A comprehensive evidence review of Natural Flood Management in the UK. It describes the current evidence base of a range of measures and places the evidence statements into four categories. The detailed evidence is presented in an annex to the paper.
This paper gives a critical evaluation of Natural Flood Management approaches and wider literature. It also presents knowledge gaps and makes suggestions on how to overcome these. Its focused on UK examples but covers a wide varity of environments. It suggests a framework for a new approach to Natural Flood Management research.
Here you’ll find training and best-practise examples concerning river restoration. The UK River Restoration Centre (RRC) is the national expert advice centre for best practice river restoration. They also provide training.
Succinct and accessible guide to soil hydrology and management tips for soils under tillage, forest, pasture and peat. It was published for the East Devon Catchment Partnership to shows how good soil managements is fundamental to effective nature-based flood management. It is pitched at organisations who are working in partnership with farmers trying to deal with runoff problems.
This guide focuses on lowland measures and was developed for farmers in the Yorkshire Dales. Its written in plain English and has nice easy to understand diagrams and pictures. It sets out issues such as build costs and mainagement cost in a low/medium/high rating. It was developed for farmers and those tasked with implementing Natural Flood Management schemes.
This is a quick access summary, presenting each measure on one page with a build and cost guide on farms. The guide was developed for farmers and land managers of the Yorkshire Dales National Park but some findings could be applicable to elsewhere in the UK and Ireland. Listed are the key locations, type of measures and costs for the set-up and maintenance of each measure specifically.
Useful if you’re new to the topic of Natural Water Retention Measures and want to get an overview of what’s possible with Natural Water Retention Measures on your farm and how it can be done. It has with excellent images and serves as an introductory guide and overview of the suite of small and large scale Natural Water Retention Measures schemes using case studies. It covers a number of measures.
This technical evidence report focuses on the riparian environment and is focused on water quality (although some of the metrics cover flooding). The report considers how we can improve the effectiveness of riparian buffer zone. The project assesses the effectiveness of traditional grass buffer strips and suggests ways that buffers can deliver more for the environment. It looks at four other catergories of buffer – designer, raised, wooded and engineered.
This is a short overview of the Evaluating Nature-Based Solutions project. It offers a very useful short summary and identifies the best assessment framework for assessing the benefits and disbenefits of a Nature-Based Solutions scheme.
This is a useful document if you are looking for an assessment framework (for potential benefits and disbenefits) for an Nature-Based Solutions project. This project searched for potential assessment frameworks and carried out a two-stage process to identify the most appropriate framework. The initial search identified 23 frameworks which were then independently evaluated by the project team. The IUCN Global Standard was identified as the best designed framework.
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