Nature based solutions for Urban Water Management

Project Overview

Deforestation and unplanned development increase flood risk, with impacts on lives, livelihoods, and built infrastructure. Understanding when natural ecosystems and land management help to mitigate flood risks and incorporating this knowledge into planning are high-priority goals for many decision-makers globally. Several projects in the lab address this issue. We are working with the Disaster Analytics group at the Asian School of the Environment (ASE) by advancing research on two fronts: modelling riverine flooding in response to changes in land management, and modelling flood exposure and risk (recent work focuses on a case study in the Chindwin Basin, Myanmar). In parallel, we are studying the performance of natural infrastructure implemented in Singapore under the ABC (Active, Beautiful, Clean) Waters programme.