As climate change increases the frequency and severity of flooding, drought, overheating, and other environmental pressures, there is a growing need to rethink how we plan, design, and manage infrastructure. This webinar explores how nature can be recognised and utilised as a critical form of infrastructure, delivering essential services that improve resilience while providing wider benefits for people, water, climate, and biodiversity.
The session will examine how Nature-Based Solutions, including wetlands, floodplain restoration, green infrastructure, and habitat networks, can help communities and infrastructure systems adapt to climate change. Attendees will learn how working with natural processes can reduce climate risks, improve water management, enhance biodiversity, support carbon reduction, and create more resilient places.
Drawing on practical examples and lessons learned from across the UK and internationally, Laura Liddaman and Hannah Patrick will discuss how integrating nature into decision making can help organisations move beyond traditional approaches to resilience and create systems that are better equipped to respond to future climate challenges.
This webinar is free and open to all.
Our speakers
Hannah Patrick is a Climate Adaptation Consultant within the Sustainable Futures team at AtkinsRéalis. Specialising in climate risk, resilience and adaptation planning, she supports clients in understanding and responding to the challenges posed by a changing climate.
Hannah works with infrastructure owners and organisations to identify climate vulnerabilities, assess future risks and develop practical adaptation strategies that enhance long-term resilience. Her expertise spans climate adaptation policy, resilience assessment and the integration of climate considerations into infrastructure planning and decision making. Hannah is passionate about helping organisations prepare for future climate impacts and build more resilient communities and assets.
Dr Laura Liddaman is the Service Line Director for Nature-Based Solutions at AtkinsRéalis, leading the development and delivery of nature-led approaches that help clients address climate change, biodiversity loss, water management, and infrastructure resilience. With over a decade of experience in the water and environmental sector, Laura has worked across flood risk management, catchment planning, natural capital, and climate resilience.
She is passionate about embedding nature at the heart of infrastructure and investment decisions, helping clients unlock solutions that deliver benefits for people, nature, water, and climate. Laura has led major programmes in natural flood management, constructed wetlands and catchment-scale resilience, and is a recognised advocate for the role of nature-based solutions in creating more sustainable and climate-resilient infrastructure.
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