Now in it’s eleventh year, the conference, this year it will concentrate on themes including:
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putting river restoration into planning policy |
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delivering restoration for social, economic, landscape and habitat benefit |
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planning restoration for the Water Framework Directive (WFD) |
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global river restoration perspectives |
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project appraisals for adaptive management and reducing uncertainty |
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urban river corridors – new indices and methodological approaches for use in river restoration |
Royal Haskoning’s coast and river expert, Matthew Hardwick will be speaking at the event on the topic ‘Creating Wet Floodplain Forests – a sustainable flood management solution’.
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About Matthew Hardwick
Matt is a Chartered Scientist within Royal Haskoning’s Coastal & Rivers department. He has several years experience in the field of flood risk management, particularly relating to catchment-wide processes, and their effects on sediment transport, channel morphological response and river restoration efforts.
An expert in the application of geomorphic investigations, adaptive management and monitoring techniques to environmental assessments, restoration schemes, engineering solutions and R&D; much of his work has been multi-disciplinary in nature involving links with hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, biological and habitat surveys.