Environment Agency: Demonstrating how stress testing can be used to understand catchment resilience - an exploration of catchment drought management actions in present day and future climate.
What the buyer wrote
The Environment Agency wants to ensure that catchments in England are resilient to a range of pressures, both now and in the future. It is currently exploring how it could define and use resilience in a practical way. Stress testing is a way to find out how a system performs when it is subjected to pressures beyond those normally experienced. The results of a stress test are useful in helping system managers understand the risks they face and whether they need to intervene to make the system perform differently. It has therefore been proposed that stress testing may help to elucidate resilience in systems. The Environment Agency wishes to explore this using real world example catchments. …
Details
- What the buyer calls it
- Environment Agency: Demonstrating how stress testing can be used to understand catchment resilience - an exploration of catchment drought management actions in present day and future climate.
- How they are buying
- Advertised, open to anyoneAny supplier could bid without being invited first.
- Type
- goods
- Suitable for small firms
- The buyer says yes. What that is worth
- Work starts
- 1 Nov 2019
- Work ends
- 31 Mar 2020
Who the buyer named
Emma Roberts was the named contact on this notice.