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Can Natural Flood Management deliver what it promises?
16 November 2021, 5:00 pm–6:00 pm
How effective is natural flood management (NFM) and is it hampering the development of more resilient communities and ecosystems? We welcome Dr Megan Klaar to our monthly IRDR seminar series to find out if NFM can deliver what it promises.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- UCL staff | UCL students
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Peter Sammonds – UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction
Natural Flood Management (NFM) and other ‘nature based solutions’ have increasingly been adopted at a wide range of locations to minimise local flood risk. Empirical evidence illustrating the effectiveness of these interventions is limited, raising concerns for their continued utility as a flood risk management tool. In this seminar, Dr Megan Klaar (University of Leeds) will consider how current ‘flood-centric’ and siloed thinking around NFM and other nature based solutions is hampering the development of more resilient communities and ecosystems which are able to adapt to changing climate while delivering multiple benefits.
About the speaker
Biography
Lo HW, Smith M, Klaar M, Woulds C. 2021. Potential secondary effects of in-stream wood structures installed for natural flood management: A conceptual model. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water. 8(5)
Eagle LJB, Milner AM, Klaar MJ, Carrivick JL, Wilkes M, Brown LE. 2021. Extreme flood disturbance effects on multiple dimensions of river invertebrate community stability. The Journal of Animal Ecology (in press).
Klaar MJ, Carver S, Kay P. 2020. Land management in a post-Brexit UK: An opportunity for integrated catchment management to deliver multiple benefits? Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water 7: e1479.
About the seminar series
The IRDR monthly seminars are open to staff, students, IRDR members and the public. Due to current restrictions on campus, only staff and students can attend in person, but the seminars will be livestreamed and available to view on YouTube afterwards. We hope to welcome members of the public back on campus soon.