Journal
PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY-EARTH AND ENVIRONMENT
Volume 45, Issue 6, Pages 819-841Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0309133321997299
Keywords
Natural flood management; flood risk; land management; ecosystem services; hydrology
Funding
- University of Exeter
- Devon Wildlife Trust
- Environment Agency
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Natural flood management lacks established evidence base, limiting its uptake in flood management. The study suggests a new research framework to address NFM knowledge gaps and overcome limitations.
Natural flood management (NFM), or working with natural processes, is a growing flood risk management method in the UK, Europe and worldwide. However, unlike the current dominant technical flood management, it lacks an established evidence base of flood risk parameters. This lack of evidence base can limit the uptake of NFM as a flood management method. This paper critically evaluates examples of NFM and wider relevant literature in order to identify NFM knowledge gaps and suggest how to overcome these. The UK is used as a microcosm of different environments for diverse examples. The sections include: land cover, land management, landscape interactions and trade-offs, evaluating the wider benefits of NFM and, finally, scaling from plot to catchment. This concludes in a suggested framework for a new approach to NFM research, which encompasses spatial scales, interactions and trade-offs of NFM and consistency of reporting results. Widening the NFM empirical evidence base should be seen as an opportunity for a new approach to flood research through exploring new habitats and new flood resilience methods.
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