Friday 26 July 2013
Assessing The Impacts Of Rural Land Management Change On Flooding And Flood Risk (The Catchment Approach)
MIKE SHE is a very powerful tool for assessing the effects of natural flood management schemes in the UK. The software has been used extensively for modelling wetland restoration in upland areas in different parts of the world.
The effects of tree planting, water meadows, and other riparian planting can be described by land use changes in the model and the impacts on evapotranspiration, unsaturated flow and surface runoff examined. It is also possible to describe the detention of water in the floodplain (e.g. as a result of tree planting, landscaping, etc).
The effects of cutting off drains, and altering surface flow routes, can be modelled using the MIKE SHE 2D Overland Flow module. Channel restoration and green bank protection can be handled by coupling to MIKE 11.
Natural flood management has many benefits (habitat creation, nature conservation, diffuse pollution mitigation, etc) and is of particular interest in rural rapid response catchments; where it is not always possible to provide flood defences.
A selection of useful (external) documents, papers and links can be found below: -
MIKE SHE is a very powerful tool for assessing the effects of natural flood management schemes in the UK. The software has been used extensively for modelling wetland restoration in upland areas in different parts of the world.
The effects of tree planting, water meadows, and other riparian planting can be described by land use changes in the model and the impacts on evapotranspiration, unsaturated flow and surface runoff examined. It is also possible to describe the detention of water in the floodplain (e.g. as a result of tree planting, landscaping, etc).
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Natural flood management has many benefits (habitat creation, nature conservation, diffuse pollution mitigation, etc) and is of particular interest in rural rapid response catchments; where it is not always possible to provide flood defences.
A selection of useful (external) documents, papers and links can be found below: -
- Working with Natural Processes to Manage Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk (Environment Agency, 2010)
- An Inventory of Mitigation Methods and Guide to their Effects on Diffuse Water Pollution, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Ammonia Emissions from Agriculture (ADAS, 2011)
- Slowing the Flow - A natural solution to flooding problems (WWF Scotland)
- Holnicote Multi-Objective Flood Management Demonstration Project - An Analysis of the Impacts of Rural Land Management Change on Flooding and Flood Risk (JBA, Penny Anderson Associates & National Trust)
- The Holnicote Project - Integrated Catchment Management in Practice (EA and National Trust)
- Catchment Change Management Hub
- Demonstrating Catchment Management - Learning from the Demonstration Test Catchment projects
- Demonstration Test Catchment Data Archive
- WFDVisual - Water Framework Directive Visualisation tool (SNIFFER)
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