Hydrological Extremes, Coasts and Risk Management

Climate Crisis: informing Scotland’s actionable mitigation and adaptation response to water scarcity

Scotland’s climate is changing at a rate unprecedented in human history. We are becoming exposed to climate related risks, such as water scarcity, that were not considered significant in the past and have not been planned for. The first phase in addressing this shift in risk has been to develop early warning and emergency measures to mitigate the impacts of exceptional events such as the 2018 European drought and its impact in Scotland.

Mitigating climate change impacts on the water quality of Scottish standing waters

There is a policy focus at national and international levels on mitigating climate change impacts by reducing carbon emissions and increasing carbon sequestration. However, even if we can slow climate change down, we cannot prevent or reverse it. So, alternative approaches must be used to lessen its effects. These include adaptive interventions that increase the resilience, and reduce the vulnerability, of people and nature to weather extremes and other climate change impacts.

Science Policy Fellowship: Policy to Preparedness: Flood policy and community engagement

Flooded Field - Photo Credit: Gordon Henderson

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CREW Code: CSPF2023_03

Theme: Hydrological Extremes, Coasts and Risk Management

Type of project: CREW Science Policy Fellowship

Project Status: Project complete. Click here to visit the publication page to view the project outputs.

Lead research team: Glasgow Caladonian University

Science Policy Fellowship: Resilience to Fluvial Flooding: Knowns and Unknowns to Recommendations for Management

Flooded river onto field - Photo Credit: Andrew Tabas

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CREW Code: CSPF2023_02

Theme: Hydrological Extremes, Coasts and Risk Management

Type of project: CREW Science Policy Fellowship

Project Status: Project complete. Click here to visit the publication page to view the project outputs.

Lead research team: Heriot-Watt University

Science Policy Fellowship: Building Public Health Resilience to Fluvial Flooding in Scotland

Road closed due to flooding - Photo Credit: Mark Wilkinson

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CREW Code: CSPF2023_01

Theme: Hydrological Extremes, Coasts and Risk Management

Type of project: CREW Science Policy Fellowship

Project Status: Project complete. Click here to visit the publication page to view the project outputs.

Lead research team: University of Glasgow

CRW2023_09 Methodologies for sampling fish populations in Scottish freshwater lochs

Loch Reflection - Photo Credit: Tim Winterburn/UHI Inverness

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CREW Code: CRW2022_09

Theme: Hydrological Extremes, Coasts and Risk Management

Project status: Project complete. Click here to visit the publication page to view the project outputs.

Type of project: Capacity Building

Lead research team: University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)

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