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Research and Development in Scotland

Research and Development in Scotland. Les Watson Flood Risk Manager (Operations). Outline. Overview of Scottish Government Funded Research Example of research themes, projects taken forward SEPA future research priorities. Scottish Government Funded Research. Climate Change (4.1m).

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Research and Development in Scotland

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  1. Research and Development in Scotland Les Watson Flood Risk Manager (Operations)

  2. Outline • Overview of Scottish Government Funded Research • Example of research themes, projects taken forward • SEPA future research priorities

  3. Scottish Government Funded Research Climate Change (4.1m) Centres of Expertise (£6.6m) Water (1m) Animal Disease Preparedness (1.5m) Strategic Partnerships (£2.2m) Food and Drink (1.1m) Animal Science Excellence (1.1m) Strategic Research (£33m) Environmental Change Food Land and People “Integrated Evidence that is relevant, meaningful and useful” Ecosystem Services (2.1m) Food (5.3m) Water & Renewable Energy (2.2m) Health and Welfare (7.4m) Land Use (7m) Healthy Safe Diets (6.5m) Economic Adaptation (1.3m) Rural Communities (0.6m) Underpinning Capacity (£11.8m) Advice Seed Corn Services Platform

  4. Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW) • Commissioned April 2011 • Runs for 5 years with 1 year rolling projects & call down service • Programmes focus on basic and strategic research • Maintains capacity; new methodologies; new frontiers • CREW about translating existing knowledge for immediate policy needs • Creating new products through: • Synthesis, reviews, new applications, new data combinations • Synergistic partnerships • www.crew.ac.uk

  5. RESAS: Programme 1 – Environmental Change Theme 2: Water & Renewable Energy Work Package 2.4 Methods for mitigating and adapting to flood risk Deliverables: • 2.4.1: Evidence and demonstration of the effectiveness, costs and benefits of NFM measures in a Scottish Context • 2.4.2: Tools and Evidence to help practitioners assess where NFM is feasible and appropriate • 2.4.3: Understanding and modelling seasonal shifts in the environment and the implications for flooding and water conservation

  6. Work Package 2.4 (Cont) • Deliverables • 2.4.4: Barriers, opportunities and routes for implementing NFM via behavioural and land use change by communities, landowners and planners • 2.4.5: Identification of opportunities for flood risk management measures to deliver multiple objectives (including flooding, water quality, economy, amenity and biodiversity); • 2.4.6: Identification of evaluation of potential negative impacts of flood risk management activities, including those on animal health and welfare and how they may be managed

  7. Work Package 2.4 Projects • Project 1: Catchment based assessment and demonstration of Natural Flood Management (NFM) opportunities and constraints (Deliverables 2.4.1, 2.4.5 and 2.4.6) • Project 2: Understanding past, present and future characteristics of agricultural catchment adaptation and implications for resilience for flooding and water conservation (Deliverables 2.4.3 and 2.4.6)

  8. Work Package 2.4 Projects (Cont) • Project 3: Understanding the barriers, opportunities and routes for implementing NFM (Deliverable2.4.4) • Project 4: The development of guidance for practitioners as to options for NFM that are feasible and appropriate (Deliverable 2.4.2) • Project 5: Multiple Benefits of NFM (Deliverable 2.4.5 & 2.4.6)

  9. SEPA Strategic Research Strategy

  10. SEPA Future Research Priorities • Tracking and communicating cumulative uncertainties when assessing flood risk • Use of probabilistic tools and messages in flood forecasting and warning services (& the tools that underpin these) • How to value the impacts of flooding on various receptors i.e. CNI, roads, transport, agriculture

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