Water, Land and Conservation
The Welsh natural environment is one our most outstanding assets. Careful management of land and water is crucial to maintaining and conserving this asset and to promoting the Welsh economy. WISE Network can help your business by providing access to a wide range of expertise and facilities in fields such as:
Water and Rivers
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Geomorphological, geophysical (GPR), hydrographic, sediment transport, river bed and bank erosion surveys
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Sediment (percussion coring) and water quality sampling
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Flow monitoring
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Leading edge data analysis and GIS
Hydrological, hydraulic and sediment transport modelling
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Erosion and sedimentation problems, including river crossing assessments and effects of aggregate extraction
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Climate change impacts and flood risk/consequence assessments
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Extreme fluvial and glacial floods
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Hydrological assessments
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Contamination assessment, remediation and modelling, including effects of flooding on river pollution
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River response to dam failures
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River corridor surveys, EIAs, audits and restoration
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Environmental archaeology
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Catchment sustainability
Interfaces between land and water
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Interface between health and environmental quality
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State of the art analyses of water, soil, sediment and vegetation
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Removal of dissolved metal contamination from water
Land use and soils
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Economics and policy issues relevant to land use, including the contribution of countryside assets to rural economic activity
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Investment strategies (e.g. visitor payback), and the non-market values of such assets (e.g. choice modelling)
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Rural diversification: sustainable land-use diversification activities and options, including sustainable and rural tourism
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Impact of external influences on land-use
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Organic Farming: development of policy, impact on rural development, standards, farm income, costs of production, marketing, conversion of dairy and other livestock farms
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Measurement and reduction of greenhouse gases from agriculture
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Extent and significance of biodiversity within grassland, soil, and animal gut environments
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Ecosystem modelling, including GM risk assessment and gene flow from plant debris to soil microflora
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Functional and behavioural ecology
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Soil condition and nutrient relationships, biological and microbiological processes, and metabolite profiling to develop quantitative indicators of soil health
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Soil recovery after surface mining: phytoremediation of contaminated soils
Case Studies
There are no current case studies available for this area.
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