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EPA Integrated Catchments Management Presentations
- 24 July 2015
These presentation were given as part of the EPA-funded Catchment Science and Management Course focusing on Integrated Catchment Management, held in June 2015. This course was delivered by RPS Consultants. If you have any queries or comments, or wish to use the material in this presentation, please contact catchments@epa.ie
It is increasingly being recognised internationally that integrated catchment management (ICM) is a useful organising framework for tackling the ongoing challenge of balancing sustainable use and development of our natural resource, against achieving environmental goals. The basic principles of ICM (Williams, 2012) are to:
Take a holistic and integrated approach to the management of land, biodiversity, water and community resources at the water catchment scale;
Involve communities in planning and managing their landscapes; and
Find a balance between resource use and resource conservation
ICM is now well established in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. In Europe the ICM approach has been proposed as being required to achieve effective water and catchment management, and is the approach being promoted by DEFRA for the UK, where it is called the “Catchment Based Approach” (CaBA). The principles and methodologies behind ICM sit well within the context of the Water Framework Directive with its aims and objectives for good water quality, sustainable development and public participation in water resource management. In Ireland it is proposed that the ICM approach will underlie the work and philosophy in developing and implementing future River Basin Management Plans.
0 Integrated Catchment Management Course – ground Rules & Introduction
1 Water Governance and Buildings Partnerships
2 Integrated Catchment Management - Vision
3 Integrated Catchment Management
4 Characterisation Approach
5 Course Exercise
6 Water Quality
7 Water Quality - Exercise
8 Flow and Form
9 Flow and Form - Exercise
10 Load Apportionment
11 Further Catchment Characterisation
12 Nuenna sub-catchment
13 Management Strategies Overview
14 Agriculture
15 Licensing of Large Point Source Discharges
16. Abstractions/Hydromorphology
17. Forestry
18.Urban Pressures
19. Role of Enforcement in Catchment Management
20. Nuenna Site Visit
21. Integrated Catchment Management - Recap
22. Getting Stakeholder Input - Developing an Information and Education Programme
23. Ballinderry Rivers Trust - Case Study
24. Strategic Environmental Assessment & Appropriate Assessment
25. Tools & Mechanisms to Integrate Outcomes into the Planning System
26. Floods Directive & Hydromorpholgy Measures
27 Recap - Key Discussion Points
25. Tools & Mechanisms to Integrate Outcomes into the Planning System
28. Setting Goals – Exercise
29. Integrated Catchment Management - Exercises Part 2
30. Characterisation of River Allow Catchment
Source: Envirocentre.ie - EPA Integrated Catchments Management Presentations
