Urban Flood Resilience in an Uncertain Future
Lead Research Organisation:
University of the West of England
Department Name: Faculty of Environment and Technology
Abstract
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Organisations
- University of the West of England (Lead Research Organisation)
- Freemen of Newcastle Upon Tyne (Collaboration)
- Living Streets (Collaboration)
- Sweco International AB (Collaboration)
- Natural England (Collaboration)
- Atkins (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Royal HaskoningDHV (Collaboration)
- UK Water Industry Research (Collaboration)
- Northumbrian Water (Collaboration)
- Natural History Society of Northumbria (Collaboration)
- Water Industry Forum (Collaboration)
- Department for Infrastructure (Collaboration)
- NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Newcastle University (Collaboration)
- MWH (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Scotland and Northern Ireland Forum for Environmental Research (Collaboration)
- EBBSFLEET DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (Collaboration)
- Local Enterprise Partnerships (Collaboration)
- Royal Town Planning Institute RTPI (Collaboration)
- HR Wallingford Ltd (Collaboration)
- Tyne Rivers Trust (Collaboration)
- Wildlife Trusts (Collaboration)
- NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST (Collaboration)
- Environment Agency (Collaboration)
- Arup Group (Collaboration)
Publications
Blue-Green Cities Research Consortium
(2017)
Blue Green Infrastructure - Perspectives on Planning, Evaluation and Performance (CIRIA Report)
Everett G
(2021)
Developing a blue-green infrastructure (BGI) community engagement framework template
in URBAN DESIGN International
Everett G
(2016)
SuDS and human behaviour: Co-developing solutions to encourage sustainable behaviour
in E3S Web of Conferences
Everett G
(2019)
Green roof perceptions: Newcastle, UK CBD owners/occupiers
in Journal of Corporate Real Estate
Lamond J
(2017)
In over our heads The Water Will Come Jeff Goodell Little Brown, 2017. 349 pp.
in Science
Lamond J
(2019)
Sustainable Blue-Green Infrastructure: A social practice approach to understanding community preferences and stewardship
in Landscape and Urban Planning
Maskrey S
(2020)
Using Learning and Action Alliances to build capacity for local flood risk management
in Environmental Science & Policy
O'Donnell E
(2020)
Developing the implicit association test to uncover hidden preferences for sustainable drainage systems.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
O'Donnell E
(2022)
Understanding influence and action in Learning and Action Alliances: Experience from the Newcastle Blue-Green vision
in Journal of Flood Risk Management
O'Donnell E
(2017)
Recognising barriers to implementation of Blue-Green Infrastructure: a Newcastle case study
in Urban Water Journal
O'Donnell E
(2018)
Learning and Action Alliance framework to facilitate stakeholder collaboration and social learning in urban flood risk management
in Environmental Science & Policy
O'Donnell E
(2020)
The blue-green path to urban flood resilience
in Blue-Green Systems
O'Donnell, E
(2019)
Stakeholder engagement - developing a blue-green vision
O'Donnell, E
(2021)
Research Handbook on Flood Risk Management
Proverbs D
(2017)
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Natural Hazard Science
| 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 | (1) New mechanisms for engaging communities, improving flood awareness and communicating B/G+G benefits at all stages of the flood management cycle. We have developed new insights into the kinds of engagements necessary to bring the blue-green agenda into the discussion for small businesses and communities. This includes the need to go beyond outreach and aim for integration into existing community organisations and practices. As part of a blue-green strategy for city centres and business districts, retrofitting green roofs offers a major advantage in not requiring more land. However, this will require the approval of building owners and occupiers. Although many positive aspects of green roofs have the potential to directly and indirectly benefit the owners and occupiers of city centre buildings roofs are not widely adopted by UK owners and occupiers. Findings indicate that building-level gains and losses are not where the conversation needs to start. Advocates could focus on a broader influencing of attitudes, rather than seeking to change behaviour through suggested monetary gain. If we want to see more green roofs, they will need 'mainstreaming'. Raising their profile, helping them seem more possible and desirable, shifting perceived norms and best practice. More conversations around their wider values, explicitly addressing the spread of benefits and so fair allocation of costs. Large-scale, high-profile municipal authority projects, connected with professional and public education and training programmes, could improve understanding and increase appreciation. Local Authorities, Business Improvement Districts and others could work together to raise awareness and demonstrate their feasibility. Strategy for engaging communities also drew on the principle of integration with broader notions of stewardship and urban lifestyles. A typology of community engagement for BGI has been developed and this has led to the development of principles for BGI design and community engagement focussing on the both process and outcome goals. Ethnographic work on co-developed interventions around three BGI sites revealed the groups could be engaged around a variety of groups, interventions and activities in developing multiple benefits around urban BGI and rainwater use. Support, or otherwise, from agencies and stakeholders enabled or impeded such activities. The findings suggest that increased permeability of parallel community and stakeholder processes will facilitate improved long-term engagement in B/G+G urban water. 2) Understand how citizens' priorities and the reality of their lifestyles, communities, and neighbourhoods affect their understanding of and support for B/G+G innovation. Associations between activities surrounding BGI and the willingness of communities to engage with lay clearing and maintenance were studied. The findings propose that taking an activities-based approach to engagement during the design, delivery and maintenance of multi-functional Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) will improve outcomes. Through analysing people's existing or likely activities around BGI spaces, the approach supports more extensive and longer-term consultation and co-working with identified groups. This, in turn, should improve sustainability by encouraging more appreciation of sites and facilities, more appropriate behaviour, enhanced community ownership and voluntary lay stewardship. Research on stewardship found three variants of BGI stewardship. The research found different variants of stewardship practice were associated with willingness to to be involved and that more active stewardship of BGI was distinct from general pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. Practical resource and competency considerations are important components of willingness to steward BGI and addressing these constraints can increase participation in BGi stewardship. Further findings suggest that engagement with BGI spaces are facilitated through local skills and capacities associated with adjacent leisure and professional practices such as gardening and landscaping, as well as wider meanings such as spiritual space or wildlife appreciation. Implicit and explicit perceptions of greenspace with and without SuDS were also studied and a novel application of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) was developed. The research found that greenspace with or without SuDS is perceived positively but communities implicitly and explicitly prefer greenspace without SuDS, and perceive greenspace without SuDS as more attractive, tidier and safer. However, the differences between explicit and implicit attitudes suggest that explicit attitudes towards tidiness and safety may not be deep-rooted and are subject to social bias. Combined explicit and implicit tests may help us to understand any disconnect between expressed positive attitudes to natural spaces and behaviours around them and inform SuDS design to increase public acceptance. 3) Understand the process for empowering local champions, and co-production of new knowledge on overcoming barriers to innovation. The research considered how social learning can lead to not only a clear vision for innovation but also implementation through local capacity building. The findings suggest that Learning and Action Alliances are effective in breaking down barriers to effective communication and can create cohesive and bold visioning opportunities. Participants and their organisations stand to gain from the investment in staff time and sharing of experience and knowledge in such negotiated safe learning spaces. However, capacity building in the long term can only be achieved through embedding these learnings in operational organisations and the ability of participants to influence local capacity and strategies outside of the LAA. Parallel groups or strategies need to be created. Social learning within community groups was observed to be directed through group core activities but also through shared common interests. New information and perspectives emerge organically as well as through influx of external influence. Agencies and stakeholders seeking to build capacity and awareness in flood and urban water use need to overcome challenges associated with existing agendas and ensure adequate diversity of voices are included. However local community champions can be seen as effective in their own right in overcoming barriers. |
| Exploitation Route | Engagement and community facing practitioners can use the findings in their approaches to development planning and civic engagement. Designers of BGI can use the findings to develop BGI that better meets community needs and preferences |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Environment,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Retail,Transport |
| URL | http://www.urbanfloodresilience.ac.uk/publications/publications.aspx |
| 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. Working with communities in Bristol and Ebbsfleet has raised the awareness of flood risk benefits of BGI in the communities and stakeholders outside the flood management sphere. 'Please see the impact description provided for EP/P004180/1' |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Environment |
| Impact Types | Societal,Policy & public services |
| 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 | 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 | Biurbs: valuing biodiversity in multi-functional urban development and environment |
| Amount | £789,539 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/X002349/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2022 |
| End | 02/2025 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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 : 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: 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Presentation and discussion with Emersons Green residents |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation (and discussion) to interested parties at a meeting assembled by Local Authority professionals. Glyn Everett presented upon past and current work in order to generate interest in participation in the Urban Flood Resilience project. Significant interest was observed, and requests for further information followed. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation and discussion with Hanham Hall residents |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to and discussion with residents of the Hanham Hall development about past and current work. Great interest was shown, and residents expressed and desire to be involved with the Urban Flood Resilience project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Presentation at 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 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 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 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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |