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Projects

100 Resilient Cities
Blue Green Dream, Imperial College London
Construction Industry Research and Information Association - CIRIA projects
Climate Proof City, part of the Dutch Delta program
CRC for Water Sensitive Cities
Dance 4 Water - European FP7 project
Daylighting Rivers
emBRACE - Building Resilience Amongst Communities in Europe
European Centre for River Restoratio (ECRR)
European Commission Green Infrastructure project
EU SWITCH Project, Managing Water For The City Of The Future
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) - Flood Awareness Education Platform
Foresight Future of Cities project
Flood Risk Management Research Consortium (FRMRC)
Green and Blue Space Adaptation for Urban Areas and Eco Towns (GRaBS) project, University of Manchester
Green Infrastructure North West, developed a calculator for estimating the benefits of green infrastructure
Greater New Orleans Water Management Strategy (Living With Water)
Hydrocitizenship (AHRC project) - join the online community of hydrocitizens
Infrastructure BUsiness models, valuation and Innovation for Local Delivery (iBUILD)
International Water Association (IWA) Cities of the Future Programme
Managing Adaptive Responses to changing Flood Risk (MARE) EU Programme
Monitoring the benefits of SuDS at Upton - Princes Foundation project
Natural Capital Project (NatCap) - Stanford University and the University of Minnesota
PUB (2011) ABC Waters Design Programme (Singapore's national water agency)
RAMSES - Reconciling Adaptation, Mitigation and Sustainable Development for citiES (EU project)
ReNUWit: Engineering Research Center for re-inventing the Nation's urban water infrastructure (USA)
RESTORE - restoring Europe's rivers
River Restoration Centre (RRC) - working to restore and enhance our rivers
Rotterdam Adaptation strategy
Rotterdam - The Water City of the Future
Rotterdam Waterplan 2013-2018 strategy
San Francisco Better Streets Plan
Susceptibility of catchments to INTense RAinfall and flooding (SINATRA)
Sustainable Management of Urban Rivers & Floodplains (SMURF)
Sustaining Urban Habitats - An Interdisciplinary Approach (2014-2019, Leverhulme Project)
Sydney WSUD program
The Urban River Survey, a scientific assessment method and suite of tools that supports the work of river managers in urban environments.
The Water Network - knowledge network for water professionals
Transitions to the Urban Water Services of Tomorrow (TRUST)
UKWRIP (UK Water Research and Innovation Partnership)
UNESCO-IHE Flood Resilience Group
Urban River Corridors and Sustainable Living Agendas (URSULA), investigating the sustainable development of urban river corridors
Water@Leeds - interdisciplinary centre for water research in the UK

Reports, websites, interviews and blogs

Arup City Resilience Index
Benefits of Green Infrastructure (Forest Research, Defra)
Center for Watershed Protection - Urban Subwatershed Restoration Manual Series
CIRIA - Construction Industry Research and Information Association
Cloudburst Management plan, creating a green and blue Copenhagen
Defra - Developing Urban Blue corridors 2011, Scoping Study FD2619
Demonstrating the benefits of SuDS - a new tool (Benefits of SuDS Tool, BeST)
Engineering Nature's Way, blog posts on SuDS and flood risk management in the UK
Environment Agency research programmes and priorities
Essential Guide to Flood Preparation and Planning (Polygon)
Green Living Space Plan Birmingham, September 2013
Home Emergency Preparedness (National Safety Council)
Household Flood Preparedness (Justin Havre & Associates, Calgary AB)
How to Minimise Flood Damage in your Home (Rex Wayne for Direct Line Insurance)
iBUILD Final Report - Closing the Gap: local infrastructure business models to support inclusive growth (2018)
Interview with Professor Rob Skinner (Director of Monash University’s Water for Liveability Centre) on the role that water plays in delivering resilient and liveable cities
Melbourne Water: WSUD guidelines
National Infrastructure Assessment 2018 (National Infrastructue Commission)
National Standards for SuDS (Defra)
National Flood Resilience Review (HM Government, September 2016)
POSTbrief: Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services (2017)
Plan and prepare for flooding (American Red Cross)
Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) - Watercourses in the Community: A guide to sustainable watercourse management in the urban environment
SEPA SuDS
SuDS Manual (CIRIA), November 2015
SUDSnet - Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems Network
SuDS Route Maps - ICE and ACO Guide to Effective Surface Water Management 2018
SUSDRAIN - The community for sustainable drainage
Sustainable Cities Water Index (Arcadis 2016)
The Impact of Extreme Events on Freshwater Ecosystems, The British Ecological Society 2013
UK National Ecosystem Assessment (UK NEA)
UKWRIP Water and Cities Report (June 2014), including a list of current research activity in this area
World Bank blog: Sustainable Cities

Urban Flood Resilience Research Project

Sir Clive Granger Building
University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD

telephone: +44 (0)115 846 8137

email: urbanfloodresilience@nottingham.ac.uk