Yorkshire iCASP - Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Leeds
Department Name: Sch of Geography
Abstract
The Yorkshire Ouse basin, which encompasses the cities of Leeds, York and Sheffield as well as the rivers Aire, Calder, Derwent, Don, Swale, Wharfe, Ure and Nidd is home to 6.7% of the UK population, 30% of the Northern Powerhouse region and includes 10 metropolitan boroughs. The region includes a variety of different environments, from large urban areas to lowland agriculture and sparsely populated uplands including National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. As such, it is a perfect location to instigate a programme of work which uses existing NERC-funded science to identify, develop, test and improve integrated solutions on a range of environmental impacts. This encompasses mitigation of drought and flood risk through improved connectivity between weather forecasting, land management and water resource management; improvements in water quality for both human water supply and rivers/other water bodies; and better management of soils for improved regional food security and carbon storage (in woodlands and peatland). By integrating these aspects of weather, land and water, it will enable better plans to be made for the region that allow for sustainable development as the population grows whilst protecting the valuable natural environment. Ultimately, by creating a region that is better able to deal with a more variable climate, it will become an area that attracts investment as people and their businesses opt to live and work in an area that has adapted to the severe effects of environmental change, with improved quality of life. Many major global companies already have their water headquarters or global environmental head offices in the region together with a range of SMEs and large businesses whose interests include catchment management. As such, there is considerable momentum behind the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme - Yorkshire iCASP - which seeks to deliver economic and social impacts to the region.
Yorkshire iCASP will capitalise on existing NERC-funded science to develop tools, strategies, plans and policies to promote hazard resilience, mitigation of extreme events (floods and droughts), develop flood forecasting capability, improve water quality, enhance soils and farm practice and develop a joined-up approach for land and water management. iCASP has been co-created by partners drawn from local authorities, government agencies, major infrastructure/utility owners, private sector service providers, academic institutions, and third sector organisations who will work together to produce and deliver a work programme that seeks to enhance the economic and societal status of the region. Outcomes from the collaboration will deliver tools and techniques with applicability outside the region, creating services and products which can be used around the world to further benefit the region and the UK economy more generally. Examples of the projects that have been discussed in the work programme include development of green financing enterprises; development of new tools to better link flood forecasting with impacts on rivers and different land management practices; decision-support tools that allow different area-specific flood/drought management scenarios to be evaluated; and raw water management approaches that reduce the cost of water treatment. All will have different, and often multifaceted, impacts on society and the wider environment so another important aspect of iCASP is the documentation and evaluation of the projects implemented as part of the work programme, measuring the changes that they contribute to the regional, and national, economy as well as the growth of iCASP partners through leveraged investment, job creation and wider societal benefits.
Yorkshire iCASP will capitalise on existing NERC-funded science to develop tools, strategies, plans and policies to promote hazard resilience, mitigation of extreme events (floods and droughts), develop flood forecasting capability, improve water quality, enhance soils and farm practice and develop a joined-up approach for land and water management. iCASP has been co-created by partners drawn from local authorities, government agencies, major infrastructure/utility owners, private sector service providers, academic institutions, and third sector organisations who will work together to produce and deliver a work programme that seeks to enhance the economic and societal status of the region. Outcomes from the collaboration will deliver tools and techniques with applicability outside the region, creating services and products which can be used around the world to further benefit the region and the UK economy more generally. Examples of the projects that have been discussed in the work programme include development of green financing enterprises; development of new tools to better link flood forecasting with impacts on rivers and different land management practices; decision-support tools that allow different area-specific flood/drought management scenarios to be evaluated; and raw water management approaches that reduce the cost of water treatment. All will have different, and often multifaceted, impacts on society and the wider environment so another important aspect of iCASP is the documentation and evaluation of the projects implemented as part of the work programme, measuring the changes that they contribute to the regional, and national, economy as well as the growth of iCASP partners through leveraged investment, job creation and wider societal benefits.
Planned Impact
The programme seeks to create >£50M of economic impact in the regional economy of Yorkshire. It will also provide wider societal impacts such as enhanced resilience to droughts and floods, job creation, product innovation, policy development and new governance processes, and environmental impacts including enhanced carbon sequestration, water quality improvements and habitat creation.
A large number of organisations are involved in this impact programme, from regional SMEs to large global companies with significant investment in the region. iCASP users are integral to the development and success of the programme, rather than simply being the beneficiaries of the work described. We have a set of 'Springboard Partners' who have been involved in the co-creation of the objectives, through open innovation approaches, and who have committed to the programme of work through in-kind support. These Springboard Partners allow us to make rapid initial impact progress with the programme. They include public bodies such as the Environment Agency and Natural England which have responsibility for regulating, managing and advising on the natural environment in England; major regional decision-making bodies such as the Local Enterprise Partnership and its delivery mechanism via the Local Nature Partnerships; the UK Met Office who are recognised global leaders in weather and climate modelling and forecasting; local authorities in the region, major businesses such as Arup and Yorkshire Water, partnership networks such as the Defra funded Dales to Vales Rivers Network who include National Parks and Rivers Trusts, the National Farmers Union, and charities including the IUCN, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and LEAF who promote sustainable development of environment-based farming practices. Beyond these Springboard Partners there are a wide range of organisations who wish to be involved in iCASP including local councils, regeneration organisations, Forestry Commission, charities, partnership groups and independent consultancies and businesses.
The Yorkshire region will benefit from greater exploitation of NERC science. Importantly, it uses a partnership approach to achieve maximum benefit and additionality. For example, several organisations have £millions of planned spend on land management measures in the region over the coming five years; integrating these schemes together to gain multiple benefits and leverage is a core impact goal of iCASP. Directed by NERC science, spatial planning and integration of management interventions in rural and urban areas will be achieved enabling improved water quality and reduced treatment costs, resilience to flood and drought hazard, farm resource efficiency and soil resilience, and efficient delivery of core regional and governmental directives related to water, land and carbon management. Deprived communities will benefit from flood hazard reduction and enhanced social resilience to extreme conditions, job creation and community engagement. Regional and national agencies will benefit from improved climate and weather forecasting developments, supported by NERC models and observation networks. New products such as environmental sensors for water quality, and spatial decision toolkits can be exploited for wider national and international export supporting skills, business and employment opportunities. Place-based ecosystem service payment schemes will be trialled along with combined use of the Woodland and Peatland Codes via green financing. For charities, third sector organisations, and public bodies iCASP will provide new opportunities to help deliver key services improving efficiency and effectiveness (e.g. more secure transport links and improved recreation amenities, enhanced flood and drought protection).
A large number of organisations are involved in this impact programme, from regional SMEs to large global companies with significant investment in the region. iCASP users are integral to the development and success of the programme, rather than simply being the beneficiaries of the work described. We have a set of 'Springboard Partners' who have been involved in the co-creation of the objectives, through open innovation approaches, and who have committed to the programme of work through in-kind support. These Springboard Partners allow us to make rapid initial impact progress with the programme. They include public bodies such as the Environment Agency and Natural England which have responsibility for regulating, managing and advising on the natural environment in England; major regional decision-making bodies such as the Local Enterprise Partnership and its delivery mechanism via the Local Nature Partnerships; the UK Met Office who are recognised global leaders in weather and climate modelling and forecasting; local authorities in the region, major businesses such as Arup and Yorkshire Water, partnership networks such as the Defra funded Dales to Vales Rivers Network who include National Parks and Rivers Trusts, the National Farmers Union, and charities including the IUCN, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and LEAF who promote sustainable development of environment-based farming practices. Beyond these Springboard Partners there are a wide range of organisations who wish to be involved in iCASP including local councils, regeneration organisations, Forestry Commission, charities, partnership groups and independent consultancies and businesses.
The Yorkshire region will benefit from greater exploitation of NERC science. Importantly, it uses a partnership approach to achieve maximum benefit and additionality. For example, several organisations have £millions of planned spend on land management measures in the region over the coming five years; integrating these schemes together to gain multiple benefits and leverage is a core impact goal of iCASP. Directed by NERC science, spatial planning and integration of management interventions in rural and urban areas will be achieved enabling improved water quality and reduced treatment costs, resilience to flood and drought hazard, farm resource efficiency and soil resilience, and efficient delivery of core regional and governmental directives related to water, land and carbon management. Deprived communities will benefit from flood hazard reduction and enhanced social resilience to extreme conditions, job creation and community engagement. Regional and national agencies will benefit from improved climate and weather forecasting developments, supported by NERC models and observation networks. New products such as environmental sensors for water quality, and spatial decision toolkits can be exploited for wider national and international export supporting skills, business and employment opportunities. Place-based ecosystem service payment schemes will be trialled along with combined use of the Woodland and Peatland Codes via green financing. For charities, third sector organisations, and public bodies iCASP will provide new opportunities to help deliver key services improving efficiency and effectiveness (e.g. more secure transport links and improved recreation amenities, enhanced flood and drought protection).
Organisations
- University of Leeds (Lead Research Organisation)
- Sedgwick Claims Management Services (Collaboration)
- Jeremy Benn Associates (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Rivers Trust (Collaboration)
- Sustainable Soils Alliance (Collaboration)
- WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF (Collaboration)
- CANAL & RIVER TRUST (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- Mott Macdonald UK Ltd (Collaboration)
- LINKING ENVIRONMENT AND FARMING (Collaboration)
- Natural England (Collaboration)
- CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Moors for the Future Partnership (MFF) (Collaboration)
- KIRKLEES COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Harrogate Borough Council (Collaboration)
- Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (Collaboration)
- IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature (Collaboration)
- North York Moors National Park Authority (Collaboration)
- PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND (Collaboration)
- Hull City Council (Collaboration)
- Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board (Collaboration)
- CITY OF YORK COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Newcastle University (Collaboration)
- Agricultural Development Advisory Service (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Kelda Group (United Kingdom) (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Meteorological Office UK (Collaboration)
- Wildlife Trusts (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Farm and Wildlife Advisory Group South West (Collaboration)
- NATIONAL TRUST (Collaboration)
- Thomas MacKay Ltd (Collaboration)
- ICATALIST (Collaboration)
- East Riding of Yorkshire County Council (Collaboration)
- Arup Group (Collaboration)
- Yorkshire Peat Partnership (Collaboration)
- Don Catchment Rivers Trust (Collaboration)
- Yorkshire Agricultural Society (YAS) (Collaboration)
- Shire Group of Internal Drainage Boards (Collaboration)
- University College Dublin (Collaboration)
- Leeds City Council (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- White Rose Forest (Collaboration)
- West Yorkshire Combined Authorities (Collaboration)
- Pennine Prospects (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of Bologna (Collaboration)
- Calderdale Council (Collaboration)
- DURHAM UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Parallel Consulting (Collaboration)
- Dales to Vale River Network (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- Living with Water (Collaboration)
- Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council (Collaboration)
- University of Manchester (Collaboration)
- JBA Consulting (Collaboration)
- University of Newcastle (Collaboration)
- Upper Calder Valley Renaissance (Collaboration)
- Bradford Metropolitan District Council (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Technical University of Crete (Collaboration)
- Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (Collaboration)
- Aire Rivers Trust (Collaboration)
- National Farmers Union (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Environment Agency (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Yorkshire Invasive Species Forum (Collaboration)
- Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF YORK (Collaboration)
- Arup Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Met Office (Project Partner)
- Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust (Project Partner)
- Local Nature Partnership (Project Partner)
- International Union for Conservation of Nature (Project Partner)
Publications
Dallimer M
(2020)
Taking stock of the empirical evidence on the insurance value of ecosystems
in Ecological Economics
Pirgmaier E
(2021)
The value of value theory for ecological economics.
in Ecological economics : the journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics
Bark R
(2021)
Stakeholders' views on natural flood management: Implications for the nature-based solutions paradigm shift?
in Environmental Science & Policy
Kingsbury-Smith L
(2023)
Evaluating the effectiveness of land use management as a natural flood management intervention in reducing the impact of flooding for an upland catchment
in Hydrological Processes
Ferré M
(2022)
How do information flows affect impact from environmental research? - An analysis of a science-policy network.
in Journal of environmental management
Birch C
(2021)
Enhanced surface water flood forecasts: User-led development and testing
in Journal of Flood Risk Management
Birch, C.E
(2021)
Enhanced surface water flood forecasts: User-led development and testing
in Journal of Flood Risk Management
Senior J
(2022)
Physical representation of hillslope leaky barriers in 2D hydraulic models: A case study from the Calder Valley
in Journal of Flood Risk Management
Tyllianakis E
(2021)
Agri-environmental schemes for biodiversity and environmental protection: How we are not yet "hitting the right keys"
in Land Use Policy
Böing S
(2020)
A percentile-based approach to rainfall scenario construction for surface-water flood forecasts
in Meteorological Applications
| Description | Please note this is an impact project with no new research involved. However, we have delivered a wide range of outcomes which meet or exceed our KPIs. One key learning is that through having a central office for the regional programme this has enabled us to work more closely with our external non-academic partners and we have been able to build profile and trust which, in turn, has led to pro-active approaches from our partners for support. It has resulted in our growing role to co-ordinate catchment-based activities and funding cases for the region, which supports economic, environmental and social wellbeing in the region underpinned by place-based UKRI investment. |
| Exploitation Route | Please see other sections of the ResearchFish reporting that details how other users are taking forward the work in the project. |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Communities and Social Services/Policy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Environment,Healthcare,Other |
| URL | http://icasp.org.uk |
| Description | 25 year environment plan: measuring progress - Defra consultation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/25-year-environment-plan-measuring-progress |
| Description | Academic advise and contacts to HM-Treasury |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | N/A |
| Description | Academic support for the DEFRA NFM Community Fund Projects to inform best practice |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | iCASP academics have provided support to the DEFRA NFM Community Fund Demonstration projects across Yorkshire. This has not only shared best practice amongst the associated Community of Practice set up by iCASP but has also influenced the future design, location and management of individual NFM schemes in place now and planned for the future. |
| Description | Advice on integrated crop-livestock systems |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | This is a written brief on the role of integrated crop-livestock systems. |
| Description | Advice on integrated nitrogen management in agriculture |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | This is a written brief on the potential for new policy and payments schemes to be linked coherently to integrated nitrogen management practices and identification of key points that the policy advisors would welcome advice and guidance on. |
| Description | Advice on peatland restoration to Sustainability, Efficiency and Exploitation (SEE) Team in Ministry of Defence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | This meet up has influenced the significance of landscape-scale peatland restoration at the Senior leadership level at MOD. They are now aiming on securing funding to enable landscape-scale peatland restoration with the help of advice from Leeds peatland team. The Defense Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) Technical Services (TS) plans to produce a Peatland Master Plan later this year, they hope to re-engage with the Leeds 'peat team' to focus their activities which can prompt data and resource sharing between the two teams. |
| Description | British Sedimentological Research Group 61st Annual Meeting |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Dr JR sat on an interactive industry panel- Discussion highlighted how sedimentology is used across multiple industries (from Carbon Capture and Storage, Flood Management, Offshore and Onshore Engineering, Cable Routing and Geohazards Assessment) and a mini-workshop on Carbon Capture and Storage |
| Description | Challenges and Choices Consultation: iCASP preparing a response for April 2020 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | In April 2020, iCASP responded to Environment Agency Challenges and Choices consultation on the following topics: (1) Challenge 1: Changes to water levels and flows (2) Challenge 2: Chemicals in the water environment (3) Challenge 3: Invasive non-native species (4) Challenge 4: Physical modifications (5) Challenge 5: Plastics pollution (6) Challenge 6: Pollution from abandoned mines (7) Challenge 7: Pollution from agriculture and rural areas (8) Challenge 8: Pollution from towns, cities and transport (9) Challenge 9: Pollution from water industry wastewater |
| Description | Defra Enivornmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Defra Enivornmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Email between Emma and Rab re infromation on SUIM |
| Description | Drafting of CIRIA Best Practice Guidance on NFM |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | iCASP have been asked to assist with writing the CIRIA Guidance on NFM - a national and internationally important document that will inform all future design and location of NFM activities across the UK and across the globe. iCASP will be drawing upon our experience from the NFM Community of Practice group and our work with the DEFRA NFM Community Demonstration fund projects to write what will become the industry standard for NFM. CIRIA is the Construction Industry Research and Information Association, a neutral, independent and not-for-profit body who are a leading enabler and preferred partner for performance improvement, driving collaboration across built environment and construction sectors for the identification, development and transfer of knowledge. Most of CIRIAs activities result in the publication of guidance documents, many of which are adopted as the standard for excellence in their respective areas. |
| Description | EA National NFM monitoring guidance |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | Informing versions of Natural Flood Management monitoring guidance for England with feedback from the experience of iCASP Project #4: 'Supporting the Yorkshire Natural Flood Management (NFM) pilots to deliver evidence and guidance that will influence national implementation and financing of NFM' which is supporting pilot NFM projects in Yorkshire to make sure that the guidance is pragmatic and scientifically robust. |
| URL | https://catchmentbasedapproach.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/NFM-MonitoringObjectivesFINAL-v18.pdf |
| Description | EFRA Committee Peatland inquiry: Project#3 Optimal Peatland restoration: iCASP submitted a written response to EFRA's inquiry into Peatland in September 2019. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Effects of Moorland Burning on the Ecohydrology of River Basins |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | NERC-funded EMBER was conducted at University of Leeds. Government cited EMBER in its headline response to the petition request for 'An independent study to find if driven grouse shooting is of economic benefit': 'The Government has funded independent reports on this issue including the EMBER Report. We recognise there are differing views on shooting but do not believe it is necessary to fund further research'; and in its detailed response: '...To help achieve our policy goals the Government is committed to expanding the understanding of upland ecosystems and the ecosystems services they provide. Helping fund reports like the EMBER report 'Effects of Moorland burning on the ecohydrology of river basins' forms part of a wider uplands works programme....' |
| URL | https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/226109 |
| Description | England Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy Refresh - member of 2050 Ambition and Protection and Funding Working Groups |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | iCASP participation in teleconferences and in person meetings. Made sure that catchment-based approach was prioritised and how to address research gaps in the the Strategy was considered. |
| URL | https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/fcrm/fcerm-national-strategy-info/ |
| Description | Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee 'Agriculture Bill' Inquiry |
| 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 | Environmental Audit Committee Nitrates Inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environmental-audit-comm... |
| Description | Exploring ecosystem markets for the delivery of public goods in the UK: executive summary |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Impact | An online review of the UK's ecosystem services market was conducted, identifying several UK public/private schemes and partnerships, as well as platforms and modelling tools that facilitate the delivery of and act as a driver of the UK's voluntary ecosystem services market. These are collectively referred to as 'ventures' throughout the report. In-depth interviews were conducted with two ecosystem services schemes (the Woodland Carbon Code (WCC) and the Peatland Code (PC)), two stakeholder engagement initiatives (Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) and the Natural Infrastructure Scheme (NIS)), the trading platform EnTrade and biophysical modelling tool, Viridian Logic. |
| Description | Facilitated consultation on EA's River Basin Management Plans |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Helped to develop, word and prioritize the Environment Agency's hydrology road map for the next 25 years! |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The Environment Agency's Flood Hydrology Road Map Project is producing a vision for the future of flood hydrology in the UK over the next 25 years and a delivery plan to get us there. The vision and plan (jointly referred to as the 'Road Map') are being developed collectively by the flood hydrology community. An iCASP written submission was provided to the project. Megan Klaar attended a workshop on 28th Nov with 20 other academics and EA staff. Megan was able to help scope the wording of the hydrology road map for the next 25 years! Joseph Holden was invited to be on the Prioritisation Task Force and steered and guided the plan for delivery during July 2020. |
| Description | House of Commons Reception: IUCN Westminster Event (House of Commons Reception in London) in showcasing the importance of UK upland peatland catchments to government . |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | House of Commons Reception: Following the Managing the Uplands for Public Benefits event in Bishopdale, iCASP was invited to join IUCN Westminster Event (House of Commons Reception in London) in showcasing the importance of UK upland peatland catchments to government representatives at a Parliamentary reception on April 30th. Event sponsored by MPs and attended by Joseph Holden who promoted iCASP, and Tim Thom from Yorkshire Peat Partnership. Key political influencers were present at the meeting: Yorkshire MPs: Julian Sturdy and Rishi Sunak, Therese Coffey env minister, director of YWT, Angela Smith MP, and about 8-9 other MPs. The event provided an opportunity to showcase the importance of UK upland peatland catchments, and highlight the work of iCASP. |
| Description | Implementation Circular - Policy brief for adopting the 110 litres a day enhanced water efficiency standard. |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | iCASP (Paola Sakai, Ben Rabb, Helen Miller) wrote a policy brief for Leeds City Council on water efficiency: "The case for implementing an enhanced water efficiency standard for new developments in Leeds", accessible at http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/143598/. The policy brief was eventually adopted: "The Policy regarding water consumption is Policy EN2 which went to the Core Strategy Selective Review Examination earlier this year. I am pleased to say that this policy was Adopted by the Council in September and now sits in the Core Strategy 2014 (as amended by the Core Strategy Selective Review 2019) .The Policy has full policy weighting in the determination of planning applications. " Recommendations were included in the Sept. 2019 Core strategy selective review document. It was concluded that "Based on the suite of evidence available, the need for a requirement to meet the optional building regulations requirement of 110 litres per person per day is justified by the evidence. Policy EN2 is sound." |
| Description | Influence at Flood Forecasting Centre of iCASP surface water flood forecasting project |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | In the frame of the project#6 Water surface forecasting project , G Boyce from Flood Forecasting Centre highlighted iCASP's contribution to a national project looking at improved forecast information (EA Rapid briefing). This also led to a request from FFC to help with disseminating output from the project (via iCASP SWFF network). |
| Description | Influence on England Peatland strategy: Supporting the North York Moors Peat Pilot |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | iCASP are supporting Natural England with the North York Moors Peat Pilot. iCASP will draw on experience and expertise in this field and builds up on the tool produced as part of iCASP Project #3: Optimal Peatland Restoration - practitioner feedback on model design, to evidence and evaluate how effective different potential forms of habitat restoration, modification and management might be in creating resilient peatland habitats in the face of increasing climate stress. The potential public benefits and ecosystem services will be considered against the extent and condition of the peatland, the different types of habitat restoration and their feasibility. This work will feed in to Defra's England Peat Strategy due to be published in the future. |
| Description | Influence on Leeds City Council Our Spaces Strategy |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | As part of the project GBI project (iCASP project # 10 ), iCASP has influenced the shaping of the Our Spaces strategy, through conducting conversations with Leeds City Council. The documents "Our Spaces - Reflections on the strategy after working with them for a month" and "Suggestions for programme benefits & partners at UoL" have been shared with LCC. Policy influence still to be confirmed. |
| Description | Influence on Treasury Green Book |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Treasury Green Book influences (ongoing work): iCASP (Andy Brown) is in contact with Joseph Lowe who coordinates the Green Book in HM Treasury. |
| Description | Influence to Calderdale's Flood Action Plan Review (Environment Agency, on behalf of the Calderdale Flood Partnership) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Impact | The proposed work of the iCASP NFM Calderdale project has been reflected in Calderdale's Flood Action Plan Review. |
| Description | Influencing practitioners, policy and debate through delivery of the Yorkshire Future Flood Resilience Pathfinder project |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Invitation for views on environmental discounting - HMT Green Book |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Andy Brown provided a a list of experts and projects, including Icasp, to Luke Leatherbarrow who works on the environmental discount rate at HMT. This was well received and Andy was invited to take part in a panal to discuss the environmental discount rate as part of the greenbook review. |
| URL | https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/collaboration/spf/ukcrp-outputs |
| Description | Leeds City Council Local Flood Risk Management Strategy 2018 Update |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Leeds City Region Green and Blue Infrastructure Strategy Delivery Plan |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | Meeting with Calderdale Councillor |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | Meeting with Paola Sakai |
| Description | Meeting with Calderdale MP |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | iCASP's SME project member Paola Sakai briefed a Calderdale councillor on the project's goals, advances and regional and local potential benefits (June 2020). |
| Description | Meeting with the MP for Calderdale |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | iCASP's SME project member Paola Sakai had a meeting with the MP for Calderdale in May 2020. She presented results from her previous project and highlighted this new SMEs project. |
| Description | Meeting with the head of the National Flood Forum |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | iCASP's SME project member Paola Sakai had a meeting with the head of the National Flood Forum to discuss previous results and upcoming research (July 2020). |
| Description | Meeting with the head of the National Flood Forum |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | iCASP's SME project member Paola Sakai had a meeting with the head of the National Flood Forum to discuss previous results and upcoming research (July 2020). |
| Description | Met Office Urban Climate Service |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | The iCASP project team are continuing to maintain partnerships with 3rd party data providers (e.g. Met Office and EU Copernicus) and project partners. The team has supported Met Office in developing a 'Prototype Urban Climate Service' for the City of Leeds. |
| Description | Natural Flood Management Community of Practice event on Funding |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | The January 2020 NFM Community of Practice event included attendees from across England and Wales. A series of presentations and workshops with senior representatives at a regional and national level from organisations such as the Environment Agency helped to influence the debate on the future funding of NFM schemes. Outcomes from the event were fed back to EA National representatives. |
| Description | POSTnote 'Climate Change and Wildfire Frequency' |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://www.parliament.uk/postnotes |
| Description | Parlimentary Question |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Parlimentary Question follow up on Peatland restoration |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Participation in a regional consultation - Influence on Local Industrial Strategy |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | West Yorkshire Combined Authority (Combined Authority) and York, North Yorkshire and East Riding (YNYER) LEP have developed (through consultants) an understanding of the importance of natural capital to the economies of North and West Yorkshire. iCASP (though Joseph Holden) promoted the iCASP User Guide (iCASP project #3 Optimal Peatland Restoration) to the consultants, and suggested some revisions. The report aims to inform the region's industrial strategy which then forms the direction of investment from the Local Enterprise Partnerships. |
| Description | Participation in a regional consultation -Leeds City Region Call for Evidence Local Industrial Strategy |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | University of Leeds provided a response, with information from iCASP, to Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnership who have issued a call for evidence to support the development of the Local Industrial Strategy. |
| Description | Project outcomes shared with partners: lessons learnt from the Derwent Data Finder Project were shared with Environment Agency colleagues Nationally and regionally and fed back into the EAs Strategic Monitoring Review. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Providing oral evidence to the Environmental Audit committee on Invasive Species |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | In April 2019 Alison Dunn used iCASP evidence from project # 15 on Impact of Invasive non native species in an iCASP written submission to the HoC Environmental Audit Committee's Invasive Species inquiry. http://data.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/committeeevidence.svc/evidencedocument/environmental-audit-committee/invasive-species/written/101238.html In May 2019 Allison presented oral evidence to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee's inquiry into invasive species in the first of their oral evidence sessions. iCASP are referenced in the final written report and Alison is listed as a witness at the end of the report. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201919/cmselect/cmenvaud/88/88.pdf |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201919/cmselect/cmenvaud/88/88.pdf |
| Description | QUENCH Network on health and environmental quality |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The aim of the QUENCH network is to support these interconnections and help build communities that are able to work towards creating urban environments that are good for people and ecosystems. The network is funded through the Natural Environment Research Council's Healthy Environment programme and co-delivered by Lancaster University and The University of Liverpool. |
| URL | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/about-us/engagement/quench-network/ |
| Description | Response to Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee inquiry into the government's approach to flood risk |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | iCASP's SME project member Paola Sakai had a meeting with the MP for Calderdale in May 2020. She presented results from her previous project and highlighted this new SMEs project. |
| Description | Response to enquiry for information on catchment scale telemetry from councillor to be used in local council decision session |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Rewilding Britain Strategy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters - High Level Steering Group member |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | http://www.crew.ac.uk/steering-group |
| Description | Soil Health Inquiry - Response from the University of Leeds |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | The Flood Hydrology Road Map |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | iCASP submission to the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap |
| Description | UK Climate Resilience Outputs |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | The iCASP project team are continuing to maintain partnerships with 3rd party data providers (e.g. Met Office and EU Copernicus) and project partners. The team has supported Met Office in developing a 'Prototype Urban Climate Service' for the City of Leeds. |
| Description | UK Cost of INNs |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | UK Parliament POSTNOTE on Invasive non-native species |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | POSTnotes are based on literature reviews and interviews with a range of stakeholders and are externally peer reviewed. This publication focused on: 1. Non-native species (NNS) can be introduced to a new area beyond their natural range by human activity. A minority of these are described as invasive non-native species (INNS) because of their negative impacts on the environment and economy. 2. The impacts of INNS were estimated to cost the UK more than £1.8 billion per year in 2010. INNS drive losses of native species through impacts such as predation, competition, introducing diseases and altering habitats. 3. The UK Government has international and national commitments to tackle INNS. 4. The UK's 2019 report to the CBD found that despite some action, the impact, and risks from INNS in the UK remains significant. 5. Most stakeholders say that more needs to be done to prevent the introduction and establishment of INNS. More action could avoid future costs. |
| Description | UK Parliament Post_Reducing peatland emissions |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
| Description | West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | Research England has funded the development of a Roadmapwhich sets out the shared vision, purpose and future direction of the WY FLIP. To realise true innovation and increase resilience we need input from a wide range of partners from a wide range of sectors including: infrastructure, health, finance, transport, planning, education and the community and voluntary sector. The Roadmap includes priorities, ways of working and milestones and was created collaboratively through consultation with partners. It will be updated regularly to reflect the direction of WY FLIP and make sure it continues to represent the views of partners. |
| Description | Westminster Sustainable Business Forum/Policy Connect - Water and Housing Policies Inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/2018/07/20/bricks-and-water/ |
| Description | Written advice East Riding County Council |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | N/A |
| Description | Written briefing to Secretary of State (Rt Hon Michael Gove MP) on upland burning practices and wildfire |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | Written consultation on Invasive Non-Native Species: Strategic Evidence Plan by DEFRA |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The strategic plan is aimed at researchers, research funders and end users of research.The geographic scope of the strategic plan is GB but we will aim to coordinate with others as relevant. The plan covers research, monitoring and surveillance (and expert opinion) and therefore is an evidence strategic plan. It covers all areas covered by the GB INNS Strategy but does not overlap with plant health. |
| Description | York Long Term (100 year) Flood Plan - 'Slowing the Flow' component 'Slowing the Flow in the rivers Ouse and Foss; a long-term plan for York' consultation |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/yorkshire/slowing-the-flow-in-the-rivers-ouse-and-foss-a-l... |
| Description | Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership 'HS2 in Leeds City Region' consultation submission |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership Board membership - advising implementation of Leeds City Region Green and Blue Infrastructure Strategy |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | attendance of MP Alex Sobel at iCASP confluence |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | MP Alex Sobel attended the 2019 iCASP confluence and gave a presentation on the work of the Environment Select Committee whilst also participating in workshops and formal / informal discussion at the event - sharing best practice, science, evidence and impact. |
| Description | iCASP Project #46: Recommendations to Kirklees Council for working with natural process to reduce flood risk and maintenance costs |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Description | iCASP Project #47: Defra Landscape Recovery Test and Trials |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | iCASP Response to DEFRA Environmental Land Management: policy discussion |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | In July 2020, iCASP responded to DEFRA Environmental Land Management: policy discussion. The responses focused on the following questions: (1) Do you have any comments on the design principles on page 14? (2) Do you think the ELM scheme as currently proposed will deliver each of the objectives on page 8? (3) What is the best way to encourage participation in ELM? (4) Are we focussing on the right types of activity in each tier? (5) What support do land managers need to work together within ELM, especially in tiers 2 and 3? (6) How should local priorities be determined? (7) What is the best method for calculating payments rates for each tier? (8) To what extent might there be opportunities to blend public with private finance for each of the 3 tiers? (9) When is advice most likely to be needed by a scheme participant? (10) How might self-assessment work? (11) Do you agree with the proposed approach to the National Pilot? |
| URL | https://iCASP.org.uk/resources-and-publications/iCASP-submissions-to-consultations-and-inquiries/ |
| Description | iCASP Response to DEFRA Environmental Land Management: policy discussion |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | In July 2020, iCASP responded to Defra Environmental Land Management: policy discussion. The responses focused on the following questions: (1) Do you have any comments on the design principles on page 14? (2) Do you think the ELM scheme as currently proposed will deliver each of the objectives on page 8? (3) What is the best way to encourage participation in ELM? (4) Are we focussing on the right types of activity in each tier? (5) What support do land managers need to work together within ELM, especially in tiers 2 and 3? (6) How should local priorities be determined? (7) What is the best method for calculating payments rates for each tier? (8) To what extent might there be opportunities to blend public with private finance for each of the 3 tiers? (9) When is advice most likely to be needed by a scheme participant? (10) How might self-assessment work? (11) Do you agree with the proposed approach to the National Pilot? |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/resources-and-publications/icasp-submissions-to-consultations-and-inquiries/ |
| Description | iCASP Response to Environment Agency inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | iCASP Response to Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee inquiry: government's approach to flood risk |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | On 15/05/2020, iCASP (Paola Sakai) submitted a response to Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee inquiry into the government's approach to flood risk was written by Paola Sakai, to address the questions "1. what should be the Government's aims and priorities in national flood risk policy, and what level of investment will be required in the future, in order to achieve this? and 2. How can housing and other development be made more resilient to flooding, and what role can be played by measures such as insurance, sustainable drainage and planning policy?" The response focus in the importance of considering the requirements of SMEs to increase resilience, the challenges they face to overcome flood risk and provides relevant suggestions to increase SME resilience. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/10474/pdf/ |
| Description | iCASP Response to Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee inquiry: government's approach to flood risk |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | On 15/05/2020, iCASP (Paola Sakai) submitted a response to Environment Food and Rural Affairs Committee inquiry into the government's approach to flood risk was written by Paola Sakai, to address the questions "1. what should be the Government's aims and priorities in national flood risk policy, and what level of investment will be required in the future, in order to achieve this? and 2. How can housing and other development be made more resilient to flooding, and what role can be played by measures such as insurance, sustainable drainage and planning policy?" The response focus in the importance of considering the requirements of SMEs to increase resilience, the challenges they face to overcome flood risk and provides relevant suggestions to increase SME resilience. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/10474/pdf/ |
| Description | iCASP Response to Environmental Audit Committee Biodiversity and ecosystems inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | In September 2020, iCASP responded to Environmental Audit Committee inquiry: Biodiversity and Ecosystems. The responses focused on the following themes: (1) The state of biodiversity (2) Evaluating measures to conserve and enhance biodiversity (3) Co-ordination of UK environmental policy (4) Economics and biodiversity (5) Pairing nature-based solutions to climate change with biodiversity |
| URL | https://iCASP.org.uk/resources-and-publications/iCASP-submissions-to-consultations-and-inquiries/ |
| Description | iCASP Response to Environmental Audit Committee Biodiversity and ecosystems inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | In September 2020, iCASP responded to Environmental Audit Committee inquiry: Biodiversity and Ecosystems. The responses focused on the following themes: (1) The state of biodiversity (2) Evaluating measures to conserve and enhance biodiversity (3) Co-ordination of UK environmental policy (4) Economics and biodiversity (5) Pairing nature-based solutions to climate change with biodiversity |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/resources-and-publications/icasp-submissions-to-consultations-and-inquiries/ |
| Description | iCASP Response to Environmental Audit Committee inquiry: Sustainable tourism |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | iCASP Response to House of Commons Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee's inquiry: the risk of inland flooding in England |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | iCASP (Paola Sakai) submitted a written response to EFRA's inquiry into the Government's approach to managing the risk of inland flooding in England. The response covers all the terms of reference outlined; our particular focus is on addressing the issues of flood risk using an integrated catchment management or landscape-scale approach. We draw upon examples and evidence from research translated through our Programme of work on issues including natural flood management, flood risk communications and improving SME and business resilience. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/4941/pdf/ |
| Description | iCASP Response to House of Commons Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee's inquiry: the risk of inland flooding in England |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | iCASP (Paola Sakai) submitted a written response to EFRA's inquiry into the Government's approach to managing the risk of inland flooding in England. The response covers all the terms of reference outlined; our particular focus is on addressing the issues of flood risk using an integrated catchment management or landscape-scale approach. We draw upon examples and evidence from research translated through our programme of work on issues including natural flood management, flood risk communications and improving SME and business resilience. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/4941/pdf/ |
| Description | iCASP and WYCA Response to House of Commons Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee's inquiry: flood and coastal risk management |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Along with our partners from West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA), iCASP (Paola Sakai) submitted a written evidence to the House of Commons Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee's flood inquiry. The submission explains the requirements and suggests how to improve current national and local governance and coordination arrangements for flood and coastal risk management in England, how to prioritize investment and aims in national flood risk policy and how can communities be involved and supported in increasing flood resilience. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/5132/pdf/ |
| Description | iCASP and WYCA Response to House of Commons Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee's inquiry: flood and coastal risk management |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Along with our partners from West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA), iCASP (Paola Sakai) submitted a written evidence to the House of Commons Environment Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee's flood inquiry. The submission explains the requirements and suggests how to improve current national and local governance and coordination arrangements for flood and coastal risk management in England, how to prioritize investment and aims in national flood risk policy and how can communities be involved and supported in increasing flood resilience. |
| URL | https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/5132/pdf/ |
| Description | iCASP preparing a response for April 2020 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | In April 2020, iCASP responded to Environment Agency Challenges and Choices consultation on the following topics: (1) Challenge 1: Changes to water levels and flows (2) Challenge 2: Chemicals in the water environment (3) Challenge 3: Invasive non-native species (4) Challenge 4: Physical modifications (5) Challenge 5: Plastics pollution (6) Challenge 6: Pollution from abandoned mines (7) Challenge 7: Pollution from agriculture and rural areas (8) Challenge 8: Pollution from towns, cities and transport (9) Challenge 9: Pollution from water industry wastewater |
| Description | iCASP response to the RBMP consultation with EA |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | This consultation will help EA to produce updated RBMPs that will inform, improve, and shape how the water environment is managed. Improved plans will be available in a summary document in Autumn 2022. The Environment Agency will also use the responses to help them consider how some of the current approaches to managing water in England will need to change with a changing climate and a growing population. This feedback will help to shape wider water policy and investment decisions beyond the horizon of the RBMPs |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/river-basin-planning-draft-river-basin-management-plans/... |
| Description | iCASP submission to the UK Flood Hydrology Roadmap |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | The Flood Hydrology Road Map will cover four main inland flood sources: Groundwater, Surface water and sewers, Reservoirs and Fluvial systems. |
| Description | iCASP submitted a written response to EFRA's inquiry into Peatland in September 2019. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | iCASP's SME project briefing with Calderdale councillor |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | iCASP's SME project member Paola Sakai briefed a Calderdale councillor on the project's goals, advances and regional and local potential benefits (June 2020). |
| Description | iCASP's SME project meeting with the National Flood Forum |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Impact | iCASP's SME project member Paola Sakai had a meeting with the head of the National Flood Forum to discuss previous results and upcoming research (July 2020). |
| Description | written response provided to the Environmental Audit Committee's Invasive Species inquiry |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | 2022-23 Participatory Research Fund |
| Amount | £23,884 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2022 |
| End | 07/2023 |
| Description | CIRIA |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 09/2021 |
| Description | Climate Adaptation Modelling & Research |
| Amount | £49,619 (GBP) |
| Organisation | North York Moors National Park Authority |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2023 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | Climate Change Risk Assessment |
| Amount | £63,640 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2022 |
| End | 04/2023 |
| Description | Defra Landscape Recovery Test and Trials |
| Amount | £84,353 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2022 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Derwent Sediment and INNS - Yorkshire Water |
| Amount | £103,339 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 12/2024 |
| Description | ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Round 2: University of Leeds |
| Amount | £1,300,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2022 |
| Description | EU Horizon 2020: CONSOLE - CONtractual SOLutions for Effective and lasting delivery of agri-environmental-public goods by EU agriculture and forestry |
| Amount | € 5,000,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 817949 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Funding for collaborating with RISE sister programme (SWEEP) |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2018 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | HORIZON_2021 - Incentives and business models for soil health- NOVASOIL |
| Amount | £898,692 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Department | Research Executive Agency (REA) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 06/2022 |
| Description | Horizon 2020 - CSA (Coordinated and Supported Action) SC5-10-2016 - Multi-stakeholder dialogue platform to promote innovation with nature to address societal challenges - ThinkNature |
| Amount | € 2,974,163 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 730338 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 11/2019 |
| Description | Horizon 2020 R&I Action RUR-04-2018: BESTMAP (Behavioural, Ecological and Socio-Economic Tools for Modelling Agricultural Policy) |
| Amount | € 4,000,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 817501 |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 04/2019 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Improving the evidence-base for hedgerow planting to contribute to UK net zero target |
| Amount | £27,870 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Department | Research England |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Industrial Innovation Fellowship |
| Amount | £467,483 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/R013365/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | Industrial Mobility Fellowship |
| Amount | £46,527 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/R013012/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 06/2018 |
| Description | KE Fellowship: Sediment matters - using recent advances to unlock effective catchment decision-making |
| Amount | £171,148 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/V018701/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2021 |
| End | 06/2024 |
| Description | Knowledge Exchange Fellowship |
| Amount | £171,973 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/R012407/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2018 |
| End | 01/2020 |
| Description | Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTP) |
| Amount | £293,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Moorland Burning Policy Compliance |
| Amount | £78,749 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | N8 AgriFood Resilience Programme Local Pump Priming 'Soil conservation practices in post-Brexit UK under a changing climate' |
| Amount | £7,160 (GBP) |
| Organisation | N8 Universities |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2018 |
| End | 06/2019 |
| Description | NERC Freshwater Quality Champions: understanding changes in quality of UK freshwaters |
| Amount | £510,839 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/X009599/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2022 |
| End | 04/2027 |
| Description | NFM Community of Practice |
| Amount | £81,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2020 |
| End | 08/2022 |
| Description | Nidderdale AONB |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2020 |
| End | 05/2020 |
| Description | PeatDataHub Partnership Policy Engagement |
| Amount | £81,489 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | River Skell National Lottery grant- River Skell NFM Monitoring Programme |
| Amount | £62,289 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Harrogate Borough Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | |
| Description | Skell Valley Project by National Trust and the NAOB |
| Amount | £1,400,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Heritage Lottery Fund |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| Description | The Peru knowledge exchange programme award |
| Amount | £110,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Union |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | |
| Description | UK Global Food Security Programme - role of phosphorus in the resilience and sustainability of the UK food system. |
| Amount | £1,500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 02/2021 |
| Description | Understanding the Effectiveness of Natural Flood Management |
| Amount | £1,000,186 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | NE/R004595/1 |
| Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2017 |
| End | 10/2021 |
| Description | WY FLIP |
| Amount | £142,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| Description | WY FLIP |
| Amount | £68,952 (GBP) |
| Organisation | United Kingdom Research and Innovation |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| Description | Water-based solutions for carbon storage, people and wilderness |
| Amount | € 23,631,574 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | Grant agreement ID: 101036484 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 12/2021 |
| End | 11/2026 |
| Description | Wessenden and Gorpley NFM monitoring |
| Amount | £96,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The National Trust |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Start | 01/2018 |
| End | 04/2021 |
| Description | Yorkshire Future Flood Resilience Pathfinder |
| Amount | £308,574 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 01/2022 |
| Title | A Deliberative Monetary Valuation Protocol |
| Description | A new addition to the iCASP Optimum Peatland Restoration Project Resource in 2020 is a Deliberative Monetary Valuation protocol (DMV). This protocol sets out key steps for conducting the DMV method as well as important considerations for its application. It is a resource aimed at environmental practitioners interested in independently valuing and/or discussing values of ecosystem services. The protocol uses peatland restoration as an example, but it is applicable to any kind of ecosystem. The DMV protocol is available for download from the iCASP website, a training video is available and a range of associated available resources including a socio-economic questionnaire, a valuation card and sampling templates and guidance. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The protocol has been endorsed by Natural England the Yorkshire Peat Partnership. NE referenced it use within the tender for the 2019/20 North York Moors National Park peat pilot as well as the National Peat pilot where this work continues to be promoted. It will help practitioners and policy makers to value ecosystem services in a way that will strengthen and help target the case for funding. |
| Title | Green Blue Health project database |
| Description | Hyperlinked Excel database of references, indicators and metrics relating to cultural ecosystem services and wellbeing, references relating to evidence of benefits across different nature-based interventions and green/blue space contexts. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The review will provide the evidence base for Natural England's Natural Capital Indicators project (NERR076). The existing tool has already informed key areas of NE work including Office for National Statistics condition indicators, 25-Year Environment Plan (25-YEP) evidence annex and metrics, and review of MENE (now People and Nature Survey). |
| Title | INMY Farm: Soil Testing |
| Description | Soil Testing is an example website resource |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This site is a clear and user-friendly resource for farm advisors. The intention is to provide key practical information linked to potential cost savings and payments for farmers interested in starting on the transition to more environmentally friendly farming. |
| URL | https://features.york.ac.uk/inmy-farm--soil-testing/index.html |
| Title | LWWP Catchment Telemetry Integration Model |
| Description | A predictive modelling approach with developed models coded in MATLAB |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | 1. A better understanding of the existing telemetry network across the study areawas achieved, including insights into the best locations for monitoring and gaps in coverage. 2. The results of the data exploration provided clarity on the variability of data in quality and physical parameters. 3.The data-driven approach was able to identify important relationships between network elements such as that the water level in both open channels and sewer network show stronger linkage with total precipitation rather than maximum rainfall intensity; and that the water level in the sewer network responds much faster to rainfall. 4. Overall, application of data analytics like those demonstrated will make better use of current monitoring systems and provide evidence to support future investments. 5 It is possible to improve flood resilience in the area through application of an early warning tool. 6.The value of combining and sharing data among the different LWWP partners was strongly demonstrated along with the value of data-driven methods to help understand the behaviour of complex systems. |
| Title | NFM Calderdale Modelling |
| Description | Spatially Distributed TOPMODEL (SD-TOPMODEL), to investigate 3 key aspects of flooding in the Calderdale Valley and toinform 3 key action points in the Calderdale Flood Action Plan (FAP). |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The evidence produced by this model is to support statements in the floodaction plan is based on the findings of the spatially distributed rainfall runoff model that has previously reported on the impact of farming, NFM and land use on flood levels for locations including Bishopdale and Trout Beck in North Yorkshire. |
| Title | NFM Monitoring Toolkit |
| Description | A user friendly toolkit that allows land owners / practitioners to navigate flow charts to understand what interventions could be put in and how they can be monitored. |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Leeds City Council, Mott Macdonald, Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust, Environment Agency (Calderdale NFMOG and Holme Catchment Group), Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust |
| Title | NFM Upper Rother Modelling |
| Description | Spatially Distributed TOPMODEL (SD-TOPMODEL), SD-TOPMODEL was used to model impacts on flooding in the catchments. For this project we used SD-TOPMODEL in an innovative way - normally modelling is used to test scenarios, however for this project we investigated what aspect of the catchment is causing flooding - this will allow the DCRT to present a range of NFM options to landowners that will reduce flood risk. This will allow for a more adaptable and strategic approach as often NFM is opportunistic. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | For this project we used SD-TOPMODEL in an innovative way - normally modelling is used to test scenarios, however for this project we investigated what aspect of the catchment is causing flooding - this will allow the DCRT to present a range of NFM options to landowners that will reduce flood risk. This will allow for a more adaptable and strategic approach as often NFM is opportunistic. Modelling of Moss Brook, Spital Brook and River Hipper The sub-catchments have been modelled to understand what factor (soil depth, soil conductivity or surface roughness) is contributing to flooding the most. For the Moss Brooks scenarios relating to Herbal Leys and Soil Aeration have been produced, to understand what benefit certain NFM interventions will have in the catchment. |
| Title | User friendly Digibog and Digibog_Hydro |
| Description | DigiBog_Hydro simulates subsurface water flow and water-table behaviour in soils and shallow aquifers, including peatlands such as raised bogs and blanket bogs. It can be used as a stand-alone model but also forms part of what is called the 'full' DigiBog, a model that simulates peatland development over time (peat accumulation and peat degradation - see the iCASP Short Guide to Peatland Development Models). DigiBog_Hydro is written in Fortran 95 and was originally only available in a form without a user interface, meaning those using the model had to develop their own tools for setting up input files and processing output data. As part of the iCASP Optimal Peatland Restoration (OPR) project the model has been updated to have a user-friendly front end or GUI (graphical user interface), that simplifies model set up, making it easier for users to undertake useful model simulations. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | iCASP has worked with peatland restoration practitioners (as part of iCASP Project #3: Optimal peatland restoration) to adapt Digibog to be user friendly/applicable for informing where and what peatland restoration activities are incorporated into peatland restoration plans. |
| URL | https://water.leeds.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/36/2020/12/DigiBog_Hydro_user_manual_v1_FINAL.pdf |
| Title | Water level forecast model |
| Description | A predictive model has been developed to forecast water level from rainfall data (it uses rainfall in the past several hours to predict water level in the next couple of hours). The results and findings were presented at the final workshop in December 2020. In May 2021, a separate document was produced as a user guide for the models developed for this project in MATLAB 2019b. This document presents an introduction to the MATLAB scripts, the definition of input parameters, and how to execute the models and obtain water level predictions in Hull. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Project partners can apply it to their systems to increase response times to flood events and this will support them and communities to become more resilient. Being better prepared for a flooding event has many non-economic benefits including protection of well-being and avoidance of stress. |
| Title | Yorkshire Derwent catchment surface water quality database |
| Description | iCASP Project #7: 'Strategic Monitoring Review on the Yorkshire Derwent Prototype' has produced a new defined list of metadata categories that feed multiple partners needs as there is not a recognised standard across different data providers and users. It has collated available data into the new metadata format and produced a metadata map related to surface water quality for the Derwent Catchment. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | This has consolidated available water quality data for the catchment for the Environment Agency, helped the Environment Agency to understand how this could be done for other catchments as part of their national strategic monitoring review, and helped the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust to how this consolidation could be done for the catchments that they work in. The Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust have expressed interest in this work and iCASP will be sharing outcomes and lessons learnt from this project with them in due course (Spring 2020). |
| Title | iCASP impact database |
| Description | The iCASP impact database in the form of EXCEL is created for systematically documenting, monitoring and reporting the evidence of impacts for iCASP projects. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The database has provided a foundation for evidence-based impact monitoring, evaluation, and reporting. |
| Description | Bradford FCRM workshop |
| Organisation | Aire Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The iCASP team planned and facilitated a workshop on behalf of the Aire Rivers Trust, Environment Agency and Bradford City Council to review and consider sustainable options to address flood risk management in the Bradford area. The structured workshop used maps and environmental data to generate a partnership led flood risk management and river basin management plan compatible strategy for the Bradford part of the Aire catchment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Aire Rivers Trust and the Environment Agency worked with the iCASP team to design the workshop. Aire Rivers Trust, EA and partners from Bradford City Council will own the outputs and be responsible for the implementation of the resultant sustainable flood risk management plan. |
| Impact | The Aire Rivers Trust generated a partnership led flood risk management and river basin management plan compatible strategy for the Bradford part of the Aire catchment. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Calderdale Council site access for field study |
| Organisation | Calderdale Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Work on tree planting and flooding, using a mature woodland site in Calderdale with the local authority. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Site access and information |
| Impact | Work ongoing |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Collaboration on Horizon 2020 Bestmap Project |
| Organisation | National Farmers Union |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | A 4 year project in the Humber Region, to interview farmers and then conduct larger surveys to understand how people accept different agro-environmental schemes. Bestmap aims to transform the landscape to help reach the goal of net zero carbon by 2050. Existing impact assessment models do not appropriately address the complexity of decisions made by farmers and ignore the wider impacts of policy on natural, social and cultural assets in rural areas. BESTMAP's new modelling framework aims to transform future EU rural policies' design and monitoring, promoting a sustainable future for the EU agricultural sector. The framework of impacts / benefits will be assessed in terms water quality, carbon balance and biodiversity. iCASP have provided in kind support to this project by helping with co-ordinating activities of this project with Payment for Outcomes project and CONSOLE. This has included promoting BESTmap at the CONSOLE community of practice meeting and with the National Farmers Union. In Oct 2020 iCASP also facilitated a meeting between DEFRA and the BestMap, Payment for Outcomes and CONSOLE project teams. The aim of the meeting was raise awareness of and share outputs with DEFRA about the work of iCASP on these important projects and in doing so help to shape the future direction of agricultural policy in the UK. On CONSOLE we shared with Defra the purpose of the farmers survey and invited them to add comments and assist with informing the CONSOLE survey, 'co-create' it with us. As a result of the meeting with DEFRA and sharing information about the Bestmap Project, Prof Guy Ziv has been invited by DEFRA to serve as a member of the Environmental Land Management Modelling Expert Panel (MEP). The MEP is an advisory body to the E.L.M Modelling sub-group, which governs the programme's Modelling Strategy, and will support the programme by providing cross-disciplinary scrutiny over methods used in scoping and developing E.L.M. models, and ensuring the quality, rigour and relevance of the E.L.M. modelling design, delivery and evaluation. Guy has been selected for this role in recognition of his coordination of the H2020 BESTMAP project and his broader expertise on the Common Agricultural Policy. This has come about in part due to iCASPs support for the BestMap project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The National Farmers Union provided useful feedback and suggestions for promoting the project and in particular how to engage effectively with farmers. |
| Impact | Networks improved and better informed project design, especially re co-ordination with CONSOLE and input from NFU into how bes to engage with farmers to collect information for the study. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Collaboration on Integrated nitrogen management on Yorkshire Farm (INMY Farm) Project |
| Organisation | ADAS |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This project will draw together and synthesise good practice to inform more integrated and efficient nitrogen use in mixed arable and livestock farming, with a focus on Yorkshire. While there is growing awareness of the problems with pollutants, and many farmers are tackling this, in many cases it is on an individual and ad-hoc basis. In the current landscape with planned policy changes and consultation on those changes, now is an ideal time to ensure evidence supports the development of more coherent and joined up approaches, such as the new Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners will support engagement among farmer groups, scientific teams, and policy and regulator groups. |
| Impact | INMY Farm held a launch meeting for the core team on 3 December 2020. The project aims to draw together and synthesise good practice to inform more integrated and efficient nitrogen use in mixed arable and livestock farming, with a focus on Yorkshire. The project has been developed following recommendations from stakeholders working in farming, agricultural policy and scientific research who attended an iCASP workshop in March 2019. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration on Integrated nitrogen management on Yorkshire Farm (INMY Farm) Project |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Agricultural Society (YAS) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This project will draw together and synthesise good practice to inform more integrated and efficient nitrogen use in mixed arable and livestock farming, with a focus on Yorkshire. While there is growing awareness of the problems with pollutants, and many farmers are tackling this, in many cases it is on an individual and ad-hoc basis. In the current landscape with planned policy changes and consultation on those changes, now is an ideal time to ensure evidence supports the development of more coherent and joined up approaches, such as the new Environmental Land Management Scheme (ELMS). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners will support engagement among farmer groups, scientific teams, and policy and regulator groups. |
| Impact | INMY Farm held a launch meeting for the core team on 3 December 2020. The project aims to draw together and synthesise good practice to inform more integrated and efficient nitrogen use in mixed arable and livestock farming, with a focus on Yorkshire. The project has been developed following recommendations from stakeholders working in farming, agricultural policy and scientific research who attended an iCASP workshop in March 2019. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration on blended finance project: exploring ecosystem markets and public-private partnerships for the delivery of ecosystem services in the UK |
| Organisation | WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF |
| Department | Landscape Dynamics |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project will explore the voluntary ecosystem services market in the UK by understanding UK payment for ecosystem services schemes and the role of trading platforms and modellers, and developing an understanding of how these actors operate while identifying possible synergies and examples of good practice and challenges to implementation. It will focus specifically on understanding the social distribution of ecosystem services, how values are attributed to ecosystem services and legal obligations or challenges surrounding the implementation of the schemes. An online review of the UK's ecosystem services market will be carried out to identify UK public-private schemes and partnerships, as well as platforms and modellers that facilitate the delivery of, and act as a driver of, the UK's voluntary ecosystem services market. In-depth interviews will be conducted with four ecosystem services schemes (the Woodland Carbon Code, the Peatland Code, Landscape Enterprise Networks and the Natural), trading platform EnTrade and biophysical modellers, Viridian Logic. |
| Collaborator Contribution | . |
| Impact | In August 2020, this project produced a co-authored report between iCASP and Resilient Dairy Landscapes exploring a sample of the public-private partnerships that exist for the financing of ecosystem services in the UK. Gosal, A, Kendall, H., Reed, M., Mitchell, G., Rodgers, C., and Ziv, G. (2020). Exploring ecosystem markets for the delivery of public goods in the UK. Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP) and Resilient Dairy Landscapes Report, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5518/100/48 |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration on the Heritage Lottery Fund bid by National Trust and the Nidderdale AONB |
| Organisation | National Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | By providing evidence and expertise from Natural Flood Management and payment for outcomes projects, iCASP have been able to help secure £1.4m in January 2021 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the National Trust and Nidderdale AONB for the Skell Valley Project. By building a strong core of catchment experts, iCASP work continues to contribute to optimised decision making at several levels (individual and organisational). This leads to improved and more cost-effective catchment solutions, and helps to unlock future investments and funding. https://nidderdaleaonb.org.uk/about-us/nidderdale-aonb-projects/looking-after-the-river-skell/. The project has provided £9k to iCASP for project development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have provided helpful insights on science-user engagement for iCASP projects. |
| Impact | . |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration on the Heritage Lottery Fund bid by National Trust and the Nidderdale AONB |
| Organisation | Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | By providing evidence and expertise from Natural Flood Management and payment for outcomes projects, iCASP have been able to help secure £1.4m in January 2021 from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the National Trust and Nidderdale AONB for the Skell Valley Project. By building a strong core of catchment experts, iCASP work continues to contribute to optimised decision making at several levels (individual and organisational). This leads to improved and more cost-effective catchment solutions, and helps to unlock future investments and funding. https://nidderdaleaonb.org.uk/about-us/nidderdale-aonb-projects/looking-after-the-river-skell/. The project has provided £9k to iCASP for project development. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners have provided helpful insights on science-user engagement for iCASP projects. |
| Impact | . |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration on the West Yorkshire Innovative Resilience Fund bid lead by Leeds City Council |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP provided leadership on inputs for the West Yorkshire Group Resilience and Innovation Trials (West Yorkshire GRIT) with the total value of £9.8m, working at catchment level and across administrative boundaries. While officially championed by LCC, iCASP played a pivotal co-ordination role in the bid. The proposal will address five of the Resilience Actions (Integrated water management solutions (IWMS), Nature based solutions (NBS), Property flood resilience (PFR), Community and voluntary sector (CVS) action to be better prepared and recover more quickly, and Enhanced flood warning systems (EFWS) with four overarching strands: 1. Community empowerment through co-production, local knowledge and enabling local resilience. 2. Education and skills development across West Yorkshire communities living with floods. 3. Knowledge transfer embedded from outset building on existing partnership and networks, peer to peer support, co-production and developing new innovation. 4. Metrics built into themes; independent academic monitoring and evaluation of activities and outcomes. Combining different resilience actions we will optimise our approach to the flood risks that exist along a catchment. A phased approach will allow learning from each stage of activities to cross- fertilise development of other themes. If the bid is successful, the project will provide £900k for iCASP to conduct monitoring and evaluation across the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The EA, the 5 LLFAs (Leeds, Bradford, Calderdale, Wakefield and Kirklees), iCASP and other partners have worked together through preparing for the first stage of the bid. |
| Impact | This collaboration enhances the awareness of iCASP. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration on the West Yorkshire Innovative Resilience Fund bid lead by Leeds City Council |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP provided leadership on inputs for the West Yorkshire Group Resilience and Innovation Trials (West Yorkshire GRIT) with the total value of £9.8m, working at catchment level and across administrative boundaries. While officially championed by LCC, iCASP played a pivotal co-ordination role in the bid. The proposal will address five of the Resilience Actions (Integrated water management solutions (IWMS), Nature based solutions (NBS), Property flood resilience (PFR), Community and voluntary sector (CVS) action to be better prepared and recover more quickly, and Enhanced flood warning systems (EFWS) with four overarching strands: 1. Community empowerment through co-production, local knowledge and enabling local resilience. 2. Education and skills development across West Yorkshire communities living with floods. 3. Knowledge transfer embedded from outset building on existing partnership and networks, peer to peer support, co-production and developing new innovation. 4. Metrics built into themes; independent academic monitoring and evaluation of activities and outcomes. Combining different resilience actions we will optimise our approach to the flood risks that exist along a catchment. A phased approach will allow learning from each stage of activities to cross- fertilise development of other themes. If the bid is successful, the project will provide £900k for iCASP to conduct monitoring and evaluation across the project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The EA, the 5 LLFAs (Leeds, Bradford, Calderdale, Wakefield and Kirklees), iCASP and other partners have worked together through preparing for the first stage of the bid. |
| Impact | This collaboration enhances the awareness of iCASP. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Collaboration: Ryevitalise Interactive Catchments Solutions |
| Organisation | North York Moors National Park Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP is collaborating with the North York Moors National Park Authority (NYMNPA) to support the development and delivery of the Ryevitalise Heritage Lottery funded project. iCASP is sharing the outputs from several projects with the Ryevitalise team to inform the direction of the project. This includes sharing lessons learnt from the iCASP INNS project as well as the sediment projects |
| Collaborator Contribution | Used iCASP products to maximise impact |
| Impact | A number of outputs / area of possible impact were discussed. One section of the Ryevitalise projects relates to natural flood management, iCASP to invite NYMNPA to iCASP NFM Community of Practice Events. The main area iCASP could help with is providing robust evidence (facts and figures) ITF Janet Richardson discussed her Industrial Mobility Fellowship work on the Derwent and has since shared erosion risk mapping work / data on the Ryevitalise area to the North York Moors National Park. , AC to send across shapefile of study area. Outputs from the INNS project have also been shared with the NYMNPA. Information about DIgibog and the Peatland Restoration Guide was shared with the NYMNPA. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | ICASP new Governance Group Members |
| Organisation | Don Catchment Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The National Trust, Don Catchment Rivers Trust (DCRT) and Internal Drainage Board Group (Shire Group of Internal Drainage Boards, representing IDBs for Yorkshire) have joined the iCASP Governance Group, sitting alongside existing springboard partners and governance group members. Their inclusion has helped to broaden the interests and reach of iCASP with professional partners and external organisations. This group advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The National Trust and IBD membership have helped to advise on the projects that iCASP supports, providing valuable input, strategic direction and governance. All partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. The DCRT joined as a result of their involvement in project # 8 (Providing evidence for Don Catchment Hidden Heritage Secret Streams ). The National Trust's involvement resulted from project #14 (Payment for Outcomes) which in turn (as a result of their involvement on Governance Group) has resulted in two further projects: They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). |
| Impact | Increased partnership working with the National Trust has resulted in further collaboration on the Skell Valley Monitoring Projects and involvement in the Payment for Outcomes DEFRA test trials project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | ICASP new Governance Group Members |
| Organisation | National Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The National Trust, Don Catchment Rivers Trust (DCRT) and Internal Drainage Board Group (Shire Group of Internal Drainage Boards, representing IDBs for Yorkshire) have joined the iCASP Governance Group, sitting alongside existing springboard partners and governance group members. Their inclusion has helped to broaden the interests and reach of iCASP with professional partners and external organisations. This group advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The National Trust and IBD membership have helped to advise on the projects that iCASP supports, providing valuable input, strategic direction and governance. All partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. The DCRT joined as a result of their involvement in project # 8 (Providing evidence for Don Catchment Hidden Heritage Secret Streams ). The National Trust's involvement resulted from project #14 (Payment for Outcomes) which in turn (as a result of their involvement on Governance Group) has resulted in two further projects: They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). |
| Impact | Increased partnership working with the National Trust has resulted in further collaboration on the Skell Valley Monitoring Projects and involvement in the Payment for Outcomes DEFRA test trials project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | ICASP new Governance Group Members |
| Organisation | Shire Group of Internal Drainage Boards |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The National Trust, Don Catchment Rivers Trust (DCRT) and Internal Drainage Board Group (Shire Group of Internal Drainage Boards, representing IDBs for Yorkshire) have joined the iCASP Governance Group, sitting alongside existing springboard partners and governance group members. Their inclusion has helped to broaden the interests and reach of iCASP with professional partners and external organisations. This group advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). |
| Collaborator Contribution | The National Trust and IBD membership have helped to advise on the projects that iCASP supports, providing valuable input, strategic direction and governance. All partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. The DCRT joined as a result of their involvement in project # 8 (Providing evidence for Don Catchment Hidden Heritage Secret Streams ). The National Trust's involvement resulted from project #14 (Payment for Outcomes) which in turn (as a result of their involvement on Governance Group) has resulted in two further projects: They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). |
| Impact | Increased partnership working with the National Trust has resulted in further collaboration on the Skell Valley Monitoring Projects and involvement in the Payment for Outcomes DEFRA test trials project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | NAIAD - NAture Insurance value: Assessment and Demonstration |
| Organisation | ICATALIST |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP has agreed to share information relevant to the insurance value of ecosystems with the NAIAD project consortium via I-CATALIST. |
| Collaborator Contribution | I-CATALIST have agreed to share information related to the insurance industry with iCASP. |
| Impact | NAIAD provides iCASP with a potential platform for international influence if iCASP projects related to insurance are developed (this was recognised as a priority at the iCASP launch event). |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Skell Valley Monitoring |
| Organisation | JBA Consulting |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | A joint bid for a National Trust funded project related to monitoring of sediment and flow in the Skell catchment was made between JBA and University of Leeds. This came about because of iCASPs work with the National Trust on the Payments for Outcomes project. The bid was in response to the National Trust seeking consultants to advise on monitoring methodology, equipment requirements and monitoring by volunteers (citizen science) and wishes to seek suppliers with capacity, capability and relevant experience to advise, draw up recommendations and report accordingly. The bid was unsuccessful but did help contribute to a subsequent project currently in development and being discussed with the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to provide support for a second round NLHF bid to deliver a Payment by Results scheme to protect the Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal World Heritage site from sedimentation and flooding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JBA provided in kind contributions in co-developing the bid. |
| Impact | The bid was unsuccessful but did help contribute to further project work currently being discussed with the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to provide support for a second round NLHF bid to deliver a Payment by Results scheme to protect the Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal World Heritage site from sedimentation and flooding. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Skell Valley Monitoring |
| Organisation | National Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | A joint bid for a National Trust funded project related to monitoring of sediment and flow in the Skell catchment was made between JBA and University of Leeds. This came about because of iCASPs work with the National Trust on the Payments for Outcomes project. The bid was in response to the National Trust seeking consultants to advise on monitoring methodology, equipment requirements and monitoring by volunteers (citizen science) and wishes to seek suppliers with capacity, capability and relevant experience to advise, draw up recommendations and report accordingly. The bid was unsuccessful but did help contribute to a subsequent project currently in development and being discussed with the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to provide support for a second round NLHF bid to deliver a Payment by Results scheme to protect the Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal World Heritage site from sedimentation and flooding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JBA provided in kind contributions in co-developing the bid. |
| Impact | The bid was unsuccessful but did help contribute to further project work currently being discussed with the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to provide support for a second round NLHF bid to deliver a Payment by Results scheme to protect the Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal World Heritage site from sedimentation and flooding. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Skell Valley Monitoring |
| Organisation | Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | A joint bid for a National Trust funded project related to monitoring of sediment and flow in the Skell catchment was made between JBA and University of Leeds. This came about because of iCASPs work with the National Trust on the Payments for Outcomes project. The bid was in response to the National Trust seeking consultants to advise on monitoring methodology, equipment requirements and monitoring by volunteers (citizen science) and wishes to seek suppliers with capacity, capability and relevant experience to advise, draw up recommendations and report accordingly. The bid was unsuccessful but did help contribute to a subsequent project currently in development and being discussed with the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to provide support for a second round NLHF bid to deliver a Payment by Results scheme to protect the Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal World Heritage site from sedimentation and flooding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JBA provided in kind contributions in co-developing the bid. |
| Impact | The bid was unsuccessful but did help contribute to further project work currently being discussed with the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty to provide support for a second round NLHF bid to deliver a Payment by Results scheme to protect the Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal World Heritage site from sedimentation and flooding. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Supporting for a second round NLHF bid to deliver a Payment by Results scheme to protect the Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal World Heritage site from sedimentation and flooding |
| Organisation | National Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP supported for a second round National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) bid to deliver a Payment by Results scheme to protect the Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal World Heritage site from sedimentation and flooding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners worked with iCASP to start immediately to deliver contributions to the National Lottery Fund bid by the start of May ahead of submission at the start of June. Time commitment was 5-6 weeks of ITF time. A 50/50 cost sharing between iCASP and Nidderdale AONB/National Trust was proposed and National Trust provided iCASP funding to conduct the work to support the bid. |
| Impact | The delivered impacts are summarized below: 1. Robust baseline data against which the project can start to measure the effect of individual farm-scale interventions. The iCASP team analysed existing data holdings and advised on the requirements for future monitoring. 2. Opportunity maps were generated to provide information on priority areas for different types of intervention. These maps followed the broad procedures developed for the iCASP PfO study with the National Trust. 3. The iCASP team made recommendations on the principles for a PBR scheme, working in close consultation with the Nidderdale AONB and National Trust: (1) A methodology and an IRL procedure for monitoring change ideally capable of being deployed by farmers; (2) A means of discriminating between actions at individual farm scale; (3) A flood mitigation/sediment reduction valuation framework; (4) Collaboratively with the project partners, an NFM sediment reduction capital and revenue cost schedule. A report containing the above information was appended to NHLF bid, which was successfully approved in December 2020. The next step of action will be in April 2021 to consider how iCASP can help with the delivery of the project. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Supporting for a second round NLHF bid to deliver a Payment by Results scheme to protect the Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal World Heritage site from sedimentation and flooding |
| Organisation | Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP supported for a second round National Lottery Heritage Fund (NLHF) bid to deliver a Payment by Results scheme to protect the Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal World Heritage site from sedimentation and flooding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partners worked with iCASP to start immediately to deliver contributions to the National Lottery Fund bid by the start of May ahead of submission at the start of June. Time commitment was 5-6 weeks of ITF time. A 50/50 cost sharing between iCASP and Nidderdale AONB/National Trust was proposed and National Trust provided iCASP funding to conduct the work to support the bid. |
| Impact | The delivered impacts are summarized below: 1. Robust baseline data against which the project can start to measure the effect of individual farm-scale interventions. The iCASP team analysed existing data holdings and advised on the requirements for future monitoring. 2. Opportunity maps were generated to provide information on priority areas for different types of intervention. These maps followed the broad procedures developed for the iCASP PfO study with the National Trust. 3. The iCASP team made recommendations on the principles for a PBR scheme, working in close consultation with the Nidderdale AONB and National Trust: (1) A methodology and an IRL procedure for monitoring change ideally capable of being deployed by farmers; (2) A means of discriminating between actions at individual farm scale; (3) A flood mitigation/sediment reduction valuation framework; (4) Collaboratively with the project partners, an NFM sediment reduction capital and revenue cost schedule. A report containing the above information was appended to NHLF bid, which was successfully approved in December 2020. The next step of action will be in April 2021 to consider how iCASP can help with the delivery of the project. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | ThinkNature Project Consortium |
| Organisation | Technical University of Crete |
| Country | Greece |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | iCASP has provided the support of an Impact Translation Fellow and of a Research Fellow to contribute to the project consortium in Work Package 7. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A jointly funded post-doc position. |
| Impact | This project was funded under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Call H2020-SC5-2016-2017 Greening the economy, under grant agreement No 730338. It brought together a consortium of 17 partners originating from 8 countries across Europe. The multi-stakeholder communication platform being developed by ThinkNature to support the understanding and the promotion of nature based solutions at local, regional, EU and international levels will provide a pathway to European impact for future iCASP projects. iCASP supported the delivery of WP7 that revolved around making of the economic case for Nature-based Solutions through the co-authoring of 2 publications and teaching expertise during the ThinkNature Summer School. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | ThinkNature Project Consortium |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | iCASP has provided the support of an Impact Translation Fellow and of a Research Fellow to contribute to the project consortium in Work Package 7. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A jointly funded post-doc position. |
| Impact | This project was funded under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, Call H2020-SC5-2016-2017 Greening the economy, under grant agreement No 730338. It brought together a consortium of 17 partners originating from 8 countries across Europe. The multi-stakeholder communication platform being developed by ThinkNature to support the understanding and the promotion of nature based solutions at local, regional, EU and international levels will provide a pathway to European impact for future iCASP projects. iCASP supported the delivery of WP7 that revolved around making of the economic case for Nature-based Solutions through the co-authoring of 2 publications and teaching expertise during the ThinkNature Summer School. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire Property Flood Resilience Effectiveness Survey (output of iCASP project #26) |
| Organisation | City of York Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Between September and December 2021, an online survey was circulated to all stakeholder groups within the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC) area to assess the impact of change following the delivery of Yorkshire Flood Resilience (YFR) activities. This survey was promoted using social media platforms, flood groups, industry partners and press releases. iCASP supported the circulation of this survey. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partner contribution in in-kind help. |
| Impact | The survey is part of the wider Pathfinder (PFR project #26). See project number for details. Outcomes of the project are currently under review by the project team. A draft final report and evaluation of the Pathfinder project has been produced by iCASP and is awaiting sign off by York City Council. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Yorkshire Property Flood Resilience Effectiveness Survey (output of iCASP project #26) |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Between September and December 2021, an online survey was circulated to all stakeholder groups within the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC) area to assess the impact of change following the delivery of Yorkshire Flood Resilience (YFR) activities. This survey was promoted using social media platforms, flood groups, industry partners and press releases. iCASP supported the circulation of this survey. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partner contribution in in-kind help. |
| Impact | The survey is part of the wider Pathfinder (PFR project #26). See project number for details. Outcomes of the project are currently under review by the project team. A draft final report and evaluation of the Pathfinder project has been produced by iCASP and is awaiting sign off by York City Council. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Yorkshire Property Flood Resilience Effectiveness Survey (output of iCASP project #26) |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Between September and December 2021, an online survey was circulated to all stakeholder groups within the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC) area to assess the impact of change following the delivery of Yorkshire Flood Resilience (YFR) activities. This survey was promoted using social media platforms, flood groups, industry partners and press releases. iCASP supported the circulation of this survey. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partner contribution in in-kind help. |
| Impact | The survey is part of the wider Pathfinder (PFR project #26). See project number for details. Outcomes of the project are currently under review by the project team. A draft final report and evaluation of the Pathfinder project has been produced by iCASP and is awaiting sign off by York City Council. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Yorkshire Property Flood Resilience Effectiveness Survey (output of iCASP project #26) |
| Organisation | JBA Consulting |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Between September and December 2021, an online survey was circulated to all stakeholder groups within the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC) area to assess the impact of change following the delivery of Yorkshire Flood Resilience (YFR) activities. This survey was promoted using social media platforms, flood groups, industry partners and press releases. iCASP supported the circulation of this survey. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partner contribution in in-kind help. |
| Impact | The survey is part of the wider Pathfinder (PFR project #26). See project number for details. Outcomes of the project are currently under review by the project team. A draft final report and evaluation of the Pathfinder project has been produced by iCASP and is awaiting sign off by York City Council. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Bradford Metropolitan District Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | City of York Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Don Catchment Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | IUCN, International Union for Conservation of Nature |
| Department | IUCN UK Peatland Programme |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | JBA Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Linking Environment And Farming |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | National Farmers Union |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | National Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Natural England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Pennine Prospects |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Rivers Trust |
| Department | Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Shire Group of Internal Drainage Boards |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | The Wildlife Trusts |
| Department | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire iCASP Springboard Partners and Governance Group Partners |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | iCASP brings these organisations together to help existing environmental science to be used to address catchment management issues in the River Ouse Drainage Basin. Each organisation has signed a formal collaboration agreement. The organisations collaborate formally through operational groups - the universities through an Executive Management Group, and the universities and the Springboard Partners (16 non-academic organisations) through a Governance Group (where the University of Leeds represents the partner universities). These groups advise on the projects that iCASP supports to translate environmental science so that it has impact. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners contribute to iCASP by providing project ideas (for iCASP to support) either directly to the iCASP office or through co-design workshops that iCASP office facilitate. They are also involved in the co-production of project proposals and thereafter in the implementation of projects that they have an interest in. Partners also serve on the operational groups of iCASP to advise on opportunities for research impact, review Programme progress, and make decisions on Programme operations (including which projects iCASP should support). As of February 2021, all springboard partners have contributed in-kind support to the value of £450,836. |
| Impact | This is the overall collaboration for this award. Outcomes of the collaboration are therefore articulated through the other sections of ResearchFish. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASP Project # 24: CIRIA RP1094: Guidance on the delivery of Natural Flood Management |
| Organisation | Cranfield University |
| Department | River Restoration Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Together with Mott MacDonald iCASP were part of a team that submitted and led a successful bid to CIRIA for the writing of the Guidance on the delivery of Natural Flood Management. The project team comprises a consortium led by Mott MacDonald and supported by the River Restoration Centre, Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust and the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP). The team offers broad technical expertise and experience across a range of disciplines, experience of NFM project delivery, and experience of writing and steering guidance documents. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The team offers broad technical expertise and experience across a range of disciplines, experience of NFM project delivery, and experience of writing and steering guidance documents. |
| Impact | iCASP have been asked to assist with writing the CIRIA Guidance on NFM - a national and internationally important document that will inform all future design and location of NFM activities across the UK and across the globe. iCASP will be drawing upon our experience from the NFM Community of Practice group and our work with the DEFRA NFM Community Demonstration fund projects to write what will become the industry standard for NFM. CIRIA is the Construction Industry Research and Information Association, a neutral, independent and not-for-profit body who are a leading enabler and preferred partner for performance improvement, driving collaboration across built environment and construction sectors for the identification, development and transfer of knowledge. Most of CIRIAs activities result in the publication of guidance documents, many of which are adopted as the standard for excellence in their respective areas. The iCASP team has regularly attended project meetings, advising on the content and structure of the guidance. In addition, iCASP team undertook analysis of a stakeholder questionnaire to further inform the project team on what the national NFM community would like to guidance to include. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project # 24: CIRIA RP1094: Guidance on the delivery of Natural Flood Management |
| Organisation | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Together with Mott MacDonald iCASP were part of a team that submitted and led a successful bid to CIRIA for the writing of the Guidance on the delivery of Natural Flood Management. The project team comprises a consortium led by Mott MacDonald and supported by the River Restoration Centre, Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust and the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP). The team offers broad technical expertise and experience across a range of disciplines, experience of NFM project delivery, and experience of writing and steering guidance documents. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The team offers broad technical expertise and experience across a range of disciplines, experience of NFM project delivery, and experience of writing and steering guidance documents. |
| Impact | iCASP have been asked to assist with writing the CIRIA Guidance on NFM - a national and internationally important document that will inform all future design and location of NFM activities across the UK and across the globe. iCASP will be drawing upon our experience from the NFM Community of Practice group and our work with the DEFRA NFM Community Demonstration fund projects to write what will become the industry standard for NFM. CIRIA is the Construction Industry Research and Information Association, a neutral, independent and not-for-profit body who are a leading enabler and preferred partner for performance improvement, driving collaboration across built environment and construction sectors for the identification, development and transfer of knowledge. Most of CIRIAs activities result in the publication of guidance documents, many of which are adopted as the standard for excellence in their respective areas. The iCASP team has regularly attended project meetings, advising on the content and structure of the guidance. In addition, iCASP team undertook analysis of a stakeholder questionnaire to further inform the project team on what the national NFM community would like to guidance to include. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project # 24: CIRIA RP1094: Guidance on the delivery of Natural Flood Management |
| Organisation | Rivers Trust |
| Department | Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Together with Mott MacDonald iCASP were part of a team that submitted and led a successful bid to CIRIA for the writing of the Guidance on the delivery of Natural Flood Management. The project team comprises a consortium led by Mott MacDonald and supported by the River Restoration Centre, Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust and the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP). The team offers broad technical expertise and experience across a range of disciplines, experience of NFM project delivery, and experience of writing and steering guidance documents. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The team offers broad technical expertise and experience across a range of disciplines, experience of NFM project delivery, and experience of writing and steering guidance documents. |
| Impact | iCASP have been asked to assist with writing the CIRIA Guidance on NFM - a national and internationally important document that will inform all future design and location of NFM activities across the UK and across the globe. iCASP will be drawing upon our experience from the NFM Community of Practice group and our work with the DEFRA NFM Community Demonstration fund projects to write what will become the industry standard for NFM. CIRIA is the Construction Industry Research and Information Association, a neutral, independent and not-for-profit body who are a leading enabler and preferred partner for performance improvement, driving collaboration across built environment and construction sectors for the identification, development and transfer of knowledge. Most of CIRIAs activities result in the publication of guidance documents, many of which are adopted as the standard for excellence in their respective areas. The iCASP team has regularly attended project meetings, advising on the content and structure of the guidance. In addition, iCASP team undertook analysis of a stakeholder questionnaire to further inform the project team on what the national NFM community would like to guidance to include. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project # 25: CONtract SOLutions for Effective and lasting delivery of agri-environmental-climate public goods by EU agriculture and forestry (CONSOLE) |
| Organisation | University of Bologna |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This is a European Commission Horizon 2020 project funded under the topic 'Contracts for effective and lasting delivery of agri-environmental public goods' (RUR-03-2018-2) and is led by the University of Bologna involving a consortium of 24 partner institutions in 13 countries. iCASP is included as the project wanted a case study of an impact network from the UK - it is therefore one of the project partners as well as leading on Work Package 1 (legal aspects). The CONSOLE project aims to boost innovation in the lasting delivery of agri-environmental-climate public goods (AECPGs) by EU agriculture and forestry. To achieve this, CONSOLE will build a Community of Practice (CoP) to cocreate an empirically validated contractual framework, design and test effective and efficient contract models and support their implementation by multiple actors. iCASP have also produced 5 factsheets to record details of 5 Yorkshire based Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund projects to help inform the discussion on current farmer practices regarding delivery of environmental public goods and design of future frameworks. Overall, iCASP, has so far, contributed to 11 reports and deliverables produced within CONSOLE, available at the link below. It has also hosted 2 CoP meetings and one training session on soil testing for Yorkshire farmers. iCASP have also produced 5 factsheets to record details of 5 Yorkshire based Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund projects to help inform the discussion and design of future frameworks. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The CONSOLE framework will allow improved design and facilitate implementation of innovative contract solutions for the provision of AECPGs under various conditions across the EU. It will include a comprehensive analysis of at least 52 case studies of existing experiences encompassing land tenure arrangements, result-based approaches, collective implementation and value chain-based remuneration, supported by surveys and modelling. Contract solutions will be developed in collaboration with the CoP. The CONSOLE framework will be tested in real decision-making contexts and will develop into a supporting tool for actors in the field, enabling the delivery and sustainability of AECPGs. Insights will improve policy design towards the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular through environmental policies and the post-2020 CAP. The Leeds team is led by iCASP with contributions from schools of biology and law through Professor Cardwell who's role is to check compatibility of the proposed solutions with current legal framework and identify potential changes in the legal framework needed to make solutions developed in the project more widely spread. The work will be active at the key steps of the project: designing WP2 surveys, feeding back of WP2, WP3 and WP4 into the design of new instruments and framework, and will support the identification of practicable solutions and implications for policy/instrument design. |
| Impact | A Yorkshire Community of Practice (CoP)has been established amongst the Yorkshire Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund advisors. 2 meetings have been held since August 2019 with further meetings planned for 2020. The CoP have produced 5 summary factsheets based upon the examples from most of the Yorkshire CSFF projects and two in-depth factsheets. These factsheets form an important output for CONSOLE that will help inform next stages of the project. The factsheets will be made available on the iCASP resource pages in Spring 2020. iCASP is currently undertaking a cross-UK farmer survey as part of its involvement in WP3 activities that investigates preferences of farmers for innovative agri-environment contracts and their behavioural, attitudinal and risk-related drivers behind their choices. The survey was presented to a panel of Defra experts that helped with co-designing it. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project # 26: Collaboration on Yorkshire Future Flood Resilience Pathfinder Project |
| Organisation | City of York Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Yorkshire Flood Resilience (YFR) project, one of three DEFRA-funded Pathfinders, has been established to identify barriers to uptake of Property Flood Resilience (PFR) and raise awareness, standards and uptake of PFR amongst regional communities and businesses. Through the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP), the University of Leeds has partnered with JBA Consulting to act as 'local evaluators' of the YFR led by the City of York Council - ensuring the engagement activities are effective and well informed by the latest science, expertise and best practice. The Yorkshire Flood Resilience (YFR) project has been one of three UK Property Flood Resilience (PFR) Pathfinder projects funded by the UK Government's Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). The other two projects were located in Devon/Cornwall and Oxford/Cambridge . The YFR project was delivered by City of York Council in partnership with the Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP) which includes the universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield, and JBA Consulting. |
| Collaborator Contribution | iCASP has received £308k from York City Council to project manage and lead the pathfinder project. In turn iCASP sub contracted JBA to value of £170k to act as Impact Translation Fellows and provide project management services for the project team. JBA carried constructed the Local Choices GIS database, liaising from EA, Defra and CoYC .The tool was later focused on Risk Management Authorities (rather than the private sector insurance industry) and this required the need to align the database to include detailed PFR 'effectiveness' survey/ questionnaire data. Defra funded the Pathfinder project until January 2022 and the Local Evaluation team were requested to remain in place for 12 months beyond the period initially contracted, requiring resource to maintain links with and respond to requests for reporting from the National Evaluation team (RPA & RAB consultants). There was also the need to adapt the original scope of the WP4 evaluation to accommodate the new Pathfinder activities that have been developed and/ or delivered (mostly online). |
| Impact | The overall aim of the YFR project has been to enhance PFR understanding and uptake across the Yorkshire region. One of iCASP's roles in the project was to act as project evaluators. The evaluation process was aligned between the three pathfinder projects in order to help share learning, assess value for money and allow project replicability. This co-ordination was being conducted by RPA/ RAB as "national pathfinder evaluators" and requires monitoring "indicators" that are consistent across all pathfinders. Since the end of the pathfinder project in September 2021, iCASP and JBA Consulting have been conducting the post-pathfinder evaluation - known as "Work Package 4". Through this evaluation, the impact of change and any useful lessons and insights will be shared with Defra, the Environment Agency, Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC), local authorities across the country and a host of other partners. Work Package 4 has been evaluating the success of the project by comparing the baseline level of PFR understanding from the start of the pathfinder to the end. The YFR has a particularly wide ranging and ambitious scope - to engage with all Local Authority areas in Yorkshire, the full spectrum of flood risk contexts (i.e., fluvial, surface, groundwater, sewage and coastal) and a wide range of stakeholders involved in the uptake of PFR i.e.: • Group 1: Households, businesses, or community groups - e.g., landlords, residents, and flood groups • Group 2: Property, trade, building suppliers or outlets - e.g., developers, maintenance contractors • Group 3: Financial influencers - e.g., insurance industry, mortgage lenders, investors • Group 4: Flood Risk Management Authorities (RMAs) - e.g., Environment Agency (EA), Lead Local Flood Authority, Water Company) Between September and December 2021, an online survey was circulated to all stakeholder groups within the Yorkshire RFCC area to assess the impact of change following the delivery of YFR activities. This survey was promoted using social media platforms, flood groups, industry partners and press releases. The final evaluation report considers: 1. A summary of the YFR activities and outputs alongside metrics of how many people have interacted with them (e.g. views of web pages or videos). These metrics are presented in the context of data from the final evaluation survey which was used to ascertain how many respondents had seen the various outputs and if it had impacted their opinion of PFR. 2. Results for the 12 key indicators (see Box 1) based on data from the final evaluation survey. The data for these indicators comes from asking the same (or similar) questions to those asked at the baseline survey. 3. Details of the 'Local Choice' sub-project of YFR - "PFR Assured & Effectiveness studies". This involved developing a pilot PFR online GIS database and populating it with data of current installations from Lead Local Flood Authorities (LLFAs) in the region. There was supplemented by detailed effectiveness studies of a sample of properties in Leeds and Bradford. 4. Recommendations for next steps based on 1-3 and the experience of the project team. However, the project created its own Twitter account and the Yorkshire Flood Resilience website.The website provides a resource for residents and professional partners affected by flooding. Launched in 2020, the project was set up to raise awareness of property flood resilience measures and their benefits among home and business owners across Yorkshire. It was originally hoped that there would be plenty of opportunity for face-to-face engagement with Yorkshire communities, but the project team had to rethink its approach when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. The development of a website, social media channels and a host of online resources became key to ensuring that the project's messaging reached its target audience. Among the resources created are animations explaining in simple terms what property flood resilience is, how it works and what the benefits are; real life case studies featuring home and business owners from across Yorkshire; a fun but educational game for children; downloadable information packs for home owners and businesses; and a series of online training modules. The project also provided funding towards the cost of developing the Living With Water Hub at Wilberforce College in Hull, a regional centre where people can learn more about property flood resilience and view demonstration models. Between December 2020 and September 2021, Yorkshire Flood Resilience reached around two million people across Yorkshire with its messaging. The project was funded until 30 September 2021 and, after that date, a team of national project evaluators, including iCASP taking a lead role, will spend three months evaluating its success. This evaluation report is the draft awaiting sign off referred to above. The evaluation report is to ensure that any useful lessons and insights can be shared with Defra, the Environment Agency, local authorities across the country and a host of other partners to help shape future work aimed at encouraging people to install property flood resilience measures. All of the resources and information contained within the Yorkshire Flood Resilience website will continue to be available for people to refer to and download after the project ends. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project # 26: Collaboration on Yorkshire Future Flood Resilience Pathfinder Project |
| Organisation | JBA Consulting |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Yorkshire Flood Resilience (YFR) project, one of three DEFRA-funded Pathfinders, has been established to identify barriers to uptake of Property Flood Resilience (PFR) and raise awareness, standards and uptake of PFR amongst regional communities and businesses. Through the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP), the University of Leeds has partnered with JBA Consulting to act as 'local evaluators' of the YFR led by the City of York Council - ensuring the engagement activities are effective and well informed by the latest science, expertise and best practice. The Yorkshire Flood Resilience (YFR) project has been one of three UK Property Flood Resilience (PFR) Pathfinder projects funded by the UK Government's Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). The other two projects were located in Devon/Cornwall and Oxford/Cambridge . The YFR project was delivered by City of York Council in partnership with the Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP) which includes the universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield, and JBA Consulting. |
| Collaborator Contribution | iCASP has received £308k from York City Council to project manage and lead the pathfinder project. In turn iCASP sub contracted JBA to value of £170k to act as Impact Translation Fellows and provide project management services for the project team. JBA carried constructed the Local Choices GIS database, liaising from EA, Defra and CoYC .The tool was later focused on Risk Management Authorities (rather than the private sector insurance industry) and this required the need to align the database to include detailed PFR 'effectiveness' survey/ questionnaire data. Defra funded the Pathfinder project until January 2022 and the Local Evaluation team were requested to remain in place for 12 months beyond the period initially contracted, requiring resource to maintain links with and respond to requests for reporting from the National Evaluation team (RPA & RAB consultants). There was also the need to adapt the original scope of the WP4 evaluation to accommodate the new Pathfinder activities that have been developed and/ or delivered (mostly online). |
| Impact | The overall aim of the YFR project has been to enhance PFR understanding and uptake across the Yorkshire region. One of iCASP's roles in the project was to act as project evaluators. The evaluation process was aligned between the three pathfinder projects in order to help share learning, assess value for money and allow project replicability. This co-ordination was being conducted by RPA/ RAB as "national pathfinder evaluators" and requires monitoring "indicators" that are consistent across all pathfinders. Since the end of the pathfinder project in September 2021, iCASP and JBA Consulting have been conducting the post-pathfinder evaluation - known as "Work Package 4". Through this evaluation, the impact of change and any useful lessons and insights will be shared with Defra, the Environment Agency, Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC), local authorities across the country and a host of other partners. Work Package 4 has been evaluating the success of the project by comparing the baseline level of PFR understanding from the start of the pathfinder to the end. The YFR has a particularly wide ranging and ambitious scope - to engage with all Local Authority areas in Yorkshire, the full spectrum of flood risk contexts (i.e., fluvial, surface, groundwater, sewage and coastal) and a wide range of stakeholders involved in the uptake of PFR i.e.: • Group 1: Households, businesses, or community groups - e.g., landlords, residents, and flood groups • Group 2: Property, trade, building suppliers or outlets - e.g., developers, maintenance contractors • Group 3: Financial influencers - e.g., insurance industry, mortgage lenders, investors • Group 4: Flood Risk Management Authorities (RMAs) - e.g., Environment Agency (EA), Lead Local Flood Authority, Water Company) Between September and December 2021, an online survey was circulated to all stakeholder groups within the Yorkshire RFCC area to assess the impact of change following the delivery of YFR activities. This survey was promoted using social media platforms, flood groups, industry partners and press releases. The final evaluation report considers: 1. A summary of the YFR activities and outputs alongside metrics of how many people have interacted with them (e.g. views of web pages or videos). These metrics are presented in the context of data from the final evaluation survey which was used to ascertain how many respondents had seen the various outputs and if it had impacted their opinion of PFR. 2. Results for the 12 key indicators (see Box 1) based on data from the final evaluation survey. The data for these indicators comes from asking the same (or similar) questions to those asked at the baseline survey. 3. Details of the 'Local Choice' sub-project of YFR - "PFR Assured & Effectiveness studies". This involved developing a pilot PFR online GIS database and populating it with data of current installations from Lead Local Flood Authorities (LLFAs) in the region. There was supplemented by detailed effectiveness studies of a sample of properties in Leeds and Bradford. 4. Recommendations for next steps based on 1-3 and the experience of the project team. However, the project created its own Twitter account and the Yorkshire Flood Resilience website.The website provides a resource for residents and professional partners affected by flooding. Launched in 2020, the project was set up to raise awareness of property flood resilience measures and their benefits among home and business owners across Yorkshire. It was originally hoped that there would be plenty of opportunity for face-to-face engagement with Yorkshire communities, but the project team had to rethink its approach when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. The development of a website, social media channels and a host of online resources became key to ensuring that the project's messaging reached its target audience. Among the resources created are animations explaining in simple terms what property flood resilience is, how it works and what the benefits are; real life case studies featuring home and business owners from across Yorkshire; a fun but educational game for children; downloadable information packs for home owners and businesses; and a series of online training modules. The project also provided funding towards the cost of developing the Living With Water Hub at Wilberforce College in Hull, a regional centre where people can learn more about property flood resilience and view demonstration models. Between December 2020 and September 2021, Yorkshire Flood Resilience reached around two million people across Yorkshire with its messaging. The project was funded until 30 September 2021 and, after that date, a team of national project evaluators, including iCASP taking a lead role, will spend three months evaluating its success. This evaluation report is the draft awaiting sign off referred to above. The evaluation report is to ensure that any useful lessons and insights can be shared with Defra, the Environment Agency, local authorities across the country and a host of other partners to help shape future work aimed at encouraging people to install property flood resilience measures. All of the resources and information contained within the Yorkshire Flood Resilience website will continue to be available for people to refer to and download after the project ends. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project # 26: Collaboration on Yorkshire Future Flood Resilience Pathfinder Project |
| Organisation | Living with Water |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Yorkshire Flood Resilience (YFR) project, one of three DEFRA-funded Pathfinders, has been established to identify barriers to uptake of Property Flood Resilience (PFR) and raise awareness, standards and uptake of PFR amongst regional communities and businesses. Through the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP), the University of Leeds has partnered with JBA Consulting to act as 'local evaluators' of the YFR led by the City of York Council - ensuring the engagement activities are effective and well informed by the latest science, expertise and best practice. The Yorkshire Flood Resilience (YFR) project has been one of three UK Property Flood Resilience (PFR) Pathfinder projects funded by the UK Government's Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). The other two projects were located in Devon/Cornwall and Oxford/Cambridge . The YFR project was delivered by City of York Council in partnership with the Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP) which includes the universities of York, Leeds and Sheffield, and JBA Consulting. |
| Collaborator Contribution | iCASP has received £308k from York City Council to project manage and lead the pathfinder project. In turn iCASP sub contracted JBA to value of £170k to act as Impact Translation Fellows and provide project management services for the project team. JBA carried constructed the Local Choices GIS database, liaising from EA, Defra and CoYC .The tool was later focused on Risk Management Authorities (rather than the private sector insurance industry) and this required the need to align the database to include detailed PFR 'effectiveness' survey/ questionnaire data. Defra funded the Pathfinder project until January 2022 and the Local Evaluation team were requested to remain in place for 12 months beyond the period initially contracted, requiring resource to maintain links with and respond to requests for reporting from the National Evaluation team (RPA & RAB consultants). There was also the need to adapt the original scope of the WP4 evaluation to accommodate the new Pathfinder activities that have been developed and/ or delivered (mostly online). |
| Impact | The overall aim of the YFR project has been to enhance PFR understanding and uptake across the Yorkshire region. One of iCASP's roles in the project was to act as project evaluators. The evaluation process was aligned between the three pathfinder projects in order to help share learning, assess value for money and allow project replicability. This co-ordination was being conducted by RPA/ RAB as "national pathfinder evaluators" and requires monitoring "indicators" that are consistent across all pathfinders. Since the end of the pathfinder project in September 2021, iCASP and JBA Consulting have been conducting the post-pathfinder evaluation - known as "Work Package 4". Through this evaluation, the impact of change and any useful lessons and insights will be shared with Defra, the Environment Agency, Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (RFCC), local authorities across the country and a host of other partners. Work Package 4 has been evaluating the success of the project by comparing the baseline level of PFR understanding from the start of the pathfinder to the end. The YFR has a particularly wide ranging and ambitious scope - to engage with all Local Authority areas in Yorkshire, the full spectrum of flood risk contexts (i.e., fluvial, surface, groundwater, sewage and coastal) and a wide range of stakeholders involved in the uptake of PFR i.e.: • Group 1: Households, businesses, or community groups - e.g., landlords, residents, and flood groups • Group 2: Property, trade, building suppliers or outlets - e.g., developers, maintenance contractors • Group 3: Financial influencers - e.g., insurance industry, mortgage lenders, investors • Group 4: Flood Risk Management Authorities (RMAs) - e.g., Environment Agency (EA), Lead Local Flood Authority, Water Company) Between September and December 2021, an online survey was circulated to all stakeholder groups within the Yorkshire RFCC area to assess the impact of change following the delivery of YFR activities. This survey was promoted using social media platforms, flood groups, industry partners and press releases. The final evaluation report considers: 1. A summary of the YFR activities and outputs alongside metrics of how many people have interacted with them (e.g. views of web pages or videos). These metrics are presented in the context of data from the final evaluation survey which was used to ascertain how many respondents had seen the various outputs and if it had impacted their opinion of PFR. 2. Results for the 12 key indicators (see Box 1) based on data from the final evaluation survey. The data for these indicators comes from asking the same (or similar) questions to those asked at the baseline survey. 3. Details of the 'Local Choice' sub-project of YFR - "PFR Assured & Effectiveness studies". This involved developing a pilot PFR online GIS database and populating it with data of current installations from Lead Local Flood Authorities (LLFAs) in the region. There was supplemented by detailed effectiveness studies of a sample of properties in Leeds and Bradford. 4. Recommendations for next steps based on 1-3 and the experience of the project team. However, the project created its own Twitter account and the Yorkshire Flood Resilience website.The website provides a resource for residents and professional partners affected by flooding. Launched in 2020, the project was set up to raise awareness of property flood resilience measures and their benefits among home and business owners across Yorkshire. It was originally hoped that there would be plenty of opportunity for face-to-face engagement with Yorkshire communities, but the project team had to rethink its approach when the Covid-19 pandemic struck. The development of a website, social media channels and a host of online resources became key to ensuring that the project's messaging reached its target audience. Among the resources created are animations explaining in simple terms what property flood resilience is, how it works and what the benefits are; real life case studies featuring home and business owners from across Yorkshire; a fun but educational game for children; downloadable information packs for home owners and businesses; and a series of online training modules. The project also provided funding towards the cost of developing the Living With Water Hub at Wilberforce College in Hull, a regional centre where people can learn more about property flood resilience and view demonstration models. Between December 2020 and September 2021, Yorkshire Flood Resilience reached around two million people across Yorkshire with its messaging. The project was funded until 30 September 2021 and, after that date, a team of national project evaluators, including iCASP taking a lead role, will spend three months evaluating its success. This evaluation report is the draft awaiting sign off referred to above. The evaluation report is to ensure that any useful lessons and insights can be shared with Defra, the Environment Agency, local authorities across the country and a host of other partners to help shape future work aimed at encouraging people to install property flood resilience measures. All of the resources and information contained within the Yorkshire Flood Resilience website will continue to be available for people to refer to and download after the project ends. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project # 51: River Skell NFM Monitoring Programme |
| Organisation | Harrogate Borough Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This project builds upon previous project # 28 Skell Valley Monitoring. It has been funded by Harrogate Borough council, via the River Skell National Lottery grant and awarded to iCASP. This is for 3 years work commencing in April 2022. iCASP will be be monitoring sediment load, and sedimentation patterns, in the catchment with a focus on the Fountains Abbey area, before and after installation of NFM measures. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project has been funded by Harrogate Borough council via the River Skell National Lottery grant. Further details will follow as the project gets underway. |
| Impact | Outcomes will be detailed in time. However, this project builds upon the partnership work described in project #28 - Skell Valley Monitoring and has arisen as a result of that partnership and trusted and established ways of working. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | iCASP Project #10: Supporting business case developers and appraisers with green and blue infrastructure economic valuation |
| Organisation | Northumbria University |
| Department | School of Natural and Built Environment Northumbria |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This iCASP project aims to overcome the multiple barriers to the effective valuation of green blue infrastructure (GBI). Parks, open spaces, playing fields, woodlands, street trees, allotments and gardens, as well as rivers, canals and ponds are all examples of GBI. Their presence can enhance property values, flood protection, air quality and overall health and well-being, but planners and developers struggle to make a persuasive business case for investment in them. Therefore, the project will develop a clear, practical, and rigorous approach to GBI cost-benefit analysis that is ready for HM Treasury approval. On an operational level, it will identify the most effective tools to use when making a business case and test them at case study sites. This will help business case developers and appraisers access GBI evidence, and will guide future development of GBI tools. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This iCASP project aims to overcome the multiple barriers to the effective valuation of green blue infrastructure (GBI). Parks, open spaces, playing fields, woodlands, street trees, allotments and gardens, as well as rivers, canals and ponds are all examples of GBI. Their presence can enhance property values, flood protection, air quality and overall health and well-being, but planners and developers struggle to make a persuasive business case for investment in them. Therefore, the project will develop a clear, practical, and rigorous approach to GBI cost-benefit analysis that is ready for HM Treasury approval. On an operational level, it will identify the most effective tools to use when making a business case and test them at case study sites. This will help business case developers and appraisers access GBI evidence, and will guide future development of GBI tools. Partners are: developers, funders, regulators, planners, tool developers, and business case writers and appraisers, as well as a cohort of multi-disciplinary academics. |
| Impact | OUR SPACES at Leeds City Council have been working with Professor Andrew Brown at Leeds University Business School and his colleagues on the Green and Blue Infrastructure Business Case Project for which Brown is the Principal Investigator, a project funded by Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP). OUR SPACES is a £500+ million programme championed by Leeds City Council with the aim of transforming the city's public realm and in particular increasing the amount and quality of green infrastructure (parkland) and blue areas (riverbanks and lakes) to enhance the lives of citizens. This vision rests on improving air quality, increasing spaces to relax, walk and cycle and fostering biodiversity in the city. The coordinated effort and strategic orientation of OUR SPACES is both novel in Leeds and key to achieving a carbon neutral city by 2030. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #10: Supporting business case developers and appraisers with green and blue infrastructure economic valuation |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Department | University of Sheffield, Tissue resource |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This iCASP project aims to overcome the multiple barriers to the effective valuation of green blue infrastructure (GBI). Parks, open spaces, playing fields, woodlands, street trees, allotments and gardens, as well as rivers, canals and ponds are all examples of GBI. Their presence can enhance property values, flood protection, air quality and overall health and well-being, but planners and developers struggle to make a persuasive business case for investment in them. Therefore, the project will develop a clear, practical, and rigorous approach to GBI cost-benefit analysis that is ready for HM Treasury approval. On an operational level, it will identify the most effective tools to use when making a business case and test them at case study sites. This will help business case developers and appraisers access GBI evidence, and will guide future development of GBI tools. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This iCASP project aims to overcome the multiple barriers to the effective valuation of green blue infrastructure (GBI). Parks, open spaces, playing fields, woodlands, street trees, allotments and gardens, as well as rivers, canals and ponds are all examples of GBI. Their presence can enhance property values, flood protection, air quality and overall health and well-being, but planners and developers struggle to make a persuasive business case for investment in them. Therefore, the project will develop a clear, practical, and rigorous approach to GBI cost-benefit analysis that is ready for HM Treasury approval. On an operational level, it will identify the most effective tools to use when making a business case and test them at case study sites. This will help business case developers and appraisers access GBI evidence, and will guide future development of GBI tools. Partners are: developers, funders, regulators, planners, tool developers, and business case writers and appraisers, as well as a cohort of multi-disciplinary academics. |
| Impact | OUR SPACES at Leeds City Council have been working with Professor Andrew Brown at Leeds University Business School and his colleagues on the Green and Blue Infrastructure Business Case Project for which Brown is the Principal Investigator, a project funded by Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP). OUR SPACES is a £500+ million programme championed by Leeds City Council with the aim of transforming the city's public realm and in particular increasing the amount and quality of green infrastructure (parkland) and blue areas (riverbanks and lakes) to enhance the lives of citizens. This vision rests on improving air quality, increasing spaces to relax, walk and cycle and fostering biodiversity in the city. The coordinated effort and strategic orientation of OUR SPACES is both novel in Leeds and key to achieving a carbon neutral city by 2030. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #11: Modelling to evaluate the impacts of existing land management on downstream flooding and prioritise Natural Flood Management interventions in Calderdale |
| Organisation | Calderdale Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | A rainfall-runoff model developed at the University of Leeds is the latest weapon in Calderdale's armoury to prevent future flooding in the valley. An iCASP project is using a digital model, SD-TOPMODEL, to model the flow of water from hillslopes to the river. The project team will then be able to analyse how and if existing landscape features, such as walls, gates and hedges, and new measures, such as hedge and tree planting, reduce flood risk by storing and slowing flood water. Conclusions will bolster future business cases and evaluations of work done already, and contribute to the Calderdale Flood Action Plan by helping to prioritise the siting of future natural flood management (NFM) schemes. Furthermore, the project will also help to identify research gaps and provide information for communities to illustrate how working with natural processes can have an impact on flooding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A rainfall-runoff model developed at the University of Leeds is the latest weapon in Calderdale's armoury to prevent future flooding in the valley. An iCASP project is using a digital model, SD-TOPMODEL, to model the flow of water from hillslopes to the river. The project team will then be able to analyse how and if existing landscape features, such as walls, gates and hedges, and new measures, such as hedge and tree planting, reduce flood risk by storing and slowing flood water. Conclusions will bolster future business cases and evaluations of work done already, and contribute to the Calderdale Flood Action Plan by helping to prioritise the siting of future natural flood management (NFM) schemes. Furthermore, the project will also help to identify research gaps and provide information for communities to illustrate how working with natural processes can have an impact on flooding. |
| Impact | Lessons learnt from this project will feed into the new iCASP Upper Rother evidence directory project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #11: Modelling to evaluate the impacts of existing land management on downstream flooding and prioritise Natural Flood Management interventions in Calderdale |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | A rainfall-runoff model developed at the University of Leeds is the latest weapon in Calderdale's armoury to prevent future flooding in the valley. An iCASP project is using a digital model, SD-TOPMODEL, to model the flow of water from hillslopes to the river. The project team will then be able to analyse how and if existing landscape features, such as walls, gates and hedges, and new measures, such as hedge and tree planting, reduce flood risk by storing and slowing flood water. Conclusions will bolster future business cases and evaluations of work done already, and contribute to the Calderdale Flood Action Plan by helping to prioritise the siting of future natural flood management (NFM) schemes. Furthermore, the project will also help to identify research gaps and provide information for communities to illustrate how working with natural processes can have an impact on flooding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A rainfall-runoff model developed at the University of Leeds is the latest weapon in Calderdale's armoury to prevent future flooding in the valley. An iCASP project is using a digital model, SD-TOPMODEL, to model the flow of water from hillslopes to the river. The project team will then be able to analyse how and if existing landscape features, such as walls, gates and hedges, and new measures, such as hedge and tree planting, reduce flood risk by storing and slowing flood water. Conclusions will bolster future business cases and evaluations of work done already, and contribute to the Calderdale Flood Action Plan by helping to prioritise the siting of future natural flood management (NFM) schemes. Furthermore, the project will also help to identify research gaps and provide information for communities to illustrate how working with natural processes can have an impact on flooding. |
| Impact | Lessons learnt from this project will feed into the new iCASP Upper Rother evidence directory project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #11: Modelling to evaluate the impacts of existing land management on downstream flooding and prioritise Natural Flood Management interventions in Calderdale |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | A rainfall-runoff model developed at the University of Leeds is the latest weapon in Calderdale's armoury to prevent future flooding in the valley. An iCASP project is using a digital model, SD-TOPMODEL, to model the flow of water from hillslopes to the river. The project team will then be able to analyse how and if existing landscape features, such as walls, gates and hedges, and new measures, such as hedge and tree planting, reduce flood risk by storing and slowing flood water. Conclusions will bolster future business cases and evaluations of work done already, and contribute to the Calderdale Flood Action Plan by helping to prioritise the siting of future natural flood management (NFM) schemes. Furthermore, the project will also help to identify research gaps and provide information for communities to illustrate how working with natural processes can have an impact on flooding. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A rainfall-runoff model developed at the University of Leeds is the latest weapon in Calderdale's armoury to prevent future flooding in the valley. An iCASP project is using a digital model, SD-TOPMODEL, to model the flow of water from hillslopes to the river. The project team will then be able to analyse how and if existing landscape features, such as walls, gates and hedges, and new measures, such as hedge and tree planting, reduce flood risk by storing and slowing flood water. Conclusions will bolster future business cases and evaluations of work done already, and contribute to the Calderdale Flood Action Plan by helping to prioritise the siting of future natural flood management (NFM) schemes. Furthermore, the project will also help to identify research gaps and provide information for communities to illustrate how working with natural processes can have an impact on flooding. |
| Impact | Lessons learnt from this project will feed into the new iCASP Upper Rother evidence directory project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #12: The case for implementing an enhanced water efficiency standard for new developments in Leeds |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | A group of iCASP researchers is helping to make developments in Leeds more sustainable. They've been using their expertise to pull together the evidence for a water saving policy. Planners at Leeds City Council are looking to adopt an enhanced 110 litres a day water efficiency standard for new homes, and need reliable and robust evidence to support the decision and make the case more widely. Although 110 litres a day is recognised as a sound benchmark, the brief suggests that an even more ambitious target could be achievable. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A group of iCASP researchers is helping to make developments in Leeds more sustainable. They've been using their expertise to pull together the evidence for a water saving policy. Planners at Leeds City Council are looking to adopt an enhanced 110 litres a day water efficiency standard for new homes, and need reliable and robust evidence to support the decision and make the case more widely. Although 110 litres a day is recognised as a sound benchmark, the brief suggests that an even more ambitious target could be achievable. |
| Impact | A brief was produced. This will be used in hearings in February. Use of the brief for responding to the planned Defra call for evidence on setting a water consumption target is being explored. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #12: The case for implementing an enhanced water efficiency standard for new developments in Leeds |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Department | University of Sheffield, Tissue resource |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | A group of iCASP researchers is helping to make developments in Leeds more sustainable. They've been using their expertise to pull together the evidence for a water saving policy. Planners at Leeds City Council are looking to adopt an enhanced 110 litres a day water efficiency standard for new homes, and need reliable and robust evidence to support the decision and make the case more widely. Although 110 litres a day is recognised as a sound benchmark, the brief suggests that an even more ambitious target could be achievable. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A group of iCASP researchers is helping to make developments in Leeds more sustainable. They've been using their expertise to pull together the evidence for a water saving policy. Planners at Leeds City Council are looking to adopt an enhanced 110 litres a day water efficiency standard for new homes, and need reliable and robust evidence to support the decision and make the case more widely. Although 110 litres a day is recognised as a sound benchmark, the brief suggests that an even more ambitious target could be achievable. |
| Impact | A brief was produced. This will be used in hearings in February. Use of the brief for responding to the planned Defra call for evidence on setting a water consumption target is being explored. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #12: The case for implementing an enhanced water efficiency standard for new developments in Leeds |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | A group of iCASP researchers is helping to make developments in Leeds more sustainable. They've been using their expertise to pull together the evidence for a water saving policy. Planners at Leeds City Council are looking to adopt an enhanced 110 litres a day water efficiency standard for new homes, and need reliable and robust evidence to support the decision and make the case more widely. Although 110 litres a day is recognised as a sound benchmark, the brief suggests that an even more ambitious target could be achievable. |
| Collaborator Contribution | A group of iCASP researchers is helping to make developments in Leeds more sustainable. They've been using their expertise to pull together the evidence for a water saving policy. Planners at Leeds City Council are looking to adopt an enhanced 110 litres a day water efficiency standard for new homes, and need reliable and robust evidence to support the decision and make the case more widely. Although 110 litres a day is recognised as a sound benchmark, the brief suggests that an even more ambitious target could be achievable. |
| Impact | A brief was produced. This will be used in hearings in February. Use of the brief for responding to the planned Defra call for evidence on setting a water consumption target is being explored. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #13: Integrated nitrogen management workshop |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Department | York Trials Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | There is ambition in Defra, indicated in the Clean Air Strategy and across multiple initiatives, to tackle the issue of nitrogen pollution. The Agricultural Bill (and associated new Environmental Land Management Scheme in development), the recent conclusions of the Environmental Audit Committee's Nitrates Inquiry, and the upcoming UK Clean Air Strategy, provide an opportunity to develop a more holistic and integrated approach to nitrogen management at the farm scale that helps protect both air and water quality. To maximise the chance of this opportunity being capitalised on, the benefits of an integrated approach need to be clearly demonstrated, and the tools to support integrated nitrogen management developed by the research community need to be consolidated and reviewed with stakeholders, and adapted to address UK-user needs. It is important that this includes understanding the barriers and opportunities perceived by farmers relating to on-farm nitrogen management. Knowledge exchange should occur between researchers of different aspects of nitrogen pollution, Defra teams, regulatory agencies and farmers, but also between Defra teams to enable more robust, informed and practically implementable policy to be developed across the system that influences nitrogen impacts on our environment. iCASP universities have strong research bases on participatory research and farming practices from across Europe and successful interventions (including tools) to protect air, soil and water from nitrogen pollution. This includes building upon the findings of the iCASP project: 'Agri-Land Management for Public Goods Delivery: Phase 1 - Evidence Review' on soil health. This project hosted a workshop in York on March 2019 to: (i) support Defra's planning for supporting integrated nitrogen management (air quality, water quality, soil health) at farm scale in UK by showcasing useful existing environmental science and facilitating dialogue between Yorkshire farmers, relevant stakeholder groups (e.g. NFU), and Defra; (ii) co-design an iCASP project on integrated nitrogen management for Yorkshire farmers to address any research-translation gaps identified during the workshop. Background work was necessary to design the workshop to appeal to target audiences (Defra and Yorkshire farmers). This involved coordinating with existing relevant initiatives (e.g. Catchment Sensitive Farming), discussing policy agendas/regulatory frameworks with several Defra teams, capturing the experience of farmers on current approaches to integrated nitrogen management, identifying invitees (e.g. by working with Defra to identify which ammonia/nitrogen sources they are most concerned about and which farmer groups are hardest for them to reach), and reviewing existing research. This workshop has led to the development of a follow up project proposal (currently under review) that seeks to develop a set of instructions for farmers to assist them with implementing greater integrated nitrogen management |
| Collaborator Contribution | There is ambition in Defra, indicated in the Clean Air Strategy and across multiple initiatives, to tackle the issue of nitrogen pollution. The Agricultural Bill (and associated new Environmental Land Management Scheme in development), the recent conclusions of the Environmental Audit Committee's Nitrates Inquiry, and the upcoming UK Clean Air Strategy, provide an opportunity to develop a more holistic and integrated approach to nitrogen management at the farm scale that helps protect both air and water quality. To maximise the chance of this opportunity being capitalised on, the benefits of an integrated approach need to be clearly demonstrated, and the tools to support integrated nitrogen management developed by the research community need to be consolidated and reviewed with stakeholders, and adapted to address UK-user needs. It is important that this includes understanding the barriers and opportunities perceived by farmers relating to on-farm nitrogen management. Knowledge exchange should occur between researchers of different aspects of nitrogen pollution, Defra teams, regulatory agencies and farmers, but also between Defra teams to enable more robust, informed and practically implementable policy to be developed across the system that influences nitrogen impacts on our environment. iCASP universities have strong research bases on participatory research and farming practices from across Europe and successful interventions (including tools) to protect air, soil and water from nitrogen pollution. This includes building upon the findings of the iCASP project: 'Agri-Land Management for Public Goods Delivery: Phase 1 - Evidence Review' on soil health. This project hosted a workshop in York in March 2019 to: (i) support Defra's planning for supporting integrated nitrogen management (air quality, water quality, soil health) at farm scale in UK by showcasing useful existing environmental science and facilitating dialogue between Yorkshire farmers, relevant stakeholder groups (e.g. NFU), and Defra; (ii) co-design an iCASP project on integrated nitrogen management for Yorkshire farmers to address any research-translation gaps identified during the workshop. Background work will be necessary to design the workshop to appeal to target audiences (Defra and Yorkshire farmers). This will involve coordinating with existing relevant initiatives (e.g. Catchment Sensitive Farming), discussing policy agendas/regulatory frameworks with several Defra teams, capturing the experience of farmers on current approaches to integrated nitrogen management, identifying invitees (e.g. by working with Defra to identify which ammonia/nitrogen sources they are most concerned about and which farmer groups are hardest for them to reach), and reviewing existing research. Project partners are also currently contributing to , and providing letters of support for, the follow up project proposal (currently under development) to provide farmers with a set of instructions as to how to achieve integrated nitrogen management. |
| Impact | This workshop has led to the development of a full project proposal ( title: Evidence-based good practice for Integrated Nitrogen Management (INM) on Yorkshire Farms (INMY Farm) that is presently under development. This proposal is based on the recommendations from the above workshop with forty stakeholders from farming, agricultural policy and scientific research that attended to explore integrated nitrogen management (INM) approaches. This project will synthesise good practice from scientific knowledge, innovative farming, and previous policy lessons to identify benefits, trade-offs and pitfalls to inform more integrated and efficient nitrogen use in arable and livestock farming. The results will be produced, and distributed, in close co-operation with key stakeholders through multi-stakeholder consultations, and close collaboration with farming networks, Yorkshire farmers and their advisors. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #14: Integrating natural flood management into payment for outcomes schemes in the Yorkshire Dales |
| Organisation | National Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | By drawing on modelling, monitoring, and opportunity mapping expertise from other iCASP projects, this project will support a National Trust trial of payment for outcomes with their tenant farmers in the Yorkshire Dales. The trial in partnership with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority will inform Defra's piloting of new environmental land management schemes (ELMS), and iCASP will specifically focus on the opportunity for delivering natural flood management as an outcome for which farmers and other land managers could be paid.The project has engaged with and produced a number of farm plans for farmers in the project area - identifying opportunities for NFM interventions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | By drawing on modelling, monitoring, and opportunity mapping expertise from other iCASP projects, this project will support a National Trust trial of payment for outcomes with their tenant farmers in the Yorkshire Dales. The trial in partnership with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority will inform Defra's piloting of new environmental land management schemes (ELMS), and iCASP will specifically focus on the opportunity for delivering natural flood management as an outcome for which farmers and other land managers could be paid. Since project inception project partners have requested further iCASP involvement in the project. |
| Impact | The project has engaged with and produced a number of farm plans for farmers in the project area - identifying opportunities for NFM interventions. The project has also led to iCASP involvement in one workshop with the NT and partners to discuss and inform the direction of ELMS. Further workshop are planned for 2020 to which iCASP will attend. . |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #14: Integrating natural flood management into payment for outcomes schemes in the Yorkshire Dales |
| Organisation | Rivers Trust |
| Department | Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | By drawing on modelling, monitoring, and opportunity mapping expertise from other iCASP projects, this project will support a National Trust trial of payment for outcomes with their tenant farmers in the Yorkshire Dales. The trial in partnership with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority will inform Defra's piloting of new environmental land management schemes (ELMS), and iCASP will specifically focus on the opportunity for delivering natural flood management as an outcome for which farmers and other land managers could be paid.The project has engaged with and produced a number of farm plans for farmers in the project area - identifying opportunities for NFM interventions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | By drawing on modelling, monitoring, and opportunity mapping expertise from other iCASP projects, this project will support a National Trust trial of payment for outcomes with their tenant farmers in the Yorkshire Dales. The trial in partnership with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority will inform Defra's piloting of new environmental land management schemes (ELMS), and iCASP will specifically focus on the opportunity for delivering natural flood management as an outcome for which farmers and other land managers could be paid. Since project inception project partners have requested further iCASP involvement in the project. |
| Impact | The project has engaged with and produced a number of farm plans for farmers in the project area - identifying opportunities for NFM interventions. The project has also led to iCASP involvement in one workshop with the NT and partners to discuss and inform the direction of ELMS. Further workshop are planned for 2020 to which iCASP will attend. . |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #14: Integrating natural flood management into payment for outcomes schemes in the Yorkshire Dales |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | By drawing on modelling, monitoring, and opportunity mapping expertise from other iCASP projects, this project will support a National Trust trial of payment for outcomes with their tenant farmers in the Yorkshire Dales. The trial in partnership with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority will inform Defra's piloting of new environmental land management schemes (ELMS), and iCASP will specifically focus on the opportunity for delivering natural flood management as an outcome for which farmers and other land managers could be paid.The project has engaged with and produced a number of farm plans for farmers in the project area - identifying opportunities for NFM interventions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | By drawing on modelling, monitoring, and opportunity mapping expertise from other iCASP projects, this project will support a National Trust trial of payment for outcomes with their tenant farmers in the Yorkshire Dales. The trial in partnership with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority will inform Defra's piloting of new environmental land management schemes (ELMS), and iCASP will specifically focus on the opportunity for delivering natural flood management as an outcome for which farmers and other land managers could be paid. Since project inception project partners have requested further iCASP involvement in the project. |
| Impact | The project has engaged with and produced a number of farm plans for farmers in the project area - identifying opportunities for NFM interventions. The project has also led to iCASP involvement in one workshop with the NT and partners to discuss and inform the direction of ELMS. Further workshop are planned for 2020 to which iCASP will attend. . |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #15: Supporting local authorities on invasive non-native species |
| Organisation | Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Impact | tbc |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #15: Supporting local authorities on invasive non-native species |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Impact | tbc |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #15: Supporting local authorities on invasive non-native species |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Impact | tbc |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #15: Supporting local authorities on invasive non-native species |
| Organisation | Rivers Trust |
| Department | Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Impact | tbc |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #15: Supporting local authorities on invasive non-native species |
| Organisation | The Wildlife Trusts |
| Department | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Impact | tbc |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #15: Supporting local authorities on invasive non-native species |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Invasive Species Forum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Impact | tbc |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #15: Supporting local authorities on invasive non-native species |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The project will use research evidence and expertise on biosecurity, GIS modelling, stakeholder engagement, policy development and behavioural change to inform Local Authority strategies and produce resources to support the development of good biosecurity practice tailored to their needs. The long-term outcome will be new strategies embedded across Yorkshire, that can also be applied to catchments elsewhere, to reduce the spread of INNS and cost of treatment of infestations. |
| Impact | tbc |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #16: Bridging the knowledge gap to boost SME resilience |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Since its inception, the project has been developing a robust partnership with diverse organisations, which include local and sub-regional authorities (LRAs) in Yorkshire and the Humber, as well as lenders, insurers, surveyors, and brokers (LIS-Bs). Dr. Paola Sakai, the project PI, has been instrumental in the formation of the partnership and in its further development. Paola has considerable expertise on flood resilience and SMEs and possesses an extensive stakeholder network. For this particular project, she started working with the project partners two years before the project start date, specifically with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) and members from Defra's Round Table. At the onset, these partners were very interested in the project's topic and started discussions on how to take the project forward. In this sense, Dr. Paola Sakai has made a substantial in-kind contribution, since the project does not cover her time. Apart from contributing with her knowledge and expertise, she has also provided various datasets and diverse material that is essential to deliver the project's outputs. Dr. Marco Sakai, the project academic partner based on the University of York, has also made important contributions to the maintaining, strengthening and expanding the partnership. Specifically, he has been working with members from WYCA and flood managers from several local councils. Marco's expertise on macroeconomic modelling has been a key contribution to develop a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). The tool provides information necessary to prepare more robust business plans and strengthen the case of local authorities when lobbying for additional funds to be better prepared for future flooding events. In this regard, Marco has contributed with his intellectual input, as well as with methodological tools (e.g., Input-Output Analysis) and relevant datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | By working with the project team, the insurance industry is better understanding the impacts of flooding on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and it is expected that this will enable them to provide SMEs with better and more tailored support. As has been mentioned in the previous sections, developing this partnership has been essential to meet the project's objectives and deliver the proposed outputs. All partners have contributed with their time, knowledge and experience on the field. The West Yorkshire Combined Authority, regional local authorities, and the Environment Agency have contributed to steer the project and co-produce a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). Specifically, they have provided funding, as well as essential datasets and other relevant information, including economic indicators and general data on flood events. They have also offered insight into the information/evidence they would like to have regarding the economic costs of flooding on SMEs, providing useful feedback. They have also helped to distribute surveys and other data collection tools among relevant stakeholders. In relation to insurers, lenders, brokers and surveyors, they have participated during each stage of the project in order to develop a Tool to Assess the Effectiveness of Resilience Measures Tool (TAER). This tool will allow the insurance industry to better understand the impacts of flooding on SMEs and will be able to provide these firms with better and more tailored support, which in turn can result in a more resilient sector. These partners have also contributed to steer the project given their extensive experience and knowledge of the field. They have provided feedback during the different stages. They were particularly involved in the development of a survey, which they helped to distribute, providing relevant suggestions on how to reach a better audience and sharing it within their network. They have also helped to provide useful contacts to conduct interviews and have attended webinars and other meetings related to the different components of the TAER. They will also collaborate to pilot the tool during on-site visits to SMEs by surveyors to find ways to enhance resilience. |
| Impact | Additional funding was secured in the period between April 2020 to December 2020 by WYCA (£10k) and the Environment Agency (£18k). Calderdale Flood Partner April 2020 issue: Mentioned project in the issue, where it described the project goals and iCASP role in developing Yorkshire's flood resilience. To forecast the importance of increasing the flood resilience of SMEs, Paola Sakai wrote an expert piece on the Yorkshire Flood Resilience online platform, published on January 2021, at https://yorkshirefloodresilience.co.uk/tools-resources/the-experts-view/understanding-smes-to-increase-their-flood-resilience Paola Sakai also wrote an article in the magazine of the National Centre for universities and business, where the relevance of the topic and the project is highlighted, this piece was published on January 2021, it can be found at https://www.ncub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=483-5044-partnerships-for-the-planet-v8-final&category_slug=reports&Itemid=2728 A webinar with local authorities was organised on the 30th of July 2020, where we counted with the attendance of representatives from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership, the environment agency (EA), and Calderdale, East Riding, Wakefield, Leeds and Hull councils. We also organised two webinars with lenders, insurers, surveyors and brokers. The first webinar was held on October 2020 and the second in December 2020. The seminars had attendants from the following organisations: Previsico, James Hutton Institute, Arcadian Group Limited, Sedgwick, Dantherm Ltd, The Environmental Design Studio, Historic England, the Association of British Insurers, Cal-Heath Consulting, AJEA Products Ltd, British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA), Tonkin + Taylor, Mador architects, SymbIoTic, Tranby Surveying ltd, Aviva, Sedgwick Repair Solutions and Zurich Ins. A focus group was held on the 6th of November, 2020 with lenders, insurers and brokers. Selected stakeholders from each group were invited to provide feedback on the development of the tool. The information gathered informed the tool since its early stages. In June 2020, Paola Sakai presented the webinar: "Increasing the climate resilience of Yorkshire's cities, towns and villages" in the Confluence conference, that showcased the project goals along with Jenny Armstrong from iCASP that explained the relevance of communicating flood risk. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #16: Bridging the knowledge gap to boost SME resilience |
| Organisation | Sedgwick Claims Management Services |
| Department | Sedgwick International UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Since its inception, the project has been developing a robust partnership with diverse organisations, which include local and sub-regional authorities (LRAs) in Yorkshire and the Humber, as well as lenders, insurers, surveyors, and brokers (LIS-Bs). Dr. Paola Sakai, the project PI, has been instrumental in the formation of the partnership and in its further development. Paola has considerable expertise on flood resilience and SMEs and possesses an extensive stakeholder network. For this particular project, she started working with the project partners two years before the project start date, specifically with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) and members from Defra's Round Table. At the onset, these partners were very interested in the project's topic and started discussions on how to take the project forward. In this sense, Dr. Paola Sakai has made a substantial in-kind contribution, since the project does not cover her time. Apart from contributing with her knowledge and expertise, she has also provided various datasets and diverse material that is essential to deliver the project's outputs. Dr. Marco Sakai, the project academic partner based on the University of York, has also made important contributions to the maintaining, strengthening and expanding the partnership. Specifically, he has been working with members from WYCA and flood managers from several local councils. Marco's expertise on macroeconomic modelling has been a key contribution to develop a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). The tool provides information necessary to prepare more robust business plans and strengthen the case of local authorities when lobbying for additional funds to be better prepared for future flooding events. In this regard, Marco has contributed with his intellectual input, as well as with methodological tools (e.g., Input-Output Analysis) and relevant datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | By working with the project team, the insurance industry is better understanding the impacts of flooding on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and it is expected that this will enable them to provide SMEs with better and more tailored support. As has been mentioned in the previous sections, developing this partnership has been essential to meet the project's objectives and deliver the proposed outputs. All partners have contributed with their time, knowledge and experience on the field. The West Yorkshire Combined Authority, regional local authorities, and the Environment Agency have contributed to steer the project and co-produce a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). Specifically, they have provided funding, as well as essential datasets and other relevant information, including economic indicators and general data on flood events. They have also offered insight into the information/evidence they would like to have regarding the economic costs of flooding on SMEs, providing useful feedback. They have also helped to distribute surveys and other data collection tools among relevant stakeholders. In relation to insurers, lenders, brokers and surveyors, they have participated during each stage of the project in order to develop a Tool to Assess the Effectiveness of Resilience Measures Tool (TAER). This tool will allow the insurance industry to better understand the impacts of flooding on SMEs and will be able to provide these firms with better and more tailored support, which in turn can result in a more resilient sector. These partners have also contributed to steer the project given their extensive experience and knowledge of the field. They have provided feedback during the different stages. They were particularly involved in the development of a survey, which they helped to distribute, providing relevant suggestions on how to reach a better audience and sharing it within their network. They have also helped to provide useful contacts to conduct interviews and have attended webinars and other meetings related to the different components of the TAER. They will also collaborate to pilot the tool during on-site visits to SMEs by surveyors to find ways to enhance resilience. |
| Impact | Additional funding was secured in the period between April 2020 to December 2020 by WYCA (£10k) and the Environment Agency (£18k). Calderdale Flood Partner April 2020 issue: Mentioned project in the issue, where it described the project goals and iCASP role in developing Yorkshire's flood resilience. To forecast the importance of increasing the flood resilience of SMEs, Paola Sakai wrote an expert piece on the Yorkshire Flood Resilience online platform, published on January 2021, at https://yorkshirefloodresilience.co.uk/tools-resources/the-experts-view/understanding-smes-to-increase-their-flood-resilience Paola Sakai also wrote an article in the magazine of the National Centre for universities and business, where the relevance of the topic and the project is highlighted, this piece was published on January 2021, it can be found at https://www.ncub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=483-5044-partnerships-for-the-planet-v8-final&category_slug=reports&Itemid=2728 A webinar with local authorities was organised on the 30th of July 2020, where we counted with the attendance of representatives from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership, the environment agency (EA), and Calderdale, East Riding, Wakefield, Leeds and Hull councils. We also organised two webinars with lenders, insurers, surveyors and brokers. The first webinar was held on October 2020 and the second in December 2020. The seminars had attendants from the following organisations: Previsico, James Hutton Institute, Arcadian Group Limited, Sedgwick, Dantherm Ltd, The Environmental Design Studio, Historic England, the Association of British Insurers, Cal-Heath Consulting, AJEA Products Ltd, British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA), Tonkin + Taylor, Mador architects, SymbIoTic, Tranby Surveying ltd, Aviva, Sedgwick Repair Solutions and Zurich Ins. A focus group was held on the 6th of November, 2020 with lenders, insurers and brokers. Selected stakeholders from each group were invited to provide feedback on the development of the tool. The information gathered informed the tool since its early stages. In June 2020, Paola Sakai presented the webinar: "Increasing the climate resilience of Yorkshire's cities, towns and villages" in the Confluence conference, that showcased the project goals along with Jenny Armstrong from iCASP that explained the relevance of communicating flood risk. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #16: Bridging the knowledge gap to boost SME resilience |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Since its inception, the project has been developing a robust partnership with diverse organisations, which include local and sub-regional authorities (LRAs) in Yorkshire and the Humber, as well as lenders, insurers, surveyors, and brokers (LIS-Bs). Dr. Paola Sakai, the project PI, has been instrumental in the formation of the partnership and in its further development. Paola has considerable expertise on flood resilience and SMEs and possesses an extensive stakeholder network. For this particular project, she started working with the project partners two years before the project start date, specifically with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) and members from Defra's Round Table. At the onset, these partners were very interested in the project's topic and started discussions on how to take the project forward. In this sense, Dr. Paola Sakai has made a substantial in-kind contribution, since the project does not cover her time. Apart from contributing with her knowledge and expertise, she has also provided various datasets and diverse material that is essential to deliver the project's outputs. Dr. Marco Sakai, the project academic partner based on the University of York, has also made important contributions to the maintaining, strengthening and expanding the partnership. Specifically, he has been working with members from WYCA and flood managers from several local councils. Marco's expertise on macroeconomic modelling has been a key contribution to develop a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). The tool provides information necessary to prepare more robust business plans and strengthen the case of local authorities when lobbying for additional funds to be better prepared for future flooding events. In this regard, Marco has contributed with his intellectual input, as well as with methodological tools (e.g., Input-Output Analysis) and relevant datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | By working with the project team, the insurance industry is better understanding the impacts of flooding on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and it is expected that this will enable them to provide SMEs with better and more tailored support. As has been mentioned in the previous sections, developing this partnership has been essential to meet the project's objectives and deliver the proposed outputs. All partners have contributed with their time, knowledge and experience on the field. The West Yorkshire Combined Authority, regional local authorities, and the Environment Agency have contributed to steer the project and co-produce a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). Specifically, they have provided funding, as well as essential datasets and other relevant information, including economic indicators and general data on flood events. They have also offered insight into the information/evidence they would like to have regarding the economic costs of flooding on SMEs, providing useful feedback. They have also helped to distribute surveys and other data collection tools among relevant stakeholders. In relation to insurers, lenders, brokers and surveyors, they have participated during each stage of the project in order to develop a Tool to Assess the Effectiveness of Resilience Measures Tool (TAER). This tool will allow the insurance industry to better understand the impacts of flooding on SMEs and will be able to provide these firms with better and more tailored support, which in turn can result in a more resilient sector. These partners have also contributed to steer the project given their extensive experience and knowledge of the field. They have provided feedback during the different stages. They were particularly involved in the development of a survey, which they helped to distribute, providing relevant suggestions on how to reach a better audience and sharing it within their network. They have also helped to provide useful contacts to conduct interviews and have attended webinars and other meetings related to the different components of the TAER. They will also collaborate to pilot the tool during on-site visits to SMEs by surveyors to find ways to enhance resilience. |
| Impact | Additional funding was secured in the period between April 2020 to December 2020 by WYCA (£10k) and the Environment Agency (£18k). Calderdale Flood Partner April 2020 issue: Mentioned project in the issue, where it described the project goals and iCASP role in developing Yorkshire's flood resilience. To forecast the importance of increasing the flood resilience of SMEs, Paola Sakai wrote an expert piece on the Yorkshire Flood Resilience online platform, published on January 2021, at https://yorkshirefloodresilience.co.uk/tools-resources/the-experts-view/understanding-smes-to-increase-their-flood-resilience Paola Sakai also wrote an article in the magazine of the National Centre for universities and business, where the relevance of the topic and the project is highlighted, this piece was published on January 2021, it can be found at https://www.ncub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=483-5044-partnerships-for-the-planet-v8-final&category_slug=reports&Itemid=2728 A webinar with local authorities was organised on the 30th of July 2020, where we counted with the attendance of representatives from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership, the environment agency (EA), and Calderdale, East Riding, Wakefield, Leeds and Hull councils. We also organised two webinars with lenders, insurers, surveyors and brokers. The first webinar was held on October 2020 and the second in December 2020. The seminars had attendants from the following organisations: Previsico, James Hutton Institute, Arcadian Group Limited, Sedgwick, Dantherm Ltd, The Environmental Design Studio, Historic England, the Association of British Insurers, Cal-Heath Consulting, AJEA Products Ltd, British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA), Tonkin + Taylor, Mador architects, SymbIoTic, Tranby Surveying ltd, Aviva, Sedgwick Repair Solutions and Zurich Ins. A focus group was held on the 6th of November, 2020 with lenders, insurers and brokers. Selected stakeholders from each group were invited to provide feedback on the development of the tool. The information gathered informed the tool since its early stages. In June 2020, Paola Sakai presented the webinar: "Increasing the climate resilience of Yorkshire's cities, towns and villages" in the Confluence conference, that showcased the project goals along with Jenny Armstrong from iCASP that explained the relevance of communicating flood risk. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #16: Bridging the knowledge gap to boost SME resilience |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Since its inception, the project has been developing a robust partnership with diverse organisations, which include local and sub-regional authorities (LRAs) in Yorkshire and the Humber, as well as lenders, insurers, surveyors, and brokers (LIS-Bs). Dr. Paola Sakai, the project PI, has been instrumental in the formation of the partnership and in its further development. Paola has considerable expertise on flood resilience and SMEs and possesses an extensive stakeholder network. For this particular project, she started working with the project partners two years before the project start date, specifically with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) and members from Defra's Round Table. At the onset, these partners were very interested in the project's topic and started discussions on how to take the project forward. In this sense, Dr. Paola Sakai has made a substantial in-kind contribution, since the project does not cover her time. Apart from contributing with her knowledge and expertise, she has also provided various datasets and diverse material that is essential to deliver the project's outputs. Dr. Marco Sakai, the project academic partner based on the University of York, has also made important contributions to the maintaining, strengthening and expanding the partnership. Specifically, he has been working with members from WYCA and flood managers from several local councils. Marco's expertise on macroeconomic modelling has been a key contribution to develop a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). The tool provides information necessary to prepare more robust business plans and strengthen the case of local authorities when lobbying for additional funds to be better prepared for future flooding events. In this regard, Marco has contributed with his intellectual input, as well as with methodological tools (e.g., Input-Output Analysis) and relevant datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | By working with the project team, the insurance industry is better understanding the impacts of flooding on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and it is expected that this will enable them to provide SMEs with better and more tailored support. As has been mentioned in the previous sections, developing this partnership has been essential to meet the project's objectives and deliver the proposed outputs. All partners have contributed with their time, knowledge and experience on the field. The West Yorkshire Combined Authority, regional local authorities, and the Environment Agency have contributed to steer the project and co-produce a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). Specifically, they have provided funding, as well as essential datasets and other relevant information, including economic indicators and general data on flood events. They have also offered insight into the information/evidence they would like to have regarding the economic costs of flooding on SMEs, providing useful feedback. They have also helped to distribute surveys and other data collection tools among relevant stakeholders. In relation to insurers, lenders, brokers and surveyors, they have participated during each stage of the project in order to develop a Tool to Assess the Effectiveness of Resilience Measures Tool (TAER). This tool will allow the insurance industry to better understand the impacts of flooding on SMEs and will be able to provide these firms with better and more tailored support, which in turn can result in a more resilient sector. These partners have also contributed to steer the project given their extensive experience and knowledge of the field. They have provided feedback during the different stages. They were particularly involved in the development of a survey, which they helped to distribute, providing relevant suggestions on how to reach a better audience and sharing it within their network. They have also helped to provide useful contacts to conduct interviews and have attended webinars and other meetings related to the different components of the TAER. They will also collaborate to pilot the tool during on-site visits to SMEs by surveyors to find ways to enhance resilience. |
| Impact | Additional funding was secured in the period between April 2020 to December 2020 by WYCA (£10k) and the Environment Agency (£18k). Calderdale Flood Partner April 2020 issue: Mentioned project in the issue, where it described the project goals and iCASP role in developing Yorkshire's flood resilience. To forecast the importance of increasing the flood resilience of SMEs, Paola Sakai wrote an expert piece on the Yorkshire Flood Resilience online platform, published on January 2021, at https://yorkshirefloodresilience.co.uk/tools-resources/the-experts-view/understanding-smes-to-increase-their-flood-resilience Paola Sakai also wrote an article in the magazine of the National Centre for universities and business, where the relevance of the topic and the project is highlighted, this piece was published on January 2021, it can be found at https://www.ncub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=483-5044-partnerships-for-the-planet-v8-final&category_slug=reports&Itemid=2728 A webinar with local authorities was organised on the 30th of July 2020, where we counted with the attendance of representatives from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership, the environment agency (EA), and Calderdale, East Riding, Wakefield, Leeds and Hull councils. We also organised two webinars with lenders, insurers, surveyors and brokers. The first webinar was held on October 2020 and the second in December 2020. The seminars had attendants from the following organisations: Previsico, James Hutton Institute, Arcadian Group Limited, Sedgwick, Dantherm Ltd, The Environmental Design Studio, Historic England, the Association of British Insurers, Cal-Heath Consulting, AJEA Products Ltd, British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA), Tonkin + Taylor, Mador architects, SymbIoTic, Tranby Surveying ltd, Aviva, Sedgwick Repair Solutions and Zurich Ins. A focus group was held on the 6th of November, 2020 with lenders, insurers and brokers. Selected stakeholders from each group were invited to provide feedback on the development of the tool. The information gathered informed the tool since its early stages. In June 2020, Paola Sakai presented the webinar: "Increasing the climate resilience of Yorkshire's cities, towns and villages" in the Confluence conference, that showcased the project goals along with Jenny Armstrong from iCASP that explained the relevance of communicating flood risk. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #16: Bridging the knowledge gap to boost SME resilience |
| Organisation | Upper Calder Valley Renaissance |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Since its inception, the project has been developing a robust partnership with diverse organisations, which include local and sub-regional authorities (LRAs) in Yorkshire and the Humber, as well as lenders, insurers, surveyors, and brokers (LIS-Bs). Dr. Paola Sakai, the project PI, has been instrumental in the formation of the partnership and in its further development. Paola has considerable expertise on flood resilience and SMEs and possesses an extensive stakeholder network. For this particular project, she started working with the project partners two years before the project start date, specifically with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) and members from Defra's Round Table. At the onset, these partners were very interested in the project's topic and started discussions on how to take the project forward. In this sense, Dr. Paola Sakai has made a substantial in-kind contribution, since the project does not cover her time. Apart from contributing with her knowledge and expertise, she has also provided various datasets and diverse material that is essential to deliver the project's outputs. Dr. Marco Sakai, the project academic partner based on the University of York, has also made important contributions to the maintaining, strengthening and expanding the partnership. Specifically, he has been working with members from WYCA and flood managers from several local councils. Marco's expertise on macroeconomic modelling has been a key contribution to develop a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). The tool provides information necessary to prepare more robust business plans and strengthen the case of local authorities when lobbying for additional funds to be better prepared for future flooding events. In this regard, Marco has contributed with his intellectual input, as well as with methodological tools (e.g., Input-Output Analysis) and relevant datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | By working with the project team, the insurance industry is better understanding the impacts of flooding on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and it is expected that this will enable them to provide SMEs with better and more tailored support. As has been mentioned in the previous sections, developing this partnership has been essential to meet the project's objectives and deliver the proposed outputs. All partners have contributed with their time, knowledge and experience on the field. The West Yorkshire Combined Authority, regional local authorities, and the Environment Agency have contributed to steer the project and co-produce a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). Specifically, they have provided funding, as well as essential datasets and other relevant information, including economic indicators and general data on flood events. They have also offered insight into the information/evidence they would like to have regarding the economic costs of flooding on SMEs, providing useful feedback. They have also helped to distribute surveys and other data collection tools among relevant stakeholders. In relation to insurers, lenders, brokers and surveyors, they have participated during each stage of the project in order to develop a Tool to Assess the Effectiveness of Resilience Measures Tool (TAER). This tool will allow the insurance industry to better understand the impacts of flooding on SMEs and will be able to provide these firms with better and more tailored support, which in turn can result in a more resilient sector. These partners have also contributed to steer the project given their extensive experience and knowledge of the field. They have provided feedback during the different stages. They were particularly involved in the development of a survey, which they helped to distribute, providing relevant suggestions on how to reach a better audience and sharing it within their network. They have also helped to provide useful contacts to conduct interviews and have attended webinars and other meetings related to the different components of the TAER. They will also collaborate to pilot the tool during on-site visits to SMEs by surveyors to find ways to enhance resilience. |
| Impact | Additional funding was secured in the period between April 2020 to December 2020 by WYCA (£10k) and the Environment Agency (£18k). Calderdale Flood Partner April 2020 issue: Mentioned project in the issue, where it described the project goals and iCASP role in developing Yorkshire's flood resilience. To forecast the importance of increasing the flood resilience of SMEs, Paola Sakai wrote an expert piece on the Yorkshire Flood Resilience online platform, published on January 2021, at https://yorkshirefloodresilience.co.uk/tools-resources/the-experts-view/understanding-smes-to-increase-their-flood-resilience Paola Sakai also wrote an article in the magazine of the National Centre for universities and business, where the relevance of the topic and the project is highlighted, this piece was published on January 2021, it can be found at https://www.ncub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=483-5044-partnerships-for-the-planet-v8-final&category_slug=reports&Itemid=2728 A webinar with local authorities was organised on the 30th of July 2020, where we counted with the attendance of representatives from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership, the environment agency (EA), and Calderdale, East Riding, Wakefield, Leeds and Hull councils. We also organised two webinars with lenders, insurers, surveyors and brokers. The first webinar was held on October 2020 and the second in December 2020. The seminars had attendants from the following organisations: Previsico, James Hutton Institute, Arcadian Group Limited, Sedgwick, Dantherm Ltd, The Environmental Design Studio, Historic England, the Association of British Insurers, Cal-Heath Consulting, AJEA Products Ltd, British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA), Tonkin + Taylor, Mador architects, SymbIoTic, Tranby Surveying ltd, Aviva, Sedgwick Repair Solutions and Zurich Ins. A focus group was held on the 6th of November, 2020 with lenders, insurers and brokers. Selected stakeholders from each group were invited to provide feedback on the development of the tool. The information gathered informed the tool since its early stages. In June 2020, Paola Sakai presented the webinar: "Increasing the climate resilience of Yorkshire's cities, towns and villages" in the Confluence conference, that showcased the project goals along with Jenny Armstrong from iCASP that explained the relevance of communicating flood risk. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #16: Bridging the knowledge gap to boost SME resilience |
| Organisation | West Yorkshire Combined Authorities |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Since its inception, the project has been developing a robust partnership with diverse organisations, which include local and sub-regional authorities (LRAs) in Yorkshire and the Humber, as well as lenders, insurers, surveyors, and brokers (LIS-Bs). Dr. Paola Sakai, the project PI, has been instrumental in the formation of the partnership and in its further development. Paola has considerable expertise on flood resilience and SMEs and possesses an extensive stakeholder network. For this particular project, she started working with the project partners two years before the project start date, specifically with the West Yorkshire Combined Authority (WYCA) and members from Defra's Round Table. At the onset, these partners were very interested in the project's topic and started discussions on how to take the project forward. In this sense, Dr. Paola Sakai has made a substantial in-kind contribution, since the project does not cover her time. Apart from contributing with her knowledge and expertise, she has also provided various datasets and diverse material that is essential to deliver the project's outputs. Dr. Marco Sakai, the project academic partner based on the University of York, has also made important contributions to the maintaining, strengthening and expanding the partnership. Specifically, he has been working with members from WYCA and flood managers from several local councils. Marco's expertise on macroeconomic modelling has been a key contribution to develop a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). The tool provides information necessary to prepare more robust business plans and strengthen the case of local authorities when lobbying for additional funds to be better prepared for future flooding events. In this regard, Marco has contributed with his intellectual input, as well as with methodological tools (e.g., Input-Output Analysis) and relevant datasets. |
| Collaborator Contribution | By working with the project team, the insurance industry is better understanding the impacts of flooding on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and it is expected that this will enable them to provide SMEs with better and more tailored support. As has been mentioned in the previous sections, developing this partnership has been essential to meet the project's objectives and deliver the proposed outputs. All partners have contributed with their time, knowledge and experience on the field. The West Yorkshire Combined Authority, regional local authorities, and the Environment Agency have contributed to steer the project and co-produce a Tool to Assess the Economic Costs of flooding on SMEs (TAEC). Specifically, they have provided funding, as well as essential datasets and other relevant information, including economic indicators and general data on flood events. They have also offered insight into the information/evidence they would like to have regarding the economic costs of flooding on SMEs, providing useful feedback. They have also helped to distribute surveys and other data collection tools among relevant stakeholders. In relation to insurers, lenders, brokers and surveyors, they have participated during each stage of the project in order to develop a Tool to Assess the Effectiveness of Resilience Measures Tool (TAER). This tool will allow the insurance industry to better understand the impacts of flooding on SMEs and will be able to provide these firms with better and more tailored support, which in turn can result in a more resilient sector. These partners have also contributed to steer the project given their extensive experience and knowledge of the field. They have provided feedback during the different stages. They were particularly involved in the development of a survey, which they helped to distribute, providing relevant suggestions on how to reach a better audience and sharing it within their network. They have also helped to provide useful contacts to conduct interviews and have attended webinars and other meetings related to the different components of the TAER. They will also collaborate to pilot the tool during on-site visits to SMEs by surveyors to find ways to enhance resilience. |
| Impact | Additional funding was secured in the period between April 2020 to December 2020 by WYCA (£10k) and the Environment Agency (£18k). Calderdale Flood Partner April 2020 issue: Mentioned project in the issue, where it described the project goals and iCASP role in developing Yorkshire's flood resilience. To forecast the importance of increasing the flood resilience of SMEs, Paola Sakai wrote an expert piece on the Yorkshire Flood Resilience online platform, published on January 2021, at https://yorkshirefloodresilience.co.uk/tools-resources/the-experts-view/understanding-smes-to-increase-their-flood-resilience Paola Sakai also wrote an article in the magazine of the National Centre for universities and business, where the relevance of the topic and the project is highlighted, this piece was published on January 2021, it can be found at https://www.ncub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=483-5044-partnerships-for-the-planet-v8-final&category_slug=reports&Itemid=2728 A webinar with local authorities was organised on the 30th of July 2020, where we counted with the attendance of representatives from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority, the Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership, the environment agency (EA), and Calderdale, East Riding, Wakefield, Leeds and Hull councils. We also organised two webinars with lenders, insurers, surveyors and brokers. The first webinar was held on October 2020 and the second in December 2020. The seminars had attendants from the following organisations: Previsico, James Hutton Institute, Arcadian Group Limited, Sedgwick, Dantherm Ltd, The Environmental Design Studio, Historic England, the Association of British Insurers, Cal-Heath Consulting, AJEA Products Ltd, British Insurance Brokers' Association (BIBA), Tonkin + Taylor, Mador architects, SymbIoTic, Tranby Surveying ltd, Aviva, Sedgwick Repair Solutions and Zurich Ins. A focus group was held on the 6th of November, 2020 with lenders, insurers and brokers. Selected stakeholders from each group were invited to provide feedback on the development of the tool. The information gathered informed the tool since its early stages. In June 2020, Paola Sakai presented the webinar: "Increasing the climate resilience of Yorkshire's cities, towns and villages" in the Confluence conference, that showcased the project goals along with Jenny Armstrong from iCASP that explained the relevance of communicating flood risk. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #17: Living with Water Partnership |
| Organisation | East Riding of Yorkshire County Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This project will bring together all the telemetry data gathered by Living with Water Partnership organisations from across Hull and East Riding. The data will be combined with decision-making tools to develop an 'early warning' tool that will help increase operational preparedness, deliver faster operational response times and help identify optimal locations for future network monitoring in the region. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Living with Water Partnership (LWWP) members are Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water. For the purpose of this project, it will be led by the Partnership but all partners will provide data from their own organisations and be in receipt of the outputs. Contributions agreed include up to 70 days of in kind contributions from the LWWP plus venue hire. In addition the Environment Agency, East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Yorkshire Water have agreed to contribute data and associated in kind contributions of time. |
| Impact | Telemetry is the measurement of data at a remote source, and its transmission to a monitoring station. Through bringing together the telemetry data gathered by Living with Water Partnership organisations from across Hull and East Riding, this project will work on combining this data with decision-making tools to develop an 'early warning' tool. Through this tool, the project aims to increase operational preparedness, deliver faster operational response times and help identify optimal locations for future network monitoring in the region. For the early-warning tool, a predictive model has been developed using Machine Learning methods which utilises historical data of rainfall, water level, and groundwater level to forecast water level rise in trunk sewers and open channel watercourses in the region. The model is developed in Matlab and tested for two locations, a trunk sewer (YW LM03) and an open channel stream (EA Setting Dyke) where water level was predicted accurately with forecast horizons of 0.5~1.0 and 3~4 hours, respectively. The model can be used for similar applications (e.g., other regions) which would need monitoring at locations where this modelling would be desired (and to be used by someone with systems knowledge and technical ability to train/calibrate the model with relevant data). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #17: Living with Water Partnership |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This project will bring together all the telemetry data gathered by Living with Water Partnership organisations from across Hull and East Riding. The data will be combined with decision-making tools to develop an 'early warning' tool that will help increase operational preparedness, deliver faster operational response times and help identify optimal locations for future network monitoring in the region. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Living with Water Partnership (LWWP) members are Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water. For the purpose of this project, it will be led by the Partnership but all partners will provide data from their own organisations and be in receipt of the outputs. Contributions agreed include up to 70 days of in kind contributions from the LWWP plus venue hire. In addition the Environment Agency, East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Yorkshire Water have agreed to contribute data and associated in kind contributions of time. |
| Impact | Telemetry is the measurement of data at a remote source, and its transmission to a monitoring station. Through bringing together the telemetry data gathered by Living with Water Partnership organisations from across Hull and East Riding, this project will work on combining this data with decision-making tools to develop an 'early warning' tool. Through this tool, the project aims to increase operational preparedness, deliver faster operational response times and help identify optimal locations for future network monitoring in the region. For the early-warning tool, a predictive model has been developed using Machine Learning methods which utilises historical data of rainfall, water level, and groundwater level to forecast water level rise in trunk sewers and open channel watercourses in the region. The model is developed in Matlab and tested for two locations, a trunk sewer (YW LM03) and an open channel stream (EA Setting Dyke) where water level was predicted accurately with forecast horizons of 0.5~1.0 and 3~4 hours, respectively. The model can be used for similar applications (e.g., other regions) which would need monitoring at locations where this modelling would be desired (and to be used by someone with systems knowledge and technical ability to train/calibrate the model with relevant data). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #17: Living with Water Partnership |
| Organisation | Hull City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This project will bring together all the telemetry data gathered by Living with Water Partnership organisations from across Hull and East Riding. The data will be combined with decision-making tools to develop an 'early warning' tool that will help increase operational preparedness, deliver faster operational response times and help identify optimal locations for future network monitoring in the region. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Living with Water Partnership (LWWP) members are Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water. For the purpose of this project, it will be led by the Partnership but all partners will provide data from their own organisations and be in receipt of the outputs. Contributions agreed include up to 70 days of in kind contributions from the LWWP plus venue hire. In addition the Environment Agency, East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Yorkshire Water have agreed to contribute data and associated in kind contributions of time. |
| Impact | Telemetry is the measurement of data at a remote source, and its transmission to a monitoring station. Through bringing together the telemetry data gathered by Living with Water Partnership organisations from across Hull and East Riding, this project will work on combining this data with decision-making tools to develop an 'early warning' tool. Through this tool, the project aims to increase operational preparedness, deliver faster operational response times and help identify optimal locations for future network monitoring in the region. For the early-warning tool, a predictive model has been developed using Machine Learning methods which utilises historical data of rainfall, water level, and groundwater level to forecast water level rise in trunk sewers and open channel watercourses in the region. The model is developed in Matlab and tested for two locations, a trunk sewer (YW LM03) and an open channel stream (EA Setting Dyke) where water level was predicted accurately with forecast horizons of 0.5~1.0 and 3~4 hours, respectively. The model can be used for similar applications (e.g., other regions) which would need monitoring at locations where this modelling would be desired (and to be used by someone with systems knowledge and technical ability to train/calibrate the model with relevant data). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #17: Living with Water Partnership |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This project will bring together all the telemetry data gathered by Living with Water Partnership organisations from across Hull and East Riding. The data will be combined with decision-making tools to develop an 'early warning' tool that will help increase operational preparedness, deliver faster operational response times and help identify optimal locations for future network monitoring in the region. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Living with Water Partnership (LWWP) members are Hull City Council, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water. For the purpose of this project, it will be led by the Partnership but all partners will provide data from their own organisations and be in receipt of the outputs. Contributions agreed include up to 70 days of in kind contributions from the LWWP plus venue hire. In addition the Environment Agency, East Riding of Yorkshire Council and Yorkshire Water have agreed to contribute data and associated in kind contributions of time. |
| Impact | Telemetry is the measurement of data at a remote source, and its transmission to a monitoring station. Through bringing together the telemetry data gathered by Living with Water Partnership organisations from across Hull and East Riding, this project will work on combining this data with decision-making tools to develop an 'early warning' tool. Through this tool, the project aims to increase operational preparedness, deliver faster operational response times and help identify optimal locations for future network monitoring in the region. For the early-warning tool, a predictive model has been developed using Machine Learning methods which utilises historical data of rainfall, water level, and groundwater level to forecast water level rise in trunk sewers and open channel watercourses in the region. The model is developed in Matlab and tested for two locations, a trunk sewer (YW LM03) and an open channel stream (EA Setting Dyke) where water level was predicted accurately with forecast horizons of 0.5~1.0 and 3~4 hours, respectively. The model can be used for similar applications (e.g., other regions) which would need monitoring at locations where this modelling would be desired (and to be used by someone with systems knowledge and technical ability to train/calibrate the model with relevant data). |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #18. Systems approach to urban infrastructure management (SUIM) (interoperability) |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project identifies and delivers shared outcome measures for flood risk management: co-developing infrastructure interoperability. This project applies a newly developed spatial analysis method to support integrated urban infrastructure planning and management at a catchment scale. The team have identified areas contributing to flooding to inform new developments so they store or divert rainfall away from flood prone areas. The focus has initially on the Wyke Beck catchment in the east of Leeds - recent and planned developments were be assessed to see if this new approach would or could lead to more cost effective and flood resilient design which also benefits local communities in other ways e.g. improving health, wellbeing and sustainable transport options. The Wyke Beck case is the basis for a user-friendly 'interoperability key principles tool' for use by Leeds City Council in other parts of the city, and could be used by councils in other cities too. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Both Leeds City Council and the Environment Agency have provided attendance of workshops, data access, co-development of approach (T2.2) attendance of meetings. Impact evaluation assistance. |
| Impact | The outputs from SUIM are likely to be used in scoping options and the business case for a follow-on Wyke Beck flood scheme as well as Leeds City Council's updated Strategic Flood Risk Assessment. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #18. Systems approach to urban infrastructure management (SUIM) (interoperability) |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project identifies and delivers shared outcome measures for flood risk management: co-developing infrastructure interoperability. This project applies a newly developed spatial analysis method to support integrated urban infrastructure planning and management at a catchment scale. The team have identified areas contributing to flooding to inform new developments so they store or divert rainfall away from flood prone areas. The focus has initially on the Wyke Beck catchment in the east of Leeds - recent and planned developments were be assessed to see if this new approach would or could lead to more cost effective and flood resilient design which also benefits local communities in other ways e.g. improving health, wellbeing and sustainable transport options. The Wyke Beck case is the basis for a user-friendly 'interoperability key principles tool' for use by Leeds City Council in other parts of the city, and could be used by councils in other cities too. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Both Leeds City Council and the Environment Agency have provided attendance of workshops, data access, co-development of approach (T2.2) attendance of meetings. Impact evaluation assistance. |
| Impact | The outputs from SUIM are likely to be used in scoping options and the business case for a follow-on Wyke Beck flood scheme as well as Leeds City Council's updated Strategic Flood Risk Assessment. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #19. Communicating Flood risks |
| Organisation | City of York Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The 2017 Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) identified flooding and coastal change risk to communities, businesses and infrastructure as the number one priority risk that requires more action to combat negative impacts on society. This iCASP project will rely on research evidence base demonstrating the principles of risk perception and effective communication methods, to equip risk management authorities (RMAs) with tailored knowledge and tools in order to more effectively engage their communities to increase resilience to risk. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Summary of intended impact. 1. Improve the ability of partners to effectively engage with communities at flood risk, flood scheme development, flood events, and recovery. Improved communication will build trust and meaningful relationships between RMAs and communities and therefore enable more productive collaboration and increased resilience of those at flood risk. 2. Produce tools, guidance and materials that will be used widely by RMAs to fulfil their statutory requirements and enable them to develop and deliver effective risk communication strategies. 3. Where appropriate, guidance and tools produced by this project will be transferred to other environmental campaigns to improve their efficacy i.e. recycling, active transport, healthy lifestyles and food waste . |
| Impact | Summary of intended impact. 1. Improve the ability of partners to effectively engage with communities at flood risk u during peace time, flood scheme development, flood events, and recovery. Improved communication will build trust and meaningful relationships between RMAs and communities and therefore enable more productive collaboration and increased resilience of those at flood risk. 2. Produce tools, guidance and materials that will be used widely by RMAs to fulfil their statutory requirements and enable them to develop and deliver effective risk Communication strategies. 3. Where appropriate, guidance and tools produced by this project will be transferred to other environmental campaigns to improve their efficacy i.e. recycling, active transport, healthy lifestyles and food waste . |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #19. Communicating Flood risks |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The 2017 Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA) identified flooding and coastal change risk to communities, businesses and infrastructure as the number one priority risk that requires more action to combat negative impacts on society. This iCASP project will rely on research evidence base demonstrating the principles of risk perception and effective communication methods, to equip risk management authorities (RMAs) with tailored knowledge and tools in order to more effectively engage their communities to increase resilience to risk. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Summary of intended impact. 1. Improve the ability of partners to effectively engage with communities at flood risk, flood scheme development, flood events, and recovery. Improved communication will build trust and meaningful relationships between RMAs and communities and therefore enable more productive collaboration and increased resilience of those at flood risk. 2. Produce tools, guidance and materials that will be used widely by RMAs to fulfil their statutory requirements and enable them to develop and deliver effective risk communication strategies. 3. Where appropriate, guidance and tools produced by this project will be transferred to other environmental campaigns to improve their efficacy i.e. recycling, active transport, healthy lifestyles and food waste . |
| Impact | Summary of intended impact. 1. Improve the ability of partners to effectively engage with communities at flood risk u during peace time, flood scheme development, flood events, and recovery. Improved communication will build trust and meaningful relationships between RMAs and communities and therefore enable more productive collaboration and increased resilience of those at flood risk. 2. Produce tools, guidance and materials that will be used widely by RMAs to fulfil their statutory requirements and enable them to develop and deliver effective risk Communication strategies. 3. Where appropriate, guidance and tools produced by this project will be transferred to other environmental campaigns to improve their efficacy i.e. recycling, active transport, healthy lifestyles and food waste . |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #20: Environmental Science for Health and Wellbeing in the Climate Emergency (E.SHAWE) |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Following the declaration of a climate emergency at Leeds City Council (LCC), all departments have come together to form clean air and climate emergency action groups, who have identified the importance of evidence-based collaborative decision making across sectors. This project is building up on an existing web GIS tool (SHAPE - Strategic Health Asset Planning & Evaluation) to assist stakeholders in their efforts to make collaborative evidence-based decisions to develop the city in a sustainable way whilst increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change. This improved SHAPE tool serve as a focal point for pooling and visualising integrated health, environmental, infrastructure and socio-economic data. The use of the tool will be scaled up to other cities in the UK, enabling more decision makers to collaborate and increase the resilience and sustainability across their jurisdictions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Leeds City Council have helped and will continue with the consultations and input into guidance Public Health England Consultations will support and input into guidance The company Parallel will provide contributions by updating the SHAPE tool. |
| Impact | The project will complement the previous iCASP UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) projects which were focused on preparing the region for the then upcoming/ new climate projections. This project will take this further by producing decision-relevant climate change metrics for inclusion into SHAPE e.g. projections of changes in the heat island effect, flood and air quality risk. The project will also act as a mechanism to enhance impact of the iCASP projects "a Systems Approach to Urban Infrastructure Management" (SUIM, also known as 'interoperability') and "GBI business cases". Outputs from SUIM, such as flood source/ pathway information, is important for planning innovative flood mitigation measures and will be useful for making climate resilient decisions. The SUIM information, GBI business cases and UKCP18 indices will be readily applicable to other regions outside Leeds to further maximise national - scale impact. The update to SHAPE and accompanying guidance will help Leeds City Council develop climate resilient business and investment plans with a focus on health and wellbeing. The business cases and investments influenced, once realised, will ultimately improve climate resilience and the health of residents in the city. The project will promote the use of the updated SHAPE tool and user guidance amongst Leeds City Council, EA and other local authorities. Through Public Health England, the project will facilitate the update of regional SHAPE atlases across the country. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #20: Environmental Science for Health and Wellbeing in the Climate Emergency (E.SHAWE) |
| Organisation | Parallel Consulting |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Following the declaration of a climate emergency at Leeds City Council (LCC), all departments have come together to form clean air and climate emergency action groups, who have identified the importance of evidence-based collaborative decision making across sectors. This project is building up on an existing web GIS tool (SHAPE - Strategic Health Asset Planning & Evaluation) to assist stakeholders in their efforts to make collaborative evidence-based decisions to develop the city in a sustainable way whilst increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change. This improved SHAPE tool serve as a focal point for pooling and visualising integrated health, environmental, infrastructure and socio-economic data. The use of the tool will be scaled up to other cities in the UK, enabling more decision makers to collaborate and increase the resilience and sustainability across their jurisdictions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Leeds City Council have helped and will continue with the consultations and input into guidance Public Health England Consultations will support and input into guidance The company Parallel will provide contributions by updating the SHAPE tool. |
| Impact | The project will complement the previous iCASP UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) projects which were focused on preparing the region for the then upcoming/ new climate projections. This project will take this further by producing decision-relevant climate change metrics for inclusion into SHAPE e.g. projections of changes in the heat island effect, flood and air quality risk. The project will also act as a mechanism to enhance impact of the iCASP projects "a Systems Approach to Urban Infrastructure Management" (SUIM, also known as 'interoperability') and "GBI business cases". Outputs from SUIM, such as flood source/ pathway information, is important for planning innovative flood mitigation measures and will be useful for making climate resilient decisions. The SUIM information, GBI business cases and UKCP18 indices will be readily applicable to other regions outside Leeds to further maximise national - scale impact. The update to SHAPE and accompanying guidance will help Leeds City Council develop climate resilient business and investment plans with a focus on health and wellbeing. The business cases and investments influenced, once realised, will ultimately improve climate resilience and the health of residents in the city. The project will promote the use of the updated SHAPE tool and user guidance amongst Leeds City Council, EA and other local authorities. Through Public Health England, the project will facilitate the update of regional SHAPE atlases across the country. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #20: Environmental Science for Health and Wellbeing in the Climate Emergency (E.SHAWE) |
| Organisation | Public Health England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Following the declaration of a climate emergency at Leeds City Council (LCC), all departments have come together to form clean air and climate emergency action groups, who have identified the importance of evidence-based collaborative decision making across sectors. This project is building up on an existing web GIS tool (SHAPE - Strategic Health Asset Planning & Evaluation) to assist stakeholders in their efforts to make collaborative evidence-based decisions to develop the city in a sustainable way whilst increasing resilience to the impacts of climate change. This improved SHAPE tool serve as a focal point for pooling and visualising integrated health, environmental, infrastructure and socio-economic data. The use of the tool will be scaled up to other cities in the UK, enabling more decision makers to collaborate and increase the resilience and sustainability across their jurisdictions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Leeds City Council have helped and will continue with the consultations and input into guidance Public Health England Consultations will support and input into guidance The company Parallel will provide contributions by updating the SHAPE tool. |
| Impact | The project will complement the previous iCASP UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) projects which were focused on preparing the region for the then upcoming/ new climate projections. This project will take this further by producing decision-relevant climate change metrics for inclusion into SHAPE e.g. projections of changes in the heat island effect, flood and air quality risk. The project will also act as a mechanism to enhance impact of the iCASP projects "a Systems Approach to Urban Infrastructure Management" (SUIM, also known as 'interoperability') and "GBI business cases". Outputs from SUIM, such as flood source/ pathway information, is important for planning innovative flood mitigation measures and will be useful for making climate resilient decisions. The SUIM information, GBI business cases and UKCP18 indices will be readily applicable to other regions outside Leeds to further maximise national - scale impact. The update to SHAPE and accompanying guidance will help Leeds City Council develop climate resilient business and investment plans with a focus on health and wellbeing. The business cases and investments influenced, once realised, will ultimately improve climate resilience and the health of residents in the city. The project will promote the use of the updated SHAPE tool and user guidance amongst Leeds City Council, EA and other local authorities. Through Public Health England, the project will facilitate the update of regional SHAPE atlases across the country. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #21. Peatland COS method - Transforming data collection for evidence-based peatland policy and practice |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The restoration of damaged peatlands has been identified as a key option for reaching net zero emissions by 2050 by the Committee on Climate Change, but debate continues to rage over the effects of restoration and management decisions. This project aims to address the current lack of evidence that would enable designing consistent ways of measuring different peatland-related conditions outcomes. Building up on an identification and selection of core sets of outcome measures that can be given priority in peatland research and monitoring data collection by the peatland community, this project will prioritise the core outcomes that are most relevant to the assessment of peatland condition in Defra pilot sites, identify criteria against which methods and protocols for collecting outcome measure data can be evaluated , identify relevant methods and protocols for assessing each prioritised outcome measure, propose methods and protocols for each prioritised outcome measure that could be used by those implementing the England Peat Strategy to assess progress against strategy goals, and develop reporting protocols to standardise how data is recorded and stored via PeatDataHub at University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Natural England have funded a larger body of work which complements this project analysing the social barriers and opportunities to implementing the England Peat Strategy. |
| Impact | This project has supported the NE funded project analysing social barriers and opportunities to implementing the England Peat Strategy. It also informs the DEFRA North York Moors Peat pilot project for which iCASP and supporting with academic time to assist with the use of Digibog Hydro on the project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #21. Peatland COS method - Transforming data collection for evidence-based peatland policy and practice |
| Organisation | Natural England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The restoration of damaged peatlands has been identified as a key option for reaching net zero emissions by 2050 by the Committee on Climate Change, but debate continues to rage over the effects of restoration and management decisions. This project aims to address the current lack of evidence that would enable designing consistent ways of measuring different peatland-related conditions outcomes. Building up on an identification and selection of core sets of outcome measures that can be given priority in peatland research and monitoring data collection by the peatland community, this project will prioritise the core outcomes that are most relevant to the assessment of peatland condition in Defra pilot sites, identify criteria against which methods and protocols for collecting outcome measure data can be evaluated , identify relevant methods and protocols for assessing each prioritised outcome measure, propose methods and protocols for each prioritised outcome measure that could be used by those implementing the England Peat Strategy to assess progress against strategy goals, and develop reporting protocols to standardise how data is recorded and stored via PeatDataHub at University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Natural England have funded a larger body of work which complements this project analysing the social barriers and opportunities to implementing the England Peat Strategy. |
| Impact | This project has supported the NE funded project analysing social barriers and opportunities to implementing the England Peat Strategy. It also informs the DEFRA North York Moors Peat pilot project for which iCASP and supporting with academic time to assist with the use of Digibog Hydro on the project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #21. Peatland COS method - Transforming data collection for evidence-based peatland policy and practice |
| Organisation | Newcastle University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The restoration of damaged peatlands has been identified as a key option for reaching net zero emissions by 2050 by the Committee on Climate Change, but debate continues to rage over the effects of restoration and management decisions. This project aims to address the current lack of evidence that would enable designing consistent ways of measuring different peatland-related conditions outcomes. Building up on an identification and selection of core sets of outcome measures that can be given priority in peatland research and monitoring data collection by the peatland community, this project will prioritise the core outcomes that are most relevant to the assessment of peatland condition in Defra pilot sites, identify criteria against which methods and protocols for collecting outcome measure data can be evaluated , identify relevant methods and protocols for assessing each prioritised outcome measure, propose methods and protocols for each prioritised outcome measure that could be used by those implementing the England Peat Strategy to assess progress against strategy goals, and develop reporting protocols to standardise how data is recorded and stored via PeatDataHub at University of Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Natural England have funded a larger body of work which complements this project analysing the social barriers and opportunities to implementing the England Peat Strategy. |
| Impact | This project has supported the NE funded project analysing social barriers and opportunities to implementing the England Peat Strategy. It also informs the DEFRA North York Moors Peat pilot project for which iCASP and supporting with academic time to assist with the use of Digibog Hydro on the project. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #23. River Aire Plastics Capture |
| Organisation | Aire Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP has conducted a review of the current literature to identify existing methods for capturing macro plastics to contribute to a proposed future project to reduce the macro plastic waste in the River Aire. This project provides background knowledge for a proposed partnership project that the University of Leeds Sustainability Team, Canal and Rivers Trust, Yorkshire Water and Aire Rivers Trust are developing. Better understanding of existing methods of plastic capture will allow an assessment of whether existing science can meet the challenge and if so how it can be scaled up and applied more widely |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners helped to co-design the project and are likely to co-design and follow up projects. Follow on projects are likely to involve capital spend which will not be eligible as iCASP projects but the iCASP report here will inform the nature of that spend. |
| Impact | The (macro) Plastics Review will be available on the iCASP website as a resource Spring 2020. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #23. River Aire Plastics Capture |
| Organisation | Canal & River Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | iCASP has conducted a review of the current literature to identify existing methods for capturing macro plastics to contribute to a proposed future project to reduce the macro plastic waste in the River Aire. This project provides background knowledge for a proposed partnership project that the University of Leeds Sustainability Team, Canal and Rivers Trust, Yorkshire Water and Aire Rivers Trust are developing. Better understanding of existing methods of plastic capture will allow an assessment of whether existing science can meet the challenge and if so how it can be scaled up and applied more widely |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners helped to co-design the project and are likely to co-design and follow up projects. Follow on projects are likely to involve capital spend which will not be eligible as iCASP projects but the iCASP report here will inform the nature of that spend. |
| Impact | The (macro) Plastics Review will be available on the iCASP website as a resource Spring 2020. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #2: Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase II (FASII) monitoring |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Information for a business case for monitoring to produce baseline information for Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase II (Leeds FASII) was generated through an iCASP-facilitated meeting bringing together Thomas MacKay Ltd and Environment Agency staff with academics from University of Leeds with experience of catchment monitoring (including River Aire), generated in part from NERC Industrial CASE studentship Woody debris effects on upland river hydromorphological processes - NE/N008065/1. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided background on the Leeds FASII proposals/the content of the draft business case, guided the input necessary from the academic team to include in the business case, and made sure that this input was included in the submitted business case. Thomas MacKay Ltd have provided information on the next steps now that the business case has been approved, including ideas for iCASP projects that would contribute to the implementation of Leeds FASII |
| Impact | Leeds FASII is a c.£115 million programme of catchment management activities to reduce flood risk in Leeds. The business case for initial activities (including developing a monitoring system) c.£3million has now been approved. iCASP is now in discussion with the Leeds FASII team regarding how it can support the development of a monitoring system. The information provided through the iCASP Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase II monitoring project helped to generate a successful business case for monitoring infrastructure of c.£100,000. The project has also stimulated discussions about the University of Leeds being the long-term 'hub' for River Aire and Calder catchment monitoring. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASP Project #2: Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase II (FASII) monitoring |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Information for a business case for monitoring to produce baseline information for Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase II (Leeds FASII) was generated through an iCASP-facilitated meeting bringing together Thomas MacKay Ltd and Environment Agency staff with academics from University of Leeds with experience of catchment monitoring (including River Aire), generated in part from NERC Industrial CASE studentship Woody debris effects on upland river hydromorphological processes - NE/N008065/1. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided background on the Leeds FASII proposals/the content of the draft business case, guided the input necessary from the academic team to include in the business case, and made sure that this input was included in the submitted business case. Thomas MacKay Ltd have provided information on the next steps now that the business case has been approved, including ideas for iCASP projects that would contribute to the implementation of Leeds FASII |
| Impact | Leeds FASII is a c.£115 million programme of catchment management activities to reduce flood risk in Leeds. The business case for initial activities (including developing a monitoring system) c.£3million has now been approved. iCASP is now in discussion with the Leeds FASII team regarding how it can support the development of a monitoring system. The information provided through the iCASP Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase II monitoring project helped to generate a successful business case for monitoring infrastructure of c.£100,000. The project has also stimulated discussions about the University of Leeds being the long-term 'hub' for River Aire and Calder catchment monitoring. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASP Project #2: Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase II (FASII) monitoring |
| Organisation | Thomas MacKay Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Information for a business case for monitoring to produce baseline information for Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase II (Leeds FASII) was generated through an iCASP-facilitated meeting bringing together Thomas MacKay Ltd and Environment Agency staff with academics from University of Leeds with experience of catchment monitoring (including River Aire), generated in part from NERC Industrial CASE studentship Woody debris effects on upland river hydromorphological processes - NE/N008065/1. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners provided background on the Leeds FASII proposals/the content of the draft business case, guided the input necessary from the academic team to include in the business case, and made sure that this input was included in the submitted business case. Thomas MacKay Ltd have provided information on the next steps now that the business case has been approved, including ideas for iCASP projects that would contribute to the implementation of Leeds FASII |
| Impact | Leeds FASII is a c.£115 million programme of catchment management activities to reduce flood risk in Leeds. The business case for initial activities (including developing a monitoring system) c.£3million has now been approved. iCASP is now in discussion with the Leeds FASII team regarding how it can support the development of a monitoring system. The information provided through the iCASP Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase II monitoring project helped to generate a successful business case for monitoring infrastructure of c.£100,000. The project has also stimulated discussions about the University of Leeds being the long-term 'hub' for River Aire and Calder catchment monitoring. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASP Project #33: Creating an evidence directory of natural flood management, The Upper Rother Catchment |
| Organisation | Don Catchment Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This project proposal has been led by Dr Ed Shaw and Dr Debbie Coldwell (DCRT) and co-designed with Dr Janet Richardson and Dr Thomas Willis (iCASP ITFs). This project has support from Anthony Downing (catchment Co-ordinator for the Don and Rother, EA) who stated - 'The project objectives to further the understanding of the relationship between the types and scale of interventions to reducing peak flows will be of great benefit as we continue to integrate NFM measures with reducing flood risk and will aid securing project funding through initiatives such as the Don and Rother Source to Sea catchment wide approach to working with Nature Based Solutions'. The project will have the following deliverables: • Maps of opportunities and impacts on flood risk (to allow for easy engagement with stakeholders and landowners); • Factsheets - output on different scenarios and impacts to append to business cases (following best practice from Calderdale NFM project); • Technical document - a more detailed report on the technical side of the project (n.b. this will not be exhaustive as other NFM focused iCASP projects can fulfil the technical step by step guide output). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Don Catchment Rivers Trust role in the project: • Help inform decision on parts of the target sub-catchments; • Input on initial model outputs and NFM scenarios; • Input and data for land management information and scenarios; • Facilitate linkage with DCRT partners and wider Don Dearne and Rother Network - EA and local councils etc; • Provide the link to on the ground changes within the catchment; • Support impact evidence activities (post-project and throughout). |
| Impact | project in development |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP Project #34: Slope instability considerations for natural flood management schemes |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The aim of this project was to establish whether NFM systems create slope instability through the increased pore fluid pressure in slopes or through an increased thrust behind natural water retaining structures. The project examined slope models utilising analytical tools available in the School of Earth and Environment and terrain conditions and geological conditions that are likely to be subject to landslide development which may need further investigation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Environment Agency will help provide EA LiDAR data to develop site specific models for further analysis. The Environment Agency, Calderdale Metropolitan Bough Council and the Calderdale NFMOG co-developed the project and worked with the project team to identify commonly used NFM approaches to inform subject modelling. |
| Impact | Project report currently being drafted. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP Project #37: Bishops Dyke |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Bishops Dike is a small tributary of the River Ouse that suffers from excessive weed growth and sediment deposition, resulting in decreased water quality and costly management for flood protection. Routine flood protection treats the problem of the weed growth and sedimentation. However, this can result in negative impacts on biodiversity and geomorphology of the tributary. The Environment Agency (EA) have started a trial project in Bishops Dike, which is utilising FCRM resource to implement measures that address sediment and nutrient loading caused by diffuse agricultural pollution to reduce the problem at the source by reducing input to the system. These measures are used routinely to improve water quality from a Water Framework Directive perspective. Therefore, as well as flood defence impacts, there could be wider ecological benefits. In order to inform the EA trial, vital information on the sources of sediment is required in the catchment, which will complement pilot work by the SSPAL lab in SEE, which has analysed sediment and nutrients. Modelling, undertaken by iCASP, using SWAT, will help understand the impact of interventions within the catchment to reduce the flood risk by addressing conveyance issues related to excessive weed growth and silt deposition. SWAT modelling will inform a baseline for the catchment from which the resulting effect on FCRM can be compared in terms of volume of sediment reduced - this information is currently lacking, but is vital to show the positive impacts of treating the source area and not the symptoms of a problem. The interventions chosen to decrease the input of sediment into the river system will also have wider benefits associated with natural flood management in terms of reducing overland flow run-off and biodiversity. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The EA are using flood risk management team resource to implement measures that address sediment and nutrient loading caused by diffuse agricultural pollution to reduce the problem at the source by reducing input to the system. |
| Impact | The main impact arising from this project would be to inform future spending of flood maintenance, which will allow for more integrated management approaches. This trial has the potential to fundamentally change the way FCRM teams use their maintenance budget allocations across catchments. Impact delivery will be through integration of findings in a report to FCRM through the trial. There could be wider impacts on the WFD by linking up with nearby projects such as 'Rivers in Elmet' - resulting in multiple benefits by targeting the two main strands of resource money for catchments. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP Project #38: Transforming environmental research into evidence on the cultural and health benefits of green and blue space |
| Organisation | Natural England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Transforming environmental research into evidence on the cultural and health benefits of green and blue space. This project will make a significant contribution to how municipal, third sector and charitable organisations, health, and environment agencies can evidence the health and wellbeing benefits of natural capital in urban, semi-urban, and rural environments. The project team will deliver a 2-phase approach with the first informing the development of the second phase of the project that begins after reporting on the first phase. 1. Phase 1 will develop an interactive online tool summarising the use of indicators and metrics that can be used to evaluate changes in natural capital, cultural ecosystem services and well being. This will be of value to Natural England, regulatory authorities, and Local Authorities in monitoring progress on local climate, health and biodiversity commitments. Outputs will inform the second phase. 2. Phase 2 will be delivered by an evidence map of nature-based interventions to enhance mental health, providing guidance on the design and implementation of initiatives using green and blue spaces to promote health and wellbeing. This will be of benefit to Local Authorities, Integrated Care Systems, Health and Care Partnerships, and Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations in informing the development and evaluation of green space-based initiatives for mental health, together with wider social and environmental co-benefits. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Natural England are providing £6,000 to support phase 1, through a sub-contract to SimOmics Ltd to update the online data base. They are also providing contributions in time to support the project. |
| Impact | project outputs will be reported in due course. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP Project #3: Optimal peatland restoration |
| Organisation | Durham University |
| Department | Durham University Business School |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Yorkshire Peat Partnership and Moors for the Future Partnership have been collaborating with the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Durham to develop tools that people can use when they consider how to get the most value from restoring peatland even as the climate changes. The project team has produced a user-friendly interface for a digital modelling tool called DigiBog_Hydro which informs what peatland restoration activities can do to optimise ecosystem service delivery. They have also developed a guide to help practitioners decide on the type of method that could be used to value the benefits of peatland restoration. This is illustrated with helpful case studies to show how different valuation methods can be used for different purposes. These tools can be used to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration and to strengthen the business case for more investment in such schemes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Yorkshire Peat Partnership and Moors for the Future Partnership have been collaborating with the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Durham to develop tools that people can use when they consider how to get the most value from restoring peatland even as the climate changes. The project team has produced a user-friendly interface for a digital modelling tool called DigiBog_Hydro which informs what peatland restoration activities can do to optimise ecosystem service delivery. They have also developed a guide to help practitioners decide on the type of method that could be used to value the benefits of peatland restoration. This is illustrated with helpful case studies to show how different valuation methods can be used for different purposes. These tools can be used to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration and to strengthen the business case for more investment in such schemes. |
| Impact | Translating existing research to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration by producing: 'User Guide for Valuing the Benefits of Peatland Restoration', providing: simple description of methods for valuing the benefits provided by peatlands, and how to apply them in practice; UK case-studies; existing evidence on the benefits of peatlands; examples of how to use estimated values of the benefits. User-friendly version of digital model (DigiBog_Hydro) to inform where and what peatland restoration activities to do to optimise ecosystem service delivery, and how this delivery may change with climate change. The User Guide has been downloaded more than 150 times, by a very diverse range of UK and abroad organisations and research institutes. Digibog_Hydro will be applied by YPP has part of the Defra peat pilots in North York Moors national Parks. The iCASP OPR project has influenced Defra pilot tender call itself and was instrumental in Yorkshire Peat Partnership winning the tender and supplying the work. Other organisations outside the partners got interested in using the model, including National resource Wales and the NGO ProNatura in Switzerland. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #3: Optimal peatland restoration |
| Organisation | Moors for the Future Partnership (MFF) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Yorkshire Peat Partnership and Moors for the Future Partnership have been collaborating with the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Durham to develop tools that people can use when they consider how to get the most value from restoring peatland even as the climate changes. The project team has produced a user-friendly interface for a digital modelling tool called DigiBog_Hydro which informs what peatland restoration activities can do to optimise ecosystem service delivery. They have also developed a guide to help practitioners decide on the type of method that could be used to value the benefits of peatland restoration. This is illustrated with helpful case studies to show how different valuation methods can be used for different purposes. These tools can be used to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration and to strengthen the business case for more investment in such schemes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Yorkshire Peat Partnership and Moors for the Future Partnership have been collaborating with the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Durham to develop tools that people can use when they consider how to get the most value from restoring peatland even as the climate changes. The project team has produced a user-friendly interface for a digital modelling tool called DigiBog_Hydro which informs what peatland restoration activities can do to optimise ecosystem service delivery. They have also developed a guide to help practitioners decide on the type of method that could be used to value the benefits of peatland restoration. This is illustrated with helpful case studies to show how different valuation methods can be used for different purposes. These tools can be used to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration and to strengthen the business case for more investment in such schemes. |
| Impact | Translating existing research to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration by producing: 'User Guide for Valuing the Benefits of Peatland Restoration', providing: simple description of methods for valuing the benefits provided by peatlands, and how to apply them in practice; UK case-studies; existing evidence on the benefits of peatlands; examples of how to use estimated values of the benefits. User-friendly version of digital model (DigiBog_Hydro) to inform where and what peatland restoration activities to do to optimise ecosystem service delivery, and how this delivery may change with climate change. The User Guide has been downloaded more than 150 times, by a very diverse range of UK and abroad organisations and research institutes. Digibog_Hydro will be applied by YPP has part of the Defra peat pilots in North York Moors national Parks. The iCASP OPR project has influenced Defra pilot tender call itself and was instrumental in Yorkshire Peat Partnership winning the tender and supplying the work. Other organisations outside the partners got interested in using the model, including National resource Wales and the NGO ProNatura in Switzerland. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #3: Optimal peatland restoration |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Department | Cathie Marsh Institute for Social Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Yorkshire Peat Partnership and Moors for the Future Partnership have been collaborating with the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Durham to develop tools that people can use when they consider how to get the most value from restoring peatland even as the climate changes. The project team has produced a user-friendly interface for a digital modelling tool called DigiBog_Hydro which informs what peatland restoration activities can do to optimise ecosystem service delivery. They have also developed a guide to help practitioners decide on the type of method that could be used to value the benefits of peatland restoration. This is illustrated with helpful case studies to show how different valuation methods can be used for different purposes. These tools can be used to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration and to strengthen the business case for more investment in such schemes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Yorkshire Peat Partnership and Moors for the Future Partnership have been collaborating with the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Durham to develop tools that people can use when they consider how to get the most value from restoring peatland even as the climate changes. The project team has produced a user-friendly interface for a digital modelling tool called DigiBog_Hydro which informs what peatland restoration activities can do to optimise ecosystem service delivery. They have also developed a guide to help practitioners decide on the type of method that could be used to value the benefits of peatland restoration. This is illustrated with helpful case studies to show how different valuation methods can be used for different purposes. These tools can be used to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration and to strengthen the business case for more investment in such schemes. |
| Impact | Translating existing research to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration by producing: 'User Guide for Valuing the Benefits of Peatland Restoration', providing: simple description of methods for valuing the benefits provided by peatlands, and how to apply them in practice; UK case-studies; existing evidence on the benefits of peatlands; examples of how to use estimated values of the benefits. User-friendly version of digital model (DigiBog_Hydro) to inform where and what peatland restoration activities to do to optimise ecosystem service delivery, and how this delivery may change with climate change. The User Guide has been downloaded more than 150 times, by a very diverse range of UK and abroad organisations and research institutes. Digibog_Hydro will be applied by YPP has part of the Defra peat pilots in North York Moors national Parks. The iCASP OPR project has influenced Defra pilot tender call itself and was instrumental in Yorkshire Peat Partnership winning the tender and supplying the work. Other organisations outside the partners got interested in using the model, including National resource Wales and the NGO ProNatura in Switzerland. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #3: Optimal peatland restoration |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Peat Partnership |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Yorkshire Peat Partnership and Moors for the Future Partnership have been collaborating with the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Durham to develop tools that people can use when they consider how to get the most value from restoring peatland even as the climate changes. The project team has produced a user-friendly interface for a digital modelling tool called DigiBog_Hydro which informs what peatland restoration activities can do to optimise ecosystem service delivery. They have also developed a guide to help practitioners decide on the type of method that could be used to value the benefits of peatland restoration. This is illustrated with helpful case studies to show how different valuation methods can be used for different purposes. These tools can be used to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration and to strengthen the business case for more investment in such schemes. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Yorkshire Peat Partnership and Moors for the Future Partnership have been collaborating with the Universities of Leeds, Manchester and Durham to develop tools that people can use when they consider how to get the most value from restoring peatland even as the climate changes. The project team has produced a user-friendly interface for a digital modelling tool called DigiBog_Hydro which informs what peatland restoration activities can do to optimise ecosystem service delivery. They have also developed a guide to help practitioners decide on the type of method that could be used to value the benefits of peatland restoration. This is illustrated with helpful case studies to show how different valuation methods can be used for different purposes. These tools can be used to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration and to strengthen the business case for more investment in such schemes. |
| Impact | Translating existing research to support multi-million pound investments in peatland restoration by producing: 'User Guide for Valuing the Benefits of Peatland Restoration', providing: simple description of methods for valuing the benefits provided by peatlands, and how to apply them in practice; UK case-studies; existing evidence on the benefits of peatlands; examples of how to use estimated values of the benefits. User-friendly version of digital model (DigiBog_Hydro) to inform where and what peatland restoration activities to do to optimise ecosystem service delivery, and how this delivery may change with climate change. The User Guide has been downloaded more than 150 times, by a very diverse range of UK and abroad organisations and research institutes. Digibog_Hydro will be applied by YPP has part of the Defra peat pilots in North York Moors national Parks. The iCASP OPR project has influenced Defra pilot tender call itself and was instrumental in Yorkshire Peat Partnership winning the tender and supplying the work. Other organisations outside the partners got interested in using the model, including National resource Wales and the NGO ProNatura in Switzerland. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #41: Backstone Beck integrated NFM and flood risk modelling |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The aim of this project is to build an open-source rain-on-grid catchment and river model for the Backstone Beck, on Ilkley Moor, using rainfall and river flow monitoring data collected over the past three years by the Environment Agency, Bradford City Council, Moors for the Future and Yorkshire Water. This model will be used to assess recently implemented Natural Flood Management (NFM) measures and to support partners with changes in the catchment proposed for the future. It will build modelling methodologies refined in other iCASP projects including the NFM in Calderdale project, but has the advantage of access to a significant quantity of monitoring data at the site. The work will also be used to test application of the new CIRIA national guidance on NFM due to be released later this year. Assessing the effectiveness of natural flood management measures (NFM) recently implemented in the Backstone Beck catchment is the focus of the monitoring to help reduce flood risk downstream. This hasn't been achieved by other DEFRA projects and the project will develop modelling method guidance for practitioners that is applicable to other sites nationally. This is an NFM test case of integrating multiple stakeholder issues in the co-development of one model. There are many flood risk management authorities, asset owners and local authorities invested in the outcomes of the modelling, but none have responsibility for the whole catchment or all the related issues. New data, the practicalities of NFM implementation and a new awareness of the integration of surface water management issues means there is a new opportunity to integrate these multiple efforts with best practice derived from the existing iCASP NFM work. An aim is to provide partners with a better holistic understanding of how any changes will impact on the surface water in the catchment. Partners will be encouraged to co-develop and co-fund a mutually beneficial open model that transcends individual interests. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Environment Agency have been able to provide important data and political context for this project - there are some local sensitivities in the area surrounding the Ilkley Bathing Water project as well as local flooding for which this project could theoretically have an positive impact should future recommendations be followed up by other iCASP partners. |
| Impact | project report will be produced in due course. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP Project #44: West Yorkshire FLIP (Flood Innovation Programme) |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | A collaborative, innovative programme to reduce the impact of flooding and climate change in the region Five lead Local Flood Authorities West Yorkshire have launched an innovative programme to make the region more resilient to flooding and climate change. The West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (FLIP) will work at catchment level and across administrative boundaries. This ambitious programme will explore new ways of working including bringing together people who do not normally work together such as representatives from the private sector, community groups, charities and volunteers with a keen interest in flood resilience. Collaboration is key and representatives outside of the flood risk and environment sectors will be involved including the finance and insurance sector, transport, education, technology and health to ensure a holistic approach and other benefits for our communities. iCASP worked with the project partners to write and submit the successful project bids to the Regional Flood and Coastal Defence Committee and a subsequent bid to Research England to support further development of the project. The programme has five themes which iCASP helped to develop and which aim to reduce the impact of both fluvial and groundwater flooding in the region and each local authority will take the lead on one of them. They are :- Integrated water management solutions. Nature based solutions or Natural Flood Management Property flood resilience Helping the community and voluntary sector to be better prepared and recover more quickly Enhanced flood warning systems iCASP were successful in submitting a bid to Research England to fund the development of a roadmap which will set out the aims of the WY FLIP and how we propose to address them. To realise true innovation and increase resilience we need input from a wide range of partners. The roadmap, will be used to: Foster joint understanding and ownership of the aim and purpose of the WY FLIP and its five priority themes Set out a co-designed, joint vision for actions, milestones and future sustainability of the programme Identify opportunities, barriers and innovations under each of the five priority themes, including scoping of shovel-ready and flagship projects Communicate the joint vision and action plan of the WY FLIP to engage further partners and potential funders. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Leeds City Council are Chairing the partnership but iCASP have been appointed as the programme managers. The Environment Agency is also a partner and they have support from local stakeholders including academic partners, community based groups, Third Sector organisations and Yorkshire Water. The West Yorkshire FLIP Programme Board is being set up with representatives from the five local flood authorities and others and will be chaired by Leeds City Council. The West Yorkshire Flood Risk Partnership will provide a strategic role, linking into the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee and Catchment Partnerships. |
| Impact | Learning from the programme will be shared across organisations to help others deliver similar projects successfully across the region, nationally and internationally. Outputs / impact will be shared in due course. Impact to date has been to assist Lead Local Flood Authorities with co-ordinating not only funding bids but to develop a strategic flood risk vision for West Yorkshire. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP Project #46; Leafy debris and trashscreens |
| Organisation | Kirklees Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP were asked to collaborate with Kirklees Assessing main debris load contributors along ordinary watercourses which cause debris screens to become partially blocked. Outcome is to look at root causes and find alternative plant species to reduce maintenance inspection and clearance of debris screens or even the need to have them. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Kirklees Council wanted to address the problem of leafy debris presenting a blockage to trashscreens and to explore if a different approach to management of non ordinary water courses could reduce maintenance frequencies for them and for other similar Local Authorities. They provided data and information about the problem and iCASP provided its knowledge to suggest a solution. |
| Impact | iCASP produced a 2 - 3 page information leaflet about how to work with natural processes to reduce flood risk and reduce potential impacts of sediment loading from leafy debris.The leaflet contains the info that Kirklees need to develop into leaflet drop for riparian residents. We are currently considering whether we should produce a generic resource for all local authorities. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP Project #47: Defra landscape recovery test and trails. |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Following a successful expression of interest, Defra invited iCASP to submit a proposal that would address the Landscape Recovery phase of their Test and Trials that aim to inform the future direction of the new Environmental Land Management Scheme. This Test is being delivered by the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions team with support from leading academics at the University of Leeds (UoL) and professional partners (farm advisors, landowners, public and private organisations as participants). The main aims of this Test are to (a) demonstrate a process/mechanism whereby academic input (on national priorities and scientific evidence) is combined with local knowledge/expertise to balance national/local, Land Recovery (LR)/Biodiversity Net Gain/Nature for Climate and public/private priorities; (b) communicate academic knowledge on different contracts/legal issues (building on previously funded research) and corroborate these with stakeholders' views to inform LR advice and payment mechanisms. The Test will build upon previous research carried out by iCASP / UoL working with CSFF from across Yorkshire. The project team will address the policy questions within the Test by compiling existing research, academic and partner expertise on each of the policy questions under "Testing Landscape Recovery Components" and then testing the findings with stakeholders, which will be carried out via a combination of workshops and Q-methodology. The work is being supported by Forest and Land and Eaton Hugill who represent and South Pennine and Esk Valley farmers Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Funds. . |
| Collaborator Contribution | Defra have paid iCASP for thid work. The work is being supported by Forest and Land and Eaton Hugill who represent and South Pennine and Esk Valley farmers Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Funds. farmers and regulators run by iCASP. The Test builds on the ongoing work led by iCASP at the University of Leeds (UoL) including the projects EU H2020 CONSOLE [focus on new agri-environmental contract designs], Global Food Security Resilient Dairy Landscapes [focus on blended finance], H2020 BESTMAP [farmers AES adoption and environmental impacts] and the National Trust's Test and Trials we supported in-kind in the Yorkshire Dales. In the CONSOLE project, UoL formed a Community of Practice (CoP) of both farm advisors and farmers from all Countryside Stewardship Facilitation Fund (CSFF) groups in the Humber/Yorkshire region, who would form the basis of the Test for large-scale Landscape Recovery (LR) collaborative schemes. The Test was developed together with the South Pennine Farmers group, one of the CSFF networks, and will also use that area as well as Esk Valley for two place-based workshops. The invited farmers for the Test will mainly come from upland areas where beef and sheep farming dominate and be heavily reliant on subsidies and branching out to other activities to supplement farm income. By engaging with a range of CSFF across Yorkshire we will cover areas within National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) as well as outside these designated areas (e.g., South Pennine farmer group). |
| Impact | outputs will appear in due course |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP Project #4: Supporting the Yorkshire Natural Flood Management (NFM) pilots to deliver evidence and guidance that will influence national implementation and financing of NFM |
| Organisation | Bradford Metropolitan District Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of NFM interventions such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of approaches such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Impact | The project has identified the modelling and monitoring needs of each pilot project, supported the business cases to release pilot project funding (see 'Other Outputs/Knowledge/Future Steps' section), and provided comments to the EA on its NFM monitoring guidance. The Bishopdale and Brompton pilots will now include control catchments at the suggestion of iCASP. The Community of Practice set up as part of this project has led to the organization of 7 meetings so far, touching on different NFM-related thematics. It has proved to be successful in fostering interactions between actors engaged with NFM activities in the catchment, Events held quarterly and now consistently attract over 50 attendees. The community of practice has now received £80,000 of local levy funding to sustain the group for the next 3 years. The money was awarded to Leeds City Council who will work in partnership with iCASP to deliver the COP - an 18 month programme of event and formal steering group will be established as part of this work. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #4: Supporting the Yorkshire Natural Flood Management (NFM) pilots to deliver evidence and guidance that will influence national implementation and financing of NFM |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of NFM interventions such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of approaches such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Impact | The project has identified the modelling and monitoring needs of each pilot project, supported the business cases to release pilot project funding (see 'Other Outputs/Knowledge/Future Steps' section), and provided comments to the EA on its NFM monitoring guidance. The Bishopdale and Brompton pilots will now include control catchments at the suggestion of iCASP. The Community of Practice set up as part of this project has led to the organization of 7 meetings so far, touching on different NFM-related thematics. It has proved to be successful in fostering interactions between actors engaged with NFM activities in the catchment, Events held quarterly and now consistently attract over 50 attendees. The community of practice has now received £80,000 of local levy funding to sustain the group for the next 3 years. The money was awarded to Leeds City Council who will work in partnership with iCASP to deliver the COP - an 18 month programme of event and formal steering group will be established as part of this work. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #4: Supporting the Yorkshire Natural Flood Management (NFM) pilots to deliver evidence and guidance that will influence national implementation and financing of NFM |
| Organisation | JBA Consulting |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of NFM interventions such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of approaches such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Impact | The project has identified the modelling and monitoring needs of each pilot project, supported the business cases to release pilot project funding (see 'Other Outputs/Knowledge/Future Steps' section), and provided comments to the EA on its NFM monitoring guidance. The Bishopdale and Brompton pilots will now include control catchments at the suggestion of iCASP. The Community of Practice set up as part of this project has led to the organization of 7 meetings so far, touching on different NFM-related thematics. It has proved to be successful in fostering interactions between actors engaged with NFM activities in the catchment, Events held quarterly and now consistently attract over 50 attendees. The community of practice has now received £80,000 of local levy funding to sustain the group for the next 3 years. The money was awarded to Leeds City Council who will work in partnership with iCASP to deliver the COP - an 18 month programme of event and formal steering group will be established as part of this work. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #4: Supporting the Yorkshire Natural Flood Management (NFM) pilots to deliver evidence and guidance that will influence national implementation and financing of NFM |
| Organisation | National Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of NFM interventions such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of approaches such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Impact | The project has identified the modelling and monitoring needs of each pilot project, supported the business cases to release pilot project funding (see 'Other Outputs/Knowledge/Future Steps' section), and provided comments to the EA on its NFM monitoring guidance. The Bishopdale and Brompton pilots will now include control catchments at the suggestion of iCASP. The Community of Practice set up as part of this project has led to the organization of 7 meetings so far, touching on different NFM-related thematics. It has proved to be successful in fostering interactions between actors engaged with NFM activities in the catchment, Events held quarterly and now consistently attract over 50 attendees. The community of practice has now received £80,000 of local levy funding to sustain the group for the next 3 years. The money was awarded to Leeds City Council who will work in partnership with iCASP to deliver the COP - an 18 month programme of event and formal steering group will be established as part of this work. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #4: Supporting the Yorkshire Natural Flood Management (NFM) pilots to deliver evidence and guidance that will influence national implementation and financing of NFM |
| Organisation | Rivers Trust |
| Department | Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of NFM interventions such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of approaches such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Impact | The project has identified the modelling and monitoring needs of each pilot project, supported the business cases to release pilot project funding (see 'Other Outputs/Knowledge/Future Steps' section), and provided comments to the EA on its NFM monitoring guidance. The Bishopdale and Brompton pilots will now include control catchments at the suggestion of iCASP. The Community of Practice set up as part of this project has led to the organization of 7 meetings so far, touching on different NFM-related thematics. It has proved to be successful in fostering interactions between actors engaged with NFM activities in the catchment, Events held quarterly and now consistently attract over 50 attendees. The community of practice has now received £80,000 of local levy funding to sustain the group for the next 3 years. The money was awarded to Leeds City Council who will work in partnership with iCASP to deliver the COP - an 18 month programme of event and formal steering group will be established as part of this work. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #4: Supporting the Yorkshire Natural Flood Management (NFM) pilots to deliver evidence and guidance that will influence national implementation and financing of NFM |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Department | Biological Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of NFM interventions such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Experts in modelling and monitoring are showing practitioners and communities different ways to evaluate and quantify the effectiveness of approaches such as tree planting and building leaky woody dams. The project team will share insights from these pilot schemes with larger-scale flood alleviation schemes such as in Leeds, York, Sheffield, and Calderdale. The integration of natural flood management processes with hard engineered structures could give greater protection to homes, businesses and transport links in the region. Outputs of the project will help update the Environment Agency's national 'Working with Natural Processes' evidence base and guidance. The project will also help to develop a community of practice to increase regional NFM capability by providing a platform for NFM practitioners to network, learn from each other, share best practice and overcome challenges in a collaborative manner. |
| Impact | The project has identified the modelling and monitoring needs of each pilot project, supported the business cases to release pilot project funding (see 'Other Outputs/Knowledge/Future Steps' section), and provided comments to the EA on its NFM monitoring guidance. The Bishopdale and Brompton pilots will now include control catchments at the suggestion of iCASP. The Community of Practice set up as part of this project has led to the organization of 7 meetings so far, touching on different NFM-related thematics. It has proved to be successful in fostering interactions between actors engaged with NFM activities in the catchment, Events held quarterly and now consistently attract over 50 attendees. The community of practice has now received £80,000 of local levy funding to sustain the group for the next 3 years. The money was awarded to Leeds City Council who will work in partnership with iCASP to deliver the COP - an 18 month programme of event and formal steering group will be established as part of this work. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #5: Agricultural land management and public goods delivery - review of soil health evidence |
| Organisation | Dales to Vale River Network |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Impact | Full review of the peer reviewed evidence, summary document and briefing paper https://icasp.org.uk/resources/public-goods/ The review was flagged in two submissions (one by iCASP, one by Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership) to Defra's consultation Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment. Briefing meetings with Defra and NFU were held to discuss the results of the review. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #5: Agricultural land management and public goods delivery - review of soil health evidence |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Impact | Full review of the peer reviewed evidence, summary document and briefing paper https://icasp.org.uk/resources/public-goods/ The review was flagged in two submissions (one by iCASP, one by Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership) to Defra's consultation Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment. Briefing meetings with Defra and NFU were held to discuss the results of the review. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #5: Agricultural land management and public goods delivery - review of soil health evidence |
| Organisation | National Farmers Union |
| Department | Scottish National Farmers Union |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Impact | Full review of the peer reviewed evidence, summary document and briefing paper https://icasp.org.uk/resources/public-goods/ The review was flagged in two submissions (one by iCASP, one by Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership) to Defra's consultation Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment. Briefing meetings with Defra and NFU were held to discuss the results of the review. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #5: Agricultural land management and public goods delivery - review of soil health evidence |
| Organisation | Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Impact | Full review of the peer reviewed evidence, summary document and briefing paper https://icasp.org.uk/resources/public-goods/ The review was flagged in two submissions (one by iCASP, one by Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership) to Defra's consultation Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment. Briefing meetings with Defra and NFU were held to discuss the results of the review. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #5: Agricultural land management and public goods delivery - review of soil health evidence |
| Organisation | University of Newcastle |
| Department | School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Impact | Full review of the peer reviewed evidence, summary document and briefing paper https://icasp.org.uk/resources/public-goods/ The review was flagged in two submissions (one by iCASP, one by Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership) to Defra's consultation Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment. Briefing meetings with Defra and NFU were held to discuss the results of the review. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #5: Agricultural land management and public goods delivery - review of soil health evidence |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Department | University of Sheffield, Tissue resource |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Impact | Full review of the peer reviewed evidence, summary document and briefing paper https://icasp.org.uk/resources/public-goods/ The review was flagged in two submissions (one by iCASP, one by Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership) to Defra's consultation Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment. Briefing meetings with Defra and NFU were held to discuss the results of the review. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #5: Agricultural land management and public goods delivery - review of soil health evidence |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Department | York Trials Unit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Impact | Full review of the peer reviewed evidence, summary document and briefing paper https://icasp.org.uk/resources/public-goods/ The review was flagged in two submissions (one by iCASP, one by Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership) to Defra's consultation Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment. Briefing meetings with Defra and NFU were held to discuss the results of the review. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #5: Agricultural land management and public goods delivery - review of soil health evidence |
| Organisation | White Rose Forest |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Impact | Full review of the peer reviewed evidence, summary document and briefing paper https://icasp.org.uk/resources/public-goods/ The review was flagged in two submissions (one by iCASP, one by Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership) to Defra's consultation Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment. Briefing meetings with Defra and NFU were held to discuss the results of the review. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #5: Agricultural land management and public goods delivery - review of soil health evidence |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Defra is currently exploring how to incentivise farmers and land owners to manage their land in ways that can deliver so-called public goods, as well as food security. These goods could include improved water quality, flood protection and carbon storage. The proposed changes to the way farm subsidies are awarded has presented iCASP with an opportunity to make a helpful contribution. Recognising that healthy soil underpins the delivery of many public goods, iCASP has carried out a rapid review of evidence on the effectiveness of ten agricultural practices for improving soil health. The ten that were selected are those that are adopted most frequently by Yorkshire farmers signed up to current agri-environment schemes. The results provide some useful pointers for policy-makers and farmers which the team are communicating in a series of hand-outs for different target audiences. |
| Impact | Full review of the peer reviewed evidence, summary document and briefing paper https://icasp.org.uk/resources/public-goods/ The review was flagged in two submissions (one by iCASP, one by Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership) to Defra's consultation Health and Harmony: the future for food, farming and the environment. Briefing meetings with Defra and NFU were held to discuss the results of the review. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #6: Enhanced surface water flood forecasts for Yorkshire |
| Organisation | City of York Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Impact | The project has made contribution to Leeds Flood Risk Strategy consultation, influenced SEPA and Met Office forecast development, published 2 articles. Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Böing, SJ, et al. Enhanced surface water flood forecasts: User-led development and testing. J Flood Risk Management. 2021; 1- 17. Böing, SJ, Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Shelton, KL. A percentile-based approach to rainfall scenario construction for surface-water flood forecasts. Meteorol Appl. 2020; 27:e1963. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #6: Enhanced surface water flood forecasts for Yorkshire |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Impact | The project has made contribution to Leeds Flood Risk Strategy consultation, influenced SEPA and Met Office forecast development, published 2 articles. Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Böing, SJ, et al. Enhanced surface water flood forecasts: User-led development and testing. J Flood Risk Management. 2021; 1- 17. Böing, SJ, Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Shelton, KL. A percentile-based approach to rainfall scenario construction for surface-water flood forecasts. Meteorol Appl. 2020; 27:e1963. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #6: Enhanced surface water flood forecasts for Yorkshire |
| Organisation | JBA Consulting |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Impact | The project has made contribution to Leeds Flood Risk Strategy consultation, influenced SEPA and Met Office forecast development, published 2 articles. Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Böing, SJ, et al. Enhanced surface water flood forecasts: User-led development and testing. J Flood Risk Management. 2021; 1- 17. Böing, SJ, Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Shelton, KL. A percentile-based approach to rainfall scenario construction for surface-water flood forecasts. Meteorol Appl. 2020; 27:e1963. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #6: Enhanced surface water flood forecasts for Yorkshire |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Impact | The project has made contribution to Leeds Flood Risk Strategy consultation, influenced SEPA and Met Office forecast development, published 2 articles. Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Böing, SJ, et al. Enhanced surface water flood forecasts: User-led development and testing. J Flood Risk Management. 2021; 1- 17. Böing, SJ, Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Shelton, KL. A percentile-based approach to rainfall scenario construction for surface-water flood forecasts. Meteorol Appl. 2020; 27:e1963. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #6: Enhanced surface water flood forecasts for Yorkshire |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Department | Scottish Flood Forecasting Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Impact | The project has made contribution to Leeds Flood Risk Strategy consultation, influenced SEPA and Met Office forecast development, published 2 articles. Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Böing, SJ, et al. Enhanced surface water flood forecasts: User-led development and testing. J Flood Risk Management. 2021; 1- 17. Böing, SJ, Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Shelton, KL. A percentile-based approach to rainfall scenario construction for surface-water flood forecasts. Meteorol Appl. 2020; 27:e1963. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #6: Enhanced surface water flood forecasts for Yorkshire |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Current weather forecasts can't pinpoint the location for heavy rainfall precisely enough. This makes it hard for decision-makers to take evasive action - issue flood warnings, reroute traffic, etc., because they can't be sure of getting it right. This iCASP project is harnessing the latest advances in probabilistic rainfall forecasting and high resolution surface water modelling to explore whether 'real-time' local-scale forecasts could help Lead Local Flood Authorities take decisions more readily. |
| Impact | The project has made contribution to Leeds Flood Risk Strategy consultation, influenced SEPA and Met Office forecast development, published 2 articles. Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Böing, SJ, et al. Enhanced surface water flood forecasts: User-led development and testing. J Flood Risk Management. 2021; 1- 17. Böing, SJ, Birch, CE, Rabb, BL, Shelton, KL. A percentile-based approach to rainfall scenario construction for surface-water flood forecasts. Meteorol Appl. 2020; 27:e1963. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #7: Strategic Monitoring Review on the Yorkshire Derwent Prototype |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Derwent Data Finder project will explore whether a collaborative monitoring system could help the Environment Agency and other organisations to reduce costs and to gather more useable information. The EA spend c.£60 million to maintain, and process the data from, the current national monitoring system. Focusing on the Yorkshire Derwent, the project will develop an online metadata database that can point users to a variety of sources of information that they may not even have known existed. This will encourage the sharing and collation of data to address catchment management issues. It will demonstrate whether the data currently collected is helping to address surface water and other catchment management issues, save costs by preventing duplication of effort, and inform future monitoring investments by identifying knowledge gaps. The Yorkshire Derwent is one of five catchment 'prototype projects' that have been chosen by the Environment Agency as part of its national review of monitoring, so the learning from the project will be helpful further afield. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Derwent Data Finder project will explore whether a collaborative monitoring system could help the Environment Agency and other organisations to reduce costs and to gather more useable information. The EA spend c.£60 million to maintain, and process the data from, the current national monitoring system. Focusing on the Yorkshire Derwent, the project will develop an online metadata database that can point users to a variety of sources of information that they may not even have known existed. This will encourage the sharing and collation of data to address catchment management issues. It will demonstrate whether the data currently collected is helping to address surface water and other catchment management issues, save costs by preventing duplication of effort, and inform future monitoring investments by identifying knowledge gaps. The Yorkshire Derwent is one of five catchment 'prototype projects' that have been chosen by the Environment Agency as part of its national review of monitoring, so the learning from the project will be helpful further afield. |
| Impact | Produced a new defined list of metadata categories that feed multiple partners needs as there is not a recognised standard across different data providers and users. Available data has been collated into the new metadata format and a metadata map produced related to surface water quality for the Derwent Catchment. Briefing note produced for EA to inform national strategic monitoring review. There has since been interest in this project and in replicating a Data finder for the Dales. Lessons learnt from this project and currently (2020) being shared by the Environment Agency and iCASP with the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #8: Providing evidence for Don Catchment Hidden Heritage Secret Streams Project |
| Organisation | Don Catchment Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | One of the aims of the project is to improve the way land is managed so that it provides both social and heritage benefits. iCASP will provide academic expertise to collate open source data and produce opportunity maps. The lessons learnt can be used by other neighbouring and national catchments. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Trust will recruit volunteers to put in place small and simple changes. These will reduce river pollution from different sources, slow the rate at which water flows down the river, and make it easier for different species to flourish by ensuring suitable habitats are connected up in the landscape. At the moment, it's difficult to prioritise what should be done and whether volunteers can do it. The available information has not been consolidated or analysed at high enough resolutions to understand which areas require land management. |
| Impact | The Don Catchment River Trust introduced Janet Richardson to the Trent Rivers Trust. This has led to discussion of iCASP, iCASP outputs and an invite to present at the Trent Rivers Trust Annual conference in Newark. There is evidence that the DCRT have improved knowledge on NFM modelling, specifically the data side of the project and the tools available to model multiple benefits. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #8: Providing evidence for Don Catchment Hidden Heritage Secret Streams Project |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Department | University of Sheffield, Tissue resource |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | One of the aims of the project is to improve the way land is managed so that it provides both social and heritage benefits. iCASP will provide academic expertise to collate open source data and produce opportunity maps. The lessons learnt can be used by other neighbouring and national catchments. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Trust will recruit volunteers to put in place small and simple changes. These will reduce river pollution from different sources, slow the rate at which water flows down the river, and make it easier for different species to flourish by ensuring suitable habitats are connected up in the landscape. At the moment, it's difficult to prioritise what should be done and whether volunteers can do it. The available information has not been consolidated or analysed at high enough resolutions to understand which areas require land management. |
| Impact | The Don Catchment River Trust introduced Janet Richardson to the Trent Rivers Trust. This has led to discussion of iCASP, iCASP outputs and an invite to present at the Trent Rivers Trust Annual conference in Newark. There is evidence that the DCRT have improved knowledge on NFM modelling, specifically the data side of the project and the tools available to model multiple benefits. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #8: Providing evidence for Don Catchment Hidden Heritage Secret Streams Project |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Department | Biological Sciences |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | One of the aims of the project is to improve the way land is managed so that it provides both social and heritage benefits. iCASP will provide academic expertise to collate open source data and produce opportunity maps. The lessons learnt can be used by other neighbouring and national catchments. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Trust will recruit volunteers to put in place small and simple changes. These will reduce river pollution from different sources, slow the rate at which water flows down the river, and make it easier for different species to flourish by ensuring suitable habitats are connected up in the landscape. At the moment, it's difficult to prioritise what should be done and whether volunteers can do it. The available information has not been consolidated or analysed at high enough resolutions to understand which areas require land management. |
| Impact | The Don Catchment River Trust introduced Janet Richardson to the Trent Rivers Trust. This has led to discussion of iCASP, iCASP outputs and an invite to present at the Trent Rivers Trust Annual conference in Newark. There is evidence that the DCRT have improved knowledge on NFM modelling, specifically the data side of the project and the tools available to model multiple benefits. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #9: UKCP18 regional forum |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Department | Scottish Flood Forecasting Service |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project delivered a UKCP18 Forum in 2019 to bring together organisations from different sectors of the regional economy which use UK climate projections in resilience planning and long-term business strategies. The event was timed to follow the publication of the updated UK Climate Projections in November 2018 and May 2019 and aimed to address queries from regional stakeholders about UKCP18 and its use, connect organisations and individuals using UKCP18 data/products, and help the Met Office identify who is using UKCP18 data/products and get feedback on their adequacy for addressing regional issues. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All partner organisations provided support on networking and coordination. |
| Impact | 90% of respondents reported gaining a better understanding of how to use UKCP18 to make informed climate change adaptation decisions. An average of around 7 new contacts were made by each participant (who responded to the survey) with 75% of respondents suggesting they were going to follow up with discussions after the event. Comments/ suggestions included a desire to learn more about the practical application of UKCP18 in specific cases e.g. surface water flooding, coastal planning, and economic impacts. Participants appreciated the live, click-along demonstration of the User Interface by the Met Office and thought more time could have been allocated to this part of the forum. The iCASP team will look closely at all the comments and use them to shape future engagement in this area. The forum gathered 61 participants across 30 different organisations. All delegates were provided with a 'UKCP18' regional network contacts list and presentation slides from the day. Yorkshire Water Senior Director was keen to support the network going forward. Met Office colleagues have asked for 'best practice' advice on how other, similar regional fora could be developed elsewhere. Generally, there is evidence from this event that the iCASP project supported the awareness and capability of a various range of stakeholders to use UKCP18 outputs. JBA Risk Management (providers of risk intelligence to the re-insurance sector) wrote a blog on the forum available here: https://www.jbarisk.com/news-blogs/icasp-a-regional-response-to-ukcp18/. iCASP subsequently attracted funding to hold a regional Infrastructure Adaptation Forum in 2021. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #9: UKCP18 regional forum |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The project delivered a UKCP18 Forum in 2019 to bring together organisations from different sectors of the regional economy which use UK climate projections in resilience planning and long-term business strategies. The event was timed to follow the publication of the updated UK Climate Projections in November 2018 and May 2019 and aimed to address queries from regional stakeholders about UKCP18 and its use, connect organisations and individuals using UKCP18 data/products, and help the Met Office identify who is using UKCP18 data/products and get feedback on their adequacy for addressing regional issues. |
| Collaborator Contribution | All partner organisations provided support on networking and coordination. |
| Impact | 90% of respondents reported gaining a better understanding of how to use UKCP18 to make informed climate change adaptation decisions. An average of around 7 new contacts were made by each participant (who responded to the survey) with 75% of respondents suggesting they were going to follow up with discussions after the event. Comments/ suggestions included a desire to learn more about the practical application of UKCP18 in specific cases e.g. surface water flooding, coastal planning, and economic impacts. Participants appreciated the live, click-along demonstration of the User Interface by the Met Office and thought more time could have been allocated to this part of the forum. The iCASP team will look closely at all the comments and use them to shape future engagement in this area. The forum gathered 61 participants across 30 different organisations. All delegates were provided with a 'UKCP18' regional network contacts list and presentation slides from the day. Yorkshire Water Senior Director was keen to support the network going forward. Met Office colleagues have asked for 'best practice' advice on how other, similar regional fora could be developed elsewhere. Generally, there is evidence from this event that the iCASP project supported the awareness and capability of a various range of stakeholders to use UKCP18 outputs. JBA Risk Management (providers of risk intelligence to the re-insurance sector) wrote a blog on the forum available here: https://www.jbarisk.com/news-blogs/icasp-a-regional-response-to-ukcp18/. iCASP subsequently attracted funding to hold a regional Infrastructure Adaptation Forum in 2021. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP project #1: Piloting new climate change projections with regional stakeholders in Yorkshire catchments |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Using climate modelling and risk assessment academic expertise, this project sought to build the capability of a variety of regional organisations to use the new UK climate change projections (UKCP18), and to provide feedback to the Met Office on the data and tools to be released as part of UKCP18 as an official UKCP18 demonstrator project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JBA - access to expertise on use of company tools, and provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Yorkshire Water - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections, including relaying specific knowledge gained from interaction with UKCP18 industry user group; NFU - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Met Office - guidance on the use of climate projections in impact assessment and on forthcoming UKCP18, provision of UKCP18 'dummy data' and associated guidance material, integration of iCASP project results into UKCP18 material; Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Leeds City Council - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Environment Agency - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections. |
| Impact | Capability building and knowledge sharing workshops to showcase the forthcoming UKCP18 data and data products (to be released in November 2018 and May 2019) were held, and case studies developed to showcase how the data could be used (case study 1: quantifying the risk of protracted drought; case study 2: assessments of high-intensity rainfall/risk of surface flooding). Met Office has used the feedback from workshops to help them understand priorities for stakeholders, and therefore decide on what data to make available. The case studies, together with a summary of the project, are available from the Met Office website, and have been publicised through a Met Office UKCP18 newsletter article. How the iCASP project has supported the awareness and capability of partners to use UKCP18 outputs, including informing the likes of Yorkshire Water's adaptation report to Defra, drought plan, climate change risk assessment, and water resource management plan, will be evaluated after the projections are released in November 2018. The project is mentioned in Yorkshire Water's response to the Environment Agency (regulator) as an example of how the company is complying with the EA's Water Industry Strategic Environmental Requirements (WISER), in terms of making the best use of climate change data and science to inform risk understanding and response. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASP project #1: Piloting new climate change projections with regional stakeholders in Yorkshire catchments |
| Organisation | JBA Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Using climate modelling and risk assessment academic expertise, this project sought to build the capability of a variety of regional organisations to use the new UK climate change projections (UKCP18), and to provide feedback to the Met Office on the data and tools to be released as part of UKCP18 as an official UKCP18 demonstrator project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JBA - access to expertise on use of company tools, and provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Yorkshire Water - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections, including relaying specific knowledge gained from interaction with UKCP18 industry user group; NFU - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Met Office - guidance on the use of climate projections in impact assessment and on forthcoming UKCP18, provision of UKCP18 'dummy data' and associated guidance material, integration of iCASP project results into UKCP18 material; Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Leeds City Council - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Environment Agency - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections. |
| Impact | Capability building and knowledge sharing workshops to showcase the forthcoming UKCP18 data and data products (to be released in November 2018 and May 2019) were held, and case studies developed to showcase how the data could be used (case study 1: quantifying the risk of protracted drought; case study 2: assessments of high-intensity rainfall/risk of surface flooding). Met Office has used the feedback from workshops to help them understand priorities for stakeholders, and therefore decide on what data to make available. The case studies, together with a summary of the project, are available from the Met Office website, and have been publicised through a Met Office UKCP18 newsletter article. How the iCASP project has supported the awareness and capability of partners to use UKCP18 outputs, including informing the likes of Yorkshire Water's adaptation report to Defra, drought plan, climate change risk assessment, and water resource management plan, will be evaluated after the projections are released in November 2018. The project is mentioned in Yorkshire Water's response to the Environment Agency (regulator) as an example of how the company is complying with the EA's Water Industry Strategic Environmental Requirements (WISER), in terms of making the best use of climate change data and science to inform risk understanding and response. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASP project #1: Piloting new climate change projections with regional stakeholders in Yorkshire catchments |
| Organisation | Leeds City Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Using climate modelling and risk assessment academic expertise, this project sought to build the capability of a variety of regional organisations to use the new UK climate change projections (UKCP18), and to provide feedback to the Met Office on the data and tools to be released as part of UKCP18 as an official UKCP18 demonstrator project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JBA - access to expertise on use of company tools, and provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Yorkshire Water - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections, including relaying specific knowledge gained from interaction with UKCP18 industry user group; NFU - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Met Office - guidance on the use of climate projections in impact assessment and on forthcoming UKCP18, provision of UKCP18 'dummy data' and associated guidance material, integration of iCASP project results into UKCP18 material; Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Leeds City Council - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Environment Agency - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections. |
| Impact | Capability building and knowledge sharing workshops to showcase the forthcoming UKCP18 data and data products (to be released in November 2018 and May 2019) were held, and case studies developed to showcase how the data could be used (case study 1: quantifying the risk of protracted drought; case study 2: assessments of high-intensity rainfall/risk of surface flooding). Met Office has used the feedback from workshops to help them understand priorities for stakeholders, and therefore decide on what data to make available. The case studies, together with a summary of the project, are available from the Met Office website, and have been publicised through a Met Office UKCP18 newsletter article. How the iCASP project has supported the awareness and capability of partners to use UKCP18 outputs, including informing the likes of Yorkshire Water's adaptation report to Defra, drought plan, climate change risk assessment, and water resource management plan, will be evaluated after the projections are released in November 2018. The project is mentioned in Yorkshire Water's response to the Environment Agency (regulator) as an example of how the company is complying with the EA's Water Industry Strategic Environmental Requirements (WISER), in terms of making the best use of climate change data and science to inform risk understanding and response. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASP project #1: Piloting new climate change projections with regional stakeholders in Yorkshire catchments |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Using climate modelling and risk assessment academic expertise, this project sought to build the capability of a variety of regional organisations to use the new UK climate change projections (UKCP18), and to provide feedback to the Met Office on the data and tools to be released as part of UKCP18 as an official UKCP18 demonstrator project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JBA - access to expertise on use of company tools, and provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Yorkshire Water - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections, including relaying specific knowledge gained from interaction with UKCP18 industry user group; NFU - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Met Office - guidance on the use of climate projections in impact assessment and on forthcoming UKCP18, provision of UKCP18 'dummy data' and associated guidance material, integration of iCASP project results into UKCP18 material; Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Leeds City Council - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Environment Agency - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections. |
| Impact | Capability building and knowledge sharing workshops to showcase the forthcoming UKCP18 data and data products (to be released in November 2018 and May 2019) were held, and case studies developed to showcase how the data could be used (case study 1: quantifying the risk of protracted drought; case study 2: assessments of high-intensity rainfall/risk of surface flooding). Met Office has used the feedback from workshops to help them understand priorities for stakeholders, and therefore decide on what data to make available. The case studies, together with a summary of the project, are available from the Met Office website, and have been publicised through a Met Office UKCP18 newsletter article. How the iCASP project has supported the awareness and capability of partners to use UKCP18 outputs, including informing the likes of Yorkshire Water's adaptation report to Defra, drought plan, climate change risk assessment, and water resource management plan, will be evaluated after the projections are released in November 2018. The project is mentioned in Yorkshire Water's response to the Environment Agency (regulator) as an example of how the company is complying with the EA's Water Industry Strategic Environmental Requirements (WISER), in terms of making the best use of climate change data and science to inform risk understanding and response. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASP project #1: Piloting new climate change projections with regional stakeholders in Yorkshire catchments |
| Organisation | National Farmers Union |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Using climate modelling and risk assessment academic expertise, this project sought to build the capability of a variety of regional organisations to use the new UK climate change projections (UKCP18), and to provide feedback to the Met Office on the data and tools to be released as part of UKCP18 as an official UKCP18 demonstrator project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JBA - access to expertise on use of company tools, and provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Yorkshire Water - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections, including relaying specific knowledge gained from interaction with UKCP18 industry user group; NFU - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Met Office - guidance on the use of climate projections in impact assessment and on forthcoming UKCP18, provision of UKCP18 'dummy data' and associated guidance material, integration of iCASP project results into UKCP18 material; Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Leeds City Council - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Environment Agency - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections. |
| Impact | Capability building and knowledge sharing workshops to showcase the forthcoming UKCP18 data and data products (to be released in November 2018 and May 2019) were held, and case studies developed to showcase how the data could be used (case study 1: quantifying the risk of protracted drought; case study 2: assessments of high-intensity rainfall/risk of surface flooding). Met Office has used the feedback from workshops to help them understand priorities for stakeholders, and therefore decide on what data to make available. The case studies, together with a summary of the project, are available from the Met Office website, and have been publicised through a Met Office UKCP18 newsletter article. How the iCASP project has supported the awareness and capability of partners to use UKCP18 outputs, including informing the likes of Yorkshire Water's adaptation report to Defra, drought plan, climate change risk assessment, and water resource management plan, will be evaluated after the projections are released in November 2018. The project is mentioned in Yorkshire Water's response to the Environment Agency (regulator) as an example of how the company is complying with the EA's Water Industry Strategic Environmental Requirements (WISER), in terms of making the best use of climate change data and science to inform risk understanding and response. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASP project #1: Piloting new climate change projections with regional stakeholders in Yorkshire catchments |
| Organisation | The Wildlife Trusts |
| Department | Yorkshire Wildlife Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Using climate modelling and risk assessment academic expertise, this project sought to build the capability of a variety of regional organisations to use the new UK climate change projections (UKCP18), and to provide feedback to the Met Office on the data and tools to be released as part of UKCP18 as an official UKCP18 demonstrator project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JBA - access to expertise on use of company tools, and provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Yorkshire Water - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections, including relaying specific knowledge gained from interaction with UKCP18 industry user group; NFU - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Met Office - guidance on the use of climate projections in impact assessment and on forthcoming UKCP18, provision of UKCP18 'dummy data' and associated guidance material, integration of iCASP project results into UKCP18 material; Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Leeds City Council - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Environment Agency - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections. |
| Impact | Capability building and knowledge sharing workshops to showcase the forthcoming UKCP18 data and data products (to be released in November 2018 and May 2019) were held, and case studies developed to showcase how the data could be used (case study 1: quantifying the risk of protracted drought; case study 2: assessments of high-intensity rainfall/risk of surface flooding). Met Office has used the feedback from workshops to help them understand priorities for stakeholders, and therefore decide on what data to make available. The case studies, together with a summary of the project, are available from the Met Office website, and have been publicised through a Met Office UKCP18 newsletter article. How the iCASP project has supported the awareness and capability of partners to use UKCP18 outputs, including informing the likes of Yorkshire Water's adaptation report to Defra, drought plan, climate change risk assessment, and water resource management plan, will be evaluated after the projections are released in November 2018. The project is mentioned in Yorkshire Water's response to the Environment Agency (regulator) as an example of how the company is complying with the EA's Water Industry Strategic Environmental Requirements (WISER), in terms of making the best use of climate change data and science to inform risk understanding and response. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASP project #1: Piloting new climate change projections with regional stakeholders in Yorkshire catchments |
| Organisation | Yorkshire Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Using climate modelling and risk assessment academic expertise, this project sought to build the capability of a variety of regional organisations to use the new UK climate change projections (UKCP18), and to provide feedback to the Met Office on the data and tools to be released as part of UKCP18 as an official UKCP18 demonstrator project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | JBA - access to expertise on use of company tools, and provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Yorkshire Water - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections, including relaying specific knowledge gained from interaction with UKCP18 industry user group; NFU - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Met Office - guidance on the use of climate projections in impact assessment and on forthcoming UKCP18, provision of UKCP18 'dummy data' and associated guidance material, integration of iCASP project results into UKCP18 material; Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Leeds City Council - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections; Environment Agency - provision of expert sector knowledge on the use of climate change projections. |
| Impact | Capability building and knowledge sharing workshops to showcase the forthcoming UKCP18 data and data products (to be released in November 2018 and May 2019) were held, and case studies developed to showcase how the data could be used (case study 1: quantifying the risk of protracted drought; case study 2: assessments of high-intensity rainfall/risk of surface flooding). Met Office has used the feedback from workshops to help them understand priorities for stakeholders, and therefore decide on what data to make available. The case studies, together with a summary of the project, are available from the Met Office website, and have been publicised through a Met Office UKCP18 newsletter article. How the iCASP project has supported the awareness and capability of partners to use UKCP18 outputs, including informing the likes of Yorkshire Water's adaptation report to Defra, drought plan, climate change risk assessment, and water resource management plan, will be evaluated after the projections are released in November 2018. The project is mentioned in Yorkshire Water's response to the Environment Agency (regulator) as an example of how the company is complying with the EA's Water Industry Strategic Environmental Requirements (WISER), in terms of making the best use of climate change data and science to inform risk understanding and response. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | iCASP project 04: Future models of the COP and Mott MacDonald sponsorship |
| Organisation | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | 1.In person events - book meeting spaces, lunch, travel arrangements etc 2.Virtual events - provide the platform for this 3.All events - send out invitations and monitor attendance, keep a register 4.Lead on communications 5.Prepare health and safety risk assessments for site visits (supported by site visit hosting organization) 6.Gather feedback on events 7.Organise and chair steering group meetings |
| Collaborator Contribution | To prolong the RFCC funding we have successfully adopted and are trialling a 12-month sponsorship model with Mott MacDonald from March 2022. This sponsorship involves Mott MacDonald taking a leading role in organising and hosting 4 quarterly meetings of the COP supported and guided by the steering group and iCASP. |
| Impact | To play a leading role in hosting the Yorkshire Natural Flood Management Community of Practice. Help to bring together NFM practitioners from community, charity, academic, public and private sector organisations across Yorkshire (and beyond) by sharing good practice and knowledge in order that we are collectively able to deliver nature based solutions to provide more high quality environmental and social outcomes. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | iCASP project 33: Upper Rother catchment natural flood management |
| Organisation | Don Catchment Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The project will have 3 main work packages, focusing on the sub-catchments identified from the initial project (Upper Rother and River Hipper). 1) Building on the opportunity mapping from the initial project; what are the flood related impacts of implementing these scenarios? This will involve the recreating the effects of leaky dams (in the Calderdale work, cells were chosen to represent leaky dams by increasing the roughness values to represent the impacts of a leaky dam), tree planting and buffer strips. 2) Investigating the impacts of soil management which has been identified as a gap in the initial project (e.g., soil drainage improvement through introduction of organic material, reduced grazing stock in fields, reducing compaction from vehicles and reducing access for livestock to the riparian zone; data will be gathered from the Calderdale project and existing literature); 3) Establishing what is a realistic flood peak reduction target in the catchment (e.g. can a 5% reduction be achieved as is believed to be possible in the case of the Leeds FAS?) and determining the scale of the intervention required. This will help enable a strategic understanding of the catchment that will influence the vision around which the DCRT operates. This vision will be included in the Don, Dearne and Rother Catchment Plan. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Help inform decision on parts of the target sub-catchments; Input on initial model outputs and NFM scenarios; Input and data for land management information and scenarios; Facilitate linkage with DCRT partners and wider Don Dearne and Rother Network - EA and local councils etc; Provide the link to on the ground changes within the catchment; Support impact evidence activities (post-project and throughout). |
| Impact | Helped secure funding for a large Lottery Project (£775,900) and an NFM Officer (2 year pilot, £122,600, which includes £20,000 of in kind staff time from the EA/DCRT) and a subsequent 3 year extension, £116,000); Informed designs for NFM schemes; Prioritising interventions and locations; Justifying approach to stakeholders & landowners; Increased credibility with the DCRT's partners; Increased DCRT knowledge and skills. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 33: Upper Rother catchment natural flood management |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The project will have 3 main work packages, focusing on the sub-catchments identified from the initial project (Upper Rother and River Hipper). 1) Building on the opportunity mapping from the initial project; what are the flood related impacts of implementing these scenarios? This will involve the recreating the effects of leaky dams (in the Calderdale work, cells were chosen to represent leaky dams by increasing the roughness values to represent the impacts of a leaky dam), tree planting and buffer strips. 2) Investigating the impacts of soil management which has been identified as a gap in the initial project (e.g., soil drainage improvement through introduction of organic material, reduced grazing stock in fields, reducing compaction from vehicles and reducing access for livestock to the riparian zone; data will be gathered from the Calderdale project and existing literature); 3) Establishing what is a realistic flood peak reduction target in the catchment (e.g. can a 5% reduction be achieved as is believed to be possible in the case of the Leeds FAS?) and determining the scale of the intervention required. This will help enable a strategic understanding of the catchment that will influence the vision around which the DCRT operates. This vision will be included in the Don, Dearne and Rother Catchment Plan. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Help inform decision on parts of the target sub-catchments; Input on initial model outputs and NFM scenarios; Input and data for land management information and scenarios; Facilitate linkage with DCRT partners and wider Don Dearne and Rother Network - EA and local councils etc; Provide the link to on the ground changes within the catchment; Support impact evidence activities (post-project and throughout). |
| Impact | Helped secure funding for a large Lottery Project (£775,900) and an NFM Officer (2 year pilot, £122,600, which includes £20,000 of in kind staff time from the EA/DCRT) and a subsequent 3 year extension, £116,000); Informed designs for NFM schemes; Prioritising interventions and locations; Justifying approach to stakeholders & landowners; Increased credibility with the DCRT's partners; Increased DCRT knowledge and skills. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 33: Upper Rother catchment natural flood management |
| Organisation | University of York |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The project will have 3 main work packages, focusing on the sub-catchments identified from the initial project (Upper Rother and River Hipper). 1) Building on the opportunity mapping from the initial project; what are the flood related impacts of implementing these scenarios? This will involve the recreating the effects of leaky dams (in the Calderdale work, cells were chosen to represent leaky dams by increasing the roughness values to represent the impacts of a leaky dam), tree planting and buffer strips. 2) Investigating the impacts of soil management which has been identified as a gap in the initial project (e.g., soil drainage improvement through introduction of organic material, reduced grazing stock in fields, reducing compaction from vehicles and reducing access for livestock to the riparian zone; data will be gathered from the Calderdale project and existing literature); 3) Establishing what is a realistic flood peak reduction target in the catchment (e.g. can a 5% reduction be achieved as is believed to be possible in the case of the Leeds FAS?) and determining the scale of the intervention required. This will help enable a strategic understanding of the catchment that will influence the vision around which the DCRT operates. This vision will be included in the Don, Dearne and Rother Catchment Plan. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Help inform decision on parts of the target sub-catchments; Input on initial model outputs and NFM scenarios; Input and data for land management information and scenarios; Facilitate linkage with DCRT partners and wider Don Dearne and Rother Network - EA and local councils etc; Provide the link to on the ground changes within the catchment; Support impact evidence activities (post-project and throughout). |
| Impact | Helped secure funding for a large Lottery Project (£775,900) and an NFM Officer (2 year pilot, £122,600, which includes £20,000 of in kind staff time from the EA/DCRT) and a subsequent 3 year extension, £116,000); Informed designs for NFM schemes; Prioritising interventions and locations; Justifying approach to stakeholders & landowners; Increased credibility with the DCRT's partners; Increased DCRT knowledge and skills. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 39: UK farm and soil carbon code: a feasibility study |
| Organisation | Agricultural and Horticulture Development Board |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This project will bring together leading experts, partners, and stakeholders to explore the natural science evidence for soil carbon sequestration and GHG savings for a number of agricultural practices/interventions, and the technical feasibility of developing a UK FSCC. In particular, the project will take a systems approach to improve our understanding of the co-benefits and trade-offs of these practices/interventions for the environment and farm business. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide expert information and dissemination of outputs Provide expert information Support activities and help deliver impacts Provide expert information Dissemination of outputs |
| Impact | No outcomes yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 39: UK farm and soil carbon code: a feasibility study |
| Organisation | Farm and Wildlife Advisory Group South West |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This project will bring together leading experts, partners, and stakeholders to explore the natural science evidence for soil carbon sequestration and GHG savings for a number of agricultural practices/interventions, and the technical feasibility of developing a UK FSCC. In particular, the project will take a systems approach to improve our understanding of the co-benefits and trade-offs of these practices/interventions for the environment and farm business. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide expert information and dissemination of outputs Provide expert information Support activities and help deliver impacts Provide expert information Dissemination of outputs |
| Impact | No outcomes yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 39: UK farm and soil carbon code: a feasibility study |
| Organisation | Sustainable Soils Alliance |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This project will bring together leading experts, partners, and stakeholders to explore the natural science evidence for soil carbon sequestration and GHG savings for a number of agricultural practices/interventions, and the technical feasibility of developing a UK FSCC. In particular, the project will take a systems approach to improve our understanding of the co-benefits and trade-offs of these practices/interventions for the environment and farm business. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide expert information and dissemination of outputs Provide expert information Support activities and help deliver impacts Provide expert information Dissemination of outputs |
| Impact | No outcomes yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 39: UK farm and soil carbon code: a feasibility study |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This project will bring together leading experts, partners, and stakeholders to explore the natural science evidence for soil carbon sequestration and GHG savings for a number of agricultural practices/interventions, and the technical feasibility of developing a UK FSCC. In particular, the project will take a systems approach to improve our understanding of the co-benefits and trade-offs of these practices/interventions for the environment and farm business. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide expert information and dissemination of outputs Provide expert information Support activities and help deliver impacts Provide expert information Dissemination of outputs |
| Impact | No outcomes yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 40: Bradford flood risk management workshop |
| Organisation | Aire Rivers Trust |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | This project aims (1) to collect information regarding participants' aspirations, targets and opportunities to be able to create collaborative opportunities now and in the future which can be led by different organisations even though they make multiple contributions to improving the catchment; (2) to promote and reinforce the collaborative approach. To create a more 'natural' flood plain environment for both ecology and aesthetics; and (3) to agree some next steps and a couple of specifics: reduced flooding on Middlebrook Estate, Reduced flashiness of Bradford Beck (improve habitat, gravel retention etc). |
| Collaborator Contribution | To collect information regarding participants' aspirations, targets and opportunities to be able to create collaborative opportunities now and in the future which can be led by different organisations even though they make multiple contributions to improving the catchment. To promote and reinforce the collaborative approach. To create a more 'natural' flood plain environment for both ecology and aesthetics. To agree some next steps and a couple of specifics: reduced flooding on Middlebrook Estate, Reduced flashiness of Bradford Beck (improve habitat, gravel retention etc). |
| Impact | The project has resulted in a draft flood risk management strategy for Bradford - one that considers integrated catchment. The strategy will inform the updates to both the Humber Flood Risk Management Plans and Humber River Basin Management Plans. It brought together partners from organisations that may not have traditionally worked together before but more importantly from departments within those organisations that do not normally interact - for example, transport planners for Bradford were involved in developing the plan and forwarding ideas that spoke to developing Blue Green Corridors. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 40: Bradford flood risk management workshop |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This project aims (1) to collect information regarding participants' aspirations, targets and opportunities to be able to create collaborative opportunities now and in the future which can be led by different organisations even though they make multiple contributions to improving the catchment; (2) to promote and reinforce the collaborative approach. To create a more 'natural' flood plain environment for both ecology and aesthetics; and (3) to agree some next steps and a couple of specifics: reduced flooding on Middlebrook Estate, Reduced flashiness of Bradford Beck (improve habitat, gravel retention etc). |
| Collaborator Contribution | To collect information regarding participants' aspirations, targets and opportunities to be able to create collaborative opportunities now and in the future which can be led by different organisations even though they make multiple contributions to improving the catchment. To promote and reinforce the collaborative approach. To create a more 'natural' flood plain environment for both ecology and aesthetics. To agree some next steps and a couple of specifics: reduced flooding on Middlebrook Estate, Reduced flashiness of Bradford Beck (improve habitat, gravel retention etc). |
| Impact | The project has resulted in a draft flood risk management strategy for Bradford - one that considers integrated catchment. The strategy will inform the updates to both the Humber Flood Risk Management Plans and Humber River Basin Management Plans. It brought together partners from organisations that may not have traditionally worked together before but more importantly from departments within those organisations that do not normally interact - for example, transport planners for Bradford were involved in developing the plan and forwarding ideas that spoke to developing Blue Green Corridors. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 42: Swinton Estate natural flood management |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This project will support the Swinton Estate to apply for the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We will use NEIRF funding to audit and value woodland ecosystem services, consult with potential beneficiaries on the best way to market those services, carry out financial modelling and produce a business case. |
| Impact | To produce physical flow accounts for the delivery of ecosystem services from proposed new woodland sites by January 2022, using advanced metrics and modelling tools to build capability for location-specific and cost-effective natural capital auditing. 2. To produce and refine a valuation of these ecosystem services informed by beneficiary feedback by March 2022. 3. To produce a business case for conservation led woodland planting and management on Swinton Estate by June 2022, to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of an integrated approach to conservation and forestry. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 42: Swinton Estate natural flood management |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This project will support the Swinton Estate to apply for the Natural Environment Investment Readiness Fund. |
| Collaborator Contribution | We will use NEIRF funding to audit and value woodland ecosystem services, consult with potential beneficiaries on the best way to market those services, carry out financial modelling and produce a business case. |
| Impact | To produce physical flow accounts for the delivery of ecosystem services from proposed new woodland sites by January 2022, using advanced metrics and modelling tools to build capability for location-specific and cost-effective natural capital auditing. 2. To produce and refine a valuation of these ecosystem services informed by beneficiary feedback by March 2022. 3. To produce a business case for conservation led woodland planting and management on Swinton Estate by June 2022, to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of an integrated approach to conservation and forestry. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 43: Biomonitoring |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | This project idea is currently in development. Freshwater biodiversity datasets collected by GB regulators lack integration and are often difficult to access, despite multiple users needing to analyse and draw understanding from these public resources. We will develop a new web interface which (a) makes data available from a single platform, (b) allows for informed data-filtering choices, and (c) provides novel visualisations for both expert and non-expert users. Impact will be achieved via co-production with key stakeholders so that outputs meet their needs, a social media marketing campaign, and training opportunities to enhance practitioner and decision makers' use of data. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Lee Brown (Leeds SoG) and Chris Hassall (Leeds Biology) in their roles on the NERC DRUID (Drivers and Repercussions of UK Insect Decline) project, and Martin Wilkes (Coventry) brings high level data analytics skills. Further academic input from both NERC Insect Decline Highlight topic teams (DRUID led by Leeds, and GLiTRS [Global Insect Threat-Response Synthesis] led by CEH). Core participants include committed, long-term partners representing GB regulatory bodies, including the Environment Agency (Judy England, John Murray-Bligh), Natural Resources Wales (Sarah Wood), and Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Willie Duncan), plus third sector organisations (e.g. Rivers Trusts) and advisory bodies (e.g. River Restoration Centre, Riverfly Monitoring Scheme). |
| Impact | This project idea is still at the development phase but the intention is that we will establish new online tools to: (i) guide government policy (e.g. guide analyses of policy change impacts such as ELM [by 2024] on river ecological status); (ii) inform nature recovery plans (e.g. prioritising ecological restoration to meet 25YEP goals); (iii) underpin strategic decisions made by regulators (e.g. assessing bias in datasets under the Environment Agency's ongoing strategic monitoring review [to 2022]); (iv) translate research-level work for use by a range of practitioners (e.g. biodiversity maps); and (v) improve public awareness of local environments (e.g. understanding biodiversity "on their doorstep"; develop links with River Action UK). A diverse range of stakeholders will participate in workshops to design and develop the portal, and we will launch an online marketing campaign and train end users to utilise the portal. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 44 : Supporting the West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The project seeks to undertake research Yorkshire's local authorities in West Yorkshire (Leeds City Council, City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council, Wakefield Council, Kirklees Council, and Calderdale Metropolitan Council) to determine key local flood innovation challenges and opportunities that define a new flood innovation programme (FLIP). The research seeks to influence a minimum of £10M of new regional investment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The local authorities, Environment Agency, the third sector and other partners in the region to develop and facilitate truly integrated innovative approaches to resilience that can be embedded in the local authority FLIP activity as soon as it starts |
| Impact | Our research will produce a FLIP roadmap, which ensures the latest university research and knowledge exchange mechanisms are embedded into the programme. The roadmap will therefore seek to maximise the RFCC-funded activity by enhancing how novel environmental science approaches to flooding are included in policy, planning and business case development. The timing of the Research England policy funding is therefore perfect and would lead to immediate impacts in the region |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 45 : Derwent sediment and invasive non native species |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This project aims to meet the Sponsor's stated aims relating to the WINEP investigation in the Derwent catchment, to investigate and trial mitigation and intervention options relevant to sediment inputs and the role of Invasive Non-Native Species (INNS). |
| Collaborator Contribution | To be updated |
| Impact | To be updated |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 46 : Debris load |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This project will help to ensure a more sustainable and a root-cause approach is taken in removing the risk of blockage to culverts and therefore adding to a community's long term flood resilience. Developing local guides to be issued to landowners adjacent to watercourses advising on the type of the plant/trees that should be grown. Help to reduce growing maintenance cost of clearing debris screens. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The partner contribution to be updated |
| Impact | Outcomes will be updated |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 47: Yorkshire landscape recovery test and trial |
| Organisation | Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs (DEFRA) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The main aims of this Test are to (a) demonstrate a process/mechanism whereby academic input (on national priorities and scientific evidence) is combined with local knowledge/expertise to balance national/local, Land Recovery (LR)/Biodiversity Net Gain/Nature for Climate and public/private priorities; (b) communicate academic knowledge on different contracts/legal issues (building on previously funded research) and corroborate these with stakeholders' views to inform LR advice and payment mechanisms. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This Test will be delivered by the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions (iCASP; https://icasp.org.uk/) team with support from leading academics at the University of Leeds (UoL) and professional partners (farm advisors, landowners, public and private organisations). |
| Impact | Outcome will be updated |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 47: Yorkshire landscape recovery test and trial |
| Organisation | University of Leeds |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The main aims of this Test are to (a) demonstrate a process/mechanism whereby academic input (on national priorities and scientific evidence) is combined with local knowledge/expertise to balance national/local, Land Recovery (LR)/Biodiversity Net Gain/Nature for Climate and public/private priorities; (b) communicate academic knowledge on different contracts/legal issues (building on previously funded research) and corroborate these with stakeholders' views to inform LR advice and payment mechanisms. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This Test will be delivered by the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions (iCASP; https://icasp.org.uk/) team with support from leading academics at the University of Leeds (UoL) and professional partners (farm advisors, landowners, public and private organisations). |
| Impact | Outcome will be updated |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 48: Water-based solutions for carbon storage, people and wilderness |
| Organisation | University College Dublin |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | WaterLANDS aims to enable an upscaling of the restoration of wetlands. Socio-economic factors, insufficient stakeholder engagement, lack of government commitment, lack of funding and inadequate exchange of knowledge of restoration methods have all been identified as barriers to successful restoration. Consequently, most restoration has been modest in scale, has occurred mainly where there is a single landowning or responsible organisation, and has often been undertaken principally for reasons of conservation. WaterLANDS will work to overcome these barriers. It includes both Action and Knowledge Sites, the former being the object of restoration upscaling, and the latter a source of best practice experience and knowledge. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partner organizations are providing with both Financial and in-kind support. |
| Impact | The project outcomes will be updated |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP project 49 : Peruvian lectures |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | iCASP impact translation fellows have assisted a series of lectures given to water resource managers in Peru supported by an Arup-water@leeds collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | To be updated |
| Impact | iCASP impact translation fellows have assisted a series of lectures given to water resource managers in Peru supported by an Arup-water@leeds collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | iCASP project 49 : Peruvian lectures |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | iCASP impact translation fellows have assisted a series of lectures given to water resource managers in Peru supported by an Arup-water@leeds collaboration. |
| Collaborator Contribution | To be updated |
| Impact | iCASP impact translation fellows have assisted a series of lectures given to water resource managers in Peru supported by an Arup-water@leeds collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | iCASP project 50: Enhanced surface water flood forecasting testbed |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The original iCASP project developed new surface water flood forecasting tools and engaged a group of 28 Yorkshire-based forecast providers and users to test them through an incident response workshop. The new tools were designed to provide more detail on the time and location of potential surface water flooding up to 36 hours in advance of the event, whilst still accounting for the uncertainties in forecasting summertime convective rainfall. 22 of 24 original iCASP project workshop participants said the enhanced forecast information would be useful to their organisation but further development and testing would be required before they could be incorporated into existing operational national surface water flood forecast provision. The process put in place during the original project represents a powerful mechanism to iteratively drive the development of user-centric forecast information. In this bolt-on project we will further develop the tools to meet the Yorkshire users' needs, following their recommendations from the original project workshop. We will then quantitatively evaluate the tools over a historical period of several years and test them with users over an entire summer season through a 2022 Yorkshire Surface Water Flood Forecasting Testbed. This will inform development of the national scale forecast system and business case(s) for further investment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project steer and advice Technical support to access forecast data in near-real time Experienced hydrometeorologist and flood researcher Project steer and testbed participation |
| Impact | The project will produce four key outputs: Co-developed flood forecasting tools: incorporation of static Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (RoFSW) maps and ability to run them in a real-time setting. The tools are designed for use by Lead Local Flood Authority flood managers to monitor and prepare for surface water flood incidents. Quantitative evidence for the skill of the forecast tools, evaluated over a long period (i.e. 3 to 5 summer seasons) Evidence for the effectiveness and confidence of the forecast tools with users Recommendations for any required further development and how the tools could be incorporated into existing national forecast provision |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | iCASP project 50: Enhanced surface water flood forecasting testbed |
| Organisation | Meteorological Office UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The original iCASP project developed new surface water flood forecasting tools and engaged a group of 28 Yorkshire-based forecast providers and users to test them through an incident response workshop. The new tools were designed to provide more detail on the time and location of potential surface water flooding up to 36 hours in advance of the event, whilst still accounting for the uncertainties in forecasting summertime convective rainfall. 22 of 24 original iCASP project workshop participants said the enhanced forecast information would be useful to their organisation but further development and testing would be required before they could be incorporated into existing operational national surface water flood forecast provision. The process put in place during the original project represents a powerful mechanism to iteratively drive the development of user-centric forecast information. In this bolt-on project we will further develop the tools to meet the Yorkshire users' needs, following their recommendations from the original project workshop. We will then quantitatively evaluate the tools over a historical period of several years and test them with users over an entire summer season through a 2022 Yorkshire Surface Water Flood Forecasting Testbed. This will inform development of the national scale forecast system and business case(s) for further investment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project steer and advice Technical support to access forecast data in near-real time Experienced hydrometeorologist and flood researcher Project steer and testbed participation |
| Impact | The project will produce four key outputs: Co-developed flood forecasting tools: incorporation of static Risk of Flooding from Surface Water (RoFSW) maps and ability to run them in a real-time setting. The tools are designed for use by Lead Local Flood Authority flood managers to monitor and prepare for surface water flood incidents. Quantitative evidence for the skill of the forecast tools, evaluated over a long period (i.e. 3 to 5 summer seasons) Evidence for the effectiveness and confidence of the forecast tools with users Recommendations for any required further development and how the tools could be incorporated into existing national forecast provision |
| Start Year | 2022 |
| Description | network expansion to project #15:Supporting local authorities on invasive non-native species |
| Organisation | Environment Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | As a result of our work on the INNS project iCASP collaborated with a new contact at Environment Agency and expanded that network to include a national lead on crayfish. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Partners were able to provide knowledge input into the project. |
| Impact | none as yet |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | 'Climate Change Day seminar' of the Chartered Insurance Institute |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP's SME project member Paola Sakai was an invited expert to present on the 'Climate Change Day seminar' of the Chartered Insurance Institute (February 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 2020 Future of Floods Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Joe Holden was invited to give a presentation about iCASP on 19 November 2020 at the New Civil Engineer (NCE) Future of Floods Conference. The conference delved into funding strategies, natural flood management and the latest exciting projects around the UK and explored how the UK is using innovation and technology, as well as natural flood management strategies to relieve the pressure to deliver flood management solutions in a time and cost-effective way. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | 2050 Ambition Working Group, England Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy Refresh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | iCASP participation in teleconferences and in person meetings. Made sure that catchment-based approach was prioritised and how to address research gaps in the the Strategy was considered. iCASP is also represented on the Protection and Funding Working Group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/fcrm/fcerm-national-strategy-info/ |
| Description | 6 soil carbon schemes for farmers to consider |
| 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 | iCASP porject recommendations shared on Farmers Weekly newsletter. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/business-management/agricultural-transition/the-carbon-trading-conund... |
| Description | A Catchment of Data, A Flow of Evidence |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The River Aire catchment area extends from the upper reaches of Skipton and the start of the Yorkshire Dales National Park right down to Castleford, the river winding its way through vibrant cities like Bradford and Leeds along the way. Greatly affected by flooding in recent years, the River Aire catchment is also home to one of the most ambitious Natural Flood Management (NFM) activities in the UK. Rapid advances in sensors and wireless networks such as LoRAWAN, coupled with greater awareness of collecting and sharing data, present opportunities to design NFM monitoring systems. These systems can then improve the evidence base for NFM and be used to help create a better understanding of NFM activities. This will support future investment in catchment management. The data will be fundamental - how it is used, who will use it, and how will they understand it. It will need to be accessible to all and should conform to data standards that will allow it to be robust whilst still being suitable for public engagement. This workshop, organised by ODI Leeds, Environment Agency, iCASP, water@leeds, was the start of the process of co-creating a NFM monitoring strategy for the Aire catchment that makes it a national/international flagship for NFM monitoring. It brought together a variety of stakeholders involved in NFM work across the Aire catchment to address the following questions: What/where NFM is being planned/implemented? What monitoring is already planned/being done? What do we want to measure and why? What information/data do we need and how to analyse/present this? Is anyone already collecting this desired information and where? Using the information gathered at this workshop, iCASP is planning to produce a framework for monitoring NFM in the Aire and Calder catchments. This framework will outline the future vision for an integrated monitoring network across the two catchments and highlight key challenges. It is hoped that the document will provide a platform to facilitate a multi-stakeholder effort to realise this monitoring network. This work is a spin-off from iCASP Project #2: Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme Phase II (FASII) monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://odileeds.org/events/nfm/ |
| Description | A formal working group - Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership Board membership |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Joseph Holden took part in 7 meetings between the beginning of iCASP and May 2019. Attendees includes directors and advisors. iCASP was promoted at these meetings, and some of these projects were discussed and developed (notably GBI project # 10 ). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | A magazine, newsletter or online publication - SME Surveys on Open Source Arts Added by: Ms Farhana Naz (on behalf of Professor Joseph Holden) Date Added: 04 Feb 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The flooding impacts survey was disseminated through the newsletters of local business chambers, such as Todmorden Business chamber, and through the newsletters that the flood managers hold with their business and community networks. This is is a short publication, that briefly mentions the project , its goals and invite the business that are members of the association to answer the survey. A brief of the project, a leaflet and the invitation to the survey were sent. The leaflet contained the iCASP logo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://tinyurl.com/y6y8j2em |
| Description | A magazine, newsletter or online publication - Yorkshire Invasive Species Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | News article in May 2019 about iCASP Invasive Non Native Species (INNS) project to coincide with Invasive Species week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Aire and Calder Catchment Partnership Management Group member |
| 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 | Represent iCASP and water@leeds on a Group that has the following responsibilities in order to identify opportunities to support the work of the Partnership through iCASP projects and/or water@leeds research: monitor the implementation of the ACCP Actionable Plan; monitor progress against projects being implemented in each of the operational catchments; ensure strategic priorities are aligned with professionals working in the catchment; monitor and evaluate the work undertaken by sub-contractors and partners to ACCP; prepare progress report to funders; act as advocates for, and publicise the ACCP to enable continued and future support for the partnership; make decisions on strategic priorities for the Partnership over the short, medium and long-term; approve documentation developed for the ACCP by third parties; guide and approve updates to the Actionable Plan; approve project proposals submitted to the ACCP for funding provided by third parties, such as the Environment Agency or DEFRA; plan, monitor and review ACCP budgets and expenditure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019 |
| URL | https://www.aireandcalderpartnership.org/ |
| Description | Article for Institute for Climate & Atmospheric Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | In the frame of the project#6 Water surface forecasting project , iCASP (Ben Rab) drafted an article for the EA Current magazine article May-19 for 'Flood & Coast conference' edition |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Article in IUCN UK Peatland Programme e-Newsletter on iCASP User Guide for Valuing the Benefits of Peatland Restoration |
| 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 | iCASP Partner IUCN UK Peatland Programme included an article on one of the outputs of iCASP project #3: 'Optimal Peatland Restoration' to provide peatland restoration practitioners (beyond those directly involved in the iCASP project) with access to the interactive User Guide that provides an overview of methods available for valuing the benefits delivered by peatlands and evidence based on existing studies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/782ab168dd8e/iucn-uk-peatland-programme-newsletter-peat-horticulture-edition?e=d7... |
| Description | Articles in IUCN UK Peatland Programme e-Newsletter on iCASP User Guide for Valuing the Benefits of Peatland Restoration |
| 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 | iCASP Partner IUCN UK Peatland Programme included an article on one of the outputs of iCASP project #3: 'Optimal Peatland Restoration' to provide peatland restoration practitioners (beyond those directly involved in the iCASP project) with access to an User-friendly interface of Digibog_Hydro model that allow simulating the effect of various restoration measures on water flows in a peatland landscape. (April 2019 Newsletter) iCASP Partner IUCN UK Peatland Programme included an article on sphagnum moss drawing from the findings from Holden (July 2019 Newsletter) iCASP Partner IUCN UK Peatland Programme included an article on iCASP support for North York peat England Peatland strategy pilots. (Winter 2019 Newsletter) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) Flood and Water Management Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP raised by iCASP partner City of York Council |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | BBC Paul Hudson Weather Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Following his presentation on iCASP project #1: 'Piloting new climate change projections with regional stakeholders in Yorkshire catchments' at the launch of the UK Climate Projections (UKCP18) in November, iCASP's Ben Rabb, was interviewed on Radio Leeds for the regional Paul Hudson Weather Show. Ben was able to explain how different types of flooding: coastal, fluvial (from rivers) and surface water caused by heavy rainfall are more likely to strike low lying areas such as Hull. He also touched on the current drought that Yorkshire Water has declared and reminded residents of York and Leeds of all the flood alleviation work that is aiming to protect homes and businesses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06r4445 |
| Description | BBC interview on climate change |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Piers Forster was interviewed on BBC Radio 4 on the morning of 9 August 2021 regarding the the world's largest ever report into climate change which will be published later, setting out the stark reality of the state of the planet. The study is by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - a UN group that looked at more than 14,000 scientific papers. It will be the most up-to-date assessment of how global warming will change the world in the coming decades. Prof Piers Forster, one of the academic leads of the iCASP programme, also an expert in climate change from the University of Leeds, said the report "will be able to say a whole lot more about the extremes we are experiencing today and it will be able to be categoric that our emissions of greenhouse gases are causing them and they are also going to get worse" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-58141129) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Basin story disseminated by International Water Association |
| 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 | iCASP's Living with Water Partnership Telemetry (LWW) project member Emma Brown published a basin story on the International Water Association website https://iwa-network.org/yorkshire-water/. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://iwa-network.org/yorkshire-water/ |
| Description | Basin story disseminated by International Water Association |
| 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 | iCASP's Living with Water Partnership Telemetry (LWW) project member Emma Brown published a basin story on the International Water Association website https://iwa-network.org/yorkshire-water/. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://iwa-network.org/yorkshire-water/ |
| Description | Bogfest 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mark Reed introduced iCASP to the Bogfest 2017 event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.moorsforthefuture.org.uk/bogfest-2017 |
| Description | Bradford Flood Risk Management Workshop - Enabling Collaborative Catchment Management |
| 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 | On 20th October 2021, a workshop held in Bradford for FRM Enabling Collaborative Catchment Management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CFR on Eye on Calderdale |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Eye on Calderdale have promoted CFR through thier online newsletter |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CIEEM article |
| 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 | iCASP team published an article entitled "Tackling INNS and Implementing Biosecurity in Local Authorities: A Yorkshire Case Study" in the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, June 2021, pages 17-20. The artilce details the work the project has done and some of the main recommendations. CIEEM editor has confrimed that was sent to its 6300 members. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CIWEM Rivers and Coastal Group Meeting October 2022 |
| 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 | 'ITFS (Jennifer Armstrong and Tom WIllis) guest speakers on flood monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CIWEM The Environment |
| 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 | iCASP's Payment for Outcome project members Janet Richardson and Jenny Armstrong published an article entitled "National Trust and Farmers Trial Natural Flood Management Payments" in the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Manamgent (CIWEM) magazine, pages 26-27. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/calderdale/flood-news-february-2021 |
| Description | Calderdale Council Newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News article in Dec. 2019 about iCASP Natural Flood Management survey and about Calderdale Natural Flood Management project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Calderdale Flood Partner update newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Calderdale Flood Partner Issue included iCASP and the project in the April 2020 issue, where it described the project goals and iCASP role in developing Yorkshires flood resilience. Curry, S. (2020) iCASP funded resilience reserch gets underway. Business section, Calderdale Flood Parner Issue. https://mailchi.mp/calderdale/floodnewsapr2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/calderdale/floodnewsapr2020 |
| Description | Calderdale Flood Recovery and Resilience Partnership - Natural Flood Management Operational Group member |
| 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 | Opportunity to identify how iCASP can support NFM activities and funding to deliver the Calderdale Flood Action Plan. The Group is used to coordinate with Calderdale stakeholders on the iCASP NFM projects (iCASP Project #4: Supporting the Yorkshire Natural Flood Management (NFM) pilots to deliver evidence and guidance that will influence national implementation and financing of NFM; iCASP Project #11: Modelling to evaluate the impacts of existing land management on downstream flooding and prioritise Natural Flood Management interventions in Calderdale). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | Canal and Rivers Trust North East annual project meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Opportunity to present iCASP's aims to an organisation that has not yet engaged with iCASP. As a result the Canal and Rivers Trust made it clear that they would like to work with iCASP on green and blue infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Carbon Code at the UK Farm Soil Carbon Code Stakeholder Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 16th November 2021, Prof. Pippa Chapman gave a presentation on "Field Management for Soil Carbon" at the UK Farm Soil Carbon Code Stakeholder Workshop organised by Sustainable Soils Alliance. https://sustainablesoils.org/our-work/political-engagement/2-uncategorised/512-uk-farm-soil-carbon-code-stakeholder-workshop-nov-21. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Climate Coalition report on climate and housing |
| 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 | Resulting from the iCASP collaboration instigated as part of the iCASP Project #9: UKCP18 regional forum, iCASP (Ben Rabb, Jennifer Armstrong) was ask to co-write the Climate Coalition report on climate and housing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co-design workshop - Green Infrastructure Business Cases |
| 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 | Workshop to bring together academics from iCASP partner universities together with organisations involved in preparing and evaluating business cases for green and blue infrastructure funding in order to co-design iCASP project ideas that will help to support the delivery of the Leeds City Region Green and Blue Infrastructure Strategy. Project ideas from the workshop included: improving the use of green/blue infrastructure valuation tools, including integrating green/blue infrastructure into economic appraisals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Co-design workshop - Living with Water Partnership catchment telemetry integration |
| 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 | Workshop on case studies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co-design workshop - Living with Water Partnership catchment telemetry integration |
| 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 | Workshop on predictive model testing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co-design workshop - Natural Flood Management |
| 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 | Workshop to bring together academics from the iCASP universities together with Natural Flood Management (NFM) stakeholders in Yorkshire to co-design iCASP project ideas. One iCASP project idea was developed as a result of this workshop and recently approved by the iCASP Governance Group. The project will support NFM pilot projects in Yorkshire on modelling and modelling to aid the consolidation of NFM evidence in order to inform future NFM policies and funding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/2018/02/20/getting-to-grips-with-natural-flood-management/ |
| Description | Co-design workshop - Yorkshire's Flood Alleviation Schemes |
| 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 | Workshop to bring together academics from the iCASP universities together with those involved in the planning and delivery of major flood alleviation schemes across Yorkshire to co-design iCASP project ideas. Several ideas were developed and are now being turned into iCASP project proposals: Informing lowland agricultural land management for flood online/offline storage; Supporting landowner engagement on sediment management for flood risk reduction; Modelling reservoir optimisation to max. benefits to society; Developing a rapid approach to ecosystem service valuation for flood risk mitigation activities' cost-benefit analysis; Understanding future lessons for flood alleviation schemes by considering whether who leads and funds changes evidence required and outcomes; Supporting participatory urban water management design; Facilitating those working on flood alleviation schemes and academics coming together on a regular basis through iCASP annual event 'iCASP Confluence'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Co-design workshop - land-use management and public goods delivery |
| 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 | Workshop to bring together iCASP university academics and non-academic organisations interested in informing post-Brexit rural payments to develop iCASP project ideas. A number of project ideas were developed that will form work packages of an iCASP project proposal: review and modelling to inform what conditions/combination of activities deliver flood risk, water quality and soil health public goods, where to do activities, and how to optimise public goods delivery; and a rapid review of existing literature to present value of public goods provided by upland management in Yorkshire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Co-design workshop and meetings - Peatland Restoration and Valuation |
| 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 | Workshop and meetings to bring together academics from the iCASP universities (including Universities of Manchester and Durham) and two of the major peatland restoration partnerships in Yorkshire - Yorkshire Peat Partnership (YPP) and Moors for the Future (MFF) - to discuss peatland restoration priorities and how existing research might address these. An iCASP project proposal idea came out of this workshop to use a model developed at the University of Leeds, in conjunction with a model developed at Durham University, and data collected by University of Manchester, to inform the location and type of peatland restoration activities undertaken by YPP and MFF, and to use socio-economic valuation expertise from the University of Leeds to develop a look-up table of methods to demonstrate the public value of peatland restoration activities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/2018/02/07/maximising-pay-back-from-peat-restoration/ |
| Description | Co-design workshop: Mineral sites and natural capital gain |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop bringing together iCASP university academics, mineral industry, regulator, and SME representatives to co-design an iCASP project idea. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Co-design workshop: SuDS/urban water quality |
| 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 | Workshop to bring together academics from iCASP partner universities together with organisations involved in designing and implementing sustainable drainage system projects to co-design iCASP project ideas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Co-design workshop: invasive non-native biosecurity and local authorities |
| 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 | Workshop to bring together academics from iCASP partner universities together with representatives of the Yorkshire Invasive Species Forum and those involved in managing biosecurity in local authorities in Yorkshire to co-design iCASP project ideas. Led to development of iCASP Project #15: Supporting local authorities on invasive non-native species |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Communicating Flood Risk Exercise 10 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communicating Flood Risk Exercise 11 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communicating Flood Risk Exercise 12 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise 1 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise 2 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise 3 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise 4 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise 5 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise 6 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise 7 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise 8 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise 9 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise pilot 1 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise pilot 2 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise pilot 3 |
| 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 | This is part of our Communicating Flood Risk project which aims to improve engagement, address challenges surrounding community resilience and promote understanding of flood warning and forecasting systems. This exercise aims to: (1) Help flood risk to be communicated in a relevant, effective and efficient way; (2) Establish and maintain meaningful relationships between all involved in flood risk management; (3) Promote better understanding of flood risk, especially amongst groups that are not engaged or aware of their flood risk; (4) Make sure that all involved in flood risk management can engage with the right people and organisation at the right time. It is aimed at those who respond to flood incidents including RMAs and engaged members of the public, for example, community flood wardens or members of community groups. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Communication for flood risk role play exercise with EA flood resilience |
| 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 | 17 participants from different organizations from EMPs and RMAs participated in this streamlined exercise for EA Flood Resilience Expo. It was It is part of a week of webinars and seminars run by the Yorkshire Flood Resilience team in the Environment Agency. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/2022/11/10/dont-get-caught-out-flooding-can-happen-to-you/ |
| Description | Cultural and health benefits of green and blue space (York)- Workshop 1 |
| 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 | Aim of this activity is to provide a visual summary of the volume, quality, and strength of evidence around the benefits of interventions in green and blue spaces such as woods, meadows and parks or rivers, lakes and sea, for health and wellbeing. It will then work with different user groups to develop design principles for a resource that would provide easy access to this evidence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.york.ac.uk/yesi/research/environment-health/icasp/ |
| Description | Cultural and health benefits of green and blue space (York)- Workshop 2 |
| 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 | Aim of this activity is to provide a visual summary of the volume, quality, and strength of evidence around the benefits of interventions in green and blue spaces such as woods, meadows and parks or rivers, lakes and sea, for health and wellbeing. It will then work with different user groups to develop design principles for a resource that would provide easy access to this evidence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Cultural and health benefits of green and blue space (York)- Workshop 3 |
| 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 | Aim of this activity is to provide a visual summary of the volume, quality, and strength of evidence around the benefits of interventions in green and blue spaces such as woods, meadows and parks or rivers, lakes and sea, for health and wellbeing. It will then work with different user groups to develop design principles for a resource that would provide easy access to this evidence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Cultural and health benefits of green and blue space (York)- Workshop 4 |
| 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 | Aim of this activity is to provide a visual summary of the volume, quality, and strength of evidence around the benefits of interventions in green and blue spaces such as woods, meadows and parks or rivers, lakes and sea, for health and wellbeing. It will then work with different user groups to develop design principles for a resource that would provide easy access to this evidence. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | DEFRA press release for NFM work at Broughton Hall estate |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 1st September 2021, Floods Minister Rebecca Pow has visited Hebden Bridge and a natural flood management scheme near Skipton as she brought together a roundtable of MPs, local authorities, floodexperts and water companies to examine the issue of flooding along the River Aire and RiverCalder. Ahead of the roundtable, the Minister visited the Broughton Hall estate near Skipton, which isone of a number of sites across the Upper Aire catchment where natural flood managementtechniques are being implemented to reduce flood risk in downstream communities. The landowner recently started the largest tree planting scheme in England, with the White RoseForest planting 160 hectares of trees - the equivalent of 224 football pitches - betweenDecember 2020 and March 2021. The work is a partnership between the landowner, Leeds City Council, the Environment Agency,the White Rose Forest, Jeremy Benn Associates and Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions(iCASP). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | DEFRA press release on climate change adaptation mentioning iCASP |
| 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 | The DEFRA press release on 1 September 2021 in the topic of climate change adaptation entitled "Floods Minister chairs roundtable to address flood risk along the Aire & Calder" mentioned iCASP. "The landowner recently started the largest tree planting scheme in England, with the White Rose Forest planting 160 hectares of trees - the equivalent of 224 football pitches - between December 2020 and March 2021. Alongside tree planting and rewilding, further work includes soil aeration, the creation of leaky dams, gully blocking and culvert daylighting." "The work is a partnership between the landowner, Leeds City Council, the Environment Agency, the White Rose Forest, Jeremy Benn Associates and Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions (iCASP). It is part of the wider Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme programme, and is being delivered by the Environment Agency on behalf of Leeds City Council. Work has been delivered on a variety of sites across the catchment, in collaboration with numerous stakeholders, to reduce flooding in Leeds City Centre." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Dales to Vales River Network newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | News article in Dec. 2019 about iCASP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Defining a Future for Yorkshire Farming |
| 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 | Presentations and conference stand to sharing the results of iCASP Project #5: 'Agricultural land management and public goods delivery - review of soil health evidence' with regional MPs, including the Defra Secretary of State's Parliamentary Private Secretary, Kevin Hollinrake MP https://icasp.org.uk/category/projects/public-goods/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://yas.co.uk/events-calendar/defining-a-future-for-yorkshire-farming |
| Description | Defra strategy advisor visited study site (University of Leeds farm) to discuss research results |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Direct engagement with senior policy advisor from Defra to discuss project results and potential policy implications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Don Network Annual Event |
| 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 iCASP for a catchment partnership that iCASP had not been able to satisfactorily engage to date. Led to invitations to brief the Environment Agency at a national level of what iCASP is and seeks to achieve, and to meet with the Don Network to discuss how they could engage in iCASP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | EA Meeting on Working with Carbon |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Prof Joe Holden was invited to give a presentation about iCASP on 3 December 2020 at the at the Environment Agency's national meeting about working with natural processes carbon. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | EA conference on flooding |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Stephen Belcher Met Office Chief Scientist has promoted iCASP at the EA conference on flooding, by presenting some slides on iCASP-Leeds-Met Office work in the area, and focusing in particular on the Surface Water flood Forecast project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | EA weekly Buzz |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article on iCASP (general description of what the Programme is and how project ideas are generated including invitation to talk to speak to Duncan. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | EA/DEFRA Research and Development Steering Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | iCASP raised by iCASP partners JBA and City of York Council |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Enhanced Surface Water Flood Forecasts: Summer 2022 Yorkshire Testbed |
| 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 forecasts were tested during a workshop held for Yorkshire-based forecast providers. Feedback from participants was that the enhanced forecast information would be useful to their organisation but further development and testing is needed if it were to be incorporated into existing operational national surface water flood forecasting provision. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/enhanced-surface-water-flood-forecasts-summer-2022-yorkshire-testbed/ |
| Description | Environment Agency teleconference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Briefing for national-level Environment Agency staff on iCASP and discussion on how iCASP can support national-level EA priorities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Environmental discount rate review |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Andy brown was invited to provide academic input to the new proposed environmental discount rate. Andy feedback is this new rate should be adjusted and has been encouraged to lobby government to do so. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Esk Valley farm and landowner workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event was attended by 25 farmers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Eurocities Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP mentioned in a presentation on green infrastructure work in Leeds City Region at international conference. Aim was to build connections to facilitate international impact of iCASP projects in the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Evidence for Baroness Blake |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Evidence for Baroness Blake who was putting forward formal Parliamentary questions to HM Government |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Field meeting with company |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with company directors - 'Environment and Business' interested in developing a carbon market for enhancing soil carbon. In particular we discussed how our research could influence the business model and how CSR schemes and carbon offsetting schemes could be used to fund soil carbon initiatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | GBI and Perm webinar series |
| 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 | Andy Brown ran a seriers of 4 webinars with regional stakeholders and universities to discuss the Place-Based Economic Recovery Network PERN buinsess case for the West Yorkshire Recovery Strategy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | GBI and mainstream nature into the planning system using green infrastructure |
| 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 | Alister Scott, academics on the GBI project, ran a workshop on the topic of mainstraming nature into the planning system using green infrastructure. At this workshop the iCASP project was presented. As did Ian Bateman and Sweep. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | GW 4 Water Security Alliance Water in a Changing World |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | iCASP raised by iCASP partner UK Met Office |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Governance Group meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Quarterly meetings to review and approve iCASP projects, discuss priorities for the Programme/identify research impact opportunities for iCASP to address, and evaluate progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | Government Event's Flooding 2019: Ensuring Effective Resilience , Management and Response Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP were invited to speak at Government Event's Flooding 2019: Ensuring Effective Resilience , Management and Response Conference, on 5th December in Central London. Ben Rabb attended to talk on "Enhanced Surface Water Flooding Forecasts - A Case Study of User-led Development and Testing in Yorkshire". Bens session was chaired by Mary Dhonau -who is the local evaluator for the SW pathfinder project along with Jess Lamond at UWE. This was a useful link for the Pathfinder project iCASP and leading on for York City Council. Mary said to get in touch as they have experience of being the evaluator of similar pathfinders in the past - could be useful to get their insight. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Green Blue Urban Leeds Roadshow |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Manuel Ojeda Cabral gave a presentation as part of the GBI project to approximately 60 plus people at the Green Blue Urban Leeds Roadshow on the 12th June 2019 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | How local/regional partnerships/institutional arrangements can support the delivery of the 25 Year Environment Plan in relation to the environment-economy-health nexus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP attended a workshop in Leeds, hosted by Collingwood Environmental Planning Limited on behalf of Defra, to discuss how local/regional partnerships/institutional arrangements can support the delivery of the 25 Year Environment Plan in relation to the environment-economy-health nexus. iCASP was noted in the workshop write-up as a collaboration that Defra could learn lessons from. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | INMY Farm project member interviewed by The Guardian |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Hicks was also interviewed by Patrick Greenfield of The Guardian newspaper for an article about nitrogen pollution for a series on the main drivers of biodiversity loss. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/14/five-biggest-threats-natural-world-how-we-can-stop-them-aoe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/14/five-biggest-threats-natural-world-how-we-can-st... |
| Description | INNS resources mentioned in partners 'eye on calderdale' website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Eye on Calderdale included article on 'importance of biosecruity' and iCASPs work woth Calderdale council |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/calderdale/invasive-species-week-16th-22nd-may-2022?e=303d0d5385 |
| Description | IUCN UK Peatland Programme website article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Profiles iCASP The Movie |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/news-and-events/news/how-yorkshire-icasp-supporting-partner... |
| Description | Integrated Nitrogen Management Workshop |
| 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 | An iCASP workshop (iCASP Project #13: Integrated nitrogen management workshop) aims to kick start an integrated catchment approach to reducing nitrogen pollution from farming. But as most excess nitrogen comes from agricultural activities, improvements will only happen if enough farmers get on board. High volumes of nitrogen in the water or in the air are harmful to human health, but most efforts to reduce them focus on a single impact or activity such as slurry spreading. An iCASP project, if designed well with input from farmers, researchers, Defra teams and regulators, could bring about a new approach with benefits for farm businesses and the environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Interview on SME in BBC Radio Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 3rd November 2021, Paola was interviewed by BBC Radio Leeds - Breakfast Show. She spoke about the impact of extreme floods on businesses, particularly across West Yorkshire, and the need for more flood defence mechanisms. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Introduction of SUIM at the WykeBeck Phase 2 Flood Scheme Meeting |
| 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 | SUIM project team attended the WykeBeck Phase 2 flood scheme meeting attened by Leeds City Council and WSP, consultants in November 2020 and introduced SUIM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Introduction of SUIM to stakeholders of future Strategic Flood Risk Assessments |
| 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 | SUIM was introduced to 10 participants from LCC, Environment Agency, Yorkshire Water and AECOM in discussing future Strategic Flood Risk Assessments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Journal for the emergency planning |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Project featured in July edition of resliience magazine |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | LINK Blog artiacle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP's Payment for Outcome project members Janet Richardson and Jenny Armstrong published an article on the LINK blog - Natural flood management in future farming schemes - lessons from theYorkshire Dales |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.wcl.org.uk/natural-flood-management-in-future-farming-schemes.asp |
| Description | LINK Blog article |
| 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 | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP's Payment for Outcome project members Janet Richardson and Jenny Armstrong published an article on the LINK blog - Natural flood management in future farming schemes - lessons from theYorkshire Dales |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.wcl.org.uk/natural-flood-management-in-future-farming-schemes.asp |
| Description | Leeds City Council Investment and Infrastructure Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ben Rabb and David Dawson were invited by Jonathan Moxon to attend on 6 October 2020 [A-B]. It is a group made up of LCC, EA & YW to discuss synergies and opportunities. Ben Rabb and David Dawson have been invited to attend future meetings (e.g. 1 July 2021). Ben Rabb and David Dawson also contacted Leeds City council to remind them of SUIM's potential for WykeBeck flood scheme business plan and strategic flood risk assessment via email in October 2020 [C-D] |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Leeds Climate Commission - Strategy Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A presentation was given to this Group giving an overview of iCASP so that the Commission could think about how iCASP could support its Climate Resilience Work Programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Living with Water Partnership catchment telemetry integration |
| 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 | Workshop on data visualization |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | MS Amlin (insurer) Academic Advisory Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | MS Amlin writes significant catastrophe risk across its Marine, Property and Reinsurance classes of business. The Academic Advisory Panel is a new initiative to look at the latest academic research in the area of catastrophe modelling (including exposure, hazard and vulnerability) and offer advice and information to a variety of audiences and through a wide range of channels. By joining the panel, academics will get the opportunity to share ideas, promote and seek industry funding for joined research projects, and of course generate publicity and exposure for the work of their faculties. Whilst we use commercial catastrophe models to quantify MS Amlin's catastrophe exposure for pricing and portfolio accumulation, we hope that our Academic Advisory Panel will expand our research and knowledge base in the fields of catastrophe modelling. The environmental science expertise available from across the iCASP universities on hydrology and meteorology is represented on this Panel by Prof Joseph Holden. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.msamlin.com/en/index.html |
| Description | Meeting with Scotlands Centre of Expertise and Water |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | In February 2020 the iCASP Programme Manager met with the CREW programme manager to share ideas, explore synergies between the 2 programmes and build closer working relationships. Since then CREW have been invited to Confluence and iCASP have been invited to an event in Edinburgh (but due to other commitments and short notice were unable to attend). A follow up meeting is planned for later this year to continue to explore options for close collaboration and maximising impact from the 2 programmes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Meeting: iCASP Programme Manager and Leeds Social Science Institute Co-ordinator and Economic and Social Research Council Account Manager |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The iCASP Programme Manager met with the Leeds Social Science Institute Co-ordinator and Economic and Social Research Council Account Manager in March to explore options for closer collaborations. The iCASP team have been informed of the possibilities for social science funding for iCASP project and this avenue will be pursued in future as appropriate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Member of Yorkshire Invasive Species Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Membership of this Group led to the development of iCASP project #15: 'Supporting local authorities on invasive non-native species' which plans to use existing NERC research on biosecurity and the work of the Yorkshire Invasive Species Forum to support the biosecurity practices of local authorities in Yorkshire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.ywt.org.uk/wildlife/conservation-action/west-yorkshire/invasive-species |
| Description | Membership of Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW) High Level Steering Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | iCASP Co-Is involvement in this Group is supported by her iCASP involvement. in 2020 iCASP have met with CREW staff to share projects / impact and programme best practice and follow up meetings arranged later this year. CREW is a Scottish Government funded partnership between the James Hutton Institute and Scottish Universities, supported by MASTS. CREW is a demand-driven service, managing the engagement with researchers to; Deliver timely and accurate advice Coordinate and fund research, analysis and interpretation Stimulate innovative and proactive thinking Develop an ethos of co-production and genuine knowledge exchange Develop the networks and skills of researchers, policy makers and practitioners to make best use of available science leading to improved environmental, social and economic outcomes. CREW runs the Scottish Government's Hydro Nation Scholarship Programme and Graduate School. The Hydro Nation Scholars Programme is an open competition for PhD scholars to undertake approved cutting-edge water projects, hosted within Scottish Universities and Research Institutes. These studies will help to create new expertise within Scotland and build our international profile. For more information please visit the Hydro Nation Scholarship Programme website. The Centre's activities are overseen by a Steering group. The purpose of the Steering Group is to: provide strategic advice, oversight and direction on effectiveness, impact and future work; develop relationships between CREW's partner organisations; reconcile differences in opinion and approach by the partners and advise on resolving disputes arising from them advise on linkages and connections with related research and initiatives in the UK, European and international arena; contribute to CREWs role in Hydro Nation, including the Hydro Nation scholars programme. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www.crew.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Mention in SEPA report - Towards improved surface water flood forecasts |
| 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 | In the frame of the project#6 Water surface forecasting project , iCASP was referenced in the SEPA report - Towards improved surface water flood forecasts (dec. 2019). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Mention in SEPA report April 2019 (UK CP18 Forum) |
| 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 | In the frame of the UKCP18 project , the iCASP UKCP18 forum was referenced in UKCP18 newsletter Apr-19. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Met Office UK Climate Projections Newsletter |
| 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 | Section in July newsletter on iCASP UKCP18 demonstrator project (iCASP project #1: Piloting new climate change projections with regional stakeholders in Yorkshire catchments) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/binaries/content/assets/mohippo/pdf/ukcp18/ukcp18-project-news/ukcp18-ne... |
| Description | Moors for the Future Annual Report |
| 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 | Moors for the Future partnership, published an article in their annual report on the DigiBog_Hydro, with a note on the User guide too, tools from the project #3 Optimal Peatland restoration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Moors for the Future Annual Report |
| 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 | Moors for the Future partnership, published an article in their annual report on the DigiBog_Hydro, with a note on the User guide too, tools from the project Optimal Peatland restoration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | NERC Westminster Reception |
| 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 | Introduce the new parliament to iCASP as an example of NERC environmental science providing societal solutions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | National Infrastructure Operators Adaptation Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | iCASP raise by iCASP partner Yorkshire Water |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | National Trust and Environment Agency field briefing |
| 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 | Field meeting to discuss pool creation from peatland restoration and benefits from changing pool design to replicate more natural pool systems. National Trust, Moors for the Future Partnership and Natural England participants. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Natural England teleconference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Briefing for regional Natural England staff on iCASP and a discussion on how iCASP could help Natural England address its priorities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Natural England's Social Science Expert Panel (SSEP) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP's socioeconomic workstream lead prof. Julia Martin-Ortega was accepted as a member of Natural England's Social Science Expert Panel (SSEP). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Natural flood management community of practice (NFM CoP) : NFM installations |
| 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 | October 2022 Mot McDonald hosted a CoP at Marlfield farm |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/october-2022-site-visit-to-marlfield-farm-workshop/ |
| Description | Natural flood management community of practice (NFM CoP) workshop "funding hackathon" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP organised the community of practice for natural flood management workshop "funding hackathon" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/projects-2-2/nfm_community_of_practice/december-2021-nfm-cop-funding-hackathon/... |
| Description | Natural flood management community of practice (NFM CoP) workshop "virtual site visit and soil management" |
| 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 | iCASP organised the community of practice for natural flood management workshop "virtual site visit and soil management". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://iCASP.org.uk/resources-and-publications/natural-flood-management-community-of-practice-nfm-c... |
| Description | Natural flood management community of practice (NFM CoP): Site Visit Brownlee Centre, reconnecting event at Weetwood Hall |
| 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 | On 28th April 2022 the COP met in person for the first time in 2 years this event provided members with an opportunity to come together to reconnect and network on NFM activities after the pandemic, and to look forward and shape future activities of the group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/2022/05/10/april-2022-site-visit-brownlee-centre-reconnecting-event-at-weetwood... |
| Description | News article on Craven Herald regarding Payment for Outcome project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP's Payment for Outcome project members Janet Richardson and Jenny Armstrong published a news article "Flood management on farms explored" on the Craven Herald and Pioneer |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/18874537.flood-managment-farms-explored/ |
| Description | News article on Payment for Outcome |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP's Payment for Outcome project members Janet Richardson and Jenny Armstrong published a news article "Flood management on farms explored" on the Craven Herald and Pioneer, https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/18874537.flood-managment-farms-explored/. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/18874537.flood-managment-farms-explored/. |
| Description | News for West Yorkshire FLIP on Bradford Council Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 23rd November 2021, the kick-off of the West YorkshireFlood Innovation Programme (FLIP) was announced on Bradford Council website, in a news entitled "Innovative action plan gets funding toreduce the impact of fl ooding across WestYorkshire". https://www.bradford.gov.uk/browse-all-news/press-releases/innovative-action-plan-gets-funding-to-reduce-the-impact-of-flooding-across-west-yor%E2%80%A6. "The Bradford District will benefit from an innovative regional plan to reduce the impact of flooding over the next six years. The West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (FLIP) is being launched this week to coincide with National Flood Action Week. It has also just received £160,000, thanks to a successful bid for local levy funding from the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, which will help to kick start the programme. The programme is being led by five local Lead Flood Authorities across the region - Bradford Council, Calderdale Council, Kirklees Council, Leeds City Council and Wakefield Council". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | News for West Yorkshire FLIP on BusinessDesk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | On 25th November 2021, the kick-off of the West YorkshireFlood Innovation Programme (FLIP) was announced on BusinessDesk.com, in a news entitled "Action plan gets funding to reduce impact of flooding across West Yorkshire". https://www.thebusinessdesk.com/yorkshire/news/2085560-action-plan-gets-funding-to-reduce-impact-of-flooding-across-west-yorkshire. "Spearheaded by five local Lead Flood Authorities across the region, the West YorkshireFlood Innovation Programme (FLIP) has achieved a bid for £160,000 local levy fundingfrom the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to get it off the ground". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bradford.gov.uk/browse-all-news/press-releases/innovative-action-plan-gets-funding-to-re... |
| Description | News for West Yorkshire FLIP on Calderdale Flood Newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The kick-off of the West YorkshireFlood Innovation Programme (FLIP) was announced in the December 2021 Issue of the Calderdale Flood Newsletter, in a news entitled "Innovative action plan gets £160K funding toreduce the impact of flooding". https://mailchi.mp/calderdale/december-flood-partner-newsletter?e=303d0d5385. "Thousands of pounds of funding have been awarded to an innovative plan to reduce theimpact of flooding and climate change in West Yorkshire over the next six years. Spearheaded by five local Lead Flood Authorities across the region, the West YorkshireFlood Innovation Programme (FLIP) has just achieved a successful bid for £160k local levyfunding from the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to get it off the ground. Research England has also given £69k to the programme to be used over the next three months. This will enable Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme to make sure that the latest flood research can be used from the start to develop integrated, innovative approaches to resilience.". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/calderdale/december-flood-partner-newsletter?e=303d0d5385 |
| Description | News for West Yorkshire FLIP on Dewsbury Reporter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 26th November 2021, the kick-off of the West YorkshireFlood Innovation Programme (FLIP) was announced on Dewsbury Reporter, in a news entitled "Innovative action plan gets funding to reduce the impact of flooding". hhttps://www.dewsburyreporter.co.uk/news/environment/innovative-action-plan-gets-funding-to-reduce-the-impact-of-flooding-3471536. "Spearheaded by five local Lead Flood Authorities across the region, the WestYorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (FLIP) has just been achieved a successful bid for £160k local levy funding from the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to get it off the ground". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | News for West Yorkshire FLIP on Halifax Courier |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 28th November 2021, the kick-off of the West YorkshireFlood Innovation Programme (FLIP) was announced on Halifax Courier, in a news entitled "Action plan gets £160,000 funding to reducethe impact of flooding across West Yorkshire". https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/environment/action-plan-gets-ps160000-funding-to-reduce-the-impact-of-flooding-across-west-yorkshire-3466998. "Spearheaded by five local Lead Flood Authorities across the region, the West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (FLIP) has just been achieved a successful bid for £160k local levy funding from the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to get it off the ground". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/environment/action-plan-gets-ps160000-funding-to-reduce-the-im... |
| Description | News for West Yorkshire FLIP on Kirklees Council Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 25th November 2021, the kick-off of the West YorkshireFlood Innovation Programme (FLIP) was announced on Kirklees Council website, in a news entitled "Innovative action plan gets funding to reduce the impact of flooding across West Yorkshire". https://kirkleestogether.co.uk/2021/11/25/innovative-action-plan-gets-funding-to-reduce-the-impact-of-flooding-across-west-yorkshire/. "Spearheaded by five local Lead Flood Authorities across the region, the West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (FLIP) has just been achieved a successful bid for £160k local levy funding from the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee to get it off the ground". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://kirkleestogether.co.uk/2021/11/25/innovative-action-plan-gets-funding-to-reduce-the-impact-o... |
| Description | News for West Yorkshire FLIP on Telegraph and Argus |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 23rd November 2021, the kick-off of the West YorkshireFlood Innovation Programme (FLIP) was announced on Telegraph and Argus, in a news entitled "Bradford part of scheme to reduce impact of flooding in West Yorkshire". https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/19734298.bradford-part-scheme-reduce-impact-flooding-west-yorkshire/. "The West Yorkshire Flood Innovation Programme (FLIP) is being launched this week to coincide with National Flood Action Week. It has also just received £160,000, thanks to a successful bid for local levy funding from the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, which will help to kick start the programme". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/19734298.bradford-part-scheme-reduce-impact-flooding-wes... |
| Description | News on WaterLANDs project in Calderdale Flood Partner Newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | News article on WaterLANDS in Calderdale Flood Partner Newsletter November 2021 Issue. "An ambitious project has been launched to tackle the largescale restoration of Europe'swetlands, with €23 million of funding from the EU Horizon 2020 Programme Green Deal. WaterLANDS (Water-based solutions for carbon storage, people and wilderness) willrestore wetland sites across Europe which have been decimated by human activity and laythe foundations for scalable protection across much wider areas. The Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP), based at theUniversity of Leeds, are key research partners in the European project which will supportcommunities involved in the restoration of peatlands across the region and the wider UK". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/calderdale/november-flood-partner-newsletter |
| Description | News: Report explores private funding for sustainable agriculture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Blog about the belnded finace report on the resilience of the Uk Food System website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Newsletter of British Hydrological Society (Circulation) article |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Overview of iCASP http://www.hydrology.org.uk/assets/Circ 136_web.pdf |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Newsletter of SME on Calderdale Flood News |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A piece for the "Calderdale flood news" newsletter, was written with the title "Understanding Small businesses to increase their flood resilience" was written showcasing the project and directing the readers to other project's publications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/calderdale/flood-news-february-2021 |
| Description | Newsletter of SME on Leeds Business Improvement District Newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The project and the Flooding impacts surveys on SMEs was showcased in Leeds Business Improvement District Newsletter, the project and survey were given the standard word count that the newsletter devotes to news. (https://www.leedsbid.co.uk/) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.leedsbid.co.uk/ |
| Description | Newsletter of SME on Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The project and the Flooding impacts surveys on SMEs was showcased in two issues on the Leeds LEP Newsletter that has 11,341 subscribers (https://tinyurl.com/y6y8j2em) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://tinyurl.com/y6y8j2em |
| Description | Newsletter of SME on National Centre for Universities and Business |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A contribution was made to the magazine of the National Centre for universities and business highlighting the relevance of the topic and showcasing the project and collaborators. Sakai, P. (2021) Understanding the impact of Flooding on UK SMEs. National Centre for Universities and Business. https://www.ncub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=483-5044-partnerships-for-the-planet-v8-final&category_slug=reports&Itemid=2728. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ncub.co.uk/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=483-5044-partnerships-for-the... |
| Description | Newsletter of SME on Yorkshire Flood Resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | To forecast the importance of increasing the flood resilience of SMEs, Paola Sakai wrote an expert piece on the Yorkshire flood resilience online platform. Sakai, P. (2021) Understanding SMEs to increase their flood resilience. Expert piece, January. Yorkshire Flood Resilience. Published online https://yorkshirefloodresilience.co.uk/tools-resources/the-experts-view/understanding-smes-to-increase-their-flood-resilience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://yorkshirefloodresilience.co.uk/tools-resources/the-experts-view/understanding-smes-to-increa... |
| Description | Newsletter on SME |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP's SME project members Stephen Curry and Paola Sakai published an update "iCASP funded resilience research gets underway" in the business section of the Calderdale Flood Partner Issue. https://mailchi.mp/calderdale/floodnewsapr2020. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/calderdale/floodnewsapr2020 |
| Description | Newsletter on SME |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP's SME project member Paola Sakai published an update "Understanding SMEs to increase their flood resilience" in the expert section of the Yorkshire Flood Resilience, https://yorkshirefloodresilience.co.uk/tools-resources/the-experts-view/understanding-smes-to-increase-their-flood-resilience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://yorkshirefloodresilience.co.uk/tools-resources/the-experts-view/understanding-smes-to-increa... |
| Description | North Yorkshire Flood Risk Management Partnership quarterly meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP's SME project member Paola Sakai was an invited expert to present (twice) on the quarterly meeting of the North Yorkshire Flood Risk Management Partnership (March and November 2020). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Northernpower Grid Workshop on Climate Change Adaptation |
| 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 | Dr Ben Rabb attended a deliberative workshop on Climate Change Adaptation organised by Northernpower Grid on 2 October 2020 to discuss and feedback on their options for funding adaptation to climate change in their business plans. On 3 February 2021 Ben met with NPG (along with Yorkshire Water and Northern Gas Networks) to plan for the 'Yorkshire Infrastructure Operators Forum' - for which iCASP has received Research England funds to develop. General aim of the forum is to as a platform to allow dialogue and knowledge exchange on climate adaptation practice and policy in the region. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Participation in British Hydrological Society National Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | iCASP (though Megan Klaar) gave at the presentation at the British Hydrological Society National Event on Natural Flood Management at Lancaster University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in Workshop on challenges in water environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Joe Holden iCASP director invited to present at a workshop about the challenges facing the water environment, "to help the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the EA identify and understand the challenges that face the water environment and the research that is required to address these challenges." The workshop brings together senior policy makers and thought leaders from academia to discuss evidence regarding our water environment and the challenges that it faces over the next 50 years |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity workshop or similar - European Geophysical Union meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In the frame of the project#6 Water surface forecasting project , iCASP (Steve Boeeing) had an oral presentation accepted at EGU. Interest was from Red Cross |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity workshop or similar - Met Office & Flood Forecasting Centre (FFC) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In the frame of the project#6 Water surface foreacting project, 20.03.19 - iCASP (Ben Rab) presented to various FFC and MO staff in Exeter (including more general iCASP presentation) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - Carbon Connect event In the frame of the project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | In connection with #3 Optimal Peatland Restoration, iCASP (Julia Martin-Ortega and Dylan Young) contacted to present at the European network, hosted this time by North Pennines AONB partnership, the iCASP work to this Carbon Connects project group of which we are a partner. Resulting from this meeting is also an invitation to another peat meeting in the Netherlands. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - Co-design workshop: invasive non-native biosecurity and local authorities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to bring together academics from iCASP partner universities together with representatives of the Yorkshire Invasive Species Forum and those involved in managing biosecurity in local authorities in Yorkshire to co-design iCASP project ideas. Led to development of iCASP Project #15: Supporting local authorities on invasive non-native species |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - Don Network Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | In the frame of the project#15 INNS, iCASP (Janet Richardson and Alison Dunn) were invited to give a talk at the Don Network Days workshop on INNS mapping. Presentation (10 minutes) on 5th April 2019, lead to more contact names in the councils to connect to. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - Food risk management workshops |
| 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 | Organised with LCC and EA to bring together about 40 ppl working on new infrastructure and flood risk in the region to identify joint aims and ambitions and with the aim to make the next spending period bid (2021-27) better value for money through integrating different infrastructure and aims that produce multiple benefits. Possible impact: the bid was altered somewhat because of the workshop and that there has been some improved joint working between attendees and the request from Leeds City Council to iCASP to run the Wortley Beck workshop to review options for the proposed flood alleviation schemes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - Food risk management workshops (Wortley Beck) |
| 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 | Organised with LCC and EA to run through, with a wide range of stakeholders from different organisations and the local community, the possibile ways to deal with the ongoing WB flood issues. This was structured around a study carried out by WSP who LCC had contracted to carry out an options appraisal. The workshop looked at this and invited people to add their thoughts about what work was already going on and look at the different possibilities. Two local councillors for the ward attended the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - Small Medium Enterprises project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Leeds Insurance Institute. February 2020. Paola Sakai was asked to speak at an event about flooding and climate change. She will present the vulnerability index but also will introduce the iCASP project to the audience and will invite insurers in Leeds to participate in the project. North Yorkshire Flood Risk Partnership (FRP) meeting, Feb 2020. Paola presented the iCASP project and will invited the audience to participate West Yorkshire Flood Risk Partnership (FRP) meeting, spring 2020. PS will present the iCASP project and will invite them to participate |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - Soil Security Programme conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Leake - Lead for the iCASP Sustainable Agriculture workstream mentioned iCASP when presenting at the Soil Security Programme event. At this same event, Joseph Holden iCASP Director contributed to raise iCASP profile by highlighting the benefits of NERC funding long-term science impact programmes, such as iCASP |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - Trent Rivers Trust Annual conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP (Janet Richardson) was invited to present at the Trent Rivers Trust Annual conference in Newark - Janet Richardson presentation for 15 mins and 5 mins of questions. Presentation on iCASP and NFM work undertaken, focusing on Don work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - Workshop: Valuation and Appraisal of Urban Realm Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - Workshop: Valuation and Appraisal of Urban Realm Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - iCASP Confluence |
| 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 annual conference (called confluence) in 2019: 7 new organisations attended the event: Network Rail, Environmental Monitoring Solutions, Living With Water, BMT, Stockholm Environment Institute University of York, York Consortium Drainage Boards, Leeds Academic Health Partnership (NB: these organisations may have worked one on one with iCASP staff, but this is the first time they have attended an iCASP event as a delegate). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - iCASP Project #3: Optimal Peatland Restoration - practitioner feedback on model design |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Testing DigiBog_Hydro digital model with peatland restoration practitioners (Yorkshire Peat partnership and Moors for the Future Partnership), at their office base. Impact: for them to be confidence using the model independently going forward and applying on their site. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar - stand at the Great Yorkshire Show |
| 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 | In the frame of the project#15 INNS, iCASP held stand as a component part of Rivers Trust stand in the Angling tent at the Great Yorkshire Show for 3 days from 9 - 11 July 2019. Impact: promotion of the project, information guides about INNS and exchanges with members of the public, farmers, contractors and others about the issue of INNS in Yorkshire waterways. About 20 conversations were held each of the 3 days of the show with people who ranged from interested members of the public who knew nothing about INNS and had no land to manage, to farmers, bee-keepers, land managers and people from professional organisations with an interest in INNS. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Partner priority identification meetings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Invitations to discuss priorities with each Springboard Partner were sent. As a result, the iCASP team have met with the following Springboard Partners to discuss priorities: City of York Council, Dales to Vales River Network/Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust, Environment Agency, Met Office, NFU, Natural England, Pennine Prospects, Yorkshire Water, Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership, and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. The iCASP team have also attended events involving Springboard Partners such as Catchment Management Plan meetings, Leeds FASII Natural Flood Management/Working With Natural Processes consultation, CIWEM-EA launch of Working With Nature Processes: The Evidence Behind Natural Flood Management, and a meeting on coordination between the York, North Yorkshire and East Riding Local Enterprise Partnership and the related Local Nature Partnerships and catchment partnerships. Meetings to raise the profile of iCASP, identify additional priorities, opportunities for impact translation, initiatives to link across the iCASP area, encourage involvement of organisations outside of the formal iCASP partnership in iCASP projects, have been held/organised with additional influential organisations/individuals (e.g. councillors, MPs, Forestry Commission, Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee, local authority chief executives, Defra strategy advisers). One of the iCASP team has been working from the West Yorkshire Combined Authority offices to support the Leeds City Region Green-Blue Infrastructure Strategy development and its implementation plans. The strategy has very ambitious plans involving partners from across the region, with actions to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in the coming years. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| Description | Podcast on Invasive Non-native Species |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In May 2019, Alison Dunn was on a podcast to discuss with a MP (Mary Creagh) for the INNs project, https://soundcloud.com/user-359249181/alien-invaders. Alison starts talking about iCASP from 14 mins on the podcast. This followed her presented oral evidence to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee's inquiry into invasive species. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://soundcloud.com/user-359249181/alien-invaders |
| Description | Presentation to Institute for Climate & Atmospheric Science |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | In the frame of the project#6 Water surface forecasting project , iCASP (Steve Boeeing), 05.11.19 - presented technical details of rainfall data preparation to ICAS (Institute for Climate & Atmospheric Science) @ University of Leeds |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Public Goods Delivered in Bishopdale |
| 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 | Julian Sturdy MP and Rishi Sunak MP - verbally briefed on upland hydrology research - committed to organising an event at Westminster to showcase Yorkshire integrated catchment management. https://www.rishisunak.com/news/rishi-sunak-backs-measures-help-prevent-flooding-and-climate-change http://www.juliansturdy.co.uk/news-and-articles/julian-learns-about-managing-yorkshires-uplands-for-public-benefit/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/16229377.COLUMN__Let__39_s_not_forget_environmental_issues_in_the_f... |
| Description | Radio interview about Communicating Flood Risk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | In February 2022, Jenny was interviewed on the Think Global Act Local programme of the ChapelFM. https://www.chapelfm.co.uk/elfm-player/shows/list/think-global-act-local/ |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.chapelfm.co.uk/elfm-player/shows/list/think-global-act-local/ |
| Description | Reflecting on the Yorkshire and South West Property Flood Resilience Pathfinder projects |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | JBA wrote about iCASP PFR project on their blog. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.jbaconsulting.com/insights/yorkshire-south-west-pfr-pathfinder-podcast/ |
| Description | Regional Natural Flood Management (NFM) Community of Practice |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Informal space for NFM practitioners in Yorkshire to meet regularly to discuss iCASP Project #4: 'Supporting the Yorkshire Natural Flood Management (NFM) pilots to deliver evidence and guidance that will influence national implementation and financing of NFM' progress, and share lessons learnt and experiences between NFM projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2019,2020 |
| Description | Role of Nitrogen in Species Rich Meadows for the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association and Plantlife |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Kevin Hicks was invited to present at the workshop on the Role of Nitrogen in Species Rich Meadows for the Pasture-Fed Livestock Association and Plantlife on 27 April, 2021. As a result of this presentation, he has so far been contacted by two participants and one of the other speakers expressing interest in seeing and commenting on our initial guidance draft documents and attending our final workshop. These contacts have also put Kevin in touch with the Head of Agricultural Production Systems research group at Newcastle University and with a company starting up a trial farm in Harrogate who have requested to meet with us and discuss how we might work together. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | SME Surveys on Open Source Arts |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Local organisations also helped to distribute the survey among their networks such as the Open Source Art in Leeds that has worked with businesses that experienced flooding. The organisation sent an email to their subscribers inviting them to answer the survey. A brief of the project, a leaflet and the invitation to the survey were sent. The leaflet contained the iCASP logo. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://tinyurl.com/y6y8j2em |
| Description | SME in Policy Leeds |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | On 19th October 2021, Paola wrote a blog entitled "SMEs are the backbone of every economy:supporting their climate adaptation is vital" in Policy Leeds, focused on (1) Poor flood-resilience can cost SMEs in many ways; (2) Understanding SMEs economic losses is paramount; (3) Cross-sectoral partnerships could be key to SMEs adaptation; (4) What can we do to support SMEs become more flood-resilient? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://medium.com/policy-leeds/smes-are-the-backbone-of-every-economy-supporting-their-climate-adap... |
| Description | SUIM at the Bradford Flood Board meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | On 16th November 2021, Prof. Pippa Chapman gave a presentation on "Field Management for Soil Carbon" at the UK Farm Soil Carbon Code Stakeholder Workshop organised by Sustainable Soils Alliance. https://sustainablesoils.org/our-work/political-engagement/2-uncategorised/512-uk-farm-soil-carbon-code-stakeholder-workshop-nov-21. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Sediment Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 22 September 2020, iCASP organized a co-design workshop to develop 1 or 2 co-design project ideas on the topic of sediments. 22 people signed up for the workshop. Agenda - Introduction and Aims of the day - Session 1: Presentations- Advances in sediment research and current industry challenges - Break/Networking - Session 2: Round table talks - What topics are of interest to you in relation to sediment? What is the issue? - Session 3: Round table talks - What format would this be useful in? What does a project look like? - Close and next steps |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/icasp-workshop-on-sediment-and-associated-particulates-management-tic... |
| Description | Sedimentological Research Group Annual General Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Janet Richardson gave a presentation "Making sediment count: translating river catchment science into economic and societal benefits for the Yorkshire Region" at the 59th British Sedimentological Research Group Annual General Meeting, https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences/events/bsrg/. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/earth-ocean-and-ecological-sciences/events/bsrg/ |
| Description | Settee Seminar 'Helping the local environment' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jenny Armstrong & Dr Tom Willis feature in podcast |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/2022/06/29/first-icasp-podcast-helping-the-local-environment-a-settee-seminar/%... |
| Description | Sheffield City Council - iCASP awareness meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion between iCASP, Sheffield City Council flood risk team and Arup on how iCASP could support Sheffield City Council flood risk mitigation work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Site Visit to Hardcastle Crags & the Role of the Community in Delivering NFM |
| 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 | On 26th July 2022 the CoP met at HArdcastle crags, The Summer meeting of the Yorkshire NFM Community of Practice (CoP) was held in-person at Hardcastle Crags. The day involved a tour of the NFM interventions on the site and a discussion around community resilience to flooding and how the community can be involved in NFM. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/2022/08/03/july-2022-site-visit-to-hardcastle-crags-the-role-of-the-community-i... |
| Description | Slow the flow newsletter April 2022 |
| 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 | iCASP Backstone Beck project mentioned in Slow the flow newsletter April 2022 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://paper.li/slowtheflow_UK/1484420534 |
| Description | South Pennines farm and landowner workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This event took place in Hebden Bridge Golf Club on 11.05.22 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | South Pennines land Management Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | A presentation to one of Pennine Prospects operational groups to brief them on iCASP and hear about priorities for the partnership that iCASP may be able to support with. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Stakeholder workshops on refinement of INM guidance |
| 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 | On 12 July 2021, the final workshop for INMY Farm Part 1 was held to hear about the outputs and results of the project, to gather feedback and to gauge interest in partnering with INMY Farm for the Part 2 proposal. Around 38 stakeholders including farmers, farm advisors, water companies, national park authorities, Defra Soil Team, Defra Fertiliser Team, Natural England and the Environment Agency attended the workshop. Impacts: social - presentations included results of interviews with farmers and advisors on decision-making and how they might use the guidance; policy - the Defra teams, EA and NE all were positive about the guidance and how it fit with their goals; environmental - if advisors can use the guidance to engage "entry level" farmers, there is potential for environmental benefit through reduced N pollution; economic - if farmers reduce inputs, it will save them money. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Stakeholder workshops on refinement of INM guidance |
| 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 | On 22 March 2021, INMY Farm project was pleased to welcome 14 stakeholder representatives including farmers, landowners, policy makers, advisors and farmer networks along with 10 members of the INMY Farm and iCASP team to the stakeholder consultation. Discussions covered the appropriateness and usefulness of the INMY Farm guidance framework for farm advisors and farmer networks and how the project might complement and enhance the work of the stakeholder organisations aimed at reducing pollution from nutrient use in agriculture. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Stakeholder workshops on refinement of INM guidance |
| 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 | On 12 July 2021, the final workshop for INMY Farm Part 1 was held to hear about the outputs and results of the project, to gather feedback and to gauge interest in partnering with INMY Farm for the Part 2 proposal. Around 38 stakeholders including farmers, farm advisors, water companies, national park authorities, Defra Soil Team, Defra Fertiliser Team, Natural England and the Environment Agency attended the workshop. Impacts: social - presentations included results of interviews with farmers and advisors on decision-making and how they might use the guidance; policy - the Defra teams, EA and NE all were positive about the guidance and how it fit with their goals; environmental - if advisors can use the guidance to engage "entry level" farmers, there is potential for environmental benefit through reduced N pollution; economic - if farmers reduce inputs, it will save them money. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Steering Group interviews |
| 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 | One to One interviews with project steering group to elecite feedback on the outputs so far generated from the project and how they can be improved. As a result documents will now encorpate more reputational costs to the user community. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | UK Water Climate Change Network |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | iCASP raised by iCASP partner Yorkshire Water |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UKCP18 Regional Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP in association with Yorkshire Water ran a UKCP18 user forum (iCASP project #9), where: ? The Met Office UKCP18 project team introduced UKCP18 and helped address queries from regional stakeholders ? Participants connected with other organisations and individuals using UKCP18 The event was aimed at practitioners from a variety of sectors (e.g. flooding, health, water supply, natural capital, food supply and urban/ built environment) who want to know more about the latest UKCP18 climate projections - both how the climate is likely to change in the region and how they might practically access and use it to make climate resilient decisions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UKCP18 launch |
| 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 | Ben Rabb, iCASP Impact Translation Fellow, presented the demonstrator case studies that iCASP produced on surface water flooding and drought at the launch of the new UK Climate Projections on November 26th. Outputs from iCASP project #1: 'Piloting new climate change projections with regional stakeholders in Yorkshire' are now available to download from the iCASP website. The two case studies, one on assessing drought risk in Yorkshire and the other looking at intense rainfall and flooding in the region, each include a step by step guide for using the new Met Office information products |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UKWIR-iCASP collaboration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | UKWIR requested involvement in future iCASP projects and offered to communicate iCASP outputs to UKWIR working groups. iCASP invited to attend 2020 UKWIR conference. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018,2020 |
| Description | Upper Rother Project Moss Brook 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 | A successful workshop exploring opportunities for natural flood management (NFM) in the Moss Brook catchment was held on 27th October 2021 in Eckington, southeast of Sheffield, as a joint venture between iCASP and the Don Catchment Rivers Trust (DCRT). This was the first workshop, organised in late October, as part of our Upper Rother Project, which focuses on three sub-catchments in the Upper Rother Catchment. The project aims to create a directory of NFM evidence which will help the DCRT to target areas that have the greatest impact on reducing flood risk. Future workshops will be held focusing on the River Hipper and Spital Brook catchments. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Upper Rother Project Moss Brook 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 | Engagement with stakeholders and capturing local knowledge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visit constituency office of local MP |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Discussed iCASP with Nigel Adams MP's office. Subsequently floods minister T.Coffey visited constituency and iCASP was mentioned by MP's office. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | WYFLIP_ First Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The first workshop on Thursday 17 February will focus on developing the pathway that the WY FLIP will take to reach its overarching aim and principles. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | WYFLIP_Second Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The second workshop on Tuesday 1 March will focus on the aims, opportunities and barriers of the five programme themes: - Integrated water management solutions Nature based solutions Property flood resilience Helping the community and voluntary sector to be better prepared and recover more quickly Enhanced flood warning systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Water SCORE blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | BLOG: SCORE Water challenge - Working with Natural Processes to alleviate flooding |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://northsearegion.eu/score/news/score-water-challenge-blog-working-with-natural-processes-to-al... |
| Description | Water at Leeds 10th Anniversary Celebration Showcase |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The event included speakers from industry and academia and talks from members and collaborators, including iCASP. The event showcased the work of water@leeds members (the umbrella organisation for iCASP), its impact on society and the economy, and the national and international partnerships that support this work. The event provided an opportunity to think about the future and the next generation of interdisciplinary water researchers. iCASP Programme Manager spoke about the impact of the iCASP programme. ICASP ITF Richard Grayson gave a short talk on the iCASP NFM project as did iCASP academic Megan Klaar and Allison Dunn on INNS. The iCASP team were present to network and talk to delegates about the work of iCASP. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | WaterLANDS Great North Bog Stakeholder workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP, hosted by the University of Leeds, has organised the event in partnership with the Great North Bog team. Workshop included: Introductions to the WaterLANDS project and the Great North Bog Group discussions on needs, opportunities and concerns related to peatland restoration across the Great North Bog region and the next steps of participation Space for questions and suggestion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Webinar on Economic Impacts of Flooding on SMEs |
| 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 | In July 2020, a webinar was organised with local authorities, to discuss the project ongoing activities, the flood impacts on SMEs survey and the potential and goals of the partnership between the project, iCASP and the local authorities, the invitation was extended to the flood managers of the 16 councils of Yorkshire and the Humber and had 7 attendees. The webinar recording was shared with all Local Authorities and the project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar on SME Project Progress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On December 2020, a second webinar was organised with insurers, brokers and lenders to update attendees about the project's activities and gather feedback. The project had 8 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar on SME Project Progress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On December 2020, a second webinar was organised with insurers, brokers and lenders to update attendees about the project's activities and gather feedback. The project had 8 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar on SME Survey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On August 2020, a webinar was organised with local authorities, to discuss the project ongoing activities, the flood impacts on SMEs survey and the potential and goals of the partnership between the project, iCASP and the local authorities, the invitation was extended to the flood managers of the 16 councils of Yorkshire and the Humber and had 7 attendees. The webinar recording was shared with all Local Authorities and the project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar on Tailored Information on SMEs and flooding |
| 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 | In September 2020, a webinar was organised with insurers, brokers and lenders to update attendees about the project's activities and gather feedback. The project had 18 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar on the Tool to Assess Economic Cost for flooding |
| 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 | In November 2020, a webinar was organized with insurers, brokers and lenders to update attendees about the project's activities and gather feedback. The project had 8 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar on the Tool to Assess Effective Resilience |
| 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 | In December 2020, a second webinar was organised with insurers, brokers and lenders to update attendees about the project's activities and gather feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Webinar: A peatland-tailored User Guide on methods to value benefits from restoration |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Europarc Atlantic Isles webinar: The latest webinar was on Friday 8th February at 12.00 and presented by Marie Ferre from Leeds University. Webinar profiled the guide to help peatland restoration practitioners and anyone interested in peatlands value the socio-economic benefits of their restoration developed by The Moors For the Future Partnership (MFFP), the Yorkshire Peat Partnership (YPP) and the University of Leeds, developed by the iCASP Project #3: Optimal peatland restoration . The interactive 'User Guide', developed as part of the Yorkshire integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP), will help peatland practitioners better understand methods for valuing peatland's ecosystem services, get an idea of the existing evidence on values, and make the case for investment in restoration. Webinar has led to several target audiences downloading the User Guide including Defra, Natural England, Natural Resources Wales. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.europarc-ai.org/seminars-webinars/next-webinar/ |
| Description | Website for Soil Testing for Integrated Nutrient Management in Yorkshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The website of Soil Testing for Integrated Nutrient Management in Yorkshire (https://features.york.ac.uk/inmy-farm--soil-testing/index.html) was created to demonstrate how to conduct soil testing and its relationship with nutrient management. The website has 8 themes: soil testing, visual evaluation of soil structure & earthworms, pH, soil organic matter, nutrient analysis, summary table, policy and payments, science of soil testing. All of themes are presented with demonstrative graphs and pictures, as well as reference and useful resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.wcl.org.uk/natural-flood-management-in-future-farming-schemes.asp |
| Description | West Yorkshire Flood Resilience Innovation 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 | On the 10th August, representatives from Lead Local Flood Authorities (LLFAs) and partners across West Yorkshire took part in a workshop facilitated by iCASP to develop work started in a bid for the Government's £200m Resilience Innovation Programme. Unfortunately, the West Yorkshire bid was unsuccessful, but there is widespread enthusiasm from partners across the region to progress the proposed programme of work which included innovative ideas to reduce flood risk across the region. The aim of the workshop was to develop a framework for delivering the work collaboratively, prioritise interventions and participants agreed to put together a bid for Local Levy funding to help progress the work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mailchi.mp/calderdale/flood-partner-newsletter-august-2021?e=303d0d5385 |
| Description | West Yorkshire Flood Risk Management Partnership quarterly meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP's SME project member Paola Sakai was an invited expert to present (twice) on the quarterly meeting of the West Yorkshire Flood Risk Management Partnership (March and November 2020). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | West Yorkshire Local Nature Partnership meeting - Local Nature Recovery Discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | West Yorkshire Local Nature Partnership meeting - local nature recovery discussion. Tamsin Constable (WYCA) acknowledged Jenny Armstrong's presentations for supporting the thinking about stakeholder and community engagement (models for iCASP and WYFLIP) for the LNRS which will now be taken forward in the process. iCASP and WYFLIP models are to be used in the local nature recovery strategy - Jenny Armstrong an iCASP referenced in the presentation at West Yorkshire Local Nature Partnership meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
| Description | West Yorkshire economic recovery board |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Andy Brown was asked to present to the west yorkshire economic recovery board which was chaired by the new Mayor and is attended by the leaders of all local authorities in the region plus other key players. The presentation was on the topic of the future of Towns and Cities (we have new data on regional retail store closures and footfall which inter alia suggest horrendous devaluations of commercial property are on the way and collapse of rateable value) but our method, and framework for suggested future regional investment, is the system-of-system approach developed in the GBI project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Workshop on the Potential of Blended Finance in post-Brexit Environmental Land Management Scheme |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Global Food Security Resilient Dairy Landscape project held a workshop in March 2020 to explore the role that blended finance options could play in the future agricultural policy post-Brexit. iCASP's project member Prof. Guy Ziv attended the workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Wortley Beck flood alleviation scheme optioneering workshop |
| 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 | iCASP organised with Leeds City Council and EA to run through, with a wide range of stakeholders from different organisations and the local community, the possible ways to deal with the ongoing Wortley Beck flood issues. This was structured around a study carried out by consultants WSP who LCC had contracted to carry out an options appraisal to reduce flood risk. The workshop reviewed the proposed options and and provided important professional feedback, covering a range of important and relevant considerations from hydrology to ecology. Two local councillors for the ward attended the event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | YHCC - Help available for groups to communicate during flood incident |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | YHCC have promoted CFR on their website |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://yorksandhumberclimate.org.uk/news/help-available-groups-communicate-during-flood-incidents |
| Description | Yorkshire Infrastructure Adaptation Forum |
| 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 | On Friday the 11th of June 2021, Dr Ben Rabb & Dr David Dawson convened the Yorkshire Infrastructure Adaptation Forum (YIAF). The aim of the event was to provide opportunities for discussion around climate adaptation policy and action in Yorkshire between key infrastructure planners and operators. It was an opportunity to hear practical examples of how Yorkshire's infrastructure is being adapted as the climate changes along with the latest advances in supporting science, policy and finance/ investment initiatives. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Yorkshire Post news article on future proof plan against flooding |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | iCASP director Professor Joseph Holden published a news article in Yorkshire Post: "Call for 'future proof' plan to be rolled out across Yorkshire to help in fight against flooding". Joseph Holden, a Professor from the Department of Geography at the University of Leeds, has said a long term strategy and investment at local level is needed with "urgency" to ensure communities are better equipped, in the midst of a climate emergency. Professor Holden said currently flood funding is "piecemeal" and "reactionary" while expertise is "too WhiteHall centric" due to under utilising expertise across Yorkshire and the Humber despite a wealth of knowledge. (https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/education/call-for-future-proof-plan-to-be-rolled-out-across-yorkshire-to-help-in-fight-against-flooding-3286305) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/education/call-for-future-proof-plan-to-be-rolled-out-across-yorkshi... |
| Description | Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The launch event stimulated significant interest across Yorkshire and as a result iCASP was invited to present to the Yorkshire Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (YRFCC). This was an opportunity to introduce all councillors with flood risk responsibilities in the iCASP area to iCASP. iCASP has subsequently been invited to attend YRFCC meetings on a regular basis and has so far done further presentations on sea level rise research and the Comprehensive Review of the Humber Strategy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/yorkshire-regional-flood-and-coastal-committee |
| Description | Yorkshire West Local Nature Partnership Board membership |
| 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 | Executive/Director -level Board advising improving local natural environment as part of delivering Local Enterprise Partnership Strategic Economic Plan. Opportunity for iCASP to hear about priority issues to address through iCASP projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | Yorkshire and Humber Chief Executives Flood Risk Management Forum - Towards a Flood Ready Yorkshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | iCASP was asked to given an overview to c.60 local authority chief executives, directors and council staff, as well as Environment Agency, Yorkshire Water and other catchment management practitioners of flood risk management research in Yorkshire. This was also an opportunity to brief local authorities on iCASP's aims. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Yorkshire post |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP's Payment for Outcome project mentioned in Yorkshire Post article |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | enquiry made to share iCASP processes |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Dr Dawn Scott SWEEP programme manager (RISE programme) asked iCASP to get access to i) the questionnaire that iCASP uses to interview springboard partners to understand their perception of the iCASP model, and ii) iCASP resources: more specifically the manuscript that draws typologies of research evaluation designs (Mark Reed et al., under review in Research Policy). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Confluence (annual showcase) |
| 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 | Over 80 participants from over 30 different organisations attended this annual showcase event to get an update on iCASP progress and identify priority topics for future iCASP projects. The participants were addressed by Angela Smith MP and Defra. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Confluence (annual showcase) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | iCASP 2020 was held online and was split across 2 days with each linked to a theme. The relevant page of the iCASP website contains recordings of the two webinar sessions as well as 4 video updates on 4 iCASP projects. There are also copies of the online Q&A session and the online polling results for reference and a webinar summary. This page (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuArvTSP3qwBZLunMi_hziQ/videos) contains presentations and information used throughout the 2 days at Confluence 2020 (26th and 30th June, University of Leeds). iCASP Confluence Resource is a handy reference for both internal and external partners. The video presentations help to illustrate the quality of our work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Confluence (annual showcase) |
| 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 | (1) iCASP Confluence 2021 was held online as a series of four virtual events during the week which launched with the main plenary on Tuesday 8 June. Our theme was 'Working together to improve resilience across the Yorkshire and Humber region. The other events were: Boosting small and medium sized enterprises (SME's) flood resilience through collaboration - an event to present the findings of the Bridging the Knowledge Gap project largely funded by iCASP, Yorkshire Natural Flood Management Community of Practice - with the theme of stakeholder engagement and Yorkshire Infrastructure Adaptation Forum, hosted as part of a project funded by Research England. (2) More than 100 delegates attended the events. Presentations and recordings of the events are on our website https://icasp.org.uk/resources-and-publications/confluence-resources/confluence-2021-resources/. A film explaining about iCASP's Calderdale Natural Flood Management (NFM) Project, set in Hardcastle Crags, was launched at the event and is on our website and YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vUDDfx2wWs. It features our partners from University of Leeds, the National Trust, Calderdale Council, the Environment Agency and Slow the Flow. (3) Our summer newsletter which went out to stakeholders following the event featured Confluence https://mailchi.mp/60ceb625f92a/icasp-news-spring-2053767?e=0cf6579a49. To promote the event we held a Countdown to #Confluence21 campaign on Twitter during the 12 days leading up to the plenary featuring delegates saying why people should attend and positive comments about iCASP @YorkshireiCASP. During Confleunce week the number of impressions achieved by our tweets tripled and the campaign received 18,246 impressions and 337 engagements. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP Confluence 2022 (annual showcase) |
| 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 | 22nd September 2022, iCASP hosted Confluence in-person at Nexus |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/icasp-confluence-2022-tickets-372700385887 |
| Description | iCASP Director interviewed on local media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Joseph Holden (geography) has been interviewed for Radio Heart FM and Channel 4 news on 03.03.2020 and he gave a mention to iCASP. The final edit on C4 is yet to be broadcast. Joseph Holden appeared on Heart Yorkshire News commenting recent speculation that upstream flood defenses can impact the potential for flooding further down Yorkshire's water courses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Director interviewed on local media |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Prof Joseph Holden (geography) has been interviewed for Radio Heart FM and Channel 4 news on 03.03.2020 and he gave a mention to iCASP. The final edit on C4 is yet to be broadcast. Joseph Holden appeared on Heart Yorkshire News commenting recent speculation that upstream flood defenses can impact the potential for flooding further down Yorkshire's water courses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Governance Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Quarterly meetings to review and approve iCASP projects, discuss priorities for the Program/identify research impact opportunities for iCASP to address, and evaluate progress. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | iCASP Newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The iCASP quarterly newsletter has 62 subscriptions. The average number of readers per edition is circa 66.1% of subscribers (average for all SurveyMonkey newsletters is 45.3%). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| URL | https://icasp.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=fb102c80ce68dedde7e8e2da6&id=918e488339 |
| Description | iCASP Newsletter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The website of Soil Testing for Integrated Nutrient Management in Yorkshire (https://features.york.ac.uk/inmy-farm--soil-testing/index.html) was created to demonstrate how to conduct soil testing and its relationship with nutrient management. The website has 8 themes: soil testing, visual evaluation of soil structure & earthworms, pH, soil organic matter, nutrient analysis, summary table, policy and payments, science of soil testing. All of themes are presented with demonstrative graphs and pictures, as well as reference and useful resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP Participation in DEFRA Payments for Outcomes test workshops |
| 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 | In 2020 iCASP were invited by the National Trust (NT) to take part in these workshops. This came about because of our work in the Payment for Outcomes projects - the NT were impressed with our input. iCASP staff provided contribution as in-kind support. There were 4 workshops planned to which we attended at least 2. 1 was in person in Skipton before lockdown. The event was attended by multiple partners from the NT Payment for outcome project including NFU, Yorks Wildlife Trust, Natural England, EA, local farmers. One of the local farmers commented to Duncan Fyfe that he had been visited by iCASP (probably Jenny Armstrong) and that the individual NFM farm plans that had been produced were very good. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | iCASP Project #3: Optimal Peatland Restoration - practitioner feedback on model design |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Profiling work on DigiBog digital model to peatland restoration practitioners - further improvements in ease-of-use of modelling interface and applicability identified. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #3: Optimal Peatland Restoration - what next for the User Guide |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Following on the OPR iCASP project, Yorkshire peat Partnership approached University of Leeds to discuss next steps regarding the usage of the User Guide. Possible implementation of valuation methods were discussed, which might turn into project ideas/further collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP Project #5 Agricultural land management and public goods delivery: review of soil health evidence - results discussion and next steps |
| 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 | Confirmed lag between academic research and private trials on use of cover crops; need for research gaps to be addressed, including through regional Defra Environmental Land Management Scheme trials/tests. Provided an overview of the current thinking from Defra on Environmental Land Management Scheme. Follow-up projects identified. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | iCASP Project #8: Providing evidence for Don Catchment Hidden Heritage Secret Streams Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Workshop to present opportunity maps to stakeholders and discuss land management interventions to slow the flow, improve water quality and ecological connectivity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | iCASP The Movie |
| 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 | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | If you have read our flyers, been to our events, spoken to the team and are still not quite sure what the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme is about, try this four and a half minute movie! It focuses on two themes: natural flood management and peatland restoration which underpin projects that iCASP is supporting. It also shows how academic research is a valuable resource for our partners and the work they are doing to benefit Yorkshire and its communities. Happily, MPs in Yorkshire can see this too and have pledged to spread the word more widely. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/2018/05/04/icasp-the-movie/ |
| Description | iCASP Tweeter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As of 9th February 2021, iCASP has 893 followers. During January 2021, iCASP has 550 visits, 11,000 impressions, 13 mentions, 10 tweets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/yorkshireiCASP?lang=en |
| Description | iCASP Tweeter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | As of 9th February 2021, iCASP has 893 followers. During January 2021, iCASP has 550 visits, 11,000 impressions, 13 mentions, 10 tweets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/yorkshireicasp?lang=en |
| Description | iCASP colleagues contributed to the article "University shares sustainability lessons" in the magazine "Transform" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | "Sustainability is high on the agenda for the University of Leeds. In 2020 it was ranked third in the UK and 11th worldwide in the global Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. Here we look at some of the ways it meets its sustainability targets and what local authorities could learn from its example". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | iCASP launch |
| 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 | Launch event for iCASP to raise awareness of Programme aims and its offering to catchment management stakeholders in Yorkshire (and nationally). The iCASP launch event was held on the 5th July 2017 at Horizon in Leeds and was attended by 108 people. There was representation from 52 organisations from across Yorkshire and nationally. Sir Alan Langlands, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Leeds, spoke at the event as did Arlin Rickard, Chief Executive of The Rivers Trust and Chair of the Catchment Based Approach (CaBA), and a number of the Springboard Partners. Sessions were held to explain the programme, identify the relationships between organisations across the region and priorities for iCASP engagement, and to discuss the formation of the proposed Yorkshire Catchment Solutions Forum (YCSF). Using the feedback from the launch, the iCASP Confluence (as it will now be known as) will be an annual gathering of partners and wider networks for knowledge exchange, workshop ideas generation, evidence gap analysis and an opportunity to showcase the iCASP Programme and project progress. Feedback from the participants was extremely positive with nearly 100% of survey respondents saying that they had had a good experience and would recommend future iCASP events to colleagues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/2017/08/03/icasp-launch-event/ |
| Description | iCASP website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A simple, low-cost website to consolidate the iCASP digital presence (e.g. go-to resource on what iCASP is, news stories, and embedded Twitter-feed) has been developed. The website went live in October 2017 and will be hosted and maintained by the University of Leeds. A link from the NERC website has been established. The website is designed to share iCASP information with Springboard Partners and other potential iCASP project partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://icasp.org.uk/ |
| Description | iCASP website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | (1) A simple, low-cost website to consolidate the iCASP digital presence (e.g. go-to resource on what iCASP is, news stories, and embedded Twitter-feed) has been developed. The website went live in October 2017 and will be hosted and maintained by the University of Leeds. A link from the NERC website has been established. The website is designed to share iCASP information with Springboard Partners and other potential iCASP project partners. (2) In 2020 the ICASP website was restructured to improve accessibility for project partners. It also included a refresh of the Resource and Outputs page that enables project partners and interested parties to search for outputs and resources not only by project but also according to one of the iCASP themes of: carbon sequestration, climate resilience, drought and flood risk, flood forecasting, sustainable agriculture, water quality. iCASP submissions to consultations and inquiries can also be found via this page. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| URL | https://iCASP.org.uk/ |
| Description | iCASP-Environment Agency introductory workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Introduction to EA staff on what iCASP is and what it can offer, to help iCASP staff understand EA priorities and ways of working, and to help EA staff to work out how to engage with iCASP. As a result the Environment Agency have provided the highest level of in-kind support to iCASP (to date - Feb 2018) out of the Springboard Partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | water@leeds news letter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The website of Soil Testing for Integrated Nutrient Management in Yorkshire (https://features.york.ac.uk/inmy-farm--soil-testing/index.html) was created to demonstrate how to conduct soil testing and its relationship with nutrient management. The website has 8 themes: soil testing, visual evaluation of soil structure & earthworms, pH, soil organic matter, nutrient analysis, summary table, policy and payments, science of soil testing. All of themes are presented with demonstrative graphs and pictures, as well as reference and useful resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018,2019,2020 |