Coping with Uncertainty in River Basin Planning and Management

Status: Completed
Type of Project: Networking Award
Principal Investigator: Professor Keith Beven, Lancaster University (Email)

Objectives

The Networking Award enabled an interdisciplinary team of natural and social scientists to develop a full research proposal for the second call under Theme A: Integrated Solutions for Land and Water Resource Use and Management. Lancaster and Liverpool universities, together with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, have established a Joint Interdisciplinary Centre for Sustainable Water Management to facilitate high-quality interdisciplinary research across six thematic areas: knowledge, uncertainty and institutions, integrated modelling, processes and controls of aquatic habitats, the inter-tidal zone, monitoring technologies and strategies, and water management for sustainable productivity (see www.swm.lancs.ac.uk). The award brought together a group of social and natural scientists from the Centre and other leading institutions in order to examine the issue of uncertainty as it relates to land and water management, and to propose future research on integrated strategies for copying with uncertain conditions.