Tools Applied At NAIAD
What this list is
The tools on this page were in use before the project and were applied within it. They are listed separately because they are the part of the guide a reader can adopt immediately: each is available, documented independently of NAIAD, and supported by someone other than the project.
The distinction between a tool and a model is not sharp and is not meant to be. A model is a representation of how something behaves; a tool is something a person uses to reach a decision. Several of the entries here contain models, and the models they contain are listed among those applied at NAIAD.
Assessment and planning tools
SimUrba urban planning model for a spatial representation of NBS scenario in the Lez demo by 2040 — an existing urban growth model, applied to represent how the area around the Lez would develop to 2040 under different assumptions, so that the exposure the measures are intended to protect can be projected rather than assumed.
The Eco:Actuary Investment Planner: scaling NFM investments for flood risk reduction — a policy support system for identifying where investment in natural flood management is likely to be worthwhile, applied in the project and accompanied by guidelines produced for its use.
Co-benefits assessment in the Lez demo through choice experiment — the standard stated-preference method, applied to establish what the population of the Lez area would be willing to trade for the different effects a Nature Based Solution produces.
Measurement and physical assessment tools
FreeStations: low-cost IoT connected monitoring for assessment of NBS efficiency and early warning — an existing open platform for low-cost connected environmental monitoring, applied to measure the difference an intervention makes at sites where a modelling programme would be disproportionate.
Physical assessment of selected Groundwater Related Ecosystem Services (GRES) — the application of established field and remote sensing methods to establish the state of the ecosystems that depend on a groundwater body.
Physical assessment of groundwater dependent wetland ESS — the same family of methods applied to wetland systems specifically, establishing the physical condition against which a change in water level can be assessed.