Updates from iCASP NFM Project
Kirkby Malham Parish Hall, Skipton Friday 11th April 2025 The Natural Flood Management (NFM) Community of Practice (CoP) gathered for a vibrant and collaborative event hosted by Ousewem. With over 40 attendees spanning practitioners, academics, regulators, consultants, and landowners, this event was designed to share insights, tackle common monitoring challenges and get hands-on with field … 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
The Skell Valley Team hosted the Natural Flood Management (NFM) Community of Practice’s winter meeting at Fountains Abbey, which focused on Payments by Results. The day featured presentations on the progress of the Skell Valley Project (led by the National Trust) including NFM and opportunity maps undertaken by the University of Leeds. During the workshop … Read more
The Summer meeting of the Yorkshire NFM Community of Practice (CoP) was held in-person at Hardcastle Crags. The day involved a tour of the NFM interventions on the site and a discussion around community resilience to flooding and how the community can be involved in NFM. As with previous events, the day was split into … Read more
After two years of meeting online, this event provided members with an opportunity to come together to reconnect and network on NFM activities after the pandemic, and to look forward and shape future activities of the group. It was split into two sessions Session 1 – Site visit to see NFM installations at the Brownlee … Read more
At its very heart, iCASP has been designed to be about working in partnership with others across the region to generate benefits, create jobs and products, to save money and ensure that existing environmental research can be used to address the many different challenges we face. So, we were delighted to win the University of … Read more
As well as the various natural flood management (NFM) projects we have running within the iCASP programme at the moment, we also provide information and guidance to other organisations with their NFM projects. A key aspect of this is providing advice about initial and ongoing monitoring of NFM measures. This means it’s possible to understand … Read more
At times when we experience floods, such as those currently devastating people’s homes and businesses in parts of Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, it is very common to see people attempting to distill the problem down to a single cause. In complex hydrological systems there is no sense in taking this simplistic approach; rather the whole … Read more
In 2008 Joe Holden and colleagues published research that showed how water running over Sphagnum on blanket peatlands moved much more slowly (often ten times slower) than water running through sedges or bare peat. This spawned a new body of research which has shown how revegetation of peat, particularly if it is possible to get … Read more
Until 15 January 2020, iCASP will be carrying out a survey to better understand people’s views on measures to avoid flooding, in particular, Natural Flood Management (NFM). We invite anybody who is interested or involved in NFM to take part and share your views. We want to hear about, and better understand, how you feel … Read more
