Hydrological Extremes, Coasts and Risk Management
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Policy: Water and Climate Policy/Regulation, Natural Flood Management, Coastal Erosion Management.
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Science: flooding, water scarcity, coastal erosion, risk scenarios and nature-based solutions.
CREW's Hydrological Extremes, Coasts and Risk Management theme focusses on providing high quality science knowledge regarding flooding, water scarcity, coastal erosion, risk scenarios and nature-based solutions.
The projects undertaken within this theme inform policy and regulation areas including Scottish National Adaptation Plan (SNAP3), Climate Change Plan for Scotland, Flood Resilience Strategy, Flood Risk Management Act, Natural Flood Management and National Coastal Change Assessments.
Improved understanding of the interrelationships between climate and water from source to sea will help deliver short and longer-term outcomes for society and the water environment.
Recent research within this thematic area includes:
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Climate Crisis: informing Scotland’s actionable mitigation and adaptation response to water scarcity - the research team review past, present and future changes in water scarcity risk in Scotland, highlighted the current challenges in addressing the water scarcity risk and provide recommendations on how to address them.
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The effect of shellfish, kelp and sea grass beds on flood risk and coastal erosion in Scotland - The research has relevance to multiple policy areas including flooding, biodiversity, climate change marine planning and the blue economy.
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Creating healthy and resilient river systems across Scotland: prioritising research and development gap opportunities for river woodlands - The project is identifying opportunities to address R&D gaps to enable investment in new and extended river woodlands, and improved/restored riverscape environments.
