Nature Based Solutions: The End of Grey Engineering

For decades, infrastructure design has relied on ‘grey’ engineering: concrete flood walls, steel structures and rigid systems designed to control the environment. But with climate pressures intensifying, engineers are increasingly looking to work with nature rather than against it.

This episode looks at the growing role of nature-based solutions in building climate-resilient infrastructure that can help manage flood risk, restore ecosystems, improve biodiversity and create more resilient communities.

Nature itself should be considered critical infrastructure and an entire generation educated to undertake work differently to that which has been done before.

 

Guests

• Hannah Joyce, Senior Fluvial Geomorphologist, AtkinsRéalis
• Laura Liddaman, Associate Director of Nature Based Solutions, AtkinsRéalis

 

Resources

To access the paper discussed in this episode, a forward-looking vision for the role of nature-based solutions in future-resilient infrastructure, click here