The Catchment Change Network (CCN) will enable the exchange of knowledge between the NERC research base and science user community in terms of understanding and managing uncertainty and risk related to future changes in catchments.
There are increasing demands to predict the response of catchments to future change – whether due to climate, land management or urbanisation – for decision making and policy setting. Such predictions are inevitably uncertain because future water inputs to the catchment are not known accurately. As a result, risk-based predictions for use in adaptive management strategies will be appropriate, helping us calculate and express how confident we are about our findings and in turn developing enhanced confidence in our decision-making capacity.
CCN will explore the way in which the latest scientific methodologies can inform this process within the three Focus Areas of changes in flood risk, changes in water scarcity and changes in diffuse pollution

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