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www.gov.uk/natural-england
Natural Flood Management: Securing Environmental Benefits
Emily Dresner – Senior Adviser, Flood Management and Wetlands
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Building Resilience and Natural Capital
How can Natural Flood Management help us build resilience and natural capital? • It can help us do both • It won’t happen by itself • Environmental benefits require effort
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What is Natural Flood Management?
Working with natural features and processes to sustainably manage flooding at the source, in flow pathways and when it arrives. • Infiltration drainage through the soil • Surface roughness slower travel over land surface • Attenuation storage in floodplains, waterbodies
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Floodplain Meadow
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NFM to build natural capital
• Holistic • Sustainable • Integrated • Based on the principles of natural function • and delivers for the natural environment • Not just using nature as engineering material
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Start with natural function…
Mitigate sustainably + build natural capital
Natural ecological function + catchment processes
Flooding + role in natural (modified) systems
Spot opportunities (risks) for environment
Recognise and articulate compromises
Clear objectives and expectations
Good projects J
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Think about…
…habitats, species, connectivity, water quality, water resources, geology, geomorphology… …fisheries, agriculture, archaeology, landscape… …access, engagement, wellbeing, economic regeneration, climate change adaptation… …alongside flood management objectives Go out and secure environmental benefits!
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www.gov.uk/natural-england
“Natural flood management involves techniques that aim to work with natural hydrological and morphological processes, features and characteristics to manage the sources and pathways of flood waters. These techniques include the restoration, enhancement and alteration of natural features and characteristics, but exclude traditional flood defence engineering that works against or disrupts these natural processes”. SAIFF (2011) - See the SEPA NFM Handbook
Emily Dresner – Senior Adviser, Flood Management and Wetlands
Thank you