Outputs (16)

The needs, challenges, and priorities for advancing global flood research (2025)
Journal Article

In recent years, numerous flood events have caused loss of life, widespread disruption, and damage across the globe. These devastating impacts highlight the importance of a better understanding of flood generating processes, their impacts, and their... Read More about The needs, challenges, and priorities for advancing global flood research.

Flood susceptibility assessment for improving the resilience capacity of railway infrastructure networks (2024)
Journal Article

Floods often cause significant damage to transportation infrastructure such as roads, railways, and bridges. This study identifies several topographic, environmental, and hydrological factors (slope, elevation, rainfall, land use and cover, distance... Read More about Flood susceptibility assessment for improving the resilience capacity of railway infrastructure networks.

Research Handbook on Flood Risk Management (2024)
Book

Pushing the boundaries of flood risk management research, this comprehensive Research Handbook presents pragmatic insights into all areas relating to flood risk. Through its use of dynamic and people-centred paradigms, it explores urban flood managem... Read More about Research Handbook on Flood Risk Management.

High street evidence - UWE - Written evidence (HSC0046) (2024)
Report

Urban building energy modelling and generative design - an integration for energy-optimised urban design: A systematic review (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Global warming is having a significant impact on urban living conditions and putting pressure on finite resources. The built environment, particularly in urban areas, is a major contributor to this problem, highlighting the need for sustainable urban... Read More about Urban building energy modelling and generative design - an integration for energy-optimised urban design: A systematic review.

Public preference of flood-resilient housing technologies in Nigeria: A case study of Kogi State (2023)
Journal Article

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore flood-prone area residents' preferences of flood-resilient housing technologies (HTs), to understand the factors influencing their choices. Flood-resilient HTs can reduce damage and disruption at a hou... Read More about Public preference of flood-resilient housing technologies in Nigeria: A case study of Kogi State.

Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure (2023)
Journal Article

Few studies have focused on value structures, experiences, and cultural diversity as it relates to bioswale planning and implementation. We used ‘Point of Opportunity Interactions’ to understand previously undocumented views of the Cantonese-speaking... Read More about Lifestyle and language barriers influence community engagement with green infrastructure.

Housing affordability in the South West of England (2023)
Report

The South West faces acute problems of housing affordability. The region is conspicuously less affordable than England as a whole, and the North and Midlands in particular. These inter-regional disparities are becoming progressively more pronounced.... Read More about Housing affordability in the South West of England.

Prioritising critical attributes for the management of materials procurement and construction waste (2023)
Journal Article

Construction and demolition waste constitutes the largest municipal solid waste (MSW) globally with environmental concerns. However, waste management is not considered a priority objective in construction compared to time and cost. Therefore, constru... Read More about Prioritising critical attributes for the management of materials procurement and construction waste.

Evaluation of Property Flood Resilience repair grant scheme: FD2727 Final report stage 4 (2023)
Report

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) Property Flood Resilience (PFR) repair grant scheme may be activated following severe flooding events that impact multiple local authorities (LAs). It has been activated, when needed, alo... Read More about Evaluation of Property Flood Resilience repair grant scheme: FD2727 Final report stage 4.

Willing to have, willing to help, or ready to own — Determinants of variants of stewardship social practices around blue-green infrastructure in dense urban communities (2023)
Journal Article

Introduction: There is increasing acceptance of the desirability of involving communities in stewardship activities around urban blue-green infrastructure (BGI) to generate acceptance, reduce vandalism and decrease the maintenance burden on authoriti... Read More about Willing to have, willing to help, or ready to own — Determinants of variants of stewardship social practices around blue-green infrastructure in dense urban communities.

Understanding influence and action in Learning and Action Alliances: Experience from the Newcastle Blue-Green vision (2022)
Journal Article

The Learning and Action Alliance (LAA) framework is increasingly valued as an approach to facilitate social learning and action by enabling collaboration within and between organisations, breaking down barriers to information sharing and facilitating... Read More about Understanding influence and action in Learning and Action Alliances: Experience from the Newcastle Blue-Green vision.

Amphibious architecture: A review of the construction methods adopted in existing designs (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Effective flood mitigation strategies at individual property level can be designed to limit damage and facilitate recovery by limiting water entry or enabling entry into occupied spaces in a controlled manner. Ideally these strategies will be robust... Read More about Amphibious architecture: A review of the construction methods adopted in existing designs.

Towards adoption of mobile data collection for effective adaptation and climate risk management in Africa (2022)
Journal Article

The collection and use of data on climate change and its impacts are crucial for effective climate adaptation and climate risk management. The revolution in internet access, technology and costs has led to a shift from using traditional paper-based d... Read More about Towards adoption of mobile data collection for effective adaptation and climate risk management in Africa.

Sustainable Blue-Green Infrastructure: A social practice approach to understanding community preferences and stewardship (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is an approach to urban flood resilience, recognised globally and in international literature, that capitalises on the benefits of working with urban green-spaces and naturalised water-flows. Literature reveals... Read More about Sustainable Blue-Green Infrastructure: A social practice approach to understanding community preferences and stewardship.

Sustainable urban drainage: Retrofitting for improved flood mitigation in city centres (2014)
Report

AIM
The aim of this research was to examine the potential for mitigation of predominantly pluvial flooding in CBDs through retrofitting of such systems. The research used two case study areas to explore the challenges and opportunities for retrofit... Read More about Sustainable urban drainage: Retrofitting for improved flood mitigation in city centres.