Overview
Dr James Webber is a Lecturer in Water Systems Engineering at the University of Exeter and Programme Director of the Water Engineering MSc.
James is responsible for developing research and teaching in sustainable, resilient and smart water management and translating this into practical application through engaging academic, industry and governance stakeholders.
James' research includes stormwater management, flood resilience, green infrastructure design and strategic decision support across the international water sector.
Prior to joining the CWS, James has held positions as a Research Impact Fellow in the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (University of Exeter), a visiting researcher in the Waterway Ecosystem Research Group (University of Melbourne) and as an Urban Water Planning Consultant (Halcrow, CH2M Hill).
You can find out more about James' research through his Google Scholar and LinkedIn profiles.
Publications
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| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 |
2023
- Sweetapple C, Webber J, Hastings A, Melville-Shreeve P. (2023) Realising smarter stormwater management: A review of the barriers and a roadmap for real world application, Water Research, volume 244, pages 120505-120505, article no. 120505, DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2023.120505. [PDF]
2022
- Webber JL, Fletcher T, Farmani R, Butler D, Melville-Shreeve P. (2022) Moving to a future of smart stormwater management: A review and framework for terminology, research, and future perspectives, Water Research, volume 218, DOI:10.1016/j.watres.2022.118409.
2021
- Webber JL, Kuller M. (2021) Enhancing the visibility of suds in strategic planning using preliminary regional opportunity screening, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, volume 10, no. 11, DOI:10.3390/ijgi10110726.
- Webber JL, Tyler CR, Carless D, Jackson B, Tingley D, Stewart-Sinclair P, Artioli Y, Torres R, Galli G, Miller PI. (2021) Impacts of land use on water quality and the viability of bivalve shellfish mariculture in the UK: A case study and review for SW England, Environmental Science & Policy, volume 126, pages 122-131, DOI:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.09.027. [PDF]
- Webber JL, Wigley S, Paling N, Kapelan Z, Fu G. (2021) From site-focused intervention towards landscape-scale surface water management using Synthetic Stream Networks and Rapid Scenario Screening, Blue-Green Systems, volume 3, no. 1, pages 13-30, DOI:10.2166/bgs.2021.019. [PDF]
- Webber JL, Balbi M, Lallemant D, Gibson MJ, Fu G, Butler D, Hamel P. (2021) Towards Regional Scale Stormwater Flood Management Strategies through Rapid Preliminary Intervention Screening, Water, volume 13, no. 15, pages 2027-2027, DOI:10.3390/w13152027. [PDF]
- Webber JL, Chen AS, Stevens J, Henderson R, Djordjević S, Evans B. (2021) Targeting property flood resilience in flood risk management, Journal of Flood Risk Management, volume 14, no. 3, DOI:10.1111/jfr3.12723. [PDF]
- Ahilan S, Webber J, Butler D. (2021) Achieving urban water supply and flood resilience using catchment scale rainwater management, Urban Resilience in a context of Climate Change Conference, Barcelona, Italy, 20th - 21st Oct 2020, https://www.urcc2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/URCC_Book-of-abstracts.pdf, pages 110-110.
2020
- Baker K, Ward S, Turner B, Webber J, Sweetapple C, Drake P, Thomas D, Melville-Shreeve P, Fu G, Cherington-Rimmell S. (2020) Co-producing research with academics and industry to create a more resilient UK water sector, Research for All, volume 4, pages 150-168, DOI:10.14324/RFA.04.2.02. [PDF]
- Guerrero-Hidalga M, Martínez-Gomariz E, Evans B, Webber J, Termes-Rifé M, Russo B, Locatelli L. (2020) Methodology to prioritize climate adaptation measures in urban areas. barcelona and bristol case studies, Sustainability (Switzerland), volume 12, no. 12, DOI:10.3390/SU12124807.
- Stevens J, Henderson R, Webber J, Evans B, Chen A, Djordjević S, Sánchez-Muñoz D, Domínguez-García J. (2020) Interlinking Bristol Based Models to Build Resilience to Climate Change, Sustainability, volume 12, no. 8, pages 3233-3233, DOI:10.3390/su12083233. [PDF]
- Evans B, Chen AS, Djordjević S, Webber J, Gómez AG, Stevens J. (2020) Investigating the Effects of Pluvial Flooding and Climate Change on Traffic Flows in Barcelona and Bristol, Sustainability, volume 12, no. 6, pages 2330-2330, DOI:10.3390/su12062330. [PDF]
2019
- Webber JL, Fletcher TD, Cunningham L, Fu G, Butler D, Burns MJ. (2019) Is green infrastructure a viable strategy for managing urban surface water flooding?, Urban Water Journal, volume 17, no. 7, pages 598-608, DOI:10.1080/1573062x.2019.1700286. [PDF]
- Webber J, Kapelan Z, Fu G. (2019) Achieving regional scale surface water management using synthetic stream networks, Computing and Control in the Water Industry 2019, Exeter, 1st Sep - 4th Oct 2019.
- Webber JL, Burns MJ, Fu G, Butler D, Fletcher TD. (2019) Evaluating City Scale Surface Water Management Using a Rapid Assessment Framework in Melbourne, Australia, Green Energy and Technology, pages 920-925, DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-99867-1_158.
- Ahilan S, Webber J, Melville-Shreeve P, Butler D. (2019) Building urban flood resilience with rainwater management, 17th International Computing & Control for the Water Industry Conference, Exeter, 1st - 4th Sep 2019.
- Webber J. (2019) Reliable and Resilient Surface Water Management through Rapid Scenario Screening.
- Webber JL, Fu G, Butler D. (2019) Comparing cost-effectiveness of surface water flood management interventions in a UK catchment, Journal of Flood Risk Management, volume 12, DOI:10.1111/jfr3.12523.
2018
- Webber J, Booth G, Gunasekara R, Fu G, Butler D. (2018) Validating a rapid assessment framework for screening surface water flood risk, Water and Environment Journal, DOI:10.1111/wej.12415.
- Webber JL, Fu G, Butler D. (2018) Rapid surface water intervention performance comparison for urban planning, Water Sci Technol, volume 77, no. 7-8, pages 2084-2092, DOI:10.2166/wst.2018.122. [PDF]
- Webber JL, Gibson MJ, Chen AS, Savic D, Fu G, Butler D. (2018) Rapid assessment of surface-water flood-management options in urban catchments, Urban Water Journal, volume 15, no. 3, pages 210-217, DOI:10.1080/1573062X.2018.1424212.
