Research
Tweed Forum is a valued member of the UK and international research community. Below is a selection of projects and initiatives we’ve been involved in over the years.
Eddleston Water Project (2012-current)
Working with research partners across the UK, the Eddleston Water Project has conducted detailed data collection, measurement and monitoring to generate robust evidence of the impacts, costs and benefits of working with natural processes at a catchment scale.
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Catchment Model
Our “catchment model” provides a tangible demonstration of Natural Flood Management (NFM) by recreating 2 river catchments in miniature – 1 catchment featuring various NFM measures and another reflecting a more typical rural landscape.
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UNESCO HELP Programme
Tweed Forum is a member of the UNESCO HELP programme. HELP recognised the “standard-setting” work of the Forum and particularly the Catchment Management Planning Initiative.
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Prioritising Peatlands for Restoration (2021-2023)
In collaboration with consultancies Environment Systems and Land & Habitats, Tweed Forum helped deliver this innovative, high-tech pilot project to improve prioritisation of peatland/wetland restoration through the creation of a new digital tool called PeatSCOPE.
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Fell to Wells Project (2020-2021)
The ‘Fell to Wells’ Project used the online auction platform ‘Naturebid’ to encourage (and pay) farmers to implement measures that will help reduce nitrate leaching to groundwater and protect Berwick’s drinking water supply.
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Ale Water: Working Wetlands (2012-2013)
This initiative was unique in taking a catchment scale approach to a collection of largely undesignated, but regionally important, wetland sites and focusing on the attitudes of land managers towards various aspects of the wetlands on their land holdings.
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Flood Management in Borderlands (2010-2012)
Based around the Bowmont-Glen, Eddleston and Wooler Water, the aim of this project was to help develop better resilience to flooding, in rural areas, through natural flood management.
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Insight Workshop (2011)
In 2011 we were involved in a fascinating workshop with 3 other river management organisations from the Motueka River in New Zealand, the Fraser River in Canada and the Aberdeenshire Dee.
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