icasp Welcome to the winter edition of our news bulletin. It features: Our plans for Confluence 2025 A £30,000 successful bid for the Digital Smart Flood Warning System for Surface Water More popular freshwater quality webinars A call for sponsors for the NFM Community of Practice Peatland restoration work with the #GreatNorthBog coalition as part of … Read more
Our exciting annual Confluence 2025 event will be held on Wednesday 26 February. We aim to showcase the impact of some of our key iCASP and water@leeds projects in the region, nationally and internationally through working with partners. There will be a chance to join workshops, listen to guest speakers, network, have productive discussions with colleagues and … Read more
Our Autumn CoP meeting at the Broughton Hall Estate was a resounding success. The event centred on beaver reintroduction for natural flood management and biodiversity enhancement. With engaging presentations, a site visit to the beaver enclosure, and a lively panel discussion, attendees gained valuable insights into this innovative approach’s practicalities, benefits, and challenges. Topics discussed … Read more
Ruth Bookbinder, Julia Martin-Ortega, Joshua Cohen – University of Leeds Aims and approach This report marks an initial step in our efforts to understand how risks in nature commodification are captured in green finance policy in the UK. It presents an analysis based on 19 policy and advisory documents identified from a public presentation of … Read more
We are looking for practitioners to help us shape policies to support the delivery of more widespread use of evidence-based Nature Based Solutions (NBS). As part of a project funded by Research England, Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP), based at the University of Leeds, is conducting a survey to understand the main challenges faced by practitioners … Read more
Pictured: Himalayan Balsam Invasive Non Native Species (INNS) are any non native animal or plants and they can cause significant damage to our environment. They affect the quality of freshwater, including water in our rivers, can clog up water systems and increase flood risk. Rather than focusing on treating INNS – prevention needs to be … Read more
Five pioneering UK research projects have been given a share of £14.5 million funding by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and government partners to boost the UK’s efforts to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. The ambitious projects aim to revolutionise agricultural practices, land use change and soil health in the pursuit of a more … Read more
Update from Freshwater Quality Champion Team Welcome to the Freshwater Quality Programme autumn 2024 newsletter, which has been produced by the Champion team based in water@leeds, University of Leeds. The newsletter provides updates from the Champion team and the five research projects within the programme, which each focus on different aspects of water quality.
Meet Lucy Woods, our administrator and primary point of contact for iCASP. She will be supporting us with a wide variety of tasks including procurement, helping to manage our finances, responding to queries, supporting and organising events and meetings and maintaining our databases. Her previous role was in communications and administration at the Analytics Doctoral … Read more
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