{"id":209,"date":"2018-11-29T16:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/?page_id=209"},"modified":"2019-05-24T13:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T12:17:07","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the effectiveness of natural flood management (NFM) research programme is funded and directed by\u00a0 the <a href=\"https:\/\/nerc.ukri.org\/research\/funded\/programmes\/nfm\">Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).<\/a>\u00a0 It aims to:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018improve understanding of the suitability and effectiveness of different NFM measures for a range of flood risk scenarios\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Outputs from the programme will improve the NFM evidence base, and help policy makers, businesses, and local communities make best use of NFM measures; stakeholder engagement is an important element of the work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/nerc-nfm\/our-partners\/\">National partners<\/a>\u00a0<span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">need the science to help inform their policy and practise.\u00a0 They\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">have co-designed the programme.\u00a0 The programme partners are: <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-environment-food-rural-affairs\">Defra<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">, <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/environment-agency\">Environment Agency<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">, <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sepa.org.uk\/\">Scottish Environmental Protection Agency<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">, <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/gov.wales\/?lang=en\">Welsh Government<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">, <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/naturalresources.wales\/?lang=en\">Natural Resources Wales<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">, <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arup.com\/\">ARUP<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\"> and the <\/span><a style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltrust.org.uk\/\">National Trust<\/a><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">They are helping to shape direction and scope, providing support in-kind, and together with NERC, oversee the programme.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0.08px\">The \u00a34m NFM programme is funded by NERC for 4 years from 2017-2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understanding the effectiveness of natural flood management (NFM) research programme is funded and directed by\u00a0 the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).\u00a0 It aims to: \u2018improve understanding of the suitability and&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#110;&#101;&#114;&#99;&#45;&#110;&#102;&#109;&#47;&#97;&#98;&#111;&#117;&#116;&#45;&#50;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":369,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-209","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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