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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | BHS Eleventh National Symposium, Hydrology for a changing world |
| Publisher | British Hydrological Society |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1903741181 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
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The potential for reducing flood risk through changes to rural land management: outcomes from the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium. / McIntyre, Neil; Ballard, Caroline; Bulygina, Nataliya; Frogbrook, Zoe; Cluckie, Ian; Dangerfield, Stephen; Ewen, John; Geris, Josie ; Henshaw, Alex; Jackson, Bethanna; Marshall, Miles; Pagella, Tim; Park, Jong-Sook; Reynolds, Brian; O'Connell, Enda; O'Donnell, Greg; Sinclair, Fergus; Solloway, Imogen ; Thorne, Colin; Wheater, Howard.
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T1 - The potential for reducing flood risk through changes to rural land management: outcomes from the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium
AU - McIntyre, Neil
AU - Ballard, Caroline
AU - Bulygina, Nataliya
AU - Frogbrook, Zoe
AU - Cluckie, Ian
AU - Dangerfield, Stephen
AU - Ewen, John
AU - Geris, Josie
AU - Henshaw, Alex
AU - Jackson, Bethanna
AU - Marshall, Miles
AU - Pagella, Tim
AU - Park, Jong-Sook
AU - Reynolds, Brian
AU - O'Connell, Enda
AU - O'Donnell, Greg
AU - Sinclair, Fergus
AU - Solloway, Imogen
AU - Thorne, Colin
AU - Wheater, Howard
N1 - Acknowledgements The funders of the two phases of FRMRC were: EPSRC (EP/FP202511/1), Environment Agency of England and Wales, DEFRA, OPW, Northern Ireland Rivers Agency, SNIFFER Additional funders of the research were: NERC (NE/F001134/1), United Utilities with RSPB (SCaMP). The authors would also like to thank the land owners and managers who made the experimental work possible, and the steering groups/ management boards who helped direct and facilitate the research.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Changes to rural land management are widely perceived as an effective complement to, or even replacement for, traditional flood defence and flood-risk related sediment management actions. This is implicit in recent reports and legislation that influence UK FRM policy and practice, for example the Pitt Report (2008), the EU Floods Directive (2009) and the Floods and Water Act (2010). However, an extensive Defra review published in 2004 concluded that evidence to support the value of land management in this context was at that time extremely limited. This lack of evidence has been addressed by research initiatives between 2004 and 2012 including, particularly, research performed by the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium (FRMRC: www.floodrisk.org.uk). This paper provides an overview of the new evidence provided by FRMRC and other recent research, and evaluates the significance of the main findings. Upland experimental programmes have shown that land use management changes can have significant impacts on flood generation at the local scale; increases or decreases in flood peaks can result, depending on the nature of the changes. However, at the catchment scale, any benefits to flood risk management from local scale mitigation measures are likely to be small, due to the direct effect of scale itself and the transmission effects in propagating change through the river channel network. Modelling results for a large lowland catchment confirm the latter findings. However, when a broader view of catchment management is taken that encompasses linkages to sediments and a range of ecosystem services, it is evident that significant benefits could result from an integrated management approach. Priorities for the research needed to quantify these benefits are outlined.
AB - Changes to rural land management are widely perceived as an effective complement to, or even replacement for, traditional flood defence and flood-risk related sediment management actions. This is implicit in recent reports and legislation that influence UK FRM policy and practice, for example the Pitt Report (2008), the EU Floods Directive (2009) and the Floods and Water Act (2010). However, an extensive Defra review published in 2004 concluded that evidence to support the value of land management in this context was at that time extremely limited. This lack of evidence has been addressed by research initiatives between 2004 and 2012 including, particularly, research performed by the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium (FRMRC: www.floodrisk.org.uk). This paper provides an overview of the new evidence provided by FRMRC and other recent research, and evaluates the significance of the main findings. Upland experimental programmes have shown that land use management changes can have significant impacts on flood generation at the local scale; increases or decreases in flood peaks can result, depending on the nature of the changes. However, at the catchment scale, any benefits to flood risk management from local scale mitigation measures are likely to be small, due to the direct effect of scale itself and the transmission effects in propagating change through the river channel network. Modelling results for a large lowland catchment confirm the latter findings. However, when a broader view of catchment management is taken that encompasses linkages to sediments and a range of ecosystem services, it is evident that significant benefits could result from an integrated management approach. Priorities for the research needed to quantify these benefits are outlined.
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 1903741181
BT - BHS Eleventh National Symposium, Hydrology for a changing world
PB - British Hydrological Society
ER -