Catchment Systems Engineering (CSE) is a holistic approach to improving the environment, involving direct intervention in the landscape instigated and delivered by engineers, scientists, and practitioners in close collaboration with stakeholders such as farmers, landowners, and people living and working in catchments. Catchments are areas of land which contribute water runoff to a common point. It is the ideal unit in which to operate since a catchment is defined naturally by the way water moves through the landscape – any rain that falls into a particular catchment ends up in the same river going to the sea. In a recent review published in WIREs Water, researchers from Newcastle University and the James Hutton Institute, Doctors Caspar Hewett, Mark Wilkinson, Jennine Jonczyk, and Paul Quinn provide some contrasting examples of successful CSE. To view the full article visit Advanced Science News.
