Optimising NFM in headwater catchments to protect downstream communities
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Environment, Education and Development
Abstract
Natural flood risk management (NFM) describes methods of modifying hillslope and catchment runoff through the modification of landscapes to restore natural hydrological behaviour which limits downstream flood risk. This proposal is for a focussed study of NFM benefits associated with wider ecosystem restoration work which is under way across the uplands of the UK. Headwaters comprise 60-80% of the length of most river systems and high slopes and high rainfall mean that they are important areas of hillslope runoff production. Across the UK there are communities which are prone to flash flooding from steep upland catchments. These headwater catchments are relatively small catchments and are areas where extensive upland restoration is occurring and so they are locations where positive impacts of NFM measures are likely to be observed. Vulnerable communities in headwaters are often small and dispersed with land values that rarely justify hard engineering flood defences through standard cost-benefit approaches. If relatively low cost upland restoration approaches can mitigate risk to communities such as this then it will be possible to provide some protection to communities where funding precludes hard engineering approaches.
This project will work with project partners Moors for the Future and Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire Environment Agency who have existing funded NFM work in the southern Pennines to undertake a series of field experiments. These will assess the potential impact of various forms of gully blocking, restoration of Sphagnum cover on moorlands, and establishment of upland woodlands on hillslope runoff production and channel flow. It will also assess the longer term evolution of woodland and gully blocking approaches through the study of mature woodland and well established gully blocked systems. This is an important consideration since investment in NFM works requires confidence in the long term impact of the restoration on runoff and knowledge of any ongoing maintenance costs for the interventions.
Installation of NFM schemes to mitigate flood risk requires careful planning and prediction of potential impacts. This project will develop conceptually sophisticated but computationally simple models which can run multiple scenarios in order to assess the catchment wide impacts on runoff of NFM measures implemented to a variety of designs and in a variety of spatial configurations.
The model will be developed (with input from project partner CH2M and input from potential users such as EA) and validated using data from the Glossop Brook catchment in Derbyshire which has a history of major flash flooding impacting households in the town of Glossop. The modelling approach will then be used to assess possible NFM interventions in the upland catchments draining to 21 communities at risk on the eastern edge of Greater Manchester. In each of these catchments we will model the optimum configuration of upland restoration measures for NFM benefit.
The project will also work with partners (Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, International Union the Conservation for Nature) to identify existing headwater flow records across the UK which relate to areas of significant upland restoration. At these sites we will model expected impacts and interrogate the available flow data for evidence of these effects on runoff.
The project will work with its range of project partners which span England, Wales and Scotland and which comprise regulators, land managers and industry to develop guidelines to optimise future implementation of NFM measures in headwater catchments across upland Britain.
This project will work with project partners Moors for the Future and Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire Environment Agency who have existing funded NFM work in the southern Pennines to undertake a series of field experiments. These will assess the potential impact of various forms of gully blocking, restoration of Sphagnum cover on moorlands, and establishment of upland woodlands on hillslope runoff production and channel flow. It will also assess the longer term evolution of woodland and gully blocking approaches through the study of mature woodland and well established gully blocked systems. This is an important consideration since investment in NFM works requires confidence in the long term impact of the restoration on runoff and knowledge of any ongoing maintenance costs for the interventions.
Installation of NFM schemes to mitigate flood risk requires careful planning and prediction of potential impacts. This project will develop conceptually sophisticated but computationally simple models which can run multiple scenarios in order to assess the catchment wide impacts on runoff of NFM measures implemented to a variety of designs and in a variety of spatial configurations.
The model will be developed (with input from project partner CH2M and input from potential users such as EA) and validated using data from the Glossop Brook catchment in Derbyshire which has a history of major flash flooding impacting households in the town of Glossop. The modelling approach will then be used to assess possible NFM interventions in the upland catchments draining to 21 communities at risk on the eastern edge of Greater Manchester. In each of these catchments we will model the optimum configuration of upland restoration measures for NFM benefit.
The project will also work with partners (Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, International Union the Conservation for Nature) to identify existing headwater flow records across the UK which relate to areas of significant upland restoration. At these sites we will model expected impacts and interrogate the available flow data for evidence of these effects on runoff.
The project will work with its range of project partners which span England, Wales and Scotland and which comprise regulators, land managers and industry to develop guidelines to optimise future implementation of NFM measures in headwater catchments across upland Britain.
Planned Impact
Increasing frequency of floods with devastating impact on communities has meant that there is widespread interest in approaches to mitigating the impacts of heavy rainfall on downstream settlements. The efficacy of natural flood risk management (NFM) is therefore a pressing area of concern for a wide range of stakeholders including those charged with flood defence and policy (e.g. Environment Agency, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Wales and local councils), land managers, environmental consultancies, and communities at risk.
Successful completion of this project will provide a major advance in the understanding of the impact of upland landscape restoration (such as woodland planting and peatland restoration) on downstream flood risk. The project will also develop models to allow optimisation of NFM benefits at the planning stage of restoration works. The project will develop open source modelling approaches which will allow rapid assessment of multiple scenarios of NFM implementation for headwater catchments. These models, developed with input from project partners CH2M and the EA, will be freely available. They will be designed to support and supplement existing industry standard approaches, and could become a part of the standard toolkit for rapid assessment of projects by regulators and consultants. These advances will be of direct use to policy makers in terms of planning new flood defence works, and assessing the catchment scale impact of NFM measures in headwater catchments.
The project will develop guidelines for the optimum implementation of NFM works. We will work with project partners to co-produce these guidelines, and disseminate these to the widest possible range of stakeholders on completion of the project. The guidelines will cover both the design of NFM features and the spatial planning of these approaches. These planning principles will support land managers in the development of upland restoration schemes which will maximise NFM benefits alongside other ecosystem service benefits.
Quantification and prediction of NFM benefits will allow implementation of flood protection schemes based on NFM approaches in areas where hard engineering approaches are too costly, and will also provide the basis for assessing mixed schemes where NFM benefits are able to minimise the degree of hard engineering required for a given protection level. Therefore, there is potential for the implementation of low cost headwater NFM measures that will allow a greater degree of flood protection within limited budgets.
Ultimately, the aim of this work is to positively impact communities at risk of headwater flooding. Demonstration and quantification of NFM benefits associated with upland land restoration may allow the implementation of meaningful flood defence in communities where largescale hard engineering solutions will not be supported. This would empower communities to take local action to protect their homes. The project will produce a travelling exhibition of project findings which will be displayed in local settings to communicate the project's work to communities at risk.
Successful completion of this project will provide a major advance in the understanding of the impact of upland landscape restoration (such as woodland planting and peatland restoration) on downstream flood risk. The project will also develop models to allow optimisation of NFM benefits at the planning stage of restoration works. The project will develop open source modelling approaches which will allow rapid assessment of multiple scenarios of NFM implementation for headwater catchments. These models, developed with input from project partners CH2M and the EA, will be freely available. They will be designed to support and supplement existing industry standard approaches, and could become a part of the standard toolkit for rapid assessment of projects by regulators and consultants. These advances will be of direct use to policy makers in terms of planning new flood defence works, and assessing the catchment scale impact of NFM measures in headwater catchments.
The project will develop guidelines for the optimum implementation of NFM works. We will work with project partners to co-produce these guidelines, and disseminate these to the widest possible range of stakeholders on completion of the project. The guidelines will cover both the design of NFM features and the spatial planning of these approaches. These planning principles will support land managers in the development of upland restoration schemes which will maximise NFM benefits alongside other ecosystem service benefits.
Quantification and prediction of NFM benefits will allow implementation of flood protection schemes based on NFM approaches in areas where hard engineering approaches are too costly, and will also provide the basis for assessing mixed schemes where NFM benefits are able to minimise the degree of hard engineering required for a given protection level. Therefore, there is potential for the implementation of low cost headwater NFM measures that will allow a greater degree of flood protection within limited budgets.
Ultimately, the aim of this work is to positively impact communities at risk of headwater flooding. Demonstration and quantification of NFM benefits associated with upland land restoration may allow the implementation of meaningful flood defence in communities where largescale hard engineering solutions will not be supported. This would empower communities to take local action to protect their homes. The project will produce a travelling exhibition of project findings which will be displayed in local settings to communicate the project's work to communities at risk.
Organisations
- University of Manchester (Lead Research Organisation)
- National Trust (Collaboration)
- Natural England (Collaboration)
- Moors for the Future Partnership (MFF) (Collaboration)
- Environment Agency (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership (Collaboration)
- National Trust (Project Partner)
- United Utilities (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Project Partner)
- Natural Resources Wales (Project Partner)
- Moors for the Future Partnership (Project Partner)
- CH2M (Project Partner)
- Risk Management Solutions (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- International Union for Conservation of Nature (Project Partner)
Publications
Edokpa D
(2022)
Rainfall intensity and catchment size control storm runoff in a gullied blanket peatland
in Journal of Hydrology
Goudarzi S
(2023)
A Generalized Multistep Dynamic (GMD) TOPMODEL
in Water Resources Research
Goudarzi S
(2021)
Blanket Peat Restoration: Numerical Study of the Underlying Processes Delivering Natural Flood Management Benefits
in Water Resources Research
Howson T
(2023)
Peatland gully restoration with stone and timber dams (Kinder Plateau, UK)
in Ecological Engineering
Shuttleworth E
(2019)
Restoration of blanket peat moorland delays stormflow from hillslopes and reduces peak discharge
in Journal of Hydrology X
Wendler, J.
(2019)
'Downpour! - Flood risk communication through interactive immersive street games'.
in Research for All
Description | The project focussed on the potential to optimise moorland restoration techniques to deliver natural flood risk management benefits and on quantifying these benefits. As part of the project we assessed the degree to which various gully blocking techniques mitigate flood runoff ( reduce peak discharge and delay flow). We found that stone and timber dams were more effective than peat dams but that all dam types deliver much increased NFM benefits if they are modified through the incorporation of a pipe to draw down storage between storm events. Gully blocking creates local hillslope storage of water and our survey of 10 year old gully blocks on Kinder Scout demonstrated that about half of this storage is retained after this period by which time the gully blocks have stabilised. In this time period the gullies also significantly re-vegetate. Re-vegetation is another important element of NFM benefits from restoration. Paired catchment experiments demonstrate significant reductions in peak discharge and delay of flow as catchments are re-vegetated and another significant incremental benefit from the establishment of native sphagnum mosses in the catchments. A key finding of the project is that the storage of water on hillslopes caused by slowing the flow through vegetation induced changes in surface roughness is a more significant contributor to NFM than local storage behind blocks. Our modelling work has scaled up the potential impact of these interventions from hillslope microcatchments to headwater catchment scales where there is potential to protect communities at risk. At our type site in Glossop 925 km2 catchment) we estimate that it is likely thatwe can reduce peak discharges by 10 - 27% through a maximal re-vegetation of the moorland catchment with sphagnum moss (alongside re-vegetation and gully blocking. The likelihood of a peak reduction of at least 5% is 65-86% for return periods of 10-100 years. This is a key finding, at the hillslope scale the reductions in discharge and the delays in flow are large but modelling demonstrates that these changes in the moorland component of the catchment can make a meaningful contribution to flood risk management in headwater communities. Critically because we think the mechanism here is change in roughness and slowing of surface flow the benefits are apparent even in very large flood relevant storms. |
Exploitation Route | The findings around the role of sphagnum will support the policy agenda and funding bids around ongoing restoration of UK upland peatlands. Our work on modelling the impact of individual large block features on local flood storage has potential to contribute to planning of future protection works. This work has been undertaken in collaboration with the Environment Agency and so will support their work in this area. |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Environment |
URL | https://research.reading.ac.uk/nerc-nfm/ |
Description | The Environment Agency were a key partner in the work and the findings have been incorporated into their latest review of evidence. The work of the Protect project was central to a bid for new restoration work on the Dovestones estate which was submitted by the RSPB. the bid included the large piped stone dam technique developed in Protect and the montoring and analysis was based on the Protect methodology. |
First Year Of Impact | 2023 |
Sector | Environment |
Impact Types | Policy & public services |
Description | EFRA Peatland Select Committee |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Research sites cited as key justification for the extension of the National Nature resewrve on Kinder Scout |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | Natural England extended the NNR so that it included our paired catchment experiments |
URL | https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/media/kinder-scout-national-nature-reserve-extended-climat... |
Description | Responded to Environment Agency FCRM national strategy consultation |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Written evidence to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee's State of peatland in England inquiry. Evidence submitted by Dr Emma Shuttleworth on behalf of the Environmental Processes Research Group, The University of Manchester |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environment-food-and-rur... |
Description | Holcombe Moor Nature for Climate Award |
Amount | £85,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Natural England |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start |
Description | Innovate UK Knowledge Transfer Partnership |
Amount | £250,325 (GBP) |
Organisation | Innovate UK |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 04/2024 |
Description | Nature for Climate Peatland Grant Scheme |
Amount | £4,800,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Natural England |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2021 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | Towards a microbial process-based understanding of the resilience of UK peatland systems |
Amount | £45,439 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/S016724/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2019 |
End | 01/2020 |
Title | A generalised continuous time implementation of Dynamic Topmodel |
Description | TOPMODEL is an efficient and widely used rainfall-runoff model that assumes, given a rainfall, some parts of the catchment will manifest similar runoff behaviour independent of their specific spatial location (and groups them together to form Hydrologically Similar Units allowing massive simulation speed-up. Dynamic TOPMODEL relaxed one of the strongest and most limiting assumptions within TOPMODEL (steady-state recharge) by incorporating a time-dependent kinematic formulation of the governing equations of the subsurface storage and fluxes. However, this improvement comes at a relatively high computational cost. We have made two contributions to TOPMODEL design. First, we have implemented Dynamic TOPMODEL in MATLAB, reformulated the governing equations and used off-the-shelf solvers to create a continuous-time implementation of Dynamic TOPMODEL that is both more accurate and faster than existing discrete-time versions. Second, we have generalised dynamic TOPMODEL by introducing a number of modifications: iso-basin spatial discretisation, diffusion wave routing, depth-dependent overland flow velocity, relaxing the assumption of water-table parallelism to the ground surface, a power-law hydraulic conductivity profile, new unsaturated zone flux, and a reference frame adjustment. The code is published on GitHub with an accompanying journal article (Goudarzi et al., 2023, Water Resources Research) that demonstrates the value of the approach. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | This tool is enabling us to perform faster more accurate model simulations to examine the influence of Natural Flood Management interventions on catchment discharge. We have performed these numerical experiments at the micro-catchment (i.e. sub hectare) scale to understand how interventions alter hydrological processes and at a flood relevant scale for the Glossop catchment (40 km2). We are now expanding the number and scale of catchments that we examine using the same approach. |
URL | https://github.com/SalimGoudarzi/Generalised-Multistep-Dynamic-TOPMODEL |
Description | Environment Agency |
Organisation | Environment Agency |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Protect team are working with EA to monitor impact of EA funded NFM work. We have also co-produced research on large stone dams as NFM features (see below) |
Collaborator Contribution | EA are providing advice, access to data and field support for hydrometry, as well as attending regular project meetings. We have worked closely with EA to install and to understand and optimise the functioning of large stone NFM features at teh Stalybridge site. This work is ongoing beyond the Protect project period but working with the EA these features have been optimised to deliver real world flood protection at this site |
Impact | Data on the large stone dams will form an important part of a PhD project which is currently completing |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Moors for the Future |
Organisation | Moors for the Future Partnership (MFF) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | The team are working closely with Moors for the Future on selecting sites for field experiments which Moors fo the future will undertake restoration on. The team are providing expertise to Moors on experimental design and data analysis for this project and other work. The team are working with Moors to jointly publish data from this and previous projects |
Collaborator Contribution | Moors are playing a major role in planning field experiment locations and managing relations with landowners. |
Impact | 2019 Alderson, D.M, Evans, M.G., Shuttleworth, E., Pilkington, M., Spencer, T., Walker, J., and Allott, T.E.H. Trajectories of ecosystem change in restored blanket peatlands, Science of The Total Environment, 665: 785-796 2018 Shuttleworth, E., Evans, M.G., Pilkington, M., Milledge, D. Walker, J. & Allott, T.E.H. (2018) Blanket peat restoration delays flows from hillslopes and reduces peak discharge. Journal of Hydrology X |
Description | National Trust |
Organisation | National Trust |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | Working with the National Trust who are landowners for some of our experimental sites. |
Collaborator Contribution | Permissions, discussions of sites, feedback at the steering group on gully blocking prctive |
Impact | None yet beyond those reported for the grant as a whole |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Natural England |
Organisation | Natural England |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | The opportunity mapping undertaken by protect identified the Croasdale catchment where NE have been doing landscape restoration work was a potential site for assessing NFM benefits. the Newcastle team undertook some consultancy to model potential NFM outcomes from the grazing management work. |
Collaborator Contribution | Provision of data and funds |
Impact | Report to Natural England |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Yorkshire Peat Partnership |
Organisation | Yorkshire Peat Partnership |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We have developed a strong working relationship with YPP which has included further bids for funding and led to our involvement in the Great North Bog project and to an Innovate UK KTP project. |
Collaborator Contribution | YPP are engaged partners who are supportive of developing a scientific understanding of their restoration work. They have contributed to research discussions helping to co-create work and also added real value in developing impact. |
Impact | KTP and Great North Bog funding listed on Resarch Fish |
Start Year | 2018 |
Description | Accepted to NERC resaerch festival and Manchester Science festival - postponed due to Covid |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | We had planned activities and been accepted in competition to these two events and both have been postponed due to Covid, we expect to attend rescheduled events in due course. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Article on Peatland Restoration in the Observer newspaper |
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 | Emma Shuttleworth interviewed and quoted in article on peatland restoration in the Observer |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/12/for-peats-sake-the-race-is-on-to-save-britains-d... |
Description | Blue Dot festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Stand at Blue Dot science festival demonstrating the impact of gully blocking on runoff using physical models. The physical model engaged children but also led to a lot of interest from parents who reported that they had changed their understanding of catchment based approaches to flood management. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Downpour game engagement with Cumbria wildlife trust |
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 | Emma Shuttleworth demonstrated the Downpour game flood engagement activity to Cumbria Wildlife Trust and discussed production of a bespoke version for their needs (ongoing) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | EA NFM roadshow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentatiuonof 'Mind the gap' to the Environment Agency NFM roadshow |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Emma Shuttleworth chaired a departmental seminar delivered by Diana Kopansky - Coordinator of the UN Global Peatlands Initiative (part of UNEP) |
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 | This seminar was highly strategic in terms of raising awareness of the research outputs of the project within the UN Peatland Initiative. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | http://www.globalpeatlands.org |
Description | Expo booth at 2065 online conference March 2021 |
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 project had a virtual booth at the conference showing the Protect NFM video (see other researchfish entry) and showing recordings of the NERC-NFM Webinar series |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Field visit with Regional Flood Committee Members |
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 | Field visit to Protect field sites to explain the project aims and outcomes to members of the EA Regional Flood Committee. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Green Party seminar High Peak |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Emma Shuttleworth presented and discussed Protect with a Green Party audience including Natalie Bennet (co-party leader) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | IUCN Peatland Programme 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 | Presentation on the Protect Project to the IUCN Peatlands Programme annual conference, July 2021 'Peatlands in Partnership a Road to Recovery' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Key results from Shuttleworth et al (2019) highlighted in Moors for the Future webinar series as part of their Natural England Water Environment Grant (WEG) funded "Building Blocks - Next Steps in Gully Blocking" project |
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 | Our work was highlighted the potential for our key project partner, Moors for the Future Partnership's, evidence base of how gully blocking is part of multi-benefit peatland restoration work, including natural flood management. Protect had impact via knowledge transfer to practitioners and policy makers. It is our understanding that this paper has influenced operational decisions: 7800 blocks will be installed as part of this project and MFFP hopes to install a further 100,000 over the next 10-20 years. The MFFP team gave a webinar explaining a key graph from the paper that can be accessed here: https://www.moorsforthefuture.org.uk/our-work/our-projects/weg-building-blocks-next-steps-in-gully-blocking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.moorsforthefuture.org.uk/our-work/our-projects/weg-building-blocks-next-steps-in-gully-b... |
Description | NFM article Geography Review |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | Article on peatland restoration and NFM by Martin Evans (PI) published in Geography Review magazine which reaches thousands of 6th form geography students across the UK and internationally. (GR 33(2) November 19 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | NW Regional Floods and Coasts Committee Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Forthcoming presentation to NW Regional Floods and Coasts Committee |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Peatland interview on Farming Today |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Lead interview on Farming today on peatlands as in introduction to their peatlands week |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Presentation as part of the Manchester Festival of Climate Change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation of Protect project work as part of the Manchester Festival of Climate Change |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Presentation at the Climate Expo COP 26 event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation to the Climate Expo conference under the theme of nature based solutions. Climate Exp0 was the first conference organised by the COP26 Universities Network - a growing group of more than 55 UK-based universities working together to raise ambition for tangible outcomes from the UN COP26 Climate Change Conference (Glasgow, Scotland, November 2021). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Project film developed with NERC media team and publicised through Environment Agency press release and social media |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | This engagement video was made with the NERC media team and will be used widely to publicise the project as outcomes emerge. It has been viewed over 700 times from the UoM twitter account and EA issued a press release about the project which has led to the engagment with ITV reported elsewhere |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://youtu.be/t1gGSK80Q0A |
Description | Protect NFM workshop for Natural Resources Wales and Welsh Local Authorities |
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 | Peatland managers and flood managers from NRW and Welsh Local Authorities attended. Good feedback on value and application of the work in the Welsh context. Follow up field visit planned |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Radio interviews on 5 live and LBC radio |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | 9/11/19 Radio interview with PI (5 live breakfast and LBC radio) about the project in the aftermath of severe flooding in the first week of November 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Response to ITV request for film footage of the project for possible documenetary project |
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 | We are engaged with an ITV producer around featuring the project in a programme they are producing. This has involved a phone discussion with then around the project and making available drone footage and imagery from the period of the installation of the NFM measures on the moorland above Stalybridge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Stand at manchester University community festival |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Use of physical model to demonstrate the impact of roughness and gully blocking on runoff and flood prevention. The model engages children but leads on to conversations with parents which they report as changing their understanding of NFM |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Webinar for policymakers and practitioners on Protect as part of the NERC NFM webinar series |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Webinar presentation of Protect findings to date. Large audience of practitioners and policymakers with good feedback from the group and a lot of interest in our emerging results |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |