Public Policy

Past Meetings

2012


Natural Flood Management: Seminar with the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

Tuesday 17th January 2012, Westminster

Oliver Pescott, British Ecological Society Fellow at the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) organised a seminar to launch POSTnote 396 on Natural Flood Management.

Flood risk management today uses a range of approaches to reduce risk, including structural works, such as hard flood defences, and non-structural approaches including improving flood warning systems and land-use planning.

The restoration, alteration and use of natural landscape features are also receiving attention as potentiallyDamselfly Heart. A pair of damselflies making a heart shape.
cost-effective ways of reducing flood risk that can provide other environmental benefits, such as water quality improvements or carbon storage.

The seminar reviewed some "natural flood management" strategies, looking at developments in the recent science behind these strategies, and investigated some of the challenges involved in spreading this way of working across the landscape.

The POSTnote is available to download here and an account of the launch seminar is available on the BES Ecology to Policy blog.

 

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