Lian is Professor of Environmental Science in the Urban Pollution Research Centre. Her research has focused on sustainable stormwater management, the transport and behaviour of urban pollutants and the use of multi-criteria analysis a decision support tool at a national and international level.
Recent research has applied an ecosystem approach within an urban context and begun to consider the use of sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) as multi-functional ecosystem service providers within the context of water sensitive cities.
Lian is currently co-ordinator of the EU TEMPUS I-WEB project, supporting three universities in Kazakhstan to develop Bologna-compliant integrated water cycle management MSc and PhD programmes.
She is co-lead of the Risk Assessment and Policy Development working group of the wastewater re-use COST action NEREUS. Lian is co-PI on a Sustainable Society network grant which aims to develop and test a smart phone app to explore linkages between environmental quality and community resilience. She has recently completed research grants for Defra and the Scottish Government focussed on supporting policymakers to implement an ES approach.
Curriculum/subject areas
Lian's primary research interests are in the field of urban environmental pollution and its mitigation using sustainable drainage systems, sustaining the delivery of urban ecosystem services and supporting practitioners and policy makers to address current and emerging urban water quality and quantity challenges.
Selected publications
DM Revitt, L Lundy, F Coulon and M FairleyThe sources, impact and management of car park runoff pollution. Journal of Environmental Management. In press.
R Ashley; L Lundy; S Ward; P Shaffer; L Walker; C Morgan; A Saul; T Wong and S Moore (2013) Water-sensitive urban design: opportunities for the UK. Proceedings of the ICE - Municipal Engineer 166, 65 –76.
JB Ellis, DM Revitt, L Lundy (2013) The urban water cycle approach in small development areas. Proceedings of the ICE - Municipal Engineer 166,77 –85.
DM Revitt, L Lundy, E Eriksson and C Viavattene (2013) Comparison of pollutant emission control strategies for Cd and Hg in urban water systems using substance flow analysis. Journal of Environmental Management 116, 172-180.
DM Revitt, JB Ellis and L Lundy Risk assessment of urban surface runoff quality following best practice treatment. Science of the Total Environment 416, 172-179.
L Lundy, JB Ellis and DM Revitt (2011) Risk prioritisation of stormwater pollutant sources. Water Research, Water Research 46, 6589-6600.
E Eriksson, A Ledin, M Revitt, L Lundy, HC Holten Lützhøft, T Wickman and PS Mikkelsen. (2011) Water management in cities of the future using emission control strategies for priority hazardous substances. Water Science and Technology 64 (10), 2109-2118.
Lundy, L. and Wade, R. (2011) Integrating Sciences to Sustain Urban Ecosystem Services. Progress in Physical Geography, 35; 5, 653-669.
E Donner, E Eriksson, DM Revitt, L Scholes, H-C Holten Lützhøftand A Ledin(2010) Presence and fate of priority substances in domestic greywater treatment and reuse systems. Science of the Total Environment, 408, 2444-2451.
K Karlsson, M Viklander, L Scholes and M Revitt (2010) Heavy metal concentrations and toxicity in water and sediment from stormwater ponds and sedimentation tanks. Journal of Hazardous Materials. Doi: 10.1016/j.jhazmat.2010.01.129.
Hassard, Francis and Vu, Milan and Rahimzadeh, Shadi and Castro-Gutierrez, Victor and Stanton, Isobel and Burczynska, Beata and Wildeboer, Dirk and Baio, Gianluca and Brown, Mathew R. and Garelick, Hemda and Hofman, Jan and Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara and Majeed, Azeem and Priest, Sally J. and Denise, Hubert and Khalifa, Mohammad and Bassano, Irene and Wade, Matthew J. and Grimsley, Jasmine and Lundy, Lian and Singer, Andrew C. and Di Cesare, Mariachiara (2023) Wastewater monitoring for detection of public health markers during the COVID-19 pandemic: Near-source monitoring of schools in England over an academic year. PLoS One , 18 (5). ISSN 1932-6203
Beretsou, Vasiliki G. and Nika, Maria-Christina and Manoli, Kyriakos and Michael, Costas and Sui, Qian and Lundy, Lian and Revitt, D. Mike and Thomaidis, Nikolaos S. and Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2022) Multiclass target analysis of contaminants of emerging concern including transformation products, soil bioavailability assessment and retrospective screening as tools to evaluate risks associated with reclaimed water reuse. Science of the Total Environment , 852 . ISSN 0048-9697
Castro-Gutierrez, Victor and Hassard, Francis and Vu, Milan and Leitao, Rodrigo and Burczynska, Beata and Wildeboer, Dirk and Stanton, Isobel and Rahimzadeh, Shadi and Baio, Gianluca and Garelick, Hemda and Hofman, Jan and Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara and Kwiatkowska, Rachel and Majeed, Azeem and Priest, Sally J. and Grimsley, Jasmine and Lundy, Lian and Singer, Andrew C. and Di Cesare, Mariachiara (2022) Monitoring occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 in school populations: A wastewater-based approach. PLoS One , 17 (6). ISSN 1932-6203
Revitt, D. Mike and Ellis, John Bryan and Gilbert, Nathalie and Bryden, John and Lundy, Lian (2022) Development and application of an innovative approach to predicting pollutant concentrations in highway runoff. Science of the Total Environment , 825 . pp. 1-10. ISSN 0048-9697
Kolarević, Stoimir and Micsinai, Adrienn and Szántó-Egész, Réka and Lukács, Alena and Kračun-Kolarević, Margareta and Lundy, Lian and Kirschner, Alexander K. T. and Farnleitner, Andreas H. and Djukic, Aleksandar and Čolić, Jasna and Nenin, Tanja and Sunjog, Karolina and Paunović, Momir (2021) Detection of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the Danube river in Serbia associated with the discharge of untreated wastewaters. Science of the Total Environment , 783 . pp. 1-7. ISSN 0048-9697
Current/recently completed projects
EU TEMPUS I-WEB
UK NEA follow-on project
Centre of Expertise for Waters: Urban diffuse pollution control
SWITCH (Sustainable Water management Improves the Cities Health); EU Framework 6
COST 636 (Xenobiotics in the Urban Water Cycle); EU Frameworks 6 and 7
SCOREPP (Source Control Options for Reducing the Emissions of Priority Pollutants); EU Framework 6.
ISSUES (Integrating Sciences to Sustain Urban Ecosystem Services); ESRC, NERC, EPRC
Lian talking about water management research at Middlesex University
