Due to Covid-19 restrictions, we are unable to run the usual face to face meeting of the NFM Community of Practice that we’d expect to hold at this time of year.
We recognise that NFM practitioners find these meetings a real benefit to their work as they provide the opportunity to visit NFM installations across the county, and to talk to each other about challenges and opportunities. In light of the current situation, and until we can meet in person once more, we have collated an interesting set of resources that we hope you will find informative and useful.
Please get in touch if you have any other useful resources to suggest that we could add to this page to share across the Community of Practice.
Videos and webinars
Webinars
NERC’s NFM programme have a series of webinars planned over the next few months on topics such as ‘Lessons from modelling NFM at the micro-scale and macro-scale’ (May 2020) and ‘Peatland Catchments and Natural Flood Management’ (July 2020). These are popular webinars so make sure you sign up early to secure your place.
Details of the future programme and sign up information
Recordings of previous webinars are also available
Webinar: CIWEM have a series of nature based solutions webinars, the second webinar in this series focuses on NFM and ELMS
Video footage of storm water levels
Footage has been produced from several NFM installations showing the rise and fall of water levels, and what they had to deal with earlier this year during storms Ciara and Denis.
Video: information about Marlfield Farm NFM and footage during storm Ciara – this farm is one of five NFM pilot sites
Video: footage durings storms Chiara and Denis:
Video: this video about NFM in the Sheffield Lakeland has been recently released. Featuring interviews with staff of several organisations and volunteers, it’s a nice reminder of how NFM brings together many different actors to achieve a range of benefits from their installation.
New reports and written guidance
Guidance: The Enablers and Barriers to the Delivery of Natural Flood Management Projects (April 2020)
Guidance: Protecting Peatlands and Carbon Rich Soils (April 2020)
Guidance: Advice on using nature based interventions to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 (April 2020)
Paper: The potential for natural flood management to maintain free discharge at urban drainage outfalls (April 2020)
Popular science: The Conversation article: ‘Natural’ flood management would be overwhelmed by Britain’s winter super-floods (Feb 2020).
Report: Communities at Risk of Flooding and their Attitudes to Natural Flood Management (NFM) (Nov 2019)
Funding award announcements
A pilot scheme will award funding to four projects to encourage sustainable private sector investment in the natural environment. One of the projects is focused NFM