The FD2120 project is now complete. Reports are available on the Defra science web site.

FD2120 Inception Report (PDF 2.8Mb).

This part of the wiki is originated in the DEFRA Project FD2120: Analysis of historical data sets to look for impacts of land use and management change on flood generation which arises out the previous FD2114 review of the impacts of land use and management on floods and flooding (Conclusions of FD2114).

FD2114 recommended a research program in this area and noted that there was a need to test more sophisticated methods for searching for evidence of the impacts of land use and management change on flood runoff generation in hydrological data sets. FD2120 is the result of this recommendation (Objectives of FD2120 and Organisation of FD2120).

It is worth noting at the outset that, there can be no guarantee that the impacts of land use and management will be identifiable in the historical records. Certainly past studies have found it difficult to identify such impacts. There is, however, evidence at the scale of experimental plots that suggests that land management should have an effect on runoff generation, even if it is difficult to identify in the catchment scale data. There is lots of anecdotal evidence that land use is having an effect on runoff on flood peaks (see for example the article on Floods and Sheep by Anne Samson in Circulation No.49, February 1996).

So here is your opportunity to record your thoughts and experiences on land management impacts on runoff, and to comment on those reported by others in an open Wiki format. All pages can be edited. All edits and comments are recorded in a history file. So feel free to fill in a new case study template or comment on those already filed. Of particular interest are examples of catchments where you think that there is good evidence that land use and management has had an impact on the hydrograph responses.

Please, don't forget to add yourself to the [Credits]? page!

Case Studies

Yorkshire Dales (Rivers Swale, Ure and Ouse)

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References

O'Connell P E, Beven K J, Carney J N, Clements R O, Ewen J, Fowler H, Harris G L, Hollis J, Morris J, O'Donnell G M, Packman J C, Parkin A, Quinn P F, Rose S C, Shepherd M, Tellier S. 2005. Review of impacts of rural land use and management on flood generation: Impact study report. Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Research and Development Technical Report FD2114/TR. Defra Flood Management Division. London. 142pp. Download from here

O'Connell P E, Beven K J, Carney J N, Clements R O, Ewen J, Hollis J, Morris J, O'Donnell G M, Packman J C, Parkin A, Quinn P F, Rose S C, Shepherd M. 2004. Review of impacts of rural land use and management on flood generation: Research plan. Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Research and Development Technical Report FD2114/PR1. Defra Flood Management Division. London. 54pp. Download from here

file: http://www.floodrisknet.org.uk/projects/fd2120/FD2120InceptionReport.pdf