MERLIN webinar #18: Eddleston Water project – Natural Flood management

The Eddleston Water project – what has worked, and what have we learned about Natural Flood management and how to deliver it?

Presenter: Prof Chris J Spray - Tweed Forum / UNESCO Centre of Water Law, Policy & Science, University of Dundee

The presentation will cover the challenges and results from the Eddleston Water project. Begun with a scoping study in 2010, this is Scottish Government’s long-running empirical study of the effectiveness of using natural flood management (NFM) measures at a landscape scale to reduce flood risk and enhance riparian ecology. In addition to detailed hydrological and ecological monitoring, emerging information on environmental economics and the cost/benefits of utilising an NFM approach will be discussed.