.pdf |
| Description | Presentation on 'Urban stormwater pollution treatment efficiencies revisited: the influence of multiple rainfall-runoff events' at Managing flood risk and delivering multiple benefits with Blue-Green infrastructure (Deonie Allen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk on 'Urban stormwater pollution treatment efficiencies revisited: the influence of multiple rainfall-runoff events' sparked discussion on stormwater management in Northern Ireland and sharing of best practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation on Blue-Green Cities at the University of Nottingham's Policy Impact Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The pecha-kucha style presentation discussed the potential impact of the Blue-Green Cities research project as an example research leading to impact and possible incorporation into policy. The presentation has led to this research being considered for an impact case study in the School of geography (University of Nottingham). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation on barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure at Newcastle end of project dissemination event Feb 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This refers to a presentation given at the Blue-Green Cities end of project dissemination event on 18th February 2016. The intended purpose was dissemination of research findings and discussion with regional stakeholders. Impacts from the event include requests for more information, requests for a copy of the presentations, interest in joining the Newcastle learning and action alliance, discussion around Blue-Green infrastructure and barriers to implementation in Newcastle, and the signing of the Newcastle declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure (at the event) which was reported in three press releases/newspaper articles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/emilyodonnellpresentation.pdf |
| Description | Presentation on changing perceptions and behaviours around Blue-Green infrastructure at SNIFFER Conference Edinburgh Feb 2016 (Jessica Lamond) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation entitled 'Changing perceptions and behaviours around Blue-Green infrastructure' was given by Jessica Lamond (UWE) at the 2016 SNIFFER conference in Edinburgh in a workshop session to disseminate the outputs of the Blue-Green Cities research project. The talk sparked questions from the audience and requests for further information on the research and the Blue-Green Cities project in general. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.sniffer.org.uk/files/8314/5389/3291/Sniffer_FRM_2016_FINAL_programme.pdf |
| Description | Presentation on evaluating the multiple benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure at SNIFFER Conference Edinburgh Feb 2016 (Malcolm Morgan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation entitled 'A GIS tool for the spatial distribution of the multiple benefits of flood mitigation strategies using Blue-Green infrastructure' was part of a workshop session to disseminate outputs from the Blue-Green Cities research project. The talk sparked questions and discussion and requests for further information an access to the tool once made open access (now available for download on the Blue-Green Cities website). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.sniffer.org.uk/files/8314/5389/3291/Sniffer_FRM_2016_FINAL_programme.pdf |
| Description | Presentation on natural flood management at 'Managing flood risk and delivering multiple benefits with Blue-Green infrastructure' event (Jenny Mant) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jenny Mant gave a presentation on 'Natural flood risk management and Blue-Green infrastructure' at an event in Northern Ireland 'Managing flood risk and delivering multiple benefits with Blue-Green infrastructure'. her talk sparked discussion of NFM techniques in England and Northern Ireland and how the approach could be incorporated in practice, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation on sediment transport mechanisms at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016 (Deonie Allen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Deonie Allen's presentation on 'Sediment transport mechanisms through the sustainable vegetated flow networks' presented at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2016, 17th-22nd April 2016, Vienna, Austria, led to discussions of her research and the wider Blue-Green Cities research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation to CIWEM East Anglian Branch (Cambridge) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation on 'Blue - Green cities to manage urban flood risk' was given to the CIWEM East Anglia Branch in May 2016 by Dr Richard Fenner. The presentation sparked discussions on the role of Blue-Green infrastructure in urban flood risk management and further requests for information on the outputs from the Blue-Green Cities project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation to Extreme events team Public Health England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk sparked an exchange of information and comments for feedback to wider research teams After my talk PHE gave a presentation at UWE to the students and researchers and discussions around research collaborations followed |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentation to Pubic Health England |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation on 'Blue Green Cities to manage urban flood risk' was given to Public Health England by Dr Richard Fenner. The talk led to discussions and questions around the research topic and how Blue-Green infrastructure could generate a range of (physical and mental) health and wellbeing benefits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Presentation to RIBA SW Architecture and Climate webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on Designing for Urban Flood Resilience in South West Regional Architecture Seminar Series. Invited talk followed by panel discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation to the City of Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Two members of the Blue-Green Cities research team gave a presentation to ~20 members of the City of Portland (predominantly the Bureau of Environmental Services) on the work they were conducting in Portland in 2014. Other members of the team (~10) were present to participate in the Q&A session following the talk. The presentation generated discussion and questions, in particular, discussing some of the differing challenges to urban water management and green infrastructure in UK and US cities. There were several requests for further information on the research project and many of the Portland stakeholders became more involved in the research, e.g. by participating in interviews or sharing data. Some of the methodology that the research team are building to map the multiple benefits of blue-green infrastructure may also have sparked ideas for application of a similar methodology to assess the multiple benefits of green street installations in Portland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Presentations at the Johnson Creek Science Symposium (Portland, Oregon, US) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Several members of the 'Clean Water for All' team contributed to this event by giving short presentations and discussing research with local practitioners, community and jurisdictional stakeholders. There were many questions about the research and extended networking opportunities between UK and US academics, and Portland participants. Several requests for further information on the Blue-Green Cities and Clean water for All projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://jcwc.org/events/first-annual-johnson-creek-science-symposium/ |
| Description | Public Policy Exchange: Making our Nation More Resilient to Flooding: Designing Effective Strategies and Delivering Key Solutions to our Communities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This activity involved detailed discussions on how to make the UK more resilient to flooding which Prof Colin Thorne participated in and introduced the group to the idea of Blue-Green Cities. This sparked questions around Blue-Green Cities research and interest in future research and dissemination events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Public Science Lecture at the University of Nottingham entitled Managing Urban Flood Risk: the Blue-Green Approach |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The talk sparked discussion afterwards into blue-green natural flood risk management and the applicability of these approaches for local areas, e.g. Southwell, north Nottingham, which was flooded in 2013/14. There were several requests for information and a copy of the presentation. After the talk, I met with a colleague in the Landscape Architecture department at the University of Nottingham and discussed different aesthetic approaches to flood risk management. I was also asked to give a presentation at a meeting of the Southwell flood forum with an aim to educate and increase awareness of blue-green flood risks management, particularly reaching out to local developers who plan to build in Southwell in an area of flood risk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/events/eventsnews.aspx |
| Description | RRC Conference, Liverpool - April 2019 - keynote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Keynote presentation on 'Restoration in Practice: Rivers of the Future, Rivers for Everyone'. Sparked questions and discussion on this topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.therrc.co.uk/sites/default/files/files/Conference/2019/Presentations/programme_v30.pdf |
| Description | Radio 5 Live - Victoria Derbyshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Nigel Wright was interviewed for Radio 5 Live, Victoria Derbyshire programme on 14th Feb 2014. In this talk he discussed about recent UK flooding and how to minimise flood impacts through sustainable urban flood risk management. Not possible to measure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Resilient Cities Leaders Forum (round-table discussion) as part of Amsterdam International Water Week 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Colin Thorne was involved in several round-table discussion on resilient water management and contributed his expertise to discussions on current climate change adaptation, living with climate risks, and how greater resilience can be achieved in the future. The RCLF was a great success, giving professionals and leaders the platform for open discussions and ideas to help identify and tackle challenges associated with water resilience and climate change. No specific impact noted at this time; a summary of the meeting is being prepared and could have impact once circulated to wider audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://internationalwaterweek.com/programme/aiww-conference/?id=68 |
| Description | Restoring Socio-Ecological Systems: Exploring the Socio-Ecological Connectivity of Green Infrastructure Design and Maintenance. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions and discussion on the green infrastructure design and maintenance. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | River Restoration Centre Annual Conference 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jenny Mant (Cranfield University, BGC team) was involved in organising and presenting at the RRC Annual Conference. Impacts included requests for information on the Blue-Green Cities project and discussion of how Blue-Green infrastructure can be used alongside river restoration techniques to generate a range of multiple benefits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.therrc.co.uk/sites/default/files/files/Conference/2015/Outputs/handbook_web.pdf |
| Description | River Restoration Centre Bulletins |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The River Restoration Centre produces monthly bulletins and this mechanism was used to promote the Blue-Green Cities research project and raise awareness of the approaches and multiple benefits. Bulletins are sent to over 2000 people so have a large readership. Bulletins containing information on Blue-Green Cities have led to requests for further information on specific aspects of the research and generally raised awareness of these approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016 |
| URL | http://www.therrc.co.uk/bulletins |
| Description | River Restoration Centre Conference workshop 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on 'Restoring connectivity between the stream & its floodplain'. This workshop will take place on 22nd April 2020 so no impact yet |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.therrc.co.uk/sites/default/files/general/Conference/rrc_2020/programme_2020_v40.pdf |
| Description | River Restoration Centre blog on Blue-Green Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This blog on Blue-Green Cities helped raise awareness of the multiple benefits that Blue-Green approaches to flood risk management can provide and directed readers to the Blue-Green Cities website. This blog post also lead to requests for further information on the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.therrc.co.uk/blog/blue-green-cities-understanding-multiple-benefit-people-economics-and-n... |
| Description | River Restoration Northwest and Portland State University - October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stage Zero short course - reconnecting channel-wetland-floodplain systems to increase river resilience in an uncertain future, which led to much discussion on the potential for Stage Zero approaches in other catchments, and the associated benefits/challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Routes to Policy Impact Conference at University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This activity refers to a pecha kucha style presentation entitled 'Flood risk, water management and Blue-Green Cities' given at the 'Routes to Policy Impact conference' at the University of Nottingham in May 2016. Following the presentation, there was discussion on sustainable flood risk management and how this research could feed in to parliamentary sub-committee groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/home/featureevents/2016/routes-to-policy-impact-conference.aspx |
| Description | Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) event on 'Delivering multiple co-benefits in Blue-Green Cities' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The event will take place in April 2021 (postponed from March 2020 due to COVID) so no outputs yet |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) online event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I gave an introduction to Blue-Green Cities at the online event "Delivering multiple co-benefits in blue-green cities" and was involved in the expert panel session. There were many questions from the Chair and audience about my research and thoughts on how flood risk management in the UK might change to include more multi-beneficial blue-green infrastructure. A policy paper was subsequently produced summarising the key findings from the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.rgs.org/geography/advocacy-and-impact/impact/bluegreencities/ |
| Description | Royal Town Planning Institute talk: Delivering and Evaluating Multiple Flood Risk Benefits in Blue-Green Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | After the talk there were discussions on how Blue-Green infrastructure could be included as part of development plans, local plans, and other form of planning guidance, to help reduce flood risk in urban areas. Several people asked for further information on the project and were given the website address and researcher contact details. There was a slight increase in the number of hit on the Blue-Green Cities website. This talk also contributed to raising the profile of Blue-Green infrastructure in Newcastle, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.rtpi.org.uk/events/events-calendar/2015/april/demystifying-water-management-in-planning,-... |
| Description | SNIFFER 2016 Conference, presentation of at the Blue-Green Cities Workshop on day 2 (Edinburgh, Scotland) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The presentation, 'Urban stormwater pollution treatment efficiencies revisited: the influence of multiple rainfall-runoff events' presented the key findings from the 3 year EPSRCEP/J501335/1 and EP/K50337X/1 research project to the consulting engineers, environmental scentists and agencies and policy makers of the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | SNIFFER conference 2016 - presentation on Learning and Action Alliances |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This was a presentation given at the SNIFFER conference 2016 as part of a session organised by the Blue-Green Cities research team on 'Blue-Green Cities'. More than 50 people were in attendance and asked many questions. There was good discussion of all the Blue-Green Cities paper afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/documents/sniffer2016-bgc-eodonnell.pdf |
| Description | SNIFFER workshop - I gave a talk at this Scottish Goverment funded event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This was a session for the SNIFFER Flood Risk Management conference (30-31st January 2020) on SUDS / Blue-Green cities. I spoke about how the impact of high density development can be mitigated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.hutton.ac.uk/blogs/h2ohutton/shining-light-latest-flood-risk-management-scotland |
| Description | SciBar Nottingham talk on using Blue-Green infrastructure to tackle urban flood risk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This invited talk introduced the general public to Blue-Green infrastructure and sustainable drainage and sparked questions and discussion around retrofitting properties to be more flood resilient and water efficient and discussions on how the city of Nottingham might better manage water to generate a range of benefits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.meetup.com/Nottingham-SciBar/events/229125556/ |
| Description | Seminar (University of Technology, Sydney) Modelling the impact of retrofit WSUD on CBD flooding. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and workshop created a dialogue and shared learning the workshop generated better understanding for practitioners and academics around implementation of WSUD in Sydney |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Series of e-bulletins (associated with Hebden Bridge case study) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Participants in your research and patient groups |
| Results and Impact | A series of 18 electronic bulletins (one page updates) on the participatory work in Hebden Bridge. These were sent out every 2-5 weeks and focussed on clarifying key terms/concepts, keeping participants up-to-date of work behind the scenes with the model and sharing the latest thinking from academic papers, seminars and conferences. In interview, several stakeholders mentioned the success of the e-bulletins as a stakeholder communication tool. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2013,2014 |
| URL | http://www.bluegreencities.ac.uk/bluegreencities/research/epsrcstudentship.aspx |
| Description | Seventh International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM7) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Ahilan delivers the talk on long-term performance of the Green infrastructure in the urban catchment. The talk is attended by around 100 people. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.icfm7.org.uk/ |
| Description | Sky News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Nigel Wright appeared in Sky News on 11th and 16th February 2014. He asked and answered number of interview questions related to UK urban flooding. Not possible to measure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Sponge City Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In the blog, Sangaralingam Ahilan reports on the UK-China joint workshop on 'Urban Flooding and Sponge Cities' at the 2017 annual conference of the International Institute for Infrastructure Resilience and Reconstruction (IIIRR) held on 3-5th July 2017 at Shenzhen, China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2017/07/26/sponge-cities-conference/ |
| Description | SuDS Research Roadmapping, Event 1, initial exploratory workshop. University of Leeds, 2nd July 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
| Results and Impact | This activity involved discussions of sustainable urban drainage systems and where there are research gaps in this field. From this, ideas for future research were developed. Requests for further information relating to research by the Blue-Green Cities research team, e.g. on uncertainty and barriers to uptake. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | SuDS Workshop at MShed, Bristol |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CIRIA workshop presenting on SuDS and blue-green infrastructure work conducted in Wales and England, policy developments, etc. Glyn Everett attended and although he did not present, he asked questions and participated in discussions, allowing him to share information on his projects. This generated some good interest and contact-development, which have been useful in building research work since. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Sustainable & Resilient Cities Symposium, Nottingham, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk on Blue-Green Cities looked at how urban flood resilience could be achieve through the use of Blue-Green infrastructure. The event looked at other definitions of resilience, e.g. engineering, ecological, social, and so there were discussions on definitions of the term and possible synergies between research groups. The event has led to discussion of a possible H2020 submission (SSC-02-2016-2017 Demonstrating innovative nature-based solutions in cities call) grounded on the idea of Blue-Green infrastructure as a mechanism to develop sustainable and resilient cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talk given at Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Assembly 2016, San Francisco, CA. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at the AAG Annual Assembly, San Francisco, CA week commencing Monday 28 March 2016, on "Building a community understanding of flood risk through participatory modelling' in the hydro-citizenship call. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talk given at Sniffer Conference 2016, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 20-minute talk given on "Building a community understanding of flood risk through participatory modelling' in the Blue-Green cities session at SNIFFER 2016, Edinburgh, Scotland on Wednesday 3rd February 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Talk given at the CaBA Delivering Environmental Benefits in Urban Communities Conference, Birmingham, UK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Short talk and poster presentation given at CaBA Delivering Benefits in Urban Communities Conference, Birmingham on 22 October 2015. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Talk to Chinese delegates |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The delegates discussed how to apply the concept of Blue Green Cities on to their interest of megacities in China. Some delegates expressed interest to apply the concept in China. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | To combine heritage preservation and modern water management: the observation of the utilisation of an ancient Chinese Waterway in Ningbo, China. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions and discussion on the ancient water management in Ningbo. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. This paper is now also being written up for potential inclusion in a special issue of the journal of flood risk management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Twenty65 Conference, presentation on 'A spatial evaluation of multiple benefits from Blue Green infrastructure' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Activity has not happened yet - will be updated in due course. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UK-Nigeria Knowledge Exchange Partnership on Blue-Green Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The workshop was attended by 35 people representing key stakeholder institutions in Abuja and the National Capital Territories. It was jointly organized by UoN, ARUP and SIWI (Stockholm International Water Institute). It was hosted by the Nigerian Institute of Agricultural Research and covered by several TV channels and national newspapers. The purpose was knowledge exchange on making Abuja a Blue-Green City. Colin Thorne gave a keynote speech on Blue-Green Cites and the potential for this approach to address Abuja's urban water challenges. The workshop was report in print media and on TV. Reports were aired on two major television stations known as Africa Independent Television and Arise Television. We also had coverage in about 7 reputable print media houses. There was also a virtual interview with Colin Thorne and Liberty Mgbanyi, and both interviews were captured in the news bulletins. ARUP are now applying their 'Our Water' approach to Abuja and SIWI are working with the city on improved water governance. The team based at UoN have drafted a paper on flooding issues and their management in the NCT and are actively looking for a plot of land that can be developed as a blue-green demonstration project. Links to news reports: FRONTLINE NEWS https://frontlinenews.com.ng/why-nigeria-is-considering-blue-green-city-solution-to-flooding-sharubutu/ AUTHORITY NEWSPAPER FG, Stakeholders Hold Dialogue On Blue-Green City Solution To Flooding - https://authorityngr.com/2021/09/22/fg-stakeholders-hold-dialogue-on-blue-green-city-solution-to-flooding/ VANGUARD NEWSPAPER https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/why-cities-in-nigeria-are-prone-to-flooding-experts/ LEADERSHIP NEWSPAPER FCDA Spends N412m Monthly To Evacuate Waste, Flood Ravages Abuja" https://googleweblight.com/sp?hl=id=NSTN&u=https://leadership.ng/fcda-spends-n412m-monthly-to-evacuate-waste-flood-ravages-abuja/ THIS DAY NEWSPAPER https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/09/24/environmental-experts-explore-blue-green-initiative-for-urban-flood-resilience-in-nigeria/ DAILY TRUST https://dailytrust.com/experts-proffer-solutions-to-flooding THE SUN https://www.sunnewsonline.com/fg-stakeholders-team-up-to-tackle-fooding/ https://youtu.be/Yj8dTjDPQh0 --Africa Independent Television news bulletin link |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2021/09/24/environmental-experts-explore-blue-green-initiative... |
| Description | US Federal InterAgency SEDHYD Conference, Reno, Nevada - June 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentations on 'Biomic River Restoration' and 'Stream Evolution Triangle', which sparked much discussion about river restoration to manage hydrology and ecosystems in rivers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | US Forest Service Science Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon - September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Stage Zero: restoring river-floodplain connectivity to create resilient Blue-Green systems' which sparked much discussion about the potential for a Stage Zero approach in Oregon watersheds |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Understanding Uncertainty in Environmental Modelling workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | workshop facilitator |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This activity is part of a series of ongoing workshops organized by Leonard Smith and Erica Thompson (London School of Economics, LSE), aimed at early career researchers (including PhD students). The workshops are held at LSE throughout 2013-2015, and generally draw ~20-30 participants. There are opportunities for discussion, a poster session and practical workshop activities. Participants will leave the workshops with an overview of the key issues of uncertainty in environmental modelling, an understanding of how these affect their own research methods and where to find expert guidance and further information. This will increase their knowledge base when dealing with uncertainties in their academic studies. The participants are exposed to methods and insights available in environmental modelling and encouraged to critically evaluate the approaches and methodologies u |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
| URL | http://www.lse.ac.uk/CATS/Events/Understanding-Uncertainty-in-Environmental-Modelling-workshops-2014... |
| Description | Understanding and overcoming uncertainty and lack of confidence as barriers to wide adoption of blue-green infrastructure for urban flood risk management. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. The talk sparked questions about barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure and discussions on how these may be overcome in a Chinese context. Increased links with academics in China, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Understanding and overcoming uncertainty and lack of confidence as barriers to wide adoption of blue-green infrastructure for urban flood risk management. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. The talk sparked questions about barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure and discussions on how these may be overcome in a Chinese context. Increased links with academics in China, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | University of Leeds Alumi Magazine |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Nigel Wright article appeared in University of Leeds Alumni Magazine. Increase in request for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.alumni.leeds.ac.uk/document.doc?id=168 |
| Description | University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire - June 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Restoring Rivers as Blue-Green Assets', which sparked much discussion on the importance of restoring rivers to generate benefits to the environment and society. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Updated urban china surface flood issues and management strategies. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | keynote/invited speaker |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. The talk sparked questions about recent research in China on surface flood management. Increased links with academics in China, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience research project blog: Aligning ancient and modern approaches to sustainable urban water management in China |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Emily O'Donnell wrote a blog on Aligning ancient and modern approaches to sustainable urban water management in China, linking toa recent paper that she was a co-author on, and discussing the Sponge City initiative in China. This blog post led to requests for copies of the manuscript and further information on the Urban Flood Resilience research project. The blog has been viewed 106 times to date. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2018/07/13/aligning-ancient-modern-approaches-sustain... |
| Description | Urban Flooding and Sponge Cities Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Ahilan presented on the UK-China joint workshop on 'Urban Flooding and Sponge Cities' at the 2017 annual conference of the International Institute for Infrastructure Resilience and Reconstruction (IIIRR) held on 3-5th July 2017 at Shenzhen, China. The workshop was coordinated by University of Exeter, UK and Tsinghua University, China and funded by the British Council, Newton Researcher Links programme and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. The workshop had contributions from leading UK and Chinese academics, water professionals, and early career researchers. This blog post mainly focuses on the opening day of the conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/brim/brim-workshops/urban-flooding-and-sponge-cities/ |
| Description | Urban riparian areas - can effective municipal governance stem the losses and degradation of these valuable green-spaces as cities grow? A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academic only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions about how the urban riparian areas can be maintained in urbanising cities. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Urban watershed restoration projects and property values. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, June 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Type Of Presentation | paper presentation |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was part of the "Urban Water and Flood Risk Management: The Blue-Green Advantage. A China-UK-US Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Ningbo, China. 15-18th June 2015" where academics from the UK and US visited Ningbo and presented their research to Chinese academics and members of the Ningbo Government. This section of the workshop was for academics only (from the US and UK). This talk sparked questions and discussion about how river restoration projects may impact (increase) property values. Increased links with academics in China, the US and the UK, potential for future work in Ningbo, wider dissemination of the Blue-Green Cities concept. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2015/06/25/blue-green-cities-knowledge-exchange-works... |
| Description | Victoria University, Wellington, NZ - March 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Achieving Urban Flood Resilience in an Uncertain Future: the Blue-Green Advantage'. Encouraged discussion around the topic of flood resilience and the role fo Blue-Green infrastructure with requests for further information on the research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Virtual EGU General Assembly 2021 - O'Donnell |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I delivered an invited presentation on 'Future directions in Blue-Green Infrastructure research' at the Virtual EGU General Assembly 2021, Session HS5.4.2 - Green infrastructure for sustainable urban hazard management. The presentation was followed by breakout groups where discussion centred on my research and future goals of blue-green infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU21/EGU21-695.html |
| Description | Wales Water Event 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Glyn Everett and Jessica Lamond will give a presentation on 'the potential impact of blue- green infrastructure on Welsh flood resilience' at the Welsh Water 2016 event in May 2016. This entry will be updated in due course. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.wwt-wales.net/day/day1/ |
| Description | Water Infrastructure Demonstrators' Network Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event has not happened yet and is scheduled for 15th March 2016. This entry will subsequently be updated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Water Scotland 2015 Conference: SuDS integration: The theory of blue-green infrastructure and its reality in practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This presentation was given at the Water Scotland 2015 Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 7th October 2015. The aim was to stimulate thinking around Blue-Green approaches to water management in a Scottish context. The presentation led to many discussions around Blue-Green assets and sustainable flood risk management. Promotion of the concept of Blue-Green infrastructure for flood risk management in Scotland and requests for further information on the research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.wwt-scotland.net/36425 |
| Description | Water in Future Cities - RCUK Water Showcase 2015 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | My contribution to the workshop activities at this event sparked questions and discussion of the role of Blue-Green infrastructure for urban water and flood risk management in cities of the future. Requests for further information on the Blue-Green Cities projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/media/news/150722/ |
| Description | Watering the Garden 2020 (online conference) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A half day conference as given exploring the latest landscape led approaches to managing water in large scale development and new communities. Presentations from the Urban Flood Resilience team and external stakeholders (mainly landscape architects).The event led to discussions on blue-green infrastructure in landscape development and requests for further information and access to the presentations and event recording. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/events-news-and-blog/watering-the-garden-oct-2020.aspx |
| Description | Workshop: Green Alliance Climate Leadership Programme, Planning for climate change in Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The activity stimulated interest in the research project and blue-green methods of flood risk management and how this could include climate change adaption. This may have been communicated beyond the relatively small group present at the workshop (~20) to their colleagues and peers. The activity resulted in a short publication "After the floods: lessons for climate adaptation and resilience from three local areas" published by the Green Alliance Policy insight team. Contributions from the Blue-Green Cities team were included in this report. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| URL | http://www.green-alliance.org.uk/resources/Adaptation%20workshop%20with%20Lilian%20Greenwood%20MP.pd... |
| Description | the Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity Library talk (Urban Flood Resilience and Blue-Green Infrastructure) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The talk was part of the 2020 Nottingham Festival of Science and Curiosity library talks, on urban flood resilience and blue-green infrastructure. The audience were very engaged and asked a lot of interesting questions, particularly in relation to flood risk issues, management techniques and blue-green infrastructure in their local area. There were requests for further information on the research project and future project in the Nottingham area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://nottsfosac.co.uk/event/library-club-talk-urban-flood-resilience-and-blue-green-infrastructur... |