by Vance Tan | Apr 12, 2019
Resilient water supplies in England need to be secured in the face of challenges of population growth, climate change and environmental sustainability. We propose a blueprint for water resources planning that uses system simulation modelling to estimate the frequency,...
by Vance Tan | Apr 4, 2019
Protecting the UK’s capital city from global mean sea level rise that the IPCC considers plausible over the next centuries would require a combination of a new tidal barrier, high volume pumping and incremental raising of the system of flood walls and embankments....
by Vance Tan | Jan 22, 2019
This chapter aims to identify influential actors in coastal flood risk management (FRM) initiatives and to understand the power relations between the most influential actors. It proposes strategies to manage these power relations for more effective FRM. The chapter...
by Vance Tan | Jan 7, 2019
Large and reliable volumes of water are required to cool thermal power plants. Yet across the world growing demands from society, environmental regulation and climate change impacts are reducing the availability of reliable water supplies. This in turn constrains the...
by Vance Tan | Nov 7, 2018
Urban water management represents a core economic sector exposed to global water-related challenges. Recently, small modular system configurations have been identified to enable a potential sustainability transition in this lasting and rather conservative sector. The...
