Integrated Land and Water Management
Contact: Dr Ian Holman
Themes:
- Catchment scale management of water and pollution
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Environmental risk assessment
- Spatial environmental monitoring and modelling
- Flood risk management
Integrated Land and Water Management concerns the manipulation of human activities in river basins in order to improve water and material transfers for multiple objectives. It is central to the way that we manage river basins to successfully deliver a wide range of policies, including the Water Framework Directive, Nitrates Directive, Habitats Directive, flood risk management etc. It requires a broad understanding of the interactions between the climate - weather – soil – land use and management – hydrological response – pollutant fate and behaviour, that is underpinned by process-based understanding, fieldwork, monitoring, spatial analysis and modelling.
Our interdisciplinary research in this area enables us to provide support to a range of Government Departments, Agencies, NGOs, charities and commercial organisations in developing monitoring strategies and management recommendations.
We work closely with staff from The River Restoration Centre which is based at the University.
People
Academic staff:
- Professor Sue White
- Dr Mick Whelan
- Dr Pat Bellamy
- Dr Tim Hess
- Dr Monica Rivas-Casado
- Mr Martin Janes
- Dr Jenny Mant
Administrative support:
- Angela Colclough
Visiting staff:
- Sabine Apitz
- Bob Breach
- Phil Owens
Research students
- Steve Granger
- Jon Kelvin
- Niall Grieve
- Emma Butler
- Susanna Phillips
- Juliet Mortimer
- Alice Tediosi
- Chris Burge
