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The science and application of the Earth observation system are receiving growing traction and wider application, and the scope is becoming wider and better owing to the availability of the higher resolution of satellite remote sensing products. A water quality monitoring model was developed using Sentinel-2 satellite remote sensing data set to inv...
Water security covers a wide range of issues and risks to people, the natural and built environment, the economy, and interactions between these. This breadth creates an interconnected complexity and the potential for perceived intractability. Tackling water security meaningfully therefore requires a judgement in balancing the holistic nature of wa...
Remotely piloted airborne system (RPAS) based structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry is a recognised tool in geomorphological applications. However, time constraints, methodological requirements and ignorance can easily compromise photogrammetric rigour in geomorphological fieldwork. Light RPAS mounted sensors often provide inherent low geometr...
Sustainable Development Goal 11 calls for inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable cities. Urban areas comprise interconnected infrastructure systems that deliver services that support all aspects of daily life. Despite their important contribution to modern life current infrastructure business models typically under-estimate the long-term econom...
The application of structure from motion (SfM) photogrammetry for DEM and orthophoto generation from visible imagery enjoys ever-growing popularity in geomorphological research. Photogrammetry experts however, urge that a rigorous approach is a prerequisite for reliable results, a requirement that may conflict with real-world survey. We present a m...
Please cite this article as: M. Khadem, R.J. Dawson, C.L. Walsh, The feasibility of inter-basin water transfers to manage climate risk in England, Climate Risk Management (2021), doi: https://doi. Abstract Climate change, population growth, and environmental pressures, pose challenges for water resource management. Many countries, like the UK, are...
Climate change, population growth, and environmental pressures, pose challenges for water resource management. Many countries, like the UK, are projected to experience regional variation in the risk of droughts. One solution is to use inter-basin transfer (IBT) schemes to move water from where it is abundant to where it is scarce. But what are the...
UAS imagery has become a widely used source of information in geomorphic research. When photogrammetric methods are applied to quantify geomorphic change, camera calibration is essential to ensure accuracy of the image measurements. Insufficient self-calibration based on survey data can induce systematic errors that can cause DEM deformations. The...
Uneven distribution of water resources in the face of climate change and population growth is imposing increasing threats to communities as well as challenging decision-makers. Inter-basin water transfer (IBT) schemes have been appreciated as one of the common approaches to tackle this issue. This work presents a framework for climate impact assess...
Climate change mitigation in urban areas requires a portfolio of policies and practices that are implemented across a range of scales and sectors. The local scale allows the development and implementation of site specific strategies to address climate change in urban areas that have been proven to be more efficient, especially within buildings. But...
Effective decision-making for the provision and maintenance of infrastructure systems requires strategic performance indicators aligned with a clear vision of the societal benefits that infrastructure will be expected to enable and systemic awareness of interdependencies between infrastructure sectors. This paper proposes a conceptual outcome-orien...
Performance measurement provides critical information for strategic decision-making about the future of national infrastructure provision. The process of developing appropriate performance indicators must be based on an understanding of the high-level desired outcomes that infrastructure systems are intended to facilitate. These outcomes may be com...
Globally, water resources management faces significant challenges from changing climate and growing populations. At local scales, the information provided by climate models is insufficient to support the water sector in making future adaptation decisions. Furthermore, projections of change in local water resources are wrought with uncertainties sur...
Congratulations to those who squeezed Bob Dylan songs into their papers and those involved in the analysis.1 Medical scientists are not the only Bob Dylan fans with a sense of humour—meteorologists and climate impact scientists have one too. …
Over the next 100 years, it is estimated that England will need £30.6-1bn annual investment to manage flood and coastal erosion risk. Given constraints on central government spending following the 2008 financial crisis, the full burden of this is unlikely to be met by government alone. There is therefore a need to consider the potential for alterna...
Globally, water resources management faces significant challenges from changing climate and growing populations. At local scales, the information provided by climate models is insufficient to support the water sector in making future adaptation decisions. Furthermore, projections of change in local water resources are wrought with uncertainties sur...
Weather is frequently used in music to frame events and emotions, yet quantitative analyses are rare. From a collated base set of 759 weather-related songs, 419 were analysed based on listings from a karaoke database. This article analyses the 20 weather types described, frequency of occurrence, genre, keys, mimicry, lyrics and songwriters. Vocals...
Climate change can affect the performance of flood and coastal erosion risk management infrastructure (FCERMi) through a number of mechanisms. This review highlights that while it is well known that climate change can influence the performance of FCERMi in a number of ways, there is extremely poor quantitative understanding of the physical processe...
Existing approaches to delivering infrastructure are repeatedly criticised for returning poor
value for money to the taxpayer and being too narrow to capture the wide range of benefits
infrastructure provides to the economy, society and environment. Austerity provides a further
stimulus to innovate new ways of delivering, funding, valuing and manag...
Infrastructure systems face a number of pressing challenges relating to demographics, environment, finance and governance pressures. Furthermore, infrastructure mediates the way in which everyday lives are conducted; their form and function creating a persistence of unsustainable practice and behaviour that cannot be changed even if change is desir...
The UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Economic and Social Research Council have launched a £3·5 million, 4-year research programme to develop innovative business models for delivering infrastructure. Richard Dawson, Claire Walsh, Phil Purnell and Chris Rogers introduce infrastructure business models, valuation and inno...
In this article we consider the impact of shock in hospital emergency departments where people seek urgent medical care and access hospital services. We define shock as an unexpected event or set of circumstances, for although emergency departments plan for uncertainty, shock moments
are when protocols and procedures fail to meet operational demand...
This paper explores the potential for learning from infrastructure shocks to develop strategic visions of infrastructure. The paper departs from theories of systems innovation, which understand infrastructure transitions as socio-technical re-configurations over long periods of time. The paper presents a complementary hypothesis to those theories a...
On 28 June 2012, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, was hit by a large convective storm delivering 45 mm of rain in less than two hours. Although not large on a world scale, the event had a big local impact. Widespread areas of the city were inundated and traffic was blocked in and around the city for about 6 hours. The following morning there was very small...
The briefing statement for this conference suggests that times of crisis offer opportunities for doing things differently. An EPSRC funded project, 'Shock (not) Horror: mediating radical transformations in infrastructure provision', uses this concept to explore shocks as key moments to learn about infrastructure and to create the potential for long...
The urgent need to reconfigure and transform urban areas to consume
fewer resources, emit less pollution, minimize greenhouse gas production, protect
natural ecosystems and increase the adaptive capacity to deal with climate risks
is widely recognized. The implementation of improved sustainability measures
in cities requires integrated thinking tha...
Urban areas are densely populated, have extensive networks of infrastructure and are hubs of economic activity, hence, are vulnerable hotspots of climate impacts and large contributors of greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents analysis of climate change and land use change on flood risk in London using the Urban Integrated Assessment Framewo...
Cities are increasingly aware of the need to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to changes in weather patterns leading to the production of urban climate change plans. The few existing systematic studies of these plans have focused on either adaptation or mitigation issues, and are typically based on surveys completed by city officials rat...
The urgent need to reconfigure and transform urban areas to consume fewer resources, emit less pollution, minimize greenhouse gas production, protect natural ecosystems and increase the adaptive capacity to deal with climate risks is widely recognized. The implementation of improved sustainability measures in cities requires integrated thinking tha...
Measures taken to address climate change and sustainability, more generally, imply a major reconfiguration of infrastructure systems and the built environment. Action across so many functions necessarily involves a range of organisations that may have differing priorities and motivations. This paper presents the concept of a decision theatre and de...
Integrated infrastructure systems offer opportunities to develop more sustainable and resilient systems of essential service provision, such as water, power, waste, transport and ICT. However, such utilities are currently managed and regulated in silos and have historically focused on failure monitoring which inevitably leads to optimal management...
Urban areas are faced with a number of challenges in the context of climate change and sustainable development. Many activities in urban areas directly and indirectly release greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. Given their high concentrations of population and infrastructure, cities are vulnerable to climate change and therefore nee...
Cities are faced with a number of sustainability challenges in the context of climate change. There is an urgent need to limit greenhouse gas emissions from cities if ambitious mitigation targets are to be met. Meanwhile, cities are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change unless adaptation plans can be put in place. The need to connect climate...
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The project 'Community Resilience to Extreme Weather' (CREW), funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, has gathered scientists and engineers from different disciplines to develop tools for assessing the changing probability and impacts of extreme weather events. These tools, being developed initially for a study area in the...
Whilst traditionally poorly quantified, the link between physical habitat and ecological response in rivers is widely recognised, and is currently rising up legislative and policy agendas. In Europe, this is reflected in the Water Framework Directive which dictates that ‘hydromorphological’ condition of water bodies should be capable of supporting...
The UKCIP02 climate change scenarios (2070?2100) suggest that the UK climate will become warmer (an overall increase of 2.5?3°C), with temperature increases being greater in the summer and autumn than in the spring and winter seasons. In terms of precipitation, winters are expected to become wetter and summers drier throughout the UK. The effect of...
Multi-day rainfall events appear to be an important cause of recent flooding in the UK. Hydrological data from an extensive, nested hydrometric network in the unregulated, predominantly rural Upper Eden catchment in northern England are presented for one such flood event. These highlight antecedent catchment conditions and the propagation of the mu...
Global climate models indicate that surface temperatures will increase significantly. This may enhance the hydrological cycle, leading to more intense rainfall events, increased variability and different spatial/temporal rainfall patterns. In the UK, regional climatic model data suggests that winters will become wetter and summers drier, with more...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2005.
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Water for all is the aim of this consortium. The UK water sector faces grand challenges over the coming decades: increasing population, ageing infrastructure, and the need to better protect the natural environment all under conditions of uncertain climate change. Twenty65 is paving the way for a future that is inspired and enabled by research; that collaboratively and coherently accelerates innovation and generates a dynamic and energised water sector that delivers sustainable tailored water solutions that positively impact public health, the environment, the economy and society.
This project aims to utilize different sensors and platforms to improve remote sensing of submerged river topography. Airborne bathymetric lidar and UAV-borne SfM approaches will be tested to retrieve surface models that can be used for hydrodynamic modelling.
Grounded in both science and engineering, since 1985, the Water Group work to find and improve solutions to make our catchments, coastal zones, cities and infrastructure more productive, safer and sustainable for future generations.
We educate talented students to the highest standards through our postgraduate MSc, MEng, PhD, and EngD programmes. Our students are the next generation of water researchers, policy makers and professionals.
We work with academics, government, industry, and communities around the world to transform practice; improve quality of life; and, help to deliver the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
We develop solutions for water challenges, across all of our Research Themes:
(I) Blue-Green Cities and Resilient Infrastructure;
(ii) Catchment and Water Management;
(iii) Climate Impacts and Adaptation; and,
(iv) Flood Risk Management.
