Challenges and opportunities in the use of ponds and pondscapes as Nature-based Solutions

M Cuenca-Cambronero, M Blicharska, JA Perrin… - Hydrobiologia, 2023 - Springer
Ponds and “pondscapes”(networks of ponds) are crucial habitats for biodiversity and for
delivering multiple benefits to humans, so-called “Nature's Contribution to People”, such as …

Mitigating floods and attenuating surface runoff with temporary storage areas in headwaters

MT Roberts, J Geris, PD Hallett… - Wiley Interdisciplinary …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Temporary storage areas (TSAs) represent a category of soft‐engineered nature‐based
solutions that can provide dispersed, small‐scale storage throughout a catchment. TSAs …

Natural flood management, lag time and catchment scale: Results from an empirical nested catchment study

A Black, L Peskett, A MacDonald… - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Natural flood management (NFM) techniques attract much interest in flood risk management
science, not least because their effectiveness remains subject to considerable uncertainty …

Assessing the urban road waterlogging risk to propose relative mitigation measures

X Qi, Z Zhang - Science of the Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Road waterlogging has become a significant issue in developed cities due to the rapid
urbanization in China. It is necessary to accurately identify the risk of waterlogging in urban …

Effectiveness of nature-based solutions for mitigating the impact of pluvial flooding in urban areas at the regional scale

EM Hamers, HR Maier, AC Zecchin, H van Delden - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Pluvial flooding causes significant damage in urban areas worldwide. The most common
approaches to mitigating these impacts at regional scales include structural measures such …

The role of rewilding in mitigating hydrological extremes: State of the evidence

GL Harvey, AT Hartley, AJ Henshaw… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Landscape rewilding has the potential to help mitigate hydrological extremes by allowing
natural processes to function. Our systematic review assessed the evidence base for …

[HTML][HTML] Strategic design and delivery of integrated catchment restoration monitoring: emerging lessons from a 12-year study in the UK

C Spray, A Black, D Bradley, C Bromley, F Caithness… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite growing interest in river and catchment restoration, including a focus on nature-
based solutions, assessing effectiveness of restoration programmes continues to prove a …

A review of nature‐based infrastructures and their effectiveness for urban flood risk mitigation

M Esraz‐Ul‐Zannat… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic climate change and rapid urbanization are contributing to more frequent and
intense urban flooding. There is widespread agreement that traditional gray infrastructure, a …

Modelling the effectiveness of land‐based natural flood management in a large, permeable catchment

SL Collins, A Verhoef, M Mansour… - Journal of Flood Risk …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the United Kingdom, woodland planting and soil and crop management are
being promoted as approaches to tackling flooding. Although evidence is limited, it is …

Integrated flood risk management: Novel approaches for an uncertain future

F Klijn, M Lang, P Bakonyi - Water Security, 2022 - Elsevier
Floods have long been the main cause of large numbers of natural disaster fatalities
worldwide. In the 20th century, 6.8 million fatalities were reported [3]. Since the 1950ies …