Lizzie Greenway, Durham University / West Country River Trust One of the major challenges to achieving good ecological status under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) is the large volume of pollutants reaching the river system…
Michelle Walker, The Rivers Trust Rivers trusts in the UK have been using SCIMAP to inform and support integrated catchment management for many years now, as it is an accessible tool for the non-profit sector to…
Ellie Brown, Ribble Rivers Trust. Adopting an evidence-based approach to prioritising locations in which to create and improve habitats is important to ensure the positive environmental impact is maximised, and limited funds and resources are…
Catherine McIlwraith, Eden Rivers Trust As a Rivers Trust working in the Eden catchment in Cumbria, a lot of our work over the past year has been influenced by the impact of the 2015 winter…
Kenneth Porter, University of Stirling The management of livestock, and their manure, in agricultural landscapes provides a source of microbial pollution in the environment. With an increasing frequency of storm events there is greater potential…
This is the programme for the user group meeting which takes place on 18th Oct 2016 at CIWEM Venue, 106-109 Saffron Hill, London EC1N 8QS. The aim of the meeting is to bring together the different users…
Who is the event for? The User Group Meeting is open to anyone who is currently using SCIMAP or is considering using the approach in the future. Everyone is welcome from professional, academic, policy, third…
The SCIMAP User Group Meeting 2016 will be held at CIWEM in central London on the 18th of October 2016. This meeting is for people who are using the SCIMAP tools to map diffuse pollution…
Linda Pope, Environment Agency The Water Framework Directive requires the Environment Agency assesses the ecological status of all waterbodies, determine the pressures which are causing waterbodies to not achieve good ecological status and put in…
https://vimeo.com/63326111/ Ashar Aftab, Durham University This interdisciplinary research combines recent advances in science and innovative economic incentives to develop forward-looking and practically implementable spatially targeted policies to regulate agricultural externalities. The substantial efficiency savings from…