How are transport networks going to become more resilient to flood risk?

In this blog, Dr David Dawson examines flood risk on the physical transport network and some potential developments for improving urban flood risk by connecting multiple infrastructure systems. Plumber, ‘Sorry Transport Secretary, you have a leak!’ Transport Secretary, ‘Well, how bad is it?’ The Issue The extent of flood risk across our transport networks is …

Malmö: two decades at the cutting edge of innovative water management

In this blog Shaun Maskrey investigates how Malmö became Europe’s poster child blue-green city following almost 20 years at the forefront of innovative water management. Sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) are a common sight in central Malmö The Issue In the late 1990s, after years of socio-economic decline and flooding as a result of overwhelmed drainage, …

About the Blue-Green Cities team…Emily Lawson

The first couple of blog posts for Blue-Green Cities will give some insight into the members of the interdisciplinary consortium; their backgrounds, role in the Blue-Green Cities Research Project and what they have been working on at present. And I’m going to start. I’m Emily Lawson, and my role in the project is to coordinate …

Welcome to the new Blue-Green Cities blog!

This is the new blog site for the Blue-Green Cities Research Project…testing, testing, testing! In the past few weeks I (Emily Lawson, researcher at the University of Nottingham) have learn several new skills; how to create a website (using CMS Contensis), how to create a intranet page, and now, how to set up a blog. …