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.
Revitt, D. Mike and Lundy, Lian and Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2021) Development of a qualitative approach to assessing risks associated with the use of treated wastewater in agricultural irrigation. Journal of Hazardous Materials , 406 . pp. 1-9. ISSN 0304-3894
Hassard, Francis and Lundy, Lian and Singer, Andrew C. and Grimsley, Jasmine and Di Cesare, Mariachiara (2021) Innovation in wastewater near-source tracking for rapid identification of COVID-19 in schools [Comment]. The Lancet Microbe , 2 (1). e4-e5. ISSN 2666-5247
Dulio, Valeria and Koschorreck, Jan and van Bavel, Bert and van den Brink, Paul and Hollender, Juliane and Munthe, John and Schlabach, Martin and Aalizadeh, Reza and Agerstrand, Marlene and Ahrens, Lutz and Allan, Ian and Alygizakis, Nikiforos and Barcelo’, Damia’ and Bohlin-Nizzetto, Pernilla and Boutroup, Susanne and Brack, Werner and Bressy, Adèle and Christensen, Jan H. and Cirka, Lubos and Covaci, Adrian and Derksen, Anja and Deviller, Geneviève and Dingemans, Milou M. L. and Engwall, Magnus and Fatta-Kassinos, Despo and Gago-Ferrero, Pablo and Hernández, Félix and Herzke, Dorte and Hilscherová, Klára and Hollert, Henner and Junghans, Marion and Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara and Keiter, Steffen and Kools, Stefan A. E. and Kruve, Anneli and Lambropoulou, Dimitra and Lamoree, Marja and Leonards, Pim and Lopez, Benjamin and López de Alda, Miren and Lundy, Lian and Makovinská, Jarmila and Marigómez, Ionan and Martin, Jonathan W. and McHugh, Brendan and Miège, Cécile and O’Toole, Simon and Perkola, Noora and Polesello, Stefano and Posthuma, Leo and Rodriguez-Mozaz, Sara and Roessink, Ivo and Rostkowski, Pawel and Ruedel, Heinz and Samanipour, Saer and Schulze, Tobias and Schymanski, Emma L. and Sengl, Manfred and Tarábek, Peter and Ten Hulscher, Dorien and Thomaidis, Nikolaos and Togola, Anne and Valsecchi, Sara and van Leeuwen, Stefan and von der Ohe, Peter and Vorkamp, Katrin and Vrana, Branislav and Slobodnik, Jaroslav (2020) The NORMAN Association and the European Partnership for Chemicals Risk Assessment (PARC): let’s cooperate! [Commentary]. Environmental Sciences Europe , 32 (1). p. 100. ISSN 2190-4715 (Published online first)
Deviller, Genevieve and Lundy, Lian and Fatta-Kassinos, Despo (2020) Recommendations to derive quality standards for chemical pollutants in reclaimed water intended for reuse in agricultural irrigation. Chemosphere , 240 . pp. 1-8. ISSN 0045-6535
Lundy, Lian and Revitt, D. Mike and Ellis, John Bryan (2018) An impact assessment for urban stormwater use. Environmental Science and Pollution Research , 25 (20). pp. 19259-19270. ISSN 0944-1344
Current/recently completed projects
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
