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The FCRM10 conference is aimed at contractors, consultants, local authorities, universities and colleges, and public bodies and presents the latest science and policy of interest to the practitioner, and showcases examples of good practice in delivery and research. This call for papers offers 3 opportunities to present at this internationally important conference; Full Papers, Short Papers and Posters.

The conference runs over three days, with sessions organised under key themes allowing delegates unable to attend the whole event to pick a day that best suits their interests. These themes are:

Day one: Building and Maintaining Defences.
Day two: New Approaches to Risk Reduction, Event Management and Planning.
Day three: Communication.

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Goals of the Exchange:

• To provide a platform where researches and practitioners can come together to generate knowledge and exchange ideas
• Practitioners have the opportunity to hear and contribute to current research, gaining a strategic insight to push their own organisation forward
• Build links between the research and practice communities, and form partnerships where appropriate
• Provide researches with a platform to ‘practitioner proof’ their research
• Collectively contribute to the development of the profession and research agendas

Climate change will add to the challenge of balancing water supply and demand, particularly in the most water stressed locations in the UK. In their business plans for PR09 water companies endeavoured to take the impacts of climate change into account using the best available evidence. However, because this analysis by water companies predated the UKCP09 scenarios, Ofwat has excluded some £1.5billion of climate change driven investment in water resources from the Final Determination, and has identified the issue as a Notified Item for affected companies.
Water companies now urgently need to use the UKCP09 scenarios to reassess their water resources. UKCP09 provides new information on uncertainties in climate projections, expressed as probability distributions. The UKCP09 scenarios are accompanied by a weather generator, which enables continuous simulation of rainfall series and correlated variables that are representative of future climates
Use of probabilistic scenarios and weather generators is a field where academic research is now well in advance of industry practice, and, having partnered the University of East Anglia in developing the CP09 weather generator, Newcastle University (Professor Chris Kilsby) has substantial expertise in this area. There is also considerable experience of addressing some of the more problematic issues associated with UKCP09, including spatially correlated scenarios, inter-annual variability and persistent droughts. Moreover, research on risk-based decision making has explored how probabilistic information on climate uncertainties can be incorporated in assessments alongside other sources of uncertainty. These are areas where the NERC Catchment Change Network can help to address the urgent challenges that the water industry now faces in incorporating UKCP09 in water resources assessment.
The Catchment Change Network workshop on “Water resources assessment in a changing climate” will demonstrate methods for use of the UKCP09 scenarios in water resources assessment and will explore mechanisms for urgently transferring this knowledge to water companies so that they can update their water resources assessments using the best available science. We see CCN as a real opportunity to improve the way in which change in catchment response is assessed in management practice and very much hope therefore that you will be able to make a contribution to this initiative.

I’d be grateful at this stage if you could you confirm your attendance for this event via email (r.alcock@lancaster.ac.uk).

Policy Overview

Dr Arthur Thornton, Regulatory Compliance and Research, Water and Environment, Atkins
Mireille Bogaart, Doctoral Researcher, Centre for Environmental Law, University of Amsterdam
Dr Mike Keil, Head of Climate Change Policy, OFWAT
Karen Simpson, Principal Consultant, and Martin Hall, Head of Strategic Consulting, Mouchel
Robert Cunningham, Head of Water Policy, RSPB
Dr Mark Williams, Environmental Regulation and Climate Change Manager, Scottish Water

Policy Implementation

Dr. Julian Wright, Policy Advisor for Climate Change, Environment Agency
John Martin, Waste Water Regulation Manager, and Frank Grimshaw, Economic Regulation Manager, Severn Trent Water
Stephen Bolt, Director of Environment and Sustainability, WYG
David Sivil, Consultant Engineer, WRc plc
Dr. Tony Warn, MBE, Policy Manager (Water Quality), Environment Agency
Chris Mooij, Director, Metoc

Case Studies

Chris Barker, Environmental Regulation Business Area Manager, and Adrian Johnson, Carbon Management Business Area Manager, MWH Global
Harry Tribe, Associate Director – Process Technology, ENTEC
Jane E. Madden, Vice President, CDM, USA
Sue Horsfall, Northumbrian Water
James Newton, Mott MacDonald
Martin Jolly, Technical Director, and Tony Koodie, Senior Technical Director, Black & Veatch The seat belts will proessaywriting.org/ only have to be installed in new buses weighing 5 tons or less, and the requirement will not take effect until 2011