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Predicting and managing flood risks from extreme rain events in Japan

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Shakti P.C. uses flood inundation mapping, hydrological modelling, and other advanced techniques based on a near real-time approach to improve flood resilience and adaptation to extreme rain events.

Japan has seen an increase in extreme rain events in recent years, resulting in catastrophic flooding with substantial loss of human life and destruction of property. As climate change is likely to increase the severity and frequency of flooding, governments and other organisations are rightly becoming more concerned. Research conducted by Shakti P.C. and colleagues at Japan’s National Research Institute […]

Engineering nature: Innovative streambed restoration in Seattle

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Photo of Thornton Creek, where the restoration took place

River degradation is a widespread consequence of human development. In Seattle, Paul Bakke, founder of The Science of Rivers, along with a leading channel-design engineer and an aquatic ecologist, have implemented an innovative urban stream restoration project. A traditional stream restoration approach was transformed by adding an engineered streambed designed to restore and enhance the hyporheic zone. The project has […]

Predicting post-seismic liquefaction through geological response analysis

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During liquefaction, solid sandy ground behaves like a liquid, posing a significant threat in earthquake-prone regions. Seismic waves cause water-saturated sandy sediments to flow, resulting in ground subsidence and flooding. To address gaps in our understanding, Prof Yukitake Shioi from the Hachinohe Institute of Technology in Japan applied a finite element method model to observations from the 1994 Far-Off Sanriku […]

Water in Crisis: Delivering urban and natural water cycle symbiosis

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The Water Research Group helps safeguard drinking water quality.

The Water Research Group in the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering at the University of Sheffield is the UK’s largest urban water research team. Their research encompasses the entire water service provision including assessing the environmental impact and protection of groundwater and rivers, stormwater management and flooding, green and urban water infrastructure engineering, and management of buried assets to […]