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Hydrolink 1, 2025 | Nature based Solutions
This edition comprises of six articles, five of which focus on their use in wetland, riverine and coastal settings, and illustrate their potential effectiveness to provide flood and drought resilience to communities while providing a plethora of other environmental and societal benefits. The examples given in these articles show that care needs to be given to good monitoring and modelling for a sound understanding of the functioning of these measures under a wide variety of hydro-meteorological events. An essential ingredient of what makes a scheme successful is the involvement of all stakeholders in its co-design and adoption. The sixth and final article focuses on the role and benefits of community involvement in a scheme in South-West Uganda for managing drought and providing food security in agricultural production. One thing we, as a community of researchers and practicing engineers can further improve on is a wider more integrated assessment of all types of proposed measures, both green and grey, on their impact on co-benefits such as biodiversity, water quality, socio-economic aspects, and human well-being. Even in the stories in this Hydrolink we notice this is still frequently lacking. Furthermore, monitoring and evaluating all aspects of NbS and grey measures is challenging and requires interdisciplinary teams, yet this should not keep us from doing it, as working together will bring a greater breadth of view. For instance, considering biodiversity and human well-being impacts will make NbS schemes more desirable compared to the current practice where civil engineering measures are typically optimized based on one goal, which is the avoided damages.
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In depth > Nature based Solutions
Evaluating Nature-based Solutions for small catchments and streams: Incorporating floods, droughts and biodiversity by Catherine Wilson, Ellis Penning, Christopher Wittmann, Guglielmo Sonnino Sorisio and Daniel Jones.
Monitoring large river restoration: remote sensing and future opportunities by Melissa Latella, Chanjoo Lee and Ellis Penning.
From Pilot to Policy and Practice: How can cities mainstream Nature-based Solutions by Jochen Hack and Leon Kapetas.
Tides of change: greening the gray toward coastal resilience by William Nardin, Julia C. Mullarney, Pieter Rauwoens and Davide Vettori.
Pastureland interventions and farmer co-delivery for effective flood mitigation by NbS: Tebay case study, UK by Nick A. Chapell.
Roles and benefits of community involvement in implementing Natural Flood Management in Maziba catchment, Uganda by Claude Nsobya, Gilbert Tusiime, Karen Potter, Alice Moncaster, Leslie Mabon and Jed Ramsay.
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About the Guest Editors
Catherine Wilson is a Professor in Environmental Hydraulics at Cardiff University. Her research uses experimental and modelling approaches to understand the transport of sediment and plastics, the hydro-environmental impact of hydrokinetic turbines, and efficacy of Nature-based Solutions. She is the deputy Director of the Hydro-environmental Research Centre and leads the hydraulics laboratories at Cardiff. She is PI on a number of Nature-based Solutions field monitoring projects for the UK Government.
Ellis Penning is an expert on Nature-based Solutions and Aquatic Ecology at Deltares, The Netherlands. She leads the IAHR Working Group on Nature-based Solutions and works in a wide variety of projects related to the topic. She coordinates the EU project SpongeScapes and co-coordinates the EU project SpongeWorks and contributes to the EU projects on large-scale freshwater ecosystem restoration MERLIN and Danube4all. She was the PI for the development of the Dutch vegetation monitor.
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Most articles published in every issue focus on a specific theme developed by the Editor with the support of the Hydrolink Advisory Board and the IAHR Executive Committee. If you would like to propose a theme for a future issue, or contribute an article on one of the planned themes, please contact either the editorial assistant, Estibaliz Serrano, or the editor, Angelos N. Findikakis.
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Editor
Angelos N. Findikakis, Bechtel Fellow, Bechtel Corp, USA
Technical Editors
Mehedi Hasan Bappy, Research Engineer, Intelligent Medicine Inc., USA
Mistaya Langridge, McCloy Consulting Ltd, Ireland
Editorial assistant
Estíbaliz Serrano, IAHR Secretariat Madrid Office, Spain, publications@iahr.org
Advisory board
Luis Balairón, Director of Hydraulics Laboratory, CEDEX - Ministry Public Works, Spain
Jean Paul Chabard, Professor at Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, Project Manager, EDF Research & Development, France
Jaap C.J. Kwadijk, Scientific director, Deltares, The Netherlands
Henrik Madsen, Head of Research and Development, DHI, Denmark
Rafaela Matos, Head of Hydraulics and Environment Department, Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil (LNEC), Portugal
Sean Mulligan, VorTech Water Solutions and National University of Ireland Galway (NUIG), Ireland
Yasuo Nihei, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Jing Peng, President, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, China
Olivier Bertrand, Project Manager, Artelia Eau & Environnement, France
James Sutherland, Principal Scientist, HR Wallingford, UK
José N. De Piérola, Senior Advisor in Water Resources Management, Peru
Ex-officio
Peter Goodwin, Past President of IAHR, President of University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, United States of America