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Hydrolink Magazine

Apr 15, 2025

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Hydrolink is the primary magazine of the IAHR community and one of the highest-rated member benefits. It brings you the latest developments in the field of hydro-environment engineering and research through articles on projects, research, and new methods and tools of interest to the community. It also provides a platform for reporting on IAHR Conferences and news from our members, and offers a forum for exchanging information and spreading the word on topics and projects relevant to the community.

  • The online version of Hydrolink is open to non-members since 2021 as part of the efforts of the association to disseminate and share knowledge. In addition to the online version, IAHR members will continue to receive their full colour printed copy at their desks periodically as a membership benefit.

ISSN: 1388-3445

Publication Frequency: 4 issues per year.

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Hydrolink 1, 2025 | Nature based Solutions

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This edition comprises of six articles, five of which focus on their use in wetland, riverine and coastal settings, and illustrate their potential effectiveness to provide flood and drought resilience to communities while providing a plethora of other environmental and societal benefits. The examples given in these articles show that care needs to be given to good monitoring and modelling for a sound understanding of the functioning of these measures under a wide variety of hydro-meteorological events. An essential ingredient of what makes a scheme successful is the involvement of all stakeholders in its co-design and adoption. The sixth and final article  focuses on the role and benefits of community involvement in a scheme in South-West Uganda for managing drought and providing food security in agricultural production. One thing we, as a community of researchers and practicing engineers can further improve on is a wider more integrated assessment of all types of proposed measures, both green and grey, on their impact on co-benefits such as biodiversity, water quality, socio-economic aspects, and human well-being. Even in the stories in this Hydrolink we notice this is still frequently lacking. Furthermore, monitoring and evaluating all aspects of NbS and grey measures is challenging and requires interdisciplinary teams, yet this should not keep us from doing it, as working together will bring a greater breadth of view. For instance, considering biodiversity and human well-being impacts will make NbS schemes more desirable compared to the current practice where civil engineering measures are typically optimized based on one goal, which is the avoided damages.

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In depth > Nature based Solutions

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About the Guest Editors

picture_Catherine_wilson.jpegCatherine Wilson is a Professor in Environmental Hydraulics at Cardiff University. Her research uses experimental and modelling approaches to understand the transport of sediment and plastics, the hydro-environmental impact of hydrokinetic turbines, and efficacy of Nature-based Solutions. She is the deputy Director of the Hydro-environmental Research Centre and leads the hydraulics laboratories at Cardiff. She is PI on a number of Nature-based Solutions field monitoring projects for the UK Government.  


EllisPenning.jpgEllis Penning is an expert on Nature-based Solutions and Aquatic Ecology at Deltares, The Netherlands. She leads the IAHR Working Group on Nature-based Solutions and works in a wide variety of projects related to the topic. She coordinates the EU project SpongeScapes and co-coordinates the EU project SpongeWorks and contributes to the EU projects on large-scale freshwater ecosystem restoration MERLIN and Danube4all. She was the PI for the development of the Dutch vegetation monitor. 




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Issue 2, 2025: Pumped Storage

Issue 3, 2025: Digital Twins

Issue 4, 2025: Adaptive Management for Climate Change 

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Most articles published in every issue focus on a specific theme developed by the Editor with the support of the Hydrolink Advisory Board and the IAHR Executive Committee. If you would like to propose a theme for a future issue, or contribute an article on one of the planned themes, please contact either the editorial assistant, Estibaliz Serrano, or the editor, Angelos N. Findikakis.

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