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Nature-Based Solutions: Rethinking How We Build Resilient Infrastructure
For much of the history of modern civil engineering, the answer to environmental problems has been to build something: a wall to hold back a
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#367 Nature Based Solutions: The End of Grey Engineering
For decades, infrastructure design has relied on ‘grey’ engineering: concrete flood walls, steel structures and rigid systems designed to control the environment. But with climate
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#355 The Real Value of Nature
Green-grey engineering combines nature-based solutions with traditional civil engineering. It can be used in flood protection, with mangroves acting as a first line of defense
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#319 Revisited: Green Engineering, with Bison
Britain’s biodiversity has been declining sharply over the last 50 years. The country is now one of the most nature-depleted nations in the world. Despite
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#305 Making the Case for Nature-Based Solutions
Nature-based solutions are emerging as vital tools to tackle the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss by leveraging nature’s inherent resilience to protect
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#302 Conservation, Community and AI: Engineering Matters Awards 2024 Community Gold Champion — iNaturalist
From habitat destruction, to use of pesticides, the arrival of invasive species and the growing impact of climate change, life, in all shapes and sizes,
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#211 Rewilding the UK
Britains biodiversity has been declining sharply over the last 50 years. We are now one of the most nature depleted nations in the world. Despite
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Beaver built dam reduces village flood risk
A 70 metre wide dam that was built by a family of beavers has reduced the risk of flooding to the nearby village of Sinnington.
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#198 Collaboration: The Net Zero Trilogy
Getting to net zero emissions requires a paradigm shift in the way that we think and in the way that we do business says Dr
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Restoring the Kaituna River
Partner: WSP A thousand years ago a great Polynesian explorer and sailor named Kupe set out from his home in Polynesia, braved the open seas
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#144 Enhancing an Estuary, Restoring a River
In this first episode of the New Year, we are telling a story about renewal. A project in 1950s New Zealand called the Kaituna Cut