Yorkshire iCASP - Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme

约克郡乌塞盆地包括利兹、约克和谢菲尔德等城市以及艾尔河、考尔德河、德温特河、顿河、斯威尔河、沃夫河、乌尔河和尼德河，人口占英国总人口的6.7%，占北方发电厂地区的30%，包括10个大都市区。该地区包括各种不同的环境，从大城市地区到低地农业和人口稀少的高地，包括国家公园和杰出的自然美景地区。因此，它是一个完美的位置，可以启动一个工作计划，利用现有的NERC资助的科学来确定，开发，测试和改进一系列环境影响的综合解决方案。这包括通过改善天气预报、土地管理和水资源管理之间的联系来减轻干旱和洪水风险;改善人类供水和河流/其他水体的水质;更好地管理土壤，以改善区域粮食安全和碳储存（林地和泥炭地）。通过整合天气、土地和水的这些方面，它将使该地区能够制定更好的计划，随着人口的增长，在保护宝贵的自然环境的同时实现可持续发展。最终，通过创建一个能够更好地应对更加多变的气候的地区，它将成为一个吸引投资的地区，因为人们及其企业选择在一个适应环境变化严重影响的地区生活和工作，生活质量得到改善。许多大型全球性公司已经在该区域设立了水事总部或全球环境总部，还有一系列中小企业和大企业，它们的利益包括流域管理。因此，约克郡综合流域解决方案计划--约克郡iCASP --的背后有相当大的动力，该计划旨在为该地区带来经济和社会影响。约克郡iCASP将利用现有的NERC资助的科学来开发工具、战略、计划和政策，以促进灾害恢复能力、缓解极端事件（洪水和干旱）、发展洪水预报能力、改善水质、改善土壤和耕作方法，并制定土地和水管理的联合办法。iCASP由来自地方当局，政府机构，主要基础设施/公用事业所有者，私营部门服务提供商，学术机构和第三部门组织的合作伙伴共同创建，他们将共同制定和提供旨在提高该地区经济和社会地位的工作计划。合作的成果将提供适用于该地区以外的工具和技术，创造可在世界各地使用的服务和产品，以进一步造福该地区和英国经济。工作方案中讨论的项目实例包括：发展绿色融资企业;开发新工具，更好地将洪水预报与对河流的影响和不同的土地管理做法联系起来;决策支持工具，使不同地区的洪水/干旱管理情景得以评估;以及降低水处理成本的原水管理办法。所有这些都将对社会和更广泛的环境产生不同的，而且往往是多方面的影响，因此iCASP的另一个重要方面是记录和评估作为工作方案一部分实施的项目，衡量它们通过杠杆投资，创造就业机会和更广泛的社会效益对区域和国家经济以及iCASP合作伙伴的增长做出的贡献。

The Yorkshire Ouse basin, which encompasses the cities of Leeds, York and Sheffield as well as the rivers Aire, Calder, Derwent, Don, Swale, Wharfe, Ure and Nidd is home to 6.7% of the UK population, 30% of the Northern Powerhouse region and includes 10 metropolitan boroughs. The region includes a variety of different environments, from large urban areas to lowland agriculture and sparsely populated uplands including National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty. As such, it is a perfect location to instigate a programme of work which uses existing NERC-funded science to identify, develop, test and improve integrated solutions on a range of environmental impacts. This encompasses mitigation of drought and flood risk through improved connectivity between weather forecasting, land management and water resource management; improvements in water quality for both human water supply and rivers/other water bodies; and better management of soils for improved regional food security and carbon storage (in woodlands and peatland). By integrating these aspects of weather, land and water, it will enable better plans to be made for the region that allow for sustainable development as the population grows whilst protecting the valuable natural environment. Ultimately, by creating a region that is better able to deal with a more variable climate, it will become an area that attracts investment as people and their businesses opt to live and work in an area that has adapted to the severe effects of environmental change, with improved quality of life. Many major global companies already have their water headquarters or global environmental head offices in the region together with a range of SMEs and large businesses whose interests include catchment management. As such, there is considerable momentum behind the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme - Yorkshire iCASP - which seeks to deliver economic and social impacts to the region.Yorkshire iCASP will capitalise on existing NERC-funded science to develop tools, strategies, plans and policies to promote hazard resilience, mitigation of extreme events (floods and droughts), develop flood forecasting capability, improve water quality, enhance soils and farm practice and develop a joined-up approach for land and water management. iCASP has been co-created by partners drawn from local authorities, government agencies, major infrastructure/utility owners, private sector service providers, academic institutions, and third sector organisations who will work together to produce and deliver a work programme that seeks to enhance the economic and societal status of the region. Outcomes from the collaboration will deliver tools and techniques with applicability outside the region, creating services and products which can be used around the world to further benefit the region and the UK economy more generally. Examples of the projects that have been discussed in the work programme include development of green financing enterprises; development of new tools to better link flood forecasting with impacts on rivers and different land management practices; decision-support tools that allow different area-specific flood/drought management scenarios to be evaluated; and raw water management approaches that reduce the cost of water treatment. All will have different, and often multifaceted, impacts on society and the wider environment so another important aspect of iCASP is the documentation and evaluation of the projects implemented as part of the work programme, measuring the changes that they contribute to the regional, and national, economy as well as the growth of iCASP partners through leveraged investment, job creation and wider societal benefits.