CCN Conference 2011

Guidelines for Good Practice as a way of encouraging stakeholder involvement across catchment management

Tuesday 5th July 2011

Looking forward, catchment management will need to rely more heavily on multi-stakeholder collaboration and communication for success. Our second CCN Annual Conference  on 5th July 2011 at the Arup Campus was designed to examine how Guidelines could represent a useful tool to encourage stakeholder participation across catchments.

Invited presentations will gave delegates a unique opportunity to learn how a range of organisations and initiatives are optimising success. Case studies identified the challenges, opportunities and lessons learned.

Presentations from the event are available to view

Michael Winter and Rob Fish (University of Exeter)
The ecosystem services approach: threat or opportunity to participatory catchment management

Jon Wicks (Halcrow)
Structured guidelines for good practice in flood risk mapping

Kirsty Blackstock (The James Hutton Institute)
What makes for successful stakeholder involvement? Lessons learned from Scotland

David Schofield (Arup)
Learning stakeholder engagement lessons from The American Way

Sustainable Drainage Systems: a mission to the USA  A DTI Global Watch Mission Report (March 2006)

Jennine Jonczyk (Newcastle University)
Flood and diffuse pollution management using a catchment engineering approach with stakeholders in Belford Burn, Northumberland

Stefan Eppert (RMS)
Flood modelling uncertainties from an insurance industry stakeholder perspective

Nigel Watson (Lancaster University)
Designing participatory processes: difficulties, dilemmas and solutions

Nick Odoni (Bristol University)
Stakeholder contribution and conflict in Pickering, North Yorkshire: trying to reconcile science with project delivery in a pilot flood risk management scheme

Adrian McDonald (Leeds University)
Influencing the biggest stakeholder, the customer: towards demand management guidelines and positions

CCN Conference 2010

Managing an uncertain future: Identifying needs and opportunities for sustainable adaptation in catchment management

Our first CCN Annual Conference was held at the Lancaster Environment Centre on Tuesday 6th July 2010 and attractedover 90 delegates with interests and responsibilities across catchment management.

The meeting was designed to take forward the debate around catchment management in an uncertain future and explore challenges and opportunities for research to fill current gaps. It summarised key elements of the CCN ongoing Workshop Programme across flood risk, water scarcity and water quality and outlined progress on the guidance documentation that each of these areas are producing. Keith Beven has added a personal reflection of the CCN Conference as a blog item within our ‘Catchment Conversations’.

Presentations from the meeting are available to view

Phil Haygarth (LEC) Future Change and Diffuse Pollution- challenges, gaps and opportunities

Enda O’Connell (Newcastle) Water Resources Assessment in a Changing Climate – moving towards a more risk-based approach

Keith Beven (LEC)  Developing Guidelines for Managing Uncertainty in Flood Risk

Jim Hall (The UK Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) on Climate Change) Key uncertainties for adaptation decision makers

Robert Willows (Environment Agency) Compelling evidence plus ambition threatened by uncertainty and denial

John Rees ( NERC Theme Leader – Natural Hazards) Challenges in Catchment Science: A Natural Hazard Perspective

Martin Furness (Ofwat)Catchment Management in AMP 5 and the way forward-a Regulator’s view

Kieran Conlan (Cascade Consulting)  Emerging themes from water industry AMP5 investigations – where is the supporting scientific evidence?

Bob Harris (DTC Secretariat) Demonstration Test Catchments: building our capacity for catchment management