Hydrological Extremes, Coasts and Risk Management

CREW Science Policy Fellowships Boost Evidence-Based Decision Making for Flood Resilience in Scotland

CREW has initiated Science Policy Fellowships aimed at bridging the gap between scientific research and policy implementation. These fellowships enable Scotland's research community to advocate for critical, evidence-based science that addresses water-related policy, regulatory, and industry needs. 

The fellowships are part of CREW's broader strategy, which balances a 'research-push' workstream with a 'policy-pull' approach to facilitate expert knowledge exchange.

Navigating the Depths: Monitoring Scottish Freshwater Fish Populations

Scotland’s freshwater lochs are complex ecosystems teeming with life. They are home to an array of fish species, which are crucial to the ecological health of these habitats. Effectively monitoring these fish populations in such vast water bodies poses a challenge that requires innovative solutions and effective collaboration. As pressures from human activities such as large-scale hydro-electric developments mount, the monitoring, understanding and safeguarding of Scotland’s freshwater fish is increasingly important.

Your Planet Your Future

Your Planet Your Future

Sowing Seeds for the Next generation    Careers for People and the Environment

Posted on behalf of Rachel Helliwell and Lorna Dawson

Building Public Health Resilience to Fluvial Flooding in Scotland

Climate change is increasing our exposure to fluvial flooding in Scotland. Physical and mental health are negatively impacted by flooding, with the greatest health impacts in the UK and Scotland on mental health. This CREW Policy Brief reviews the literature on the public health impacts of fluvial flooding, including physical and mental health impacts, and identifies factors that influence health resilience to flooding. 

Climate Crisis: informing Scotland’s actionable mitigation and adaptation response to water scarcity

Scotland’s climate is changing at a rate unprecedented in human history. We are becoming exposed to climate related risks, such as water scarcity, that were not considered significant in the past and have not been planned for. The first phase in addressing this shift in risk has been to develop early warning and emergency measures to mitigate the impacts of exceptional events such as the 2018 European drought and its impact in Scotland.

Mitigating climate change impacts on the water quality of Scottish standing waters

There is a policy focus at national and international levels on mitigating climate change impacts by reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon sequestration. However, even if we can slow climate change down, we cannot prevent or reverse it. So, alternative approaches must be used to lessen its effects. These include adaptive interventions that increase the resilience, and reduce the vulnerability, of people and nature to weather extremes and other climate change impacts.

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