by Vance Tan | Jul 1, 2018
Floods are one of the most devastating disasters and their intensity and severity is expected to increase in the future. New research shows how regional floods can cause global impacts through propagation within the global trade and supply network. Traditionally,...
by Vance Tan | May 7, 2018
Potential increases in water demand, alongside uncertainties in water availability due to climate change, mean that Britain’s water supply system could become increasingly stressed over the coming decades. Along with the need for secure water supplies, we must ensure...
by Vance Tan | Feb 13, 2018
Risk‐based water resources planning is based on the premise that water managers should invest up to the point where the marginal benefit of risk reduction equals the marginal cost of achieving that benefit. However, this cost‐benefit approach may not guarantee...
by Vance Tan | Nov 7, 2017
Recent developments in urban drainage modelling allow for a more realistic coupling of the two-dimensional (2D) surface and one-dimensional (1D) sub-surface drainage domain exchanging water through storm drain inlets instead of a sub-catchment approach based on...
by Vance Tan | Nov 7, 2017
As part of its work on the National Infrastructure Assessment (NIA) the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has been developing scenarios to help understand how the UK’s future infrastructure requirements could change in response to different scenarios or drivers...
