This event was sponsored by the Rural Economy and Land Use Programme

 

 

Aims

 

 

To present the findings of interdisciplinary research into the deployment of scientific expertise and innovative methods of public engagement to secure more effective management of water catchments

 

To examine mechanisms for inter agency collaboration in the strategic management of water resources and mitigation of flooding events

 

To explore, through case studies, how local solutions to the management of flood risk can be designed and facilitated

 

 

Programme

 

 

9.15          

Registration

 

 

09.45        

 Introduction to the day

Terry Carroll

 

 

10.00        

Strategic Management of Water Resources – Insights from the RELU Research Programme 

 

Catchment Management Approaches / Governance for Provision of Environmental Goods

Laurence Smith, SOAS University of London

 

Knowledge Controversies – combining local knowledge and expert opinion in Ryedale

Andrew Donaldson, Newcastle University

 

The Borderlands Project (Wooler Water and Eddleston)

Dave Passmore, Newcastle University

 

 

11.00        

Coffee

 

                  

11.15        

Discussion of RELU projects

Chair, Malcolm Newson, Tyne Rivers Trust

 

12.30        

Cumbria Floods 2009: the Benefits of Multi-Agency Working and Community

Engagement when coping with a Major Incident

Holly Simpson, NW region Environment Agency

 

 

13.00        

Lunch

 

 

14.00        

Public Engagement: Experience of the Northumberland Community Flood

Partnership

Lynne Dunleavy

 

14.30        

Local Catchment & Cross Border Case Studies

 

Belford & Powburn

Mark Wilkinson, Newcastle University

 

Coordinated advice to landowners & farmers – Bowment / Glen catchment

 Hugh Chalmers, Tweed Forum

 

 

15.30        

Conclusions and Action Points from the day

Chair, Chris Spray, Dundee University

 

 

16.00        

End