Natural Flood Management (NFM) has as Duncan Huggett outlines has become very fashionable, but it is neither new or, as a top level scientific review highlighted recently, a ‘silver bullet’. There are still many questions to answer in relation to its appropriate application, not least in terms of location of schemes in the catchment. With […]
Bob Earll & Bruce Horton: The current challenges facing Defra are without precedent, not least the uncertainty over Brexit and its colossal workload. So the ENDS report suggesting further delays to the 25 year plan ‘framework’ (i.e. no detail) is hardly surprising. Business planning 101 would tell us that at times of massive uncertainty long […]
The Green Alliance added its voice to that of the Environmental Audit Committee highlighting the ongoing delay to the release of Agriculture and Environment 25 year plans. We seem to be in the phoney war phase of Brexit, the calm before the storm, when nothing is appearing. These two documents are crucial to the Brexit […]
CCC warns MPs over lack of data on UK critical infrastructure assets at risk of flooding The Environmental Audit Committee held a one off session on climate change adaptation in light of the recent publication of the Government’s Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017. This assessment draws primarily on the independent Evidence Report commissioned from the CCC’s Adaptation […]
Timed perfectly to coincide with MMO’s quota documentation on this the New Economics Foundation report explores how this process is undertaken by different European countries. Griffin Carpenter: Fish stocks are owned by no one but desired by many. How, then, should access to fish stocks be determined? In the EU, member states have answered this question very […]
Defra publish strategic policy statement Water UK Communications: Defra publish their strategic policy statement for the water industry for consultation. This document sets out the government’s strategic priorities for Ofwat’s regulation of the water sector in England. We welcome the move to a more concise SPS which clearly highlights securing long-term resilience and protecting customers […]
CEH The Catchment Management Modelling Platform (CaMMP) which was launched on 9 March 2017 at an event hosted by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) in London. A web-based platform the CaMMP project aims to improve access to and integration between data and models that help address key questions in catchment management for water quality […]
Monitoring Llangarron water quality from space Andrew Richman, Geomatics Project Manager, the Environment Agency and Crispin Hambidge, Geomatics Consultant, the Environment Agency, 27 January 2017 — Data Transformation, Defra digital, Defra Science and Innovation, Defra services, Earth Observation, Open data Environment Agency Geomatics experts Andrew Richman and Crispin Hambidge explain how satellite and LiDAR are helping Enforcement Officers identify agricultural runoff. Making data not just analysis-ready […]