Urban Flood Resilience in an Uncertain Future
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Nottingham
Department Name: Sch of Geography
Abstract
Summary
The engineering core of this project couples an array of carefully selected, physics-based models to support investigation of how stormwater cascades through a city's drainage system, accounting for the dynamics of not just water, but also sediment, debris, natural solutes and contaminants carried by urban runoff. Based on the capability of this suite of models to simulate water flow, storage and quality within an urban system, we will investigate how the performance of grey systems (composed mainly of lined channels, pipes and detention tanks) can be improved by adding Blue-Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) to create treatment trains designed to manage both the quantity and quality of urban runoff. Models and design solutions will be developed and tested in the contexts of retro-fit (as part of urban renewal and uplift in Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and new build (as part of creation of a 'garden city' in Ebbsfleet, Kent). Our intent is to work out and demonstrate how resilience to floods and droughts can be achieved using integrated systems of Blue-Green and Grey assets, no matter how climate changes in future, assuring continuous, long term service delivery.
The work will adopt throughout a whole systems perspective that recognises interdependencies with other urban systems, including transport, energy and land-use. This will identify new opportunities for managing stormwater as a resource that will then be explored. This will add to the multi-functional benefits of using Blue-Green infrastructure to manage flood risk by increasing water security. Possibilities range from non-potable uses in homes or commercial buildings (based on rainwater harvesting) to irrigating green infrastructure (e.g. street trees), managing subsidence in clay soils, soil moisture enhancement and groundwater recharge. Wider benefits may extend to local energy generation using drainage infrastructure (i.e. micro-hydropower) and enhancement of urban watercourses and ecosystem services.
The models and protocols developed will form the basis for assessment of the potential for the optimised combinations of Blue, Green, Grey and smart infrastructure to deliver multiple-benefits in UK cities nationwide.
However, the goal of optimising urban flood and water management can only be achieved through a deep understanding citizen and community preferences with respect to managing flood risk. In short, engineering solutions must be better informed and explicitly accounted for in urban planning and development at all spatial scales. For this reason, our research will extend to investigation of the planning, development and organisational systems that govern urban flood risk management. This will be addressed using Participatory Action Research and Social Practice Theory to examine the attitudes and responses of citizens and communities to innovation in flood and water management, with the context of urban planning.
This aspect of the work is essential to underpin and enable implementation of the engineering analyses and solutions identified in the core research outlined above.
The mechanism for bringing together engineering, social and planning components of the project will be co-location research in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ebbsfleet, Kent. Team research in these case study cities will establish how barriers to innovation can be overcome despite uncertainties in future urban climates, land-use, development and political leadership. Critical engagement with planners, developers and land-owners throughout the project will feed back and inform the core engineering focus of the work, building on the current trend towards the development of urban infrastructure observatories to explore responses to the innovative changes needed to achieve urban flood resilience.
The engineering core of this project couples an array of carefully selected, physics-based models to support investigation of how stormwater cascades through a city's drainage system, accounting for the dynamics of not just water, but also sediment, debris, natural solutes and contaminants carried by urban runoff. Based on the capability of this suite of models to simulate water flow, storage and quality within an urban system, we will investigate how the performance of grey systems (composed mainly of lined channels, pipes and detention tanks) can be improved by adding Blue-Green Infrastructure and Sustainable Drainage System (SuDS) to create treatment trains designed to manage both the quantity and quality of urban runoff. Models and design solutions will be developed and tested in the contexts of retro-fit (as part of urban renewal and uplift in Newcastle-upon-Tyne) and new build (as part of creation of a 'garden city' in Ebbsfleet, Kent). Our intent is to work out and demonstrate how resilience to floods and droughts can be achieved using integrated systems of Blue-Green and Grey assets, no matter how climate changes in future, assuring continuous, long term service delivery.
The work will adopt throughout a whole systems perspective that recognises interdependencies with other urban systems, including transport, energy and land-use. This will identify new opportunities for managing stormwater as a resource that will then be explored. This will add to the multi-functional benefits of using Blue-Green infrastructure to manage flood risk by increasing water security. Possibilities range from non-potable uses in homes or commercial buildings (based on rainwater harvesting) to irrigating green infrastructure (e.g. street trees), managing subsidence in clay soils, soil moisture enhancement and groundwater recharge. Wider benefits may extend to local energy generation using drainage infrastructure (i.e. micro-hydropower) and enhancement of urban watercourses and ecosystem services.
The models and protocols developed will form the basis for assessment of the potential for the optimised combinations of Blue, Green, Grey and smart infrastructure to deliver multiple-benefits in UK cities nationwide.
However, the goal of optimising urban flood and water management can only be achieved through a deep understanding citizen and community preferences with respect to managing flood risk. In short, engineering solutions must be better informed and explicitly accounted for in urban planning and development at all spatial scales. For this reason, our research will extend to investigation of the planning, development and organisational systems that govern urban flood risk management. This will be addressed using Participatory Action Research and Social Practice Theory to examine the attitudes and responses of citizens and communities to innovation in flood and water management, with the context of urban planning.
This aspect of the work is essential to underpin and enable implementation of the engineering analyses and solutions identified in the core research outlined above.
The mechanism for bringing together engineering, social and planning components of the project will be co-location research in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Ebbsfleet, Kent. Team research in these case study cities will establish how barriers to innovation can be overcome despite uncertainties in future urban climates, land-use, development and political leadership. Critical engagement with planners, developers and land-owners throughout the project will feed back and inform the core engineering focus of the work, building on the current trend towards the development of urban infrastructure observatories to explore responses to the innovative changes needed to achieve urban flood resilience.
Planned Impact
WHO WILL BENEFIT AND HOW
This project has the potential to enable a step change in protecting UK cities and the national economy against risks due to increased storminess caused by climate change, without constraining urban renewal and development. It can do so by envisioning and making deliverable a different water future: one based on resilient cities where flood and water management is planned, developed, designed and operated in ways that are truly sustainable. Our international networks and profiles mean that, as our new science emerges, it will be brought to the attention of the city leaders and populations not only in the UK, but worldwide.
Knowledge, insights and understanding of urban flood resilience generated by the consortium will be useful not only to organisations and practitioners responsible for urban flood risk management, but also people living and working in cities throughout the UK and beyond, including Councilors, voters who elect them, tax payers who fund flood risk management and people and communities at risk of flooding.
We will convey our findings in ways accessible to professionals and decision makers, as well as the people and communities they serve. Specific impact groups include:
SOCIAL IMPACTS
Civic society and governance:
Enhanced Planning policy
Sustainable Urban Growth & Development
Improved Public Health and Well-being
Wider stakeholder engagement in city
Planning and Governance
Citizens and Communities:
Urban Renewal
Reduced flood anxiety
Neighbourhood Uplift
Higher Flood and Water Literacy
Flood and Water Citizenship
Enriched Quality of Life
ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
Urban economies:
Reduced Flood Losses and Business Disruption
Multiple benefits between floods from Blue-Green infrastructure, spaces and corridors
Increased Water Security
More productive Workforce
Competitive edge over rival cities that are not flood resilient, regionally, nationally and globally
Urban environments:
More urban green spaces and corridors
Managed flooding during extreme events that exceed capacity of piped/surface drainage system
Improved water quality
Improved air quality
Reduced urban heat island effects
Improved soil and soil water quality
Higher resilience to drought
WHEN THEY WILL BENEFIT
From the outset, impacts will extend outside academia because policy makers, planners, developers, engineers and communities in Bristol, Newcastle and Ebbsfleet will be actively engaged in our research. Our use of social networks plus blogs, webinars, press briefings and appearances on the broadcast media will: i) reduce the lag between production of new knowledge and impact outside academia, and ii) enable us to inform debate in real time on how to make cities flood resilient places where people live better and work more productively.
ARE OUR PATHWAYS TO IMPACT REALISTIC?
Our capacity to use social networks and media to disseminate our findings and engage with stakeholders, practitioners and publics outside academia may be demonstrated by hard data from the Blue-Green Cities Research Consortium, which includes seven of the eleven investigators and four of nine RAs from the team for this proposal. That consortium has generated public impact through its:
1. open-registration dissemination events in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland;
2. website (36,372 visits to date, by 28,706 unique visitors);
3. Wikipedia page (13,202 views);
4. LinkedIn group (169 members);
5. Twitter feed (834 followers);
6. Blogs (4,690 views, 3,784 different visitors),
7. FactSheets (614 downloads of 16 sheets since Feb. 2015, with 8 more in prep.).
It is our ambition in the new consortium to use experience gained during the Blue-Green Cities project to increase the numbers people outside academia that engage and interact with us by at least one and perhaps two orders of magnitude.
This project has the potential to enable a step change in protecting UK cities and the national economy against risks due to increased storminess caused by climate change, without constraining urban renewal and development. It can do so by envisioning and making deliverable a different water future: one based on resilient cities where flood and water management is planned, developed, designed and operated in ways that are truly sustainable. Our international networks and profiles mean that, as our new science emerges, it will be brought to the attention of the city leaders and populations not only in the UK, but worldwide.
Knowledge, insights and understanding of urban flood resilience generated by the consortium will be useful not only to organisations and practitioners responsible for urban flood risk management, but also people living and working in cities throughout the UK and beyond, including Councilors, voters who elect them, tax payers who fund flood risk management and people and communities at risk of flooding.
We will convey our findings in ways accessible to professionals and decision makers, as well as the people and communities they serve. Specific impact groups include:
SOCIAL IMPACTS
Civic society and governance:
Enhanced Planning policy
Sustainable Urban Growth & Development
Improved Public Health and Well-being
Wider stakeholder engagement in city
Planning and Governance
Citizens and Communities:
Urban Renewal
Reduced flood anxiety
Neighbourhood Uplift
Higher Flood and Water Literacy
Flood and Water Citizenship
Enriched Quality of Life
ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
Urban economies:
Reduced Flood Losses and Business Disruption
Multiple benefits between floods from Blue-Green infrastructure, spaces and corridors
Increased Water Security
More productive Workforce
Competitive edge over rival cities that are not flood resilient, regionally, nationally and globally
Urban environments:
More urban green spaces and corridors
Managed flooding during extreme events that exceed capacity of piped/surface drainage system
Improved water quality
Improved air quality
Reduced urban heat island effects
Improved soil and soil water quality
Higher resilience to drought
WHEN THEY WILL BENEFIT
From the outset, impacts will extend outside academia because policy makers, planners, developers, engineers and communities in Bristol, Newcastle and Ebbsfleet will be actively engaged in our research. Our use of social networks plus blogs, webinars, press briefings and appearances on the broadcast media will: i) reduce the lag between production of new knowledge and impact outside academia, and ii) enable us to inform debate in real time on how to make cities flood resilient places where people live better and work more productively.
ARE OUR PATHWAYS TO IMPACT REALISTIC?
Our capacity to use social networks and media to disseminate our findings and engage with stakeholders, practitioners and publics outside academia may be demonstrated by hard data from the Blue-Green Cities Research Consortium, which includes seven of the eleven investigators and four of nine RAs from the team for this proposal. That consortium has generated public impact through its:
1. open-registration dissemination events in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland;
2. website (36,372 visits to date, by 28,706 unique visitors);
3. Wikipedia page (13,202 views);
4. LinkedIn group (169 members);
5. Twitter feed (834 followers);
6. Blogs (4,690 views, 3,784 different visitors),
7. FactSheets (614 downloads of 16 sheets since Feb. 2015, with 8 more in prep.).
It is our ambition in the new consortium to use experience gained during the Blue-Green Cities project to increase the numbers people outside academia that engage and interact with us by at least one and perhaps two orders of magnitude.
Organisations
- University of Nottingham (Lead Research Organisation)
- Thames Water Utilities Limited (Collaboration)
- Wildlife Trust Kent (Collaboration)
- Artesia Consulting Ltd (Collaboration)
- LEICESTER CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Mid-Lothian Council (Collaboration)
- Heriot-Watt University (Collaboration)
- Natural England (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF WEST LONDON (Collaboration)
- UK Water Industry Research (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Royal HaskoningDHV (Collaboration)
- Northumbrian Water (Collaboration)
- Southern Water (Collaboration)
- South East Rivers Trust (Collaboration)
- Natural History Society of Northumbria (Collaboration)
- Water Industry Forum (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Newcastle University (Collaboration)
- Aquafin (Collaboration)
- MWH (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- EBBSFLEET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Collaboration)
- Kelda Group (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Tyne Rivers Trust (Collaboration)
- Wildlife Trusts (Collaboration)
- KENT COUNTY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Victoria University of Wellington (Collaboration)
- Gravesham Borough Council (Collaboration)
- Arup Group (Collaboration)
- Construction Industry Research and Information Association (Collaboration)
- Upper Deschutes Watershed Council (Collaboration)
- Freemen of Newcastle Upon Tyne (Collaboration)
- South Staffs Water (Collaboration)
- Leeds City Council (Collaboration)
- Living Streets (Collaboration)
- West Yorkshire Combined Authorities (Collaboration)
- Sweco International AB (Collaboration)
- Willamette Partnership (Collaboration)
- Swanscombe & Greenhithe Town Council (Collaboration)
- Environmental Science Associates (Collaboration)
- Atkins (United Kingdom) (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Government of Wales (Collaboration)
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- Willis Group (Collaboration)
- Government of Romania (Collaboration)
- JBA Consulting (Collaboration)
- Department for Infrastructure (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM (Collaboration)
- Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (Collaboration)
- Scotland's Rural College (Collaboration)
- Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (Collaboration)
- Local Enterprise Partnerships (Collaboration)
- Royal Town Planning Institute RTPI (Collaboration)
- University of the West of England (Collaboration)
- HR Wallingford Ltd (Collaboration)
- NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (Collaboration)
- US Army (Collaboration)
- Environment Agency (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Dartford Borough Council (Collaboration)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Colin Thorne (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Jarvie J
(2017)
Valuing Multiple Benefits, and the Public Perception of SUDS Ponds
in Water
Johnson M
(2019)
Biomic river restoration: A new focus for river management
in River Research and Applications
Johnson M
(2022)
Performance of an environmentally-aligned, low maintenance flood alleviation scheme on the Burn of Mosset, Forres, Scotland
in River Research and Applications
Kapetas L
(2019)
Building resilience in Flood Disaster Management in Northern Peru
Kapetas L
(2020)
Integrating blue-green and grey infrastructure through an adaptation pathways approach to surface water flooding.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Kapetas L.
(2018)
Economic Appraisals of SuDS
| Title | Two artistic public information signs informing the public about the purpose & potential benefits of Embleton Road drain gardens |
| Description | Two artistic public information signs were developed to inform pupils, parents and passers-by as to the purpose and potential benefits of the rain gardens installed on Embleton Road. The imagery for the signs was produced by pupils from the Environment Group at Little Mead Primary Academy, that we have been working with throughout the project. The signs are colourful and written in Plain English, to maximise appeal and understanding. |
| Type Of Art | Artwork |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Due to Covid restrictions, no direct interaction with members of the public has been possible, but feedback from our principal contact at Little Mead Primary Academy has been that the signs have prompted interest from and conversations by pupils and parents. It is to be hoped that the same will stand for passers-by more generally; this will hopefully help to raise awareness, interest and so concern for treating the rain gardens appropriately, in order to encourage their chances of longer-term functioning. |
| Description | The most significant achievements are as follows: We have developed next generation flood and water management models that couple surface and subsurface flow, include an explicit sewer/pipe network and synthetic network generator to deal with knowledge gaps. We have combined SHETRAN (hydrology) and CityCAT (hydraulic) models and created a fine resolution hydrosystems model of Newcastle which is able to accurately simulate the effect of land use change, sustainable urban drainage schemes, and climate change on runoff and water storage within the Ouse Burn. We have developed guidance on how a range of flexible adaptation pathways can be comprehensively assessed as part of a long term planning and design approach for drainage infrastructure. This has been used to develop a roadmap for adaptation over the next 40 years for Carshalton, London Borough of Sutton. Our research has provided insight into how rainwater harvesting systems may supplement potable water supply at the household and development-scale and help manage flood and drought risk, using the Ebbsfleet Garden City as a case study and applying an Urban Water Metabolism model. We have also demonstrated the emerging transition from single function rainwater harvesting systems to multifunctional rainwater management systems. As part of our objective on 'water as a resource', we have developed a screening tool to access the potential for energy recovery from stormwater runoff (micro-hydropower), looking at how a retention pond can decouple the problem of intermittent rainfall and continuous energy generation. We have also evaluated the potential for aquifer recharge and storage using stormwater, and analysed current policies to determine what may hinder applications, and subsequently made recommendations for overcoming barriers to this approach. We have developed methods to prioritise locations for flood management intervention based on an analysis of hydrological processes and spatial interactions, and founded on the concept of 'interoperability', which we have defined as a conceptual framework to bridge the gap between multi-functional and multi-system urban flood management. We have investigated using SuDS and stream restoration to improve water quality and biodiversity, focusing on sites in Scotland. We have characterised suspended particles, developed understanding of their interactions with pond ecology, and investigated the impact of seasonality. We have provided insight into people's attitudes towards Blue-Green infrastructure and developed new measures to determine preferences for flood and water management using a social psychology tool called Implicit Association Tests. This overcomes some of the disadvantages of explicit tests (commonly used in this field) and has provided interesting ideas on why people value blue and green space in different ways. We have modified a tablet version of the test and created a new online version. We have improved understanding of how to conduct effective community engagement around Blue-Green infrastructure to encourage a greater sense of ownership, appreciation and care. A typology of modes of community engagement has been developed with a set of guiding principles for best practice. We have developed the Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) framework that brings together local stakeholders to discuss innovative solutions to flood and water management challenges, and provided insight into how behaviours and attitudes may change at individual and institutional levels towards more sustainable practices through the co-production of knowledge and social learning. In Newcastle, this led to the relaunch of the 2019 Blue and Green Declaration. In Ebbsfleet, the LAA has developed a system dynamics model to investigate water use options for the Garden City with the objective to reduce residential potable water use. Finally, we have investigated governance and political issues around flood and water management and planning, focussing on the implementation of SuDS through England's strengthened planning system to date and how effective this has been. |
| Exploitation Route | Our outputs can assist professional practitioners in developing blue-green infrastructure flood risk management strategies that deliver a range of benefits to the environment and society in addition to creating flood resilient places. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Education,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Transport |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk |
| Description | We have worked with external stakeholders in many of the research streams. For instance, our work in Carshalton (London Borough of Sutton) on flexible adaptation pathways has been used to develop a roadmap for adaptation over the next 40 years which the local authority are using in their future flood risk management plans. The Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance (established as part of our EPSRC Blue-Green Cities project but continuing under this project) is continuing to have impact with public and private stakeholders in the city and wider NE region. Our research has 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. Through regular contact with the Newcastle Declaration Group, we have discovered how, in practice, barriers to innovation in urban flood and water management may be overcome. Through participatory observation, we are learning how to move research into policy into practice in the context of one of the UK's major 'Core Cities'. Together with our allies in Newcastle, we will use these discoveries to empower the Councils of other Core Cities to follow where Newcastle is leading - towards building urban flood and water resilience in an uncertain future. 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)). In Ebbsfleet, our close collaboration with the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and other public and private organisations that are members of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance has allowed us to input into future water management strategies for the garden city. We contributed to the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy that will guide future planning and development in the Ebbsfleet Garden City. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Construction,Education,Environment,Transport |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| Description | "Building Resilience in Flood Disaster Management in Northern Peru", Global Challenges Research Fund, British Council & Geophysical Institute of Peru |
| Geographic Reach | South America |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Leon Kapetas was invited to participate in the advisory committee from the UK for the week-long workshop between Peruvian and UK experts on building flood resilience to El Nino events in Northern Peru. The main outcome from the workshop improved perception of the peruvian policymakers on the need for integrated solutions that do not see society separately from technical management. They now perceive better how risk is influenced by hazard but also exposure and vlunerability. A technical report will be published in 2019 to disseminate findings from the workshop. |
| Description | Environment Agency Local Flood Risk Research Framework Steering Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Critique and assist in prioritising the Environment Agency's Local Flood Risk 5 year Research Programme. Prioritised projects subsequently funded and implemented by the Environment Agency. Specific role to provide a link with flood research in the academic community |
| Description | Invited member of Infrastructure Adaptation Forum |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Invited member of Leeds County Council's: Infrastructure Investment Group |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Invited panel member CB/501 Flood risk & watercourses |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Improved guidance on flood resilience forthcoming |
| Description | London 2100 independent review panel for Thames Water |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Description | Member of Advisory Panel for CIRIA RP 1074 Making B£ST Better |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Advisory role in extending the BeST too, to include spatial distribution of multiple benefits |
| Description | Member of Project Steering Committee - CIRIA Delivering successful integrated water management through the planning system |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www.ciria.org/Research/Projects_underway2/Delivering_successful_integrated_water_mangement_t... |
| Description | Newcastle Declaration on Blue and Green Infrastructure (07.03.19 release) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Ongoing Membership of Project Steering Committee - CIRIA Delivering successful integrated water management through the planning system |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www.ciria.org/Research/Projects_underway2/Delivering_successful_integrated_water_mangement_t... |
| Description | Research conducted for the Welsh Government/Sustainable Drainage Implementation Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | This is a letter from Andrew Sherlock - Water Management and Directives Manager, Welsh Government. I have collaborated with him and his team in the Water Policy Branch of the Welsh Government since August 2019. This letter details some of the work I have conducted in collaboration with them. FAO: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council RE: Grant numbers EP/P004180/1 and EP/P004210/1 I first met Dr Vilcan at the National Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) Conference in Birmingham on 1 May 2019, where he sought me out as a point of contact to help him in his research into the effects of government policy on the uptake of SuDS in England and Wales, following the making of Flood and Water Management Act 2010. We spoke about the progress of his research in England and how we might be of mutual benefit in terms of his Welsh research. This was later followed up by an email to me from Martin Buckle, Chair of Wales' Flood and Coastal Erosion Committee, which referenced the work of the Urban Flood Resilience Research Programme (of which Martin is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board) to establish formal contact. Dr Vilcan expressed a particular interest in the differences in SuDS uptake between England and Wales, following Wales' commencement of Schedule 3 to the Flood and Water Management Act. We quickly established that as the legislation had only taken effect in January 2019, it was too early to be able to tell what different effects the policy and legislation might have in Wales as compared with England. We therefore suggested an exploration of how implementation was progressing, seeking to understand what challenges and barriers remained to enabling the effective delivery of the policy goal of increased delivery of SuDs on new developments (and the other published policy goals that derive from this) and to suggest possible solutions to the issues identified. We arranged for Dr Vilcan to attend several meetings of the SuDS Implementation Group, a group chaired by the Welsh Government, whose goal is to facilitate the successful implementation of the SuDS policy through its membership. The group comprises representatives from each of the SuDS Approving Bodies (SABs) based in each of the 22 Local Authorities across Wales alongside water and sewerage undertakers, Natural Resources Wales, the Home Builders Federation, the Federation of Master Builders, CIWEM, the Consumer Council For Water, Community Housing Cymru, the Welsh Local Government Association and the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. At the first meeting Dr Vilcan attended he gave a presentation providing an overview of his research and seeking the views of those assembled about participating. This was premised on the basis that the goals of the research aligned with those of the group and would facilitate work it would in any case have to take forward as part of its programme. In particular it was felt that Dr Vilcan's research would help to contribute robust views and evidence towards the formal review of the implementation of the policy and legislation, to which the Welsh Government is committed at the end of the first two years. Following a positive reception, Dr Vilcan undertook interviews with volunteer lead officers working in the SABs of several local authorities. This was followed up with a workshop, utilising the members of the SuDS Implementation Group, followed up by an interim presentation and debate of the initial findings which were later subject to an online survey, designed by Dr Vilcan. The transcribed notes of workshops, interviews and findings from the survey all fed into the final report. Throughout the design of all these processes (the workshop, the survey and latterly the drafting of the final report) Dr Vilcan remained in close contact. He was open and willing to our feedback and expertise in this area so that we were able to guide him through areas where clarity or specific expertise may expectedly have been lacking and offer editorial advice where it was appropriate. We think the exercise was of particular benefit in helping the group, and the SABs in particular, to arrive at a consensual picture of challenges to delivery and to identify possible approaches to solutions. It was particularly useful to have someone who was able to lend academic rigour and credibility to the process. It is also relevant to mention that, owing to the time and resource pressures on the members of the group, including the Welsh Government secretariat, if Dr Vilcan had not offered his services to the group then it would most likely have been unable to carry out any desirable similar exercise in the timely manner he made possible. As implied earlier, we intend to use the report as a touchstone for further discussion (by the SuDS Implementation Group) of the challenges the report identifies on behalf of the SABs and what progress they are able to make against the suggested areas of focus. As this is not an official report of the Welsh Government we do not make any claims for or against the positions it puts forward; while we do not expect the report to be made confidential we would expect its circulation to be limited to those who have a specific professional interest, specifically in civils, drainage, associated areas of research and policy development. The value of the exercise undertaken by Dr Vilcan, both throughout the various processes that led to the creation of the report and the report as a product, are expected to have an impact on the strategic direction and future workload of the SuDS Implementation Group with the potential to influence future policy and legislative decisions that might be taken following the two year review. It is understood that Martin Buckle also has an interest in the findings of the final report in his role as Chair of the Flood and Coastal Erosion Committee. Andrew Sherlock - Water Management and Directives Manager, Welsh Government |
| Description | Steering panel member for Environment Agency Project, measuring and monitoring resilience to flooding and coastal change |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Sustainable Urban Water Strategy, Ebbsflleet (Sep-Nov 2017) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Leon Kapetas led the co-production of a sustainable urban water management strategy for Ebbsfleet. The strategy is aimed to supplement the Implementation Framework by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation. In particular, it will inform the KPI relating to environmental management. |
| Description | Welsh Government sustainable drainage consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Our arguments have been noted in two instances in the 'Welsh Government Consultation - Summary of Responses and Welsh Government response' document https://beta.gov.wales/sites/default/files/consultations/2018-04/180425-suds-consultation-summary-of-responses.pdf. We were the sole academic contributor to the consultation. Instance 1: To the question: 'What information should the SAB be required to submit as part of a review mechanism of SAB approval costs? How often should the review take place, once every year or once every two years?' we have provided the following answer: 'In the previous consultation (05-08/17), a number of responses highlighted additional costs (e.g. from pursuing agreements, enforcement and supervision) that are not covered by the current fees. Local Authorities should be encouraged to monitor such costs, mainly staff resources, which when added to the proposed fees (such as £350 per application), will provide evidence of the real costs of processing SuDS within the SAB. More frequent reporting (once a year) should be undertaken initially in the beginning to obtain a notion of the (real) average national costs. A breakdown by regions will be necessary as well. Less frequent reporting should be needed after a few years, when a more consistent notion of the real costs will have been obtained, while fees will need to be adjusted accordingly to reflect these costs. We feel these concerns should be addressed by WG through monitoring and review, particularly as arrangements bed in' In the report, the Government has quoted the following: '" In the previous consultation a number of responses highlighted additional costs that are not covered by the current fees. Local Authorities should be encouraged to monitor such costs which when added to the proposed fees will provide evidence of the real costs of processing SuDS within the SAB. More frequent reporting (once a year) should be undertaken initially in the beginning to obtain a notion of the (real) average national costs. A breakdown by regions will be necessary as well." Academia' Many of the arguments that we are supporting here are reflected in the Government's response to the question, which reads as follows: 'Welsh Government response We have continued to work with the Welsh Local Government Association to ensure the initial fee rates are set to reflect the cost recovery basis intended. We will charge SABs with the collection of suitable data to enable a review to be undertaken in April 2020 and 2021. By then there should be sufficient data to provide evidence to support any changes needed to the fees. The inclusion of the rate for fees in Regulation provides both applicants and the SABs with both certainty and consistency across Wales. We will include the fees in a separate set of Regulations, which will facilitate their future review'. Instance 2: The report has noted the argument that we have made in favor of the role of non-performance bonds can play in the implementation of SuDS. Our research in Wales this year will determine the specific status of the non-performance bonds. It is worth pointing out that our submission was the only one mentioning non-performance bonds, pointing out their benefits but also drawing attention to the pitfalls that we identified in England. 'Academia One specific response sought to understand the role of non-performance bonds. It highlighted the response to the consultation for the Post-Legislative Scrutiny to the Flood and Water Management Act in England which had highlighted the benefits of non-performance bonds and the pitfalls of inadequate agreements on these. "For developers, non-performance bonds provide the needed incentive to take SuDS design and implementation seriously... non-performance bonds would... [provide] ...a financial cover for the Local Authority, ensuring that works are completed according to design and National Standards in all cases."21 ' |
| URL | https://beta.gov.wales/implementation-sustainable-drainage-systems-new-developments-draft-regulation... |
| 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 IAA: Sustainable integrated urban water management in practice: Ebbsfleet Garden City |
| Amount | £40,189 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 114342R |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | EU Horizon 2020 B.02 Environment and Resources |
| Amount | € 4,799,331 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 101003632 - REXUS - H2020-LC-CLA-2018-2019-2020 / H2020-LC-CLA-2020-2 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 03/2024 |
| 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 | Integrated Water Management in Garden Cities (ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Interdisciplinary Knowledge Exchange Fund) |
| Amount | £9,639 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 06/2020 |
| 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 | QR - Strategic Priority Funding - Yorkshire Infrastructure Adaptation Forum |
| Amount | £3,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Review of climate resilience mainstreaming into regulatory and voluntary standards, national guidance, and other sectorial/industry codes of practice |
| Amount | £60,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 01/2021 |
| 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 | Yorkshire iCASP - Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme |
| Amount | £4,821,201 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/P011160/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2017 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Title | Online Implicit Association Test |
| Description | The online Implicit Association Test measures peoples attitudes towards sustainable drainage systems in public open space. It measures both explicit (feeling themometer and Likert-scale test) and implicit associations. Once completed, the test gives a score and short interpertation of the result. |
| Type Of Material | Physiological assessment or outcome measure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The online test has been used in a trial by the project team and is now being used as part of a study in Bristol. No known impact yet, although the online test can be accessed by anyone with the link. |
| URL | http://afternoon-dusk-80317.herokuapp.com/ |
| Title | System Dynamics Model (Ebbsfleet Sustainable Water Management) |
| Description | Development of a participatory System Dynamics Model (SDM) aiming to explore sustainable urban water management (UWM) in a structured way and to understand where policy interventions might be best focused. Co-created with the Ebbslfeet Learning and Action Alliance in 2018-2019.Using Vensim software, and creating a model that is openly available. To be made available after journal paper is published. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The model has been used by the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance to investigate sustainable water use options for the Ebbsfleet Garden City. |
| Title | Ebbsfleet System Dynamics Model |
| Description | The Ebbslfeet System Dynamics is being developed to evaluate different water management options for the Ebbsfleet Garden City, under a range of future scenarios. The objective is to understand how potable water use may be reduce while managing flood and drough risk. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | No impact yet as the model is in the final stages of development (is at the validation stage). |
| Title | HIE SuDS Questionnaire DB |
| Description | A questionnaire was designed to gauge awareness of SuDS technology and relevant pollution regulations. The questionnaire had a 'Yes/No' format, and contained a checklist of 10 types of SUDS features, asking for a response to two categories of prompts - is the company familiar with the technique and is there an example of it on their premises at Houston? Colour photographs were used to aid recognition of specific features. This questionnaire was posted or emailed to the majority of premises on Houston Industrial Estate (HIE), and delivered by hand when that was not possible or when no response to the original letter was received. To date, more than 60 responses have been received and encoded within a Microsoft Access database. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The following information will be disseminated through a conference publication. Preliminary analysis of the results revealed that 14.75% of the companies claimed familiarity with SuDS technology, whilst 9.84% of all comapanies appeared to be truly unfamiliar with it. However, the majority of the companies (75.41%) appeared to be familiar with specific SuDS features illustrated on the checklist, but were unfamiliar with the term 'SuDS'. The majority of these companies (50) were familiar with more than one feature, and many ticked more than half of the SuDS types offered on the list. However, many of the potential plot techniques were unfamiliar to most companies. The Experience of flooding did not appear to be a decisive factor influencing awareness of SuDS. Less than a quarter of all companies were aware of general binding rules (GBR) regulating pollution prevention at industrial sites, and ownership of the premises did not appear to be a decisive factor influencing that knowledge. Our observations, and analysis of the questionnaire results also revealed that some of the newer premises already have SUDS. These are predominantly areas of permeable pavement and, to a lesser extent, gravel filter drains. A number of companies also claimed ownership of some other SuDS features (e.g. detention basin), but that has not as yet been verified on inspection. |
| Title | Interoperability spatial modelling |
| Description | The model utilises - source to hazard - mapping and spatial data to search the urban environment for optimum solutions to managing storm water. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Impact grant and partnership with Local Authorities in Yorkshire Further request for projects Inclusion in council SHAPE GIS systems |
| URL | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsta.2019.0205?af=R |
| Title | Rainwater Harvesting System Simulator |
| Description | This tool enables to assess the impact of rainwater harvesting on urban water supply and flood resilience. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | This tool incorporates finer resolution rainfall data sets (15 min). |
| Title | Urban Metabolism Model |
| Description | The metabolism model enables to intergrate urban water supply, wastewater and sewer network. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The metabolism model is applied to the Ebbsfleet Garden City, UK. |
| Description | Blue-Green Nottingham Group |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I led this group that meets quarterly to discuss how the challenges associated with climate and environmental change in Greater Nottingham could be identified, discussed among a wide stakeholder group, and potentially be overcome. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners attend quarterly meetings and share knowledge, expertise and data on topics of mutual interest, and engage in discussions of how Nottingham's challenges may be overcome. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration - geography, engineering, social sciences, biology, ecology |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Blue-Green Nottingham Group |
| Organisation | Nottingham City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I led this group that meets quarterly to discuss how the challenges associated with climate and environmental change in Greater Nottingham could be identified, discussed among a wide stakeholder group, and potentially be overcome. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners attend quarterly meetings and share knowledge, expertise and data on topics of mutual interest, and engage in discussions of how Nottingham's challenges may be overcome. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary collaboration - geography, engineering, social sciences, biology, ecology |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CIRIA Delivering successful integrated water management through the planning system |
| Organisation | CIRIA |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Member of the CIRIA Project Steering Group for 'Delivering successful integrated water management through the planning system' (CIRIA RP1057), providing specialist advice to CIRIA's Project Manager on the project, including objectives, scope and the work programme, reviewing progress and outputs, and acting as a champion. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Opportunity to network with key industry stakeholders through meetings and online discussion, to further understanding of the challenges to urban flood resilience. |
| Impact | The contribution will be publicly acknowledged in the published project outputs and dissemination materials. Multi-disciplinary collaboration - e.g. engineers, planners, landscape architects, ecologists. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Climate Resilience Partnership |
| Organisation | JBA Consulting |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | In kind support JBA Consulting with project on: Review of climate resilience mainstreaming into regulatory and voluntary standards, national guidance and other sectorial/industry codes etc. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Management of project and outputs |
| Impact | Not yet realised. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration with Midlothian Ranger Service |
| Organisation | Mid-Lothian Council |
| Department | Midlothian Ranger Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | HW team carries out monitoring of a number of Green Infrastructure features, and one of the study sites is located within the jurisdiction of midlothian ranger service. The data are, therefore, useful for their records and aid understanding of the patterns of environmental dynamics and ecological functioning of the site. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Midlothian Ranger Service has provided logistical support as regards access to the site, and shared very important information. |
| Impact | to follow |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with RBGE |
| Organisation | Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Within the UFR consortium, Heriot Watt team is conducting a monitoring and modelling study on a number of features of Blue-Green infrastructure, including SuDS and natural ponds. Cooperation with RBGE is mutually useful in that respect, as it sharing the information and expertise. RBGE has also been one of our study sites |
| Collaborator Contribution | Cooperation with RBGE has been very useful, and HW team benefited from expert advise of David Chamberlain, Rebecca Yahr, Liz Kungu and Peter Brownless, among others. |
| Impact | To follow |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with SRUC |
| Organisation | Scotland's Rural College |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Kayoko Takezawa, a Master student from SRUC supervised by Gerard O'Brian, has taken part in our field work and has contributed to research by investigating the occurrence of epiphytic lichens and introduced plants at SuDS sites. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We have provided logistical and advisory support |
| Impact | This collaboration contributed to the results reported in a submitted conference paper |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration with University of West London |
| Organisation | University of West London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Urban metabolism modelling work |
| Collaborator Contribution | Guidance on model development |
| Impact | Urban Metabolism Model using WaterMet2 software tool |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Collaboration with the Welsh Government to assess the implemention of sustainable drainage in Wales |
| Organisation | Government of Wales |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | One of the main interests of my research into the implementation of sustainable drainage in the UK was around the coming into force of new legislation in Wales which put forward a more regulatory system for delivering SuDS. With the help of Martin Buckle, one of our SAB buddies from the project, I made contact with Andrew Sherlock and his team in the Welsh Government, whom are responsible for the implementation of the new legislation. After a series of meetings, we have decided I would conduct a series of interviews to understand the state of the implementation process, nine months after the onset of the policy. This led to Andrew and his team picking up on one of the findings of my interviews, the tenuous connection between the implementation bodies and the planning system and looking to further explore it. As a result, we organised a workshop together at one of the sessions of the Sustainable Drainage Implementation Group (which pools the most relevant stakeholders involved in the implementation of the policy). In this workshop I organised a focus group where I pooled the expertise of the stakeholders in order to generate recommendations. I then conducted a survey to see which of those recommendations are the most popular. At the end, I assembled the outputs of the research into a report which will be read by the main stakeholders and will guide and inform the policy work going forward. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Welsh Government have been my partners and have helped the research by facilitating access to interviewees and providing space at the Sustainable Drainage Implementation Group to conduct a workshop. We have been in a productive dialogue throughout the entirety of the collaboration and each step has been informed by this dialogue. |
| Impact | The research has resulted in a report, but this will be only circulated to the relevant stakeholders due to the fact that the contents, while not fully confidential, are sensitive still. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Development of a Hybrid Model for Morphological Forecasting in Unstable Rivers, USACE Workshop, Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA |
| Organisation | US Army |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration brings together scientists and engineers from the US Army Corps, the universities of St Louis, Portsmouth and Nottingham. The aim is to share knowledge between the team in order to support a new research collaboration on sustainable river management to achieve channel stability and flood resilience in an uncertain future. Nottingham contributed knowledge on accounting for uncertainty in urban flood management that was generated by the 'Blue-Green Cities' research consortium. Nottingham also sought opportunities for research collaboration on achieving future flood and water resilience between the members of the team, including interactions between the UFR consortium and the US Army Corps of Engineers. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge sharing as outlined above. |
| Impact | Knowledge sharing as outlined above. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Dartford Borough Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Ebbsfleet Development Corporation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Ebbsfleet Development Corporation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance aims to support the uptake of blue-green infrastructure in the new-build garden city of Ebbsfleet in Kent. By bringing together local stakeholders, as well as academic experts from the project team, we foster valuable discussions, develop relationships, promote best practice, and build consensus over how to achieve the greatest benefits from taking a blue-green approach. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners regularly (every two months) attend a Learning and Action Alliance meeting/workshop. This is a voluntary commitment, and demonstrates the importance of the coordinated effort to promote blue-green infrastructure. At these meetings, stakeholders share their expertise in an open and honest environment, outside of any institutional barriers. |
| Impact | Outputs regularly contribute to the development plan for Ebbsfleet |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Gravesham Borough Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Heriot-Watt University |
| Department | Institute for Infrastructure & Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Kent County Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | South East Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Southern Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Swanscombe & Greenhithe Town Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Thames Water Utilities Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Department of Engineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Department | College of Engineering, Mathematics & Physical Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | University of Nottingham |
| Department | School of Geography |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | University of the West of England |
| Department | Department of Architecture and the Built Environment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance |
| Organisation | Wildlife Trust Kent |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I have set up this partnership work alongside Karen Potter (OU) and I am currently in charge of its organization and management. The Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance is a partnership which brings together the most relevant stakeholders in the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The purpose of the partnership is to pioneer new approaches to water management and green infrastructure. It also provides a case study for the other work packages of the Urban Flood Resilience Consortium to showcase their research. As part of the Ebbsfleet Learning and Action Alliance, we are currently developing with the stakeholders a water strategy for the garden city of Ebbsfleet. The way in which we are pursuing this is by developing a Systems Dynamic Model. System dynamics allows us to model the system structure (the circuit of water in Ebbsfleet) and to investigate the behavior of that system over time. It is particularly useful for supporting decision-making at a strategic, system-wide level and exploring the long-term consequences of alternative policies. At the moment, we are making the intended progress with the model and we aim to complete it by early 2019. March 2019 update: The system dynamics model is its final stages and will be completed shortly. Our last meeting was on the 28th of February, where we have validated the connections in the causal loop diagram and obtained the last pieces of data needed. At the moment, we are inputting the data into the model and we will soon have a completed model. The next step is to go back to the stakeholders and run with them real-time scenarios, seeking to understand the long-term behavior of the water system in Ebbsfleet. The next step after that is to produce a report for the stakeholders and to organize a conference where we will disseminate our findings and try to solidify the prestige of the LAA and attract further membership. Things are very positive in terms of the participation of the current members in the LAA. We have managed to progress in terms of enlarging the membership to the LAA, while the stakeholders that have been engaged with the LAA over the last 2 years are very active and involved in the research. March 2020 update: The system dynamics has been finished and it has been presented to the stakeholders, which have taken this output and presented it to their own organisations. Broadly, the system dynamics model constitutes the cornerstone of the Ebbsfleet Water Strategy. This is led by the Ebbsfleet Development Corporation and Southern Water, which have taken the outputs of the model to articulate a vision for a sustainable Ebbsfleet focused around water saving strategies, sustainable drainage and rainwater harvesting. The system dynamic model has shown that these measures are the most efficient ones for achieving a positive water balance for Ebbsfleet and climate proofing in the future. The research team will write a research article detailing the process of building a system dynamics model as part of a partnership such an LAA. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Our partners in this partnership can be split into a few categories. The most important category is the stakeholders from the Ebbsfleet area (local government, water companies, development corporations, river trusts and environmental charities). They provide the local knowledge and practical expertise that are vital for the development of our System Dynamics model. Second, there is the organising team, composed of myself, Karen Potter (OU) and Shaun Maskrey (University of Nottingham), who holds the specific knowledge on how to run a System Dynamics model. We are in charge of organizing the meetings, coordinating their agenda and ensuring the appropriateness of the empirical material provided by the stakeholders in the meetings. Third, the researchers from the other work packages are present at all meetings and provide much needed technical expertise that serves to underpin the knowledge of the local stakeholders. |
| Impact | The main outcome at this point in time is the establishment of the partnership itself, which is garnering an increasing amount of interest from the stakeholders themselves and other interested parties in the area. We have also written 2 blogs about the process of developing a system dynamics model. March 2020 update: we are in the process of writing up the process of delivering a system dynamics model as part of a Learning and Action Alliance. This will be a journal article output and will be submitted to the Journal of Environmental Management in the next month. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Environmental Science Associates/Washington Dept of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia, WA, USA |
| Organisation | Environmental Science Associates |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Thorne' input stemmed from and used 'Blue-Green' principles for culverts as 'green infrastructure and approaches to accounting for future uncertainty developed by the Blue-Green Cities Research Consortium. It also applied approaches to achieving future flood resilience developed by the UFR research consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This secondment supported my involvement in a 2 month, collaborative project between ESA and WDFW to develop new approaches to the design of culverts passable to fish, eels, lamprey and other species listed as being in danger of extinction under current conditions and future climatic and land-use scenarios. |
| Impact | This secondment led to development of new, predictive models of culvert performance and a reduced-complexity 'culvert performance evaluation tool. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Environmental Science Associates/Washington Dept of Fish and Wildlife, Olympia, WA, USA |
| Organisation | Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Thorne' input stemmed from and used 'Blue-Green' principles for culverts as 'green infrastructure and approaches to accounting for future uncertainty developed by the Blue-Green Cities Research Consortium. It also applied approaches to achieving future flood resilience developed by the UFR research consortium. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This secondment supported my involvement in a 2 month, collaborative project between ESA and WDFW to develop new approaches to the design of culverts passable to fish, eels, lamprey and other species listed as being in danger of extinction under current conditions and future climatic and land-use scenarios. |
| Impact | This secondment led to development of new, predictive models of culvert performance and a reduced-complexity 'culvert performance evaluation tool. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | FAST Danube Project, ROMANIA |
| Organisation | Government of Romania |
| Country | Romania |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The role of Professor Thorne is to impart to the navigation authorities in Romania and Bulgaria the potential for using intelligent dredging and beneficial use of dredged material to create 'Blue-Green infrastructure' in the form of artificial islands. These islands narrow over-wide reaches to enhance the navigation channel while also creating habitat and spawning sites for sturgeon. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborative working: this research collaboration concerns sustainable management of the Lower River Danube for navigation, habitat and protected species (specifically Beluga Sturgeon). |
| Impact | If implemented, the Blue-Green approach will help to restore the river while also boosting trade and commerce. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Leeds City Infrastructure & Investment Group |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Dr Dawson was invited to become member of Leeds' Infrastructure & Investment Group (quarterly meetings). Presenting research plans and developments that engaged and strengthened the groups focus on multi-sector contributions to urban flood risk investments. |
| Collaborator Contribution | LCC and EA members (Jonthan Moxon & Luke Williams) have provided regular input to the EPSRC research project and plans and developments - to continue with future research. They have also provided extended pathways to impact and dissemination of EPSRC research. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary through its members and scope and has extended to include city planning members thanks to the EPSRC research. The key output is an impact grant to formalise the EPSRC research into practice at the Council. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Leeds City Infrastructure & Investment Group |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Dr Dawson was invited to become member of Leeds' Infrastructure & Investment Group (quarterly meetings). Presenting research plans and developments that engaged and strengthened the groups focus on multi-sector contributions to urban flood risk investments. |
| Collaborator Contribution | LCC and EA members (Jonthan Moxon & Luke Williams) have provided regular input to the EPSRC research project and plans and developments - to continue with future research. They have also provided extended pathways to impact and dissemination of EPSRC research. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary through its members and scope and has extended to include city planning members thanks to the EPSRC research. The key output is an impact grant to formalise the EPSRC research into practice at the Council. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Leeds City Infrastructure & Investment Group |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dr Dawson was invited to become member of Leeds' Infrastructure & Investment Group (quarterly meetings). Presenting research plans and developments that engaged and strengthened the groups focus on multi-sector contributions to urban flood risk investments. |
| Collaborator Contribution | LCC and EA members (Jonthan Moxon & Luke Williams) have provided regular input to the EPSRC research project and plans and developments - to continue with future research. They have also provided extended pathways to impact and dissemination of EPSRC research. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary through its members and scope and has extended to include city planning members thanks to the EPSRC research. The key output is an impact grant to formalise the EPSRC research into practice at the Council. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| 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 | Rainwater Harvesting - Northwest Cambridge Development |
| Organisation | Artesia Consulting Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Theoretical framework development on the rainwater harvesting system design |
| Collaborator Contribution | Field measurements - Microcomponents of household water usage |
| Impact | Interim report, present at the steering committee meeting |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Rainwater Harvesting - Northwest Cambridge Development |
| Organisation | South Staffs Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Theoretical framework development on the rainwater harvesting system design |
| Collaborator Contribution | Field measurements - Microcomponents of household water usage |
| Impact | Interim report, present at the steering committee meeting |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Secondment at Aquafin NV (Belgium) |
| Organisation | Aquafin |
| Country | Belgium |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | - Presentation to a wide range of practitioners and politicians of research done on Blue-green infrastructure and flood modelling in Newcastle - Demonstration of interoperability - Exchange of knowledge and insights into adoption of SUDs - Initiation of discussion on how to better integrate different infrastructure systems for flood management in cities |
| Collaborator Contribution | - Induced me to their projects in Antwerp and other Belgian cities on how they organise strategies and plans for integrated water management - Organised a field trip to Breda, the Netherlands to study how trees in urban areas are best planted, and how they can serve as infiltration basins for surface water - Invited me to project meetings on urban flood management with cities to introduce me to the process - Data exchange |
| Impact | - Ideas for a comparative case study between Belgium and Newcastle, which will broaden the scope of our research and make it more international - Provide data on surface flooding and infrastructure, which could serve as input for our research and lead to more widely applicable results and methods |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Secondment in Oregon, USA, hosted by the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council |
| Organisation | Upper Deschutes Watershed Council |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Research on Whychus Creek watershed comparing geomorphological, physical and biological characteristics and overall functioning of the restored, transitional and unrestored reaches. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provision of accommodation and transport for field work. Provision of literature on the local ecosystems |
| Impact | My efforts contributed to the overall research project, which ultimately has led to a number of presentations and public dissemination activities. The specific details can be obtained from the host organisation. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Secondment with Leicester City Council |
| Organisation | Leicester City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | I conducted a 2-week secondment to Leicester City Council to work in the flood risk managment team. I mapped the sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) in the Leicester City Council administrative boundary (using GIS) and then conducted a multiple benefit analysis of the economic, environmental and social benefits of these SuDS, using the CIRIA B£ST tool. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners showed me how to access planning documents and provided information on the SuDS. We also visited several key sites for SuDS development to appraise the features. |
| Impact | Multidisciplinary - geography, engineering |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Sustainable integrated urban water management in practice: Ebbsfleet Garden City |
| Organisation | Ebbsfleet Development Corporation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | As part of the collaboration, we have developed a baseline urban water metabolism model which quantifies the metabolism-related performance of an integrated urban water system in Ebbsfleet. The model systematically captures the interdependency and interaction between three of the urban water sub-systems; water supply, wastewater and stormwater. The model is capable of investigating the impact of site-specific sustainable urban water management strategies on water, energy and other environmental impact categories and calculates key performance indicators for the urban water system. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ebbsfleet Development Corporation assists to obtain the relevant datasets for our study. |
| Impact | We have developed a baseline urban metabolism model for Ebbsfleet Garden City. We have prepared three conference papers based on this work. The key journal paper is under preparation. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Department for Infrastructure |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Ebbsfleet Development Corporation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | HR Wallingford Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | MWH UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Newcastle City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Northumbrian Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Royal HaskoningDHV |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Royal Town Planning Institute RTPI |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Sniffer |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Sweco International AB |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | UK Water Industry Research Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | WS Atkins |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Strategic Advisory Board |
| Organisation | Water Industry Forum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The strategic advisory board (SAB) act to oversee the project, providing support as to the project direction, outputs, scope and nature of the research. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Representatives of the partners listed above meet every 6 months with the project team, to listen to a project update, and provide formal written feedback. The project team then responds to this feedback, and presents its response at the next meeting. Members of the SAB further support specific work packages, where their expertise aligns. |
| Impact | Outputs will accrue as the project progresses. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Urban LUCI Workshop, Victoria University, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND |
| Organisation | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Country | New Zealand |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This five day workshop was a collaborative effort between the University of Nottingham and Victoria University. The workshop had two purposes. The first was to transfer knowledge generated by the EPSRC Blue-Green Cities research consortium (led by Colin thorne) for incorporation into the 'Land Utilisation Capacity Indicator' model developed by a team led by Dr Bethanna Jackson at Victoria University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The second was to explore the potential for a new version of the LUCI model to be developed specifically for application to urban areas, through joint research between the Urban Flood resilience research consortium (led by Nottingham University) and Dr Jackson's NZ-UK team. |
| Impact | The outcome was a research proposal to the NZ research council for pump-priming funding to support further development and application of 'Urban LUCI' as a toll for building Urban Flood and Water Resilience. Although that proposal was unsuccessful, a further meeting (February 2018) has produced a new proposal to the NZ Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment for a 5-year programme of research collaboration between Nottingham and Victoria universities. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Urban metabolisam modelling |
| Organisation | University of West London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Data collection and conceptual model development |
| Collaborator Contribution | Guidance on the model development |
| Impact | Interim report, Project presentation |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | West Yorkshire Combined Authority |
| Organisation | West Yorkshire Combined Authorities |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | EPSRC research (Flood source area), being used to support Innovative Resilience Programme (Leeds) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners have sought our expertise and aim to put our research in planning through a innovation bid (2022). |
| Impact | Plans for external funded proposal (grant in aid etc). |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | Willamette River Partnership, Portland, OR, USA |
| Organisation | Willamette Partnership |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Collaborative research on valuing floodplains as 'Blue-Green Assets'. |
| Collaborator Contribution | It applies approaches to evaluation developed by the Blue-Green Cities research consortium. |
| Impact | This joint research project is developing a floodplain evaluation tool that calculates the value of benefits provided by floodplains in terms of flood water storage and flood peak reduction. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Willis Research Network |
| Organisation | Willis Group |
| Department | Willis Research Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Analysis and development of models for extreme rainfall and floods Regular presentations at industry forums on flooding |
| Collaborator Contribution | In addition to financial contributions, Willis provide cases studies and datasets, as well as a platform for discussion and presentation of work to the rest of the insurance industry. |
| Impact | Models for extreme rainfall, spatial dependence of extremes and "memory processes" in extremes. |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | 'Achieving Urban Flood Resilience in an uncertain future' workshop at River Restoration Centre Conference 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 | The workshop featured presentations from three members of the Urban Flood Resilience team including my presentation on subconscious perceptions of SuDS. After the presentations the online group were split into three discussion groups where questions were asked about the team's research and where to access further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.therrc.co.uk/sites/default/files/files/Conference/2020/handbook_2020_v14_online_compress... |
| Description | 14 October 2020 Watering the Garden - Integrated Water Management in Garden 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 | Postponed webinar (from May 5th 2020 (due to COVID 19) organised by Ebbsfleet Garden City and Urban Flood Resilience for planning and drainage professsionals, presentation focussed on key outputs from Urban Flood Resilience with specific reference to integrating water into street design |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 14 October 2020 Watering the Garden - Integrated Water Management in Garden Cities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Webinar organised by Ebbsfleet Garden City and Urban Flood Resilience for planning and drainage professsionals, presentation focussed on key outputs from Urban Flood Resilience with specific reference to integrating water into street design |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 18 February 2021 Nature Based Solutions webinar, presentation on urban flood resilince to India-UK Development Partnership Forum (FCDO, CDRI and international researchers ) |
| 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 | To introduce the use of nature based solutions for flood management to Indian officials organised through the FCO , arising form growing Indian interest in resilience and adaptation palnning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| 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 | 22nd UK System Dynamics Chapter Annual Conference - April 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 of the paper 'System Dynamics to investigate sustainable urban water management in the Ebbsfleet Garden City' by Irene Pluchinotta (authorship Irene Pluchinotta, Alessandro Pagano, Tudorel Vilcan, Sangaralingam Ahilan, Leon Kapetas, Shaun Maskrey, Vladimir Krivtsov, and Emily O'Donnell). Outputs from the research project were shared leading to discussion on the method and findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://systemdynamics.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/UKSD-Conf-2020-Pluchinotta-AbstrBio.pdf |
| 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 | 6th IAHR Europe Congress (Krivtsov 2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vladmir Krivtsov gave a presentation at the 6th IAHR Europe Congress Feb 15th - Feb 18th, 2021 (online) entitled 'Ecosystem services provided by Blue-Green Infrastructure: a comparative study of two adjacent SUDS retention ponds'. The presentation led to discussion and questions around this research topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://iahr2020.pl/2021/02/12/the-book-of-abstracts-is-now-available/ |
| Description | 6th IAHR Europe Congress (Krivtsov) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vladimir Krivtsov gave a presentation at the 6th IAHR Europe Congress Feb 15th - Feb 18th, 2021, Warsaw, Poland, entitled 'Mitigating polluted runoff from industrial estates by SUDS retrofits: case studies from Scotland'. The talk led to discussion and questions on this research topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://iahr2020.pl/2021/02/12/the-book-of-abstracts-is-now-available/ |
| Description | 6th IAHR Europe Congress (Ncube) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sikhululekile Ncube gave a presentation at the 6th IAHR Europe Congress, Feb 2021 online, entitled 'Dynamic evolution of natural capital in urban drainage adaptation planning'. The talk led to questions and discussions around this research topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://iahr2020.pl/2021/02/12/the-book-of-abstracts-is-now-available/ |
| Description | 6th IAHR Europe Congress, 15-18 February 2021, Pluchinotta |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of the paper 'A participatory process to support sustainable water resources management in the Ebbsfleet Garden City' by Irene PLuchinotta (authorship: Irene PLUCHINOTTA, Alessandro PAGANO, Tudorel VILCAN, Sangaralingam AHILAN*, Leon KAPETAS, Shaun MASKREY, Vladimir KRIVTSOV, Colin THORNE and Emily O'DONNELL). Sparked questions from the audience on the topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://iahr2020.pl/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Book-of-Abstracts-15-02-2021.pdf |
| Description | A blog about Work Package 4 activities posted on the Urban Flood Resilience website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blog written about engagement activities around three study sites in Bristol being looked at for their blue-green infrastructure devices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2019/01/21/ethic-of-care-towards-blue-green-spaces-fo... |
| Description | American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote Address titled, 'The Stream Evolution Model: working with nature to restore channel-floodplain connectivity'. This presentation explained how 'Blue-Green' approaches to the restoration and management of river-floodplain systems can yield multiple benefits in terms of flood risk management, water quality improvement and recovery of valuable ecosystem services lost when streams are hydraulically and morphologically disconnected from their floodplains. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012,2017 |
| Description | Amsterdam International Water Week Conference, Resilient City Leaders Forum |
| 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 | I attended the Amsterdam International Water Week Conference and was an expert contributor on the Resilient City Leaders Forum. Table 9, Developing water sensitive futures. I shared examples of best practice blue-green infrastructure from the UK and USA with the other 12 members of the table. This sparked much interest and discussion afterwards. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/bluegreenfutures/2019/12/17/amsterdam-international-water-week-confer... |
| 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 | Arranged and presented a SuDS Seminar at the Royal Town Planning Institute Wales National Conference, Cardiff |
| 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 | Led two workshops to provide details of the Welsh Government's introduction of legislation and SuDS provisions in the 2010 Flood and Water Management Act, also reporting on our emerging findings on the planning challenges and opportunities to implement SuDS from the EPSRC project . We also facilitated focus groups to identify and capture with planners and other key stakeholders all the ways in which the planning process can add value to the implementation of SuDS through S3, attending to the practical considerations of the interface between the planning system and the new Strategic Advisory Bodies (SAB's). A lively debate ensued regarding the challenges for planners in their professional role, and the role of the planning system, in relation to the new legislation. This led to the invitation to hold another workshop at the RTPI Northern Ireland Conference, Belfast. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.rtpi.org.uk/the-rtpi-near-you/rtpi-cymru/events/wales-planning-conference/ |
| Description | BSRG 2020 and SedsOnline |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vladimir Krivtsiv gave a presentation at the BSRG 2020 (University of Liverpool) and SedsOnline entitled 'A study of suspended and sedimented particles in urban ponds: analysis of chemistry, size distribution, and implications for sedimentological processes in lentic environments'. 20-23 Dec 2020. The presentation led to discussion and questions on this research topic. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/media/livacuk/schoolofenvironmentalsciences/earthoceanandecologicalscien... |
| Description | Blog : Reflections on the BRE Resilience Summit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Blog on the urban flood resilience website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Blog on Impact of Blue-Green infrastructure investment pathways on dynamic evolution of natural capital |
| 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 | Skhue Ncube wrote a blog on her research in the Urban Flood Resilience research project, entitled Impact of Blue-Green infrastructure investment pathways on dynamic evolution of natural capital. The blog has been viewed 259 times to date, and led to requests for further information on this aspect of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2018/11/15/impact-of-blue-green-infrastructure-invest... |
| Description | Blog on Low-Tech Low-Cost Blue-Green Infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The aim of the blog was to highlight the importance of civil participation on strengthening urban flood resilience. The blog was entitled "Low-cost small-scale blue-green interventions: community led projects enhancing urban flood resilience" and was accessed by more than 500 people within the first 2 months of publication |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2017/05/02/low-cost-small-scale-blue-green-interventi... |
| Description | Blog on external website (Susdrain, January 2019) |
| 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 | Emily O'Donnell wrote a blog advretising the Urban Flood Resilience research project event in Newcastle March 2019, entitled The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience. The blog also reported some of the key researc outputs from the project and introduced the Newcastle Blue and Green Declaration that will be signed at the event in March. The blog directed people to an online registration page for the dissemination event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.susdrain.org/community/blog/the-blue-green-path-to-urban-flood-resilience/ |
| Description | Blog on the ICONHIC2019 conference by Kapetas and Krivtsov |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blog describing ICONHIC2019 conference in relation to the UFR and BGC research, and our team involvement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2019/07/22/urban-flood-resilience-team-attend-iconhic... |
| Description | Blog: 'Learning and Action Alliances (LAA) as solutions to wicked, complex problems' |
| 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 | I have published a blog called 'Learning and Action Alliances (LAA) as solutions to wicked, complex problems' in the Blue Green Cities blog hosted by University of Nottingham (http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/) on June 26, 2017. The blog is popular, with an international audience with 1222 page views in Q4 of 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2017/06/26/learning-action-alliances-laa-solutions-wi... |
| Description | Blogpost on The Urban Water Detective - Where is the Water Flowing? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Blogpost on uploaded to the Urban flood resilience website. 80 views in the first week it was uploaded |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/events-news-and-blog/events-and-news.aspx |
| Description | Blogpost on Urban Fluvial Geomorphology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A blogpost was published that discusses how water shapes society and society shapes water. This post was intended to introduce the general public to the idea of urban hydrological dynamics and how they play a role in it. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2018/01/23/urban-fluvial-geomorphology/ |
| Description | Blue Green Conference and Declaration at Centre for Life, Newcastle |
| 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 | Achieving Urban Flood Resilience in an Uncertain Future Newcastle Dissemination Event 2019 The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience Thursday 7th March 2019, 09.00 - 16.30 Newcastle Centre for Life Over the past six years, academics from leading UK Universities working on the Blue-Green Cities and Urban Flood Resilience research projects have produced world class research outputs demonstrating the multiple benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure, resilience of urban water systems under climate and population change, opportunities to use stormwater as a resource, citizens' interactions and interoperability of Blue-Green systems. In parallel, local partners in Newcastle, including Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, the Environment Agency and Newcastle University, have explored what these approaches mean for the city and developed working relationships which seek to influence a Blue-Green Vision for Newcastle. This led to the signing of the Newcastle Blue and Green Declaration in February 2016. This event showcased progress with implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure in Newcastle and the wider NE, celebrated the achievements of the Declaration signatories, and welcomed new signatories. Blue-Green infrastructure successes and ambitions were presented and the Urban Flood Resilience team disseminated their research outputs. Keynote speakers included: Cllr Nick Kemp (Newcastle City Council) Richard Warneford (Northumbrian Water) Leila Huntington (Environment Agency) James Harris (RTPI) Justin Abbott (Arup) Iain Garfield (Newcastle University) Fola Ogunyoye (Royal HaskoningDHV) Eugene Milne (Newcastle City Council) Ola Holmstrom (Sweco) Lisa Stephenson (Groundwork NE & Cumbria) Gwen Rhodes (Stantec) Colin Thorne (University of Nottingham) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/events-news-and-blog/newcastle-dissemination-event-2019.aspx |
| Description | Blue-Green Nottingham Group meetings (quarterly) |
| 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 Blue-Green Nottingham Group was established by E. O'Donnell in July 2019 and has met (to date) in July, October (2019) and March 2020. This group brings together academics, practitioners and policy makers working in the field of flood and water management, climate change adaptation, and environmental management, to address pivotal challenges in Nottingham. To date there has been much discussion and networking between University of Nottingham academics and external stakeholders, and plans to work on joint projects and apply for funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| 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 Workshop on Incised Channel Restoration |
| 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 | Bonneville Power Administration: Habitat Restoration Training Workshop Series - Invited workshop on 'Incised Channel Restoration'. This short-course introduced the principles of 'Blue-Green' approaches to restoring lost ecosystem functions in incised channels. The course was attended by a 15 river, environment and hydropower professionals at BPA, which is the largest hydropower generating organization in the USA. |
| 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 | Bonneville Power Administration: Habitat Restoration Training |
| 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 | Habitat Restoration Training Workshop Series - Invited workshop on 'Bank Erosion and Stabilisation'. This short-course introduced the principles of using Green Infrastructure to stabilise eroding stream banks sustainably. The course included transfer of knowledge generated by the 'Blue-Green Cities' research consortium. The course was attended by a dozen river, environment and hydropower professionals at BPA, which is the largest hydropower generating organization in the USA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | Bricks & Water policy roundtable 3: How can SuDS improve our built environment? 29th January 2019. Westminster, London UK |
| 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 a roundtable, hosted by Baroness Mackintosh of Pickering, discussing the role of sustainable drainage systems in the built environment. Emily contributed to the discussion and riased a key point on the role of the local community with regards to maintenance of these assets, that was included in the meeting report. The event also allowed networking and requests for further information on the Urban Flood Resilience project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/wsbf/events/bricks-water-roundtable-3-how-can-suds-improve-our-buil... |
| 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 | 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 | Chevening Alumni Evening |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Keynote talk at the 2018 Chevening Alumi evening, hosted by the University of Nottingham. Speaking to international recipients of the Chevening scholarhip (some of whom are currently taking part in the scheme, and others are alumni practitioners). Talk gave an overview of the Urban Flood Resilience project with a focus on sustainable cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.chevening.org/ |
| Description | Collaboration to become more water resilient in Ebbsfleet (Tudor Vilcan webinar, November 2019) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Webinar hosted by CIRIA on 'Collaboration to become more water resilient in Ebbsfleet' by Tudor Vilcan and others. Sparked discussion on the role of Learning and Action Alliances in facilitating collaboration around innovation in urban flood risk and water management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ciria.org/CIRIA/Navigation/Events/Event_Display.aspx?EventKey=E19720 |
| Description | Collaborative design of blue/green solutions for flooding in Carshalton. One day workshop with Sutton Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The workshop focused on the development of an adaptation plan for drainage infrastructure. The participants (flood, planning, community officers) screened for realistic opportunities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 presentation at International Conference on Flood Management (2017) - O'Donnell and Fenner |
| 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 'Overcoming barriers to Blue-Green infrastructure through multiple benefit evaluation' at the Seventh International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM7). 5-7th September 2017, Leeds, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Delegation visit from Chinese Academy of Urban Planning and Imperial College London (November 2018) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge University, in collaboration with Imperial College London, received a delegation of engineers from the Chinese Academy of Urban Planning. The day included presentation of Cambridge research by Prof Fenner and Dr Kapetas on Urban Flood Resilience and a field visit to the largest rainwater harvesting urban development in the UK (known as Eddington/North West Cambridge) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 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 | Discussion forum between policymakers, practitioners and academics at the forefront of work on blue-green cities will explore the multiple co-benefits of these environments |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Discussion with Prof Anna Deletic, University of New South Wales, Australia, December 2017 |
| 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 | The meeting took place in December 2017, involved discussion with Prof. Anna Deletic group. There is potential for future collaboration on mutual research interests. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Early Career Researcher workshop on Effective Stakeholder Engagement - November 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Early career researcher CPD on effective stakeholder engagement, including stakeholder identification and analysis, communication strategies, best practice engagement and tailoring outputs to different audiences. Attended by researchers from across the UK. Two-day event hosted by the University of Oxford. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Early Career Researcher workshop on Showcasing Research to Deliver Impact - November 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Early career researcher CPD focussed on showcasing research for impact. Hosted by UK research councils and the ARCC network. Two-day event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | Ebbsfleet Water Forum |
| 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 | Finalising System Dynamics Modelling which explores sustainable urban water management in Ebbsfleet Garden City. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | Edinburgh Living Landscapes GI Practitioners Event, Edinburgh (October 2017) |
| 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 | This was, essentially, a working group meeting related to the Green Infrastructure. The participants provided updates on their relevant activities, which followed by discussion, and planning for the future |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Editor of Special Edition of Royal Society Philosophical Transactions A on Urban Flood Resilience ( published initially on-line February 17 2020) |
| 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 | Providing flood resistant urban infrastructure which is resilient to both future climate uncertainties and increasing urbanisation is a pressing challenge globally. This issue brings together current UK and international developments in: understanding the changing drivers of flooding; advances in flood modelling; pathways to multifunctional infrastructure that can provide multiple benefits; social, community and economic interaction with flood management interventions, and the effectiveness of flood recovery responses. An international perspective is also captured on how countries are reacting to the need for achieving urban flood resilience. A paradigm shift is needed which moves from the risks of draining water "away" to creating the opportunities from capturing stormwater locally and utilising it as a component of urban regeneration and urban greening. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsta/2020/378/2168 |
| Description | Emersons Green Festival of Nature |
| 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 | The Festival of Nature has been organised by the Friends of Emersons Green for a few years. This event takes over a space on the grass besides a public pathway, offering information and activities to passers-by in the park. The project-team held a stall at the event, and this allowed us to share information and engage in conversations about our work, prompting some good questions and discussion, with requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Emersons Green Festival of Nature |
| 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 | This was the first Festival of Nature held by the Friends of Emersons Green group. Project-members held a stall to share information and invite questions about our work. Due to good fortune, the good weather meant that this event was quite busy and a lot of interest, questions and discussion were prompted, with requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Engagement with Thames and Southern water on Ebbsfleet water supply and waste water disposal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | We have had series of meeting with Thames Water and Southern Water on Ebbsfleet urban metabolism modeling. This allows a detailed understanding of the urban water supply and stormwater management system in the Ebbsfleet Garden city. The Thames and Southern Water are interested to support this work, as we can explore a number of plausible strategies and inform more appropriate one. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Engagement with an Emersons Green Village Park Friends group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Glyn Everett attended a morning activity with Friends for Inspirational Life, a group that have taken over a small area within one of our study sites. Glyn presented on UWE's work and walked with thr group (8 people) to a retention pond area within the park, where they discussed amenity interventions that might usefully be installed there. The group were very interested in the use of blue-green infrastructure for flood-risk management and keen to take up the opportunity to work together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Environment Management Masters Fieldtrip, Southwell, Nottinghamshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Shaun Maskrey participated in the Environment Management Masters Fieldtrip, Southwell, Nottinghamshire, in April 2018. This involved illustrating flood risk areas and flood risk management activities to students and discussing potential schemes and solutions. The fieldtrip contributed to the students' degree course and lead to much discussion on grey vs. blue-green flood risk management options. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | European Geosciences Union - presentation at session on Urban Resilience Studies |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given at the European Geosciences Union 2018 in Vienna. This is an annual conference bringing together world-class research in geosciences from across the world. By presenting here, discussion was initiated with other researchers working in similar fields, which have helped to improve the aims and objectives of the research in this project. It was also good to learn about different case studies in other parts of the world (e.g. France). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | FRIAR 2020 - 7th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Vladimir Krivtsov gave a presentation at the FRIAR 2020 - 7th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management entitled 'Hydrology, ecology and water chemistry of two SuDS ponds: detailed analysis of ecosystem services provided by Blue Green Infrastructure' September 2020 (online). The talk led to discussion and questions on this research topic. The conference presentation has also been published as a conference paper. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-the-built-environment/194/37900 |
| Description | Fact sheet on Economics of SuDS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | One of the primary factors responsible for the slow transition to SuDS technologies in the UK is the incomplete understanding of their economics. The existing evidence-base around SuDS economics has not convinced decision-makers about the benefits of a potential transition to the technology. This fact sheet argues that barriers to blame are at a higher level: (i) economic appraisals require redefining to include wider costs and benefits, and (ii) the existing route map to SuDS from pre-planning through to maintenance is organisationally too complex that decision-making on drainage infrastructure is based on an "ease of implementation" attitude by the key stakeholders. Understanding the need to prepare for an uncertain future can lead to more integrated approaches than currently followed. An adaptation pathways methodology that supports win-win decision-making under multiple possible futures with mixed blue-green and grey systems can be a useful tool in this direction. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Factsheet - Implicit Association Tests |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Factsheets aim to disseminate key findings to a non-specialist audience in a concise format. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/documents/180115-implicit-association-test.pdf |
| Description | Factsheet - Microhydropower |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Factsheets aim to disseminate our research in a very concise way that is accessible to a non-specialist audience. Over the course of the project, several factsheets will be produced on different aspects of the work packages. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/documents/180125-microhydropower.pdf |
| Description | Factsheet : Community Engagement: A guide to its fundamental importance in developing BGI. |
| 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 | Factsheet aimed at practitioners reporting findings from research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/documents/factsheet-bgi-engagement-final.pdf |
| Description | Factsheet : Green Roofs on Non-Domestic Buildings: Perspectives of Owners and Occupiers. |
| 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 | Factsheet on greenroofs aimed at practitioners and local business districts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Factsheet on MicroHydroPower |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This fact sheet is publicized on the projects website and is entitled "Exploring the potential to recover energy from urban stormwater". The fact sheet is based on a publication currently under review. It presents an easy to use screening tool that evaluates site feasibility for microhydropower generation. Newcastle is already considering sites where the tool can be applied. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/documents/180125-microhydropower.pdf |
| Description | Factsheet on defining interoperability in flood management |
| 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 | A factsheet was produced on defining interoperability in urban flood management to use as a starting point for discussion when meeting stakeholders and practitioners about system-of-systems thinking in flood management. Its intended purpose therefore is to introduce the research subject in an accessible way. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/documents/180320-interoperability.pdf |
| Description | Factsheet: Improving Blue-Green Infrastructure Sustainability: Developing sites to fit with users' activities |
| 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 | Factsheet on designing BGI to be inclusive of existing activities and to encourage stewardship activities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Festival of Nature |
| 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 | Bristol Festival of Nature is a large-scale event in the city centre attended by several thousand people each year, intended as a fun engagement event around a wide range of environmental issues and with a focus on science communication with the lay public. The University of the W`est of England had a marquee at the event and the Urban Flood Resilience project team held a stall inside the marquee with banners and materials to engage people and talk with them about approaches to managing flood risk, and discuss the benefits and costs of blue-green approaches. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bnhc.org.uk/festival-of-nature/ |
| Description | Flood Expo - Live debate on flood management in an uncertain future |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Debate ranged around uncertainties in the future and the lessons learned from the past. A wide ranging debate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.thefloodexpo.co.uk/live-debates/ |
| Description | Flood Expo - September 2017 |
| 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 | Attendance at the Flood Expo, London. Networking with fellow flood risk practitioners, academics and decision-makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | Friends of Emerson Green AGM |
| 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 | This was the first AGM of the newly formally-constituted Friends of Emersons Green group. Twenty-five people attended, a mix of Friends members, Council employees and interested parties from the close-by new development & green space, Lyde Green. An informal evening, this provided the opportunity to tell more people about the research and invite conversation and further contact. This prompted some good questions and discussion, and began developing relationships with the Lyde Green attendants, for possible future work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Friends of Emersons Green Orchard day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The Friends Of Emersons Green are now developing a small orchard on the grounds of the park, And so hold occasional days for maintenance activities. Glyn Everett attended, to explain the research to new participants and invites questions and discussion. Some good interest was displayed, and a few new contacts for further conversations gathered. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Global Alliance 'Opportunities for ecological adaptation to flood hazards in major global cities' - Cambridge Workshop 2nd March 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Delivery of paper entitled "Towards Blue-Green Infrastructure and Urban Flood Resilience" to facilitate session on Innovative solutions and opportunities for ecological adaptation to flooding. Workshop of Global Alliance Consortium between Cambridge University, University of California Berkeley, National University of Singapore |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Governing Complexity Workshop, The Open University, Milton Keynes |
| 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 | Presented on collaborative governance and flood risk management. This event brought together research, scholarship, employer and educator experience to explore what gives rise to a governing praxis (theory informed practical action) within and between organisations and amongst a citizenry engaged in governing. The purpose of the day's inquiry was to effect better governing in and by organisations and, possibly, an enfranchised citizenry in response to complex, uncertain situations typified by the use of the term 'wicked problem'. The event and discussions in particular explored the research and scholarship synergies and potential for future collaborative efforts between researchers and the OECD Observatory of Public Sector Innovation. The event was filmed and placed on the OU website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Government's latest review of sustainable drainage: a box-ticking exercise reinforcing a suboptimal state of affairs? Tudor Vilcan Blog May 2019 |
| 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 Tudor Vilcan on 'Government's latest review of sustainable drainage: a box-ticking exercise reinforcing a suboptimal state of affairs?' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2019/05/02/governments-latest-review-of-sustainable-d... |
| Description | Green Infrastructure in Wales Workshop, Arup, Cardiff |
| 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 | Led to future contacts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Guest speaker at the National Environment Agency 'Sustainable Places' Specialist CPD/Conference, Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Approximately 50 Environment Agency staff members assembled from the regional 'Sustainable Places' teams, for a day of internal training and discussion. I was invited to speak regarding strategic engagement and partnership working in relation to increasing the resilience of people, property and business to the risks of flooding and coastal erosion. It sparked a lively debate on how the EA resource and support collaborative activities, and how they capture 'best practice' in overcoming the inherent challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Guest speaker at the Urban Flood Resilience in Newcastle Workshop, Newcastle University |
| 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 | Spoke regarding my research into resiient urban flood risk management and planning, as part of the wider team's re-engagement with the Newcastle Learning and Action Alliance. This directly led to the invitation from the Environment Agency to speak at their Annual National Conference for the Sustainable Places team. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| 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 | ICE Talk - November 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk at the Institute of Civil Engineers, London to an audience primarily consisting of practitioners. Talk gave an overview of the Urban Flood Resilience project (and where it is heading). Questions were taken afterwards as part of a panel of speakers. Interest was focused on the CityCAT model (Newcastle University). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | ICNet Global climate change infrastructure resilience network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on training the engineers of the future - for climate resilience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Implicit Association Test (IAT) event at Emersons Green, Bristol |
| 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 | Shaun Maskrey co-hosted (with Glyn Everett, University of the West of England) an event in Emersons Green, Bristol, whereby members of the public we asked their preferences for blue and green infrastructure. Members of the public also completed Implicit Association Tests (IATs) on tablet computers, to demonstrate their hidden attitudes towards blue and green infrastructure. There were many discussions about the reserach propject and the tests, and people were directed to the project website and social media. There were many questions about blue-green infrastructure and requests for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Informed Financial Times Front Page Article |
| 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 | Informed author of Financial Times Front Page Article regarding new homes on floodplains |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2019/12/22/what-the-papers-say-a-december-23/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=... |
| 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 | Integrated Water Management in Garden Cities 5th May 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 | Talk/discussion on application of adaptation pathways approach to urban drainage planning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Internet Blog devoted to the SUDSnet conference and Heriot Watt Research on retrofitting SUDS at industrial premises |
| 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 Internet Blog devoted to the SUDSnet conference and Heriot Watt Research on retrofitting SUDS at industrial premises: http://www.sgif.org.uk/index.php/news-and-events/blog/239-sudsnet-2018 Basically, it is promoting SUDS, as well as aiming to disseminate the research conducted by the Heriot Watt team Please note that the original version of the blog is at http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2018/09/18/sudsnet-international-conference-and-network/ but there is also an alternative (copy) version at the SGIF: http://www.sgif.org.uk/index.php/news-and-events/blog/239-sudsnet-2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2018/09/18/sudsnet-international-conference-and-netwo... |
| Description | Interview for CNN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interview with CNN after widespread Asian Flooding in 2017 about the different approaches to flood risk management and how cities can improve their flood resilience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/24/asia/climate-change-floods-asia/index.html |
| Description | Interview for national 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 | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Guardian Newspaper journalist resulted in highlighting of the long term social impacts of flooding and the importance of blue green approaches to flood risk management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invitation to present at the British Antarctic Survey event on "High Impact Climate Events", June 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The event organised by the British Antarctic Survey involved 4 talks on High Impact Climate Events". While most talks covered improved understanding of climate projections, Leon Kapetas' presentation covered the potential to use such data in practice to inform flexible drainage infrastructure development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Invited Panel Discussion Flood Expo Digital 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 | Panel discussion with leading industry and academic experts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Invited Presentation at TWENTY65 Conference, Manchester, 17-18 April 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | This is one of the key events in the UK bringing together academics and professionals from the water industry. Leon Kapetas and Dick Fenner were invited to presnt their UFR work and present future research on adaptation pathways. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://twenty65.ac.uk/ |
| 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 discussion to RICS Modus Magazine "How can we design cities to improve how they manage urban floodwaters?" March 2018 |
| 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 | Invited contribution to RICS MODUS magazine "How deluged cities can hang on to their water better" March 2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | 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 | Learning Action Alliance (LAA) meetings at Ebbsfleet Garden City |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Three Learning Action Alliance (LAA) meetings at Ebbsfleet Garden City took place to develop an sustainable urban water management strategy and system dynamics model. The work was initiated by the consortium and the local stakeholders have now taken ownership of the events as a collaborative platform to discuss water management in Ebbsfleet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | Learning and Action Alliance - Ebbsfleet |
| 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 | 15 professionals including academics, designers, water professional, council directors attended this workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Life in Changing Environments Research Priority Area Conference and presentation, University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Shaun Maskrey attended the Life in Changing Environments Research Priority Area Conference, University of Nottingham, in June 2018, and gave a presentation on the Urban Flood Resilience research project. This led to qustions about the research and intended delierables and discussions about how this fits with the RPA. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Livable Cities Conference, Calgary, Alberta, CANADA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote presentation on using Blue-Green approaches to build urban flood resilience in an uncertain future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Lower Columbia Salmon Recovery Board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event briefed the Salmon Recovery Board on how green infrastructure created using wood, vegetation and other natural materials could be installed in the North Fork Toutle River to support recovery of a population of wild salmon that is listed as at risk of extinction. The measures suggested were based on principles and practices researched by the 'Blue-Green Cities' research consortium, in the work package concerned with creation, management and enhancement of urban streams as multi-functional, 'Blue-Green Infrastructure'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | Meeting with interested professional stakeholders at CREATE Centre, Bristol |
| 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 | Presentation and discussion concerning crossover work potential with two interested professionals working around city-planning, eco-system services and systems thinking. Areas of future project development were identified and communications have been maintained since, which will lead to further project work and output development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Member of British Standards Institute (adaptation expert) |
| 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 | I am supporting a body of work looking at the requirements for the next generation of climate standards (I am chair of SC7's task and finishing group). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021,2022 |
| 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 | 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 | Naturvation Meeting - November 2017 |
| 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 | Meeting of the Naturvation project (nature-based solutions in cities). Mainly practitioner partners present (Environment Agency, Newcastle University, Northumbrian Water, etc.). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://naturvation.eu/ |
| Description | Network Rail invited meeting/presentation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to present research project and discuss pathways to impact on flood risk and national rail network with Lisa Constable, Head of Environment and Sustainable Development Weather Resilience and Climate Change Adaptation Strategy Manager, Network Rail, and her team members. 1st November 2017, Milton Keynes. Barriers and opportunities discussed, time scales for impact into Adaptation Policy documents discussed (potentially possible by 2019). On-going interest in participation and research outputs of project acknowledged. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 LAA meeting - Urbanisation, green space and runoff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Newcastle LAA meeting at Northumbrian Water office in Durham. Talk considering the effects of urbanisation on runoff and flooding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Updates on Blue-Green infrastructure progress in Newcastle-upon-Tyne Developing new Blue-Green futures: multifunctional infrastructure to address water challenges in Newcastle Assessing the implementation of SuDS through the planning system in England From rainwater management to urban flood resilience - a paradigm shift Developing metrics, measures and/or quality standards to monitor progress with Blue-Green Infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | Newcastle Naturvation workshop |
| 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 | Shaun Maskrey attended a meeting of the Naturvation research project in Newcastle in June 2018. He participated in discussions on the role of blue-green infrastructure for flood risk management and spoke about the Urban Flood Resilience research project. This led to requests for further information on the project and involvement in futrue Naturvation events. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Newcastle Urban Flood Reslience Dissemination Event: Presentation on "Adaptation Pathways of drainage infrastructure in Carshalton, London Borough of Sutton" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This presentation by Dr Kapetas and Prof Fenner is part of the large dissemination event organised by the URF consortium. The talk aims to introduce the concept of flexible ecosystem-based drainage infrastructure adaptation. Audience included policymakers (local authorities), EA, industry practicioners but also members from third sector interested in the approach. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Newcastle catchment-Based Approach (CaBA) event and marketplace |
| 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 | Shaun Maskrey participated in the Newcastle catchment-Based Approach (CaBA) event and marketplace in March 2019. Outcomes of his involvement included questions on the Urban Flood Resilience research project, invitations to participate in future events and discussion on Learning and Action Alliances (whcih are being run as part of the Urban Flood Resilience project). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | Northumbrian Water Group Innovation Festival - July 2017 |
| 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 | Attended two days of the Northumbrian Water Group innovation festival in Newcastle. Event included several discussion groups, of which I participated in the flood risk pathway. Networking with flood risk professionals, and discussing the Urban Flood Resilience Project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | OU Blog - Placing Flood Risk at the Heart of Urban Planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News item to highlight the research being undertaken on planning and flood risk management at the Open University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.open.ac.uk/research/news/placing-flood-risk-management-heart-urban-planning |
| 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 | Pagano A., Kapetas L., Pluchinotta I. Lopez Gunn E (2021) CS7: Stakeholder engagement and participatory approaches supporting modelling for effective integrated water resources management Special Session at 6th IAHR Europe Congress Warsaw Poland 15-18 February 2021 (https://iahr2020.pl/) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Special Session at 6th IAHR Europe Congress Warsaw Poland 15-18 February 2021 led by Dr Leon Kapetas, based on Ebbsfleet Garden City case study from Urban Flood Resilience Project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://iahr2020.pl |
| 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 | 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 | Poster presentations at Heriot Watt and Edinburgh University Postdoctoral Forums |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This entry relates to the poster presentations (on BGI/SuDS ponds) at Postdoc forums |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| 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 and ongoing engagement with Defra/EA/WG/NRW Thematic Advisory Group (TAG) for Flood Risk Management Policy, Strategy and Investment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Short presentation and ongoing reports (verbal) to the Defra/EA/WG/NRW Thematic Advisory Group (TAG) for Flood Risk Management Policy, Strategy and Investment. Request for ongoing information regarding research outputs, which will inform and support the Defra/EA/WG/NRW Joint Programme of flood and coastal erosion risk management research and development regarding planning and flood risk management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | Presentation at British Water Surface Water Management Focus 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 | - A presentation about our research was given, which was the staring point for a discussion with practitioners to receive feedback on research aims and objectives and how this research can be better steered to address their needs and challenges in the field of moving towards a more integrated, system-oriented approach to flood management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 Friends of Emersons Green AGM |
| 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 | This was the first letter AGM of the newly constituted Friends of Emersons Green Park group. I was invited to attend, and had the opportunity to give a quick 10-15 min outline of the flood risk management function of the parks retention ponds. The only people who were previously aware were the several initial group members I have been working with; there was great interest in the room when I explained. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation at Leeds City Council - Infrastructure Investment Group Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to discuss 'interoperability' at Leeds' Infrastructure Investment Group meeting. Discussion resulted in agreement to proceed for a joint proposal for research grant, and request for my attendance at further meetings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at Royal Society of Architects Wales Annual Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invited to chair the conference on "Water A World Issue" and make the keynote presentation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at Society of Chief Officers of Transportation in Scotland (SCOTS) monthly Flood Risk Management meeting |
| 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 was given about the content of work package 3 (interoperability) to present the research ideas, and start a discussion about research needs, challenges and barriers for a holistic approach to urban flood risk management. There was a lot of interest in the subject and the group will send feedback later. It was also proposed to come back at a later point and discuss how the research results will be useful in Scotland. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 UK Construction Week 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I was invited to give this CPD rated event, about 75 people attended. There was discussion and questions following the talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentation at international flood risk conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A conference presentation to a gathering of academics interested in flood-risk management (approx. 50), which prompted some interested conversationa and questions, and requsts for further information. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2018/friar-2018 |
| 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 Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience event, Newcastle 2019 - Flood modelling of Newcastle: getting the pipes and infiltration right |
| 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 sparked interest and provoked discussions with professional practitioners and third party organisations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/documents/birkinshaw-presentation-070319.pdf |
| 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 at the SUDSnet conference |
| 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 a presentation at the SUDSnet conference: Vladimir Krivtsov, Brian J. D'Arcy, Scott Arthur and Chris Semple (2018) Potential for retrofitting SUDS at Houston Industrial Estate, Livingston, West Lothian. Presentation at the SUDSnet conference, Coventry, UK, Aug 2018. Abstract published in the book of abstracts, and the presentation is available at https://issuu.com/abertayuniversity/docs/sudsnet2018 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/abertayuniversity/docs/sudsnet2018 |
| 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 'Revealing hidden perceptions of SuDS through Implicit Association Tests' 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 | My presentation sparked discussion on the methods that can be used to infer perceptions of Blue-Green infrastructure and the advantages of using implicit over explicit measures. Several members of the audience offered to be involved in future tests. Other request for information on this piece of research, and wider Urban Flood Resilience research were made. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/events-news-and-blog/newcastle-dissemination-event-2019.aspx |
| Description | Presentation to Architecture Health of Housing AMPS conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference attended by a mix of academics, practitioners (architects, health policy, media) concerned with the health of the built environment. Paper presented by Glyn Everett on the development of methodology for Work Package 4 of the Urban Flood Resilience project. Significant interest was generated and questions were asked both in the session and following. Glyn also chaired sessions for the duration of the conference, allowing questions and conversations to develop around the UFR work and connections with other projects and institutions, generating a number of contacts. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www1.uwe.ac.uk/et/research/who/amps2018conference.aspx |
| Description | Presentation to Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) Hong Kong, November 2017 |
| 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 | ICE Hong Kong visited Cambridge University to discuss Smart Infrastructure (November 2017). The delegation included professionals as well as students. They showed particular interested in the work done by the UFR consortium, as one of their main policies for urban development in China is "sponge cities", i.e. the implementation of blue-green infrastructure in a broad scale. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.ice.org.uk/eventarchive/cambridge-centre-for-smart-infrastructure |
| Description | Presentation to Mott MacDonald: Urban stormwater use in Managed Aquifer Recharge systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge University has been exploring the possibility of using urban stormwater runoff in Managed Aquifer Recharge for drought mitigation. This project has been developed in collaboration with Thames Water. The meeting was followed by an exchange of hydrogeological modelling data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 Science Communication students at UWE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A presentation to 30 Science Communication students around blue-green infrastructure and public und1erstanding & perceptions; this prompted interested questions, and one student pursuing the opportunity to follow our work through as a project to produce sci-comms materials to engage the public around one of our study sites. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Presentations at ICONHIC2019 conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented two papers at this conference (held in Greece, Chania, Jun 2019) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/documents/krivtsov-et-al.-iconhic-2019b.pdf |
| Description | Presentations at SUGIR meetings |
| 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 | These entry relates to the meetings of SUGIR (Scottish Universities Green infrastructure Research Group). On behalf of HW team, I have made a number of presentations related to our research ob retrofitting SuDS at Houston Industrial Estate, and on the functioning of SuDS ponds around Edinburgh and Lothians. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| Description | Presentations at TWIC conferences |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentations and short talks on the TWIC conferences, intended to provide information on the BGI/SUDS research, in particular as regards investigations of their biodiversity value and provision of ecosystem services |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| Description | Project presentation to 100 Resilient Cities Network, March 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The 100 Resilient Cities tries to engage with blue-green infrastructure in the cities belonging to their network. The presentation aimed to show the expertise developed by the UFR consortium and exchange knowledge. The talk took place in March 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Project presentation to Mott MacDonald, Sydney, Australia, December 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Australia is very advanced in developing blue-green infrastructure solutions. Therefore, knowledge exchange between the consortium and practitioners who design such systems is very useful. The consultants were particularly interested in the idea of adaptation pathways to climate change and urbanisation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | Research lessons for community engagement to deliver sustainable Urban Flood Resilience in Blue-Green Cities : Keynote presentation at SEED conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Research lessons for community engagement to deliver sustainable Urban Flood Resilience in Blue-Green Cities SEEDS International Conference 2020: Climate Emergency- Applying Sustainability- Applying Sustainability. Invited Keynote presentation at the annual SEEDS conference . Vitural conference with recordings made available. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/-/media/files/schools/built-environment/seeds-abstracts-2020.pdf |
| Description | River Restoration Centre Annual Conference 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop within conference held with 40 participants utilising EPSRC research as the activity material. Feedback collected. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.therrc.co.uk/rrc-annual-conference-2020 |
| 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 Northwest Symposium, Skamania Lodge, WA, USA |
| 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 day-long short-course showed how 'Blue-Green' principles and approaches can be applied to restore natural functions and ecosystem services lost through past mis-management and so recover multiple co-benefits that recreate rivers as 'Blue-Green Infrastructure'. Themes developed in the 'Blue-Green Cities' research project included working with natural processes, creation or green spaces and corridors that turn blue during floods but generate valuable co-benefits 24/7 and management of streams as living assets to simultaneously solve problems with both water quantity and quality. Over 35 water, river and ecological practitioners participated. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Short presentation given to friends of Emersons Green group AGM |
| 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 first AGM of the newly formally-constituted Friends of Emersons Green Group was held as an evening event, attracting 20-25 people. Early on in this event, I presented for 10 minutes on the work conducted under Urban Flood Resilience, key findings & future research intentions. Some good interest was expressed by those present. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Special session of the 2020 Smart Water Grid Conference South Korea 8 to 11 December 2020, organized by the Smart WASH Solutions in Nepal and the International Centre for Urban Water Hydroinformatics Research and Innovation (ICUH) in Korea, and hosted by i-WSSM and the Society of Korean Smart Water Grid. |
| 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 Debate on "Valuing Blue Green Infrastructure" at on-line International Conference chaired by Dr Leon Kapetas |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | Stakeholder workshop on interoperable flood management in Newcastle |
| 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 | - Initiate a discussion on the data needs to operationalise a more integrated approach to urban flood management - exchange ideas and knowledge on data availability - start of interactive process to develop an analysis framework |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| 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 | SuDS in Sutton Schools, June 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The SuDS in School project currently developed in Sutton aims to deliver blue-green infrastructure to deal with local flood issues. Our engagement with their project aims to support them in developing a long-term strategy for future interventions (prioritization and appraisal of options tool. Discussions held in Sutton council offices in June 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.thamesriverstrust.org.uk/south-east-rivers-trust-suds-in-sutton-schools/ |
| Description | Sustainable Urban Water Management Workshop in Durham, February 2019 (market stall on Urban Flood Resilience research) |
| 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 | To be completed. Included a market stall on Urban Flood Resilience research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Sustainable and Resilience Cities Workshop, University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Shaun Maskrey attended a Sustainable and Resilience Cities Workshop at the University of Nottingham in May 2018. He discussed the Urban Flood Resilience research project with academics. This led to questions about the research and deliverables. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | System dynamics to investigate sustainable urban water managment in the Ebbsfleet Garden City |
| 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 | Dr Irene Pluchinotta & Dr Sangaralingam Ahilan virtually delivered the talk on 'system dynamics to investigate urban water management in the Ebbsfleet Garden City' at the UK System Dynamics Conference on 2-3 April 2020 at the University of Strathclyde. Over 50 system dynamics modelling experts attended this event. In this talk, Dr Pluchinotta and Dr Ahilan presented the system dynamics model to explore sustainable urban water management in the Ebbsfleet Garden City in a structured way and to understand where crucial future policy interventions might be best focused. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | TWENTY65 Annual Conference. Bringing the Water Sector Together |
| 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 | I participated in the TWENTY65 Annual Conference. Bringing the Water Sector Together and discussed my research with academic colleagues, practitioners and industry representatives. This led to requests for further information on the research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Tackling polluted runoff from established industrial estates: the case for SUDS retrofits. Internet factsheet. |
| 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 | Fact sheet related to the stormwater pollution on industrial estates |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/documents/factsheet-suds-industrial-estates.pdf |
| Description | Talk at Hohai University, Nanjing |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Greg O'Donnell provided an overview of the research being undertaken in the Urban Flood Resilience project at Hohai University, Nanjing (December 14th, 2019). The audience was primarily postgraduate students. Held a discussion with students regarding their research and future directions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Talk to Institute of Civil Engineers, Cambridgeshire section: Adaptation pathways for urban drainage long-term infrastructure planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The president of ICE Cambridgeshire invited Dr Kapetas and Prof Fenner to give a talk on the research Cambridge University (PI Prof Fenner) is carrying out on "Adaptation pathways for urban drainage long-term infrastructure planning". The presentation covered concepts of identification of urban challenges, ecosystem adaptation solution exploration (high-level, pre-design) and development of adaptation pathways.The talk was attended by practitioners, students and other academic staff members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Talk to National Key Research and Development Program of China |
| 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 | Greg O'Donnell presented the research being undertaken in the Urban Flood Resilience project at the National Key Research and Development Program of China 'Urban Flood Workshop', held at Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute NHRI (December 11th, 2019). Attended by academics and national policy makers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The Blue Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience Presentation |
| 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 | Interoperability in flood management in Newcastle: initiating discussion on opportunities and challenges |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/events-news-and-blog/newcastle-dissemination-event-2019.aspx |
| Description | The Blue Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience Presentation |
| 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 | Presenting research on implementing SuDS through the planning system: barriers and opportunities as part of the wider Consortium dissemination event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/events-news-and-blog/newcastle-dissemination-event-2019.aspx |
| Description | The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience |
| 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 | The event showcases the outputs of the Urban Flood Resilience in an Uncertain Future research project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience - Sangaralingam Ahilan Blog April 2019 |
| 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 Sangaralingam Ahilan on 'The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2019/04/12/the-blue-green-path-to-urban-flood-resilie... |
| Description | The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience dissemination event March 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 | This event (that was organised by Emily O'Donnell as part of the disemination plan for Urban Flood Resilience research) showcased progress with implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure in Newcastle and the wider NE, and celebrated the achievements of the signatories of the Newcastle Declaration on Blue and Green infrastructure. Blue-Green infrastructure successes and ambitions were presented by a range of professional organisation (Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, the Northumbria Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, Newcastle University, Royal HaskoningDHV, Arup, Sweco, Stantec, and Groundwork NE & Cumbria). In the afternoon session the Urban Flood Resilience team disseminated their research outputs through presentations and workshops. Exhibitions and posters were displayed throughout the day. The event sparked much discussion on Blue-Green infrastructure, SuDS and urban flood resilience and lead to requests for further collaboration and information. 110 delegates from a range of organisations attended and there was much discussion and networking, and plans made fro future collaboration between different partner organisations. The 2019 Newcastle Declaration on Blue-Green infrastructure was also launched. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/events-news-and-blog/newcastle-dissemination-event-2019.aspx |
| Description | Toward Resilient Water-Energy-Food Systems in India |
| 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 participates a workshop in Exeter on the 28th March, as part of the GCRF funded network on "Water-energy-food nexus resilience in India". As the title implies, the workshop explores how best to assess and manage resilience of the water-energy-food nexus in India (and generally). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UK Workshop on Uncertainty and Flood Forecasting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Attended by national and international researchers [including NHRI, Nanjing]. Greg O'Donnell presented work from this project concerning urban flood resilience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | University of Nottingham Water Research Conference 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | During the conference, there was an opportunity to: 1. Network with colleagues from across the institution re. water related research 2. Share opportunities and intelligence 3. Discuss research priorities and challenges 4. Capture our water capabilities 5. Generate ideas and work collaboratively on interdisciplinary projects that address the global water challenges - selected project ideas will then be further developed during follow-on workshops |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| 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 | Upstream Natural Flood Management influencing downstream drainage (Blog for Urban Flood Resilience web-site) |
| 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 this blog, Dick Fenner and Charlie Ferguson explore how Natural Flood Management (NFM) strategies in upstream rural parts of a catchment might influence the performance of urban drainage systems further downstream (through moderating water levels in urban watercourses). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2021/02/17/upstream-natural-flood-management-nfm-inf... |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The blue-green cities blog allows members of the project team to share research, news, topical discussions, events, etc... with the general public via an established media platform. The blog is hosted by the University of Nottingham, and has its own page. Blogs are published every month and all members of the team are encouraged to contribute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/ |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Twitter Feed |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Urban Flood Resilience project continues to tweet using the @bluegreencities account. We currently have over 1,800 followers, and our tweets reach an audience of over 100,000 people per quarter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/BlueGreenCities |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Urban Flood Resilience provides an online presence to the project, and an easy way for someone to find out more about what we do. The site is linked to our social media accounts, and regularly signposts visitors to new publications, events, conferences, blogs, etc... that helps to disseminate our research. The site receives around 500 unique visitors per month. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Urban Flood Resilience dissemination event: The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience |
| 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 | A dissemination event for the Urban Flood Resilience project held at the Centre for Life, Newcastle (7th March): The Blue-Green Path to Urban Flood Resilience. Over the past six years, academics from leading UK Universities working on the Blue-Green Cities and Urban Flood Resilience research projects have produced world class research outputs demonstrating the multiple benefits of Blue-Green infrastructure, resilience of urban water systems under climate and population change, opportunities to use stormwater as a resource, citizens' interactions and interoperability of Blue-Green systems. In parallel, local partners in Newcastle, including Newcastle City Council, Northumbrian Water, the Environment Agency and Newcastle University, have explored what these approaches mean for the city and developed working relationships which seek to influence a Blue-Green Vision for Newcastle. This led to the signing of the Newcastle Blue and Green Declaration in February 2016. This event showcased progress with implementation of Blue-Green infrastructure in Newcastle and the wider NE, celebrated the achievements of the Declaration signatories, and welcomed new signatories. Blue-Green infrastructure successes and ambitions were presented and the Urban Flood Resilience team disseminated their research outputs. Keynote speakers included: Cllr Nick Kemp (Newcastle City Council) Richard Warneford (Northumbrian Water) Leila Huntington (Environment Agency) James Harris (RTPI) Justin Abbott (Arup) Iain Garfield (Newcastle University) Fola Ogunyoye (Royal HaskoningDHV) Eugene Milne (Newcastle City Council) Ola Holmstrom (Sweco) Lisa Stephenson (Groundwork NE & Cumbria) Gwen Rhodes (Stantec) Colin Thorne (University of Nottingham) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/events-news-and-blog/newcastle-dissemination-event-2019.aspx |
| 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 Flood Resilience research project blog: Surface water flood risk and resilience |
| 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 | Emily O'Donnell wrote a blog on her experience of the CIWEM (Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management) Surface Water Management 2018 conference (17th October), entitled 'Surface water flood risk and resilience'. This blog has been viewed 197 times to date. The blog also lead to requests for further information on the research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2018/10/18/surface-water-flood-risk-and-resilience/ |
| 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 surface drainage and NFM- a new form of downstream benefit? |
| 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 | Invited blog on some additional benefits tat can be achieved by Natural Flood Management for "Slow The Flow" which is a charity working to advance the education of the public in Natural Flood Management, Sustainable Drainage Systems and other renewable methods of managing the environment, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://slowtheflow.net/about-us-2/ |
| 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 | WAKATU corporation visit to University of Cambridge, May 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The meeting took place in May 2017. Wakatu is a co-operative run by Maori indigenous in New Zealand. On their visit in the UK to develop expertise on nature-based solutions for water management at their sites, they requested a presentation by our consortium. They showed particular interest in how they could manage water sustainably. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Water and Environment Seminars - Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter |
| 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 | Centre for Water Systems, University of Exeter organises the weekly seminar on water and environmental aspects every Friday. The key individuals from water industries and academics present on various topics including sustainable water to wastewater treatment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/engineering/research/cws/news-events/events/ |
| Description | Watering the Garden |
| 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 half-day online conference, hosted by the Urban Flood Resilience Research Consortium, looked at the latest landscape-led approaches to managing water in large scale developments and new communities. Over 100 people including landscape architects, engineers, consultants, academics, etc. attended this event. The conference includes six talks from leading practitioners and academics. The talks were centred around five themes including integrating water management in new communities, master planning with water, integrating water into the street design, water in parks and open spaces and managing water at the building level. The talks were followed by an active group discussion. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| 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 | Website blog The need for Multi-functional design |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Web site blog : The need for multi-functional design of sustainable drainage systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/blue-greencities/2018/01/16/multi-functional-design/ |
| Description | Website blog for Royal Society on Uban Flood Resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In 'Urban Flood Resilience', guest editor Professor Richard Fenner brings together work from engineering, geography, planning, social science, hydrology, economics and architecture to discuss how our cities can respond to a rapidly escalating threat. He tells us how this issue came about, and why it's important to challenge traditional flood management in the era of climate change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://blogs.royalsociety.org/publishing/urban-flood-resilience/ |
| Description | Westcountry Rivers Trust and Centre for Water Systems show and tell: future collaborations |
| 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 | Westcountry Rivers Trust & Centre for Water Systems showcase their case studies to explore potential collaborations. The Centre for Water Systems presents Blue-green-grey infrastructure, Twenty 65& Rainwater Harvesting, RESCCUE & SIM4NEXUS and Safe & SuRe & Flood Mangement. The West Country Rivers Trust presents on Monitoring: Upstream Thinking, Westcountry CSI, RiskAquaSoil; Local Action: LAP, CaBA, WaterLIFE; Sponge 2020 and GIS, Mapping & Modelling at WRT. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Workshop for planning practitioners in Northern Ireland |
| 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 | Invited to host a workshop considering "Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) in Northern Ireland: What expertise and guidance is required for planning to underpin effective implementation?" at the Royal Town Planning Institute's Northern Ireland Conference, Belfast. The workshop provided summary details of NI's introduction of legislation and SuDS provisions following the 2010 Flood and Water Management Act, but also reported on our emerging findings on the planning challenges and opportunities to implement SuDS in England and Wales, from this EPSRC funded project. The workshop promoted a lively discussion on the ways in which the planning process can add value to the implementation of SuDS, in particular attending to the practical considerations of the interface between the planning system and the expertise and guidance required from other centralised bodies in NI. The workshop led to requests from Local Authority participants for further information in developing their own policy on SuDS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.rtpi.org.uk/the-rtpi-near-you/rtpi-northern-ireland/events/ni-annual-conference/ni-plann... |
| Description | Workshop in Nepal on Communities & Flash Floods / Glacial Lake Outburst Floods |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Greg O'Donnell discussed urban flood resilience and flash floods. Attended by about 40 individuals, including NGOs, practitioners, university researchers, community members, and the Nepalese Department of Hydrology and Meteorology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop to help steer research priorities for the Joint EA/Defra Research programme (London) |
| 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 workshop was specific to research in the theme of "locally managed flood risk" (surface water, groundwater, and ordinary watercourses). As part of a small group of invited experts, we discussed EA/NRW/DEFRA/Welsh Government projects ongoing/due to start, and discussed which projects are needed to fill research/skills gaps and thus to help steer research funding priorities for 2019-2021 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop with London Borough of Sutton Council |
| 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 | Workshop with planners and other officers from Sutton Borough Council to disseminate the results of the adaptation pathways analysis conducted on a sub catchment within the Borough ( December 2019) . Informed the future strategy for incorporating blue-green infrastructure in the Borough. Active participant Dr Leon Kapetas |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Workshop with the Parks Trust, Milton Keynes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Invited to workshop with the Parks Trust, Milton Keynes - one of a number of academics and practitioners invited to talk about the research questions that need answering to support the future planning of green space in Milton Keynes, in the context of massive urban expansion. Stimulated increased interest in research, in particular how it can support decision makers to ensure the future MK maintains the highest quality of green space. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Yorkshire Flood Risk Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of research outputs and utility of outputs to stimulate discussion of solutions to urban flood risk issues across Wortley Beck Catchment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Yorkshire Flood Alleviation Scheme - Co-Design workshop |
| 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 | iCASP Yorkshire Flood Alleviation Schemes Co-Design Workshop on Wednesday 8th November 2017 - Interest in research generated, planned future activities acknowledged when research is complete. On-going input on current activities offered by regional practitioners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| 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... |