Flooding Archives - Page 16 of 27 - Communications and Management for Sustainability

Urban Flood Resilience – Royal Society publication – edited by Richard Fenner

Royal Society ‘Providing flood resistant urban infrastructure which is resilient to both future climate uncertainties and increasing urbanisation is a pressing challenge globally. This issue brings together current UK and international developments in: understanding the changing drivers of flooding; advances in flood modelling; pathways to multifunctional infrastructure that can provide multiple benefits; social, community and […]

Home truths: How Climate Change is impacting UK homes: The Climate Coalition

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The Climate Coalition has today published its report ‘Home truths: how climate change is impacting UK homes’, looking at the impacts of climate change on UK homes and the heightened risk of flooding, heatwaves and extreme weather. It states that that around 1.8 million people in the UK are living in an area with significant risk […]

Property level Flood Resilience Code Published by CIRIA

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CIRIA Code of Practice for property resilience Property flood resilience (PFR) is an important part of the response to flood risk. PFR includes measures that reduce the risks to people and property enabling households and businesses to reduce flood damage, speed up recovery and reoccupation. PFR measures should reduce the amount of water entering buildings […]

Storm Ciara unleashes significant floods in northern England

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Flooding in the North of England Environment Secretary statement on flooding and Storm Ciara Environment Secretary Theresa Villiers’ statement in the House of Commons on flooding and Storm Ciara ‘Mr Speaker, with your permission, I would like to make a statement about the significant flooding caused by the heavy rain and severe gale force winds […]

Beavers successful in reducing flood risk

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The successful role of beavers in reducing flood risk and providing range of wider benefits is highlighted in this piece from ITV news. A trial of beavers living wild on an English river for the first time in centuries shows they can live alongside people and deliver benefits for nature and communities, experts have said. […]

Emma Howard Boyd on the autumn floods – devastation and resilience

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Emma Howard Boyd on the autumn floods (Nov 15th) ‘This week I’ve been meeting people affected by flooding. On Monday I was in Retford and Worksop and yesterday I visited Fishlake. Flooding is a devastating experience, we need to do everything we can to help people going through it. At St Cuthbert’s Church in Fishlake […]

Dredging not the panacea – remembering the 2014 CIWEM Report

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Angling Trust: Dredging is not the panacea The Angling Trust is warning politicians not to repeat the mistakes of the past in their rush to make political capital out of the government’s response to the recent floods. Calls are growing to ignore the science and recommence wholesale river dredging as a quick fix. In fact, widespread dredging […]

The Yorkshire – Derbyshire Major Food November Event of 2019

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Usual characteristics of normal major floods Horrifying flood warning maps … with severe warnings in place ‘A month’s rain fell in ….’ In this case on saturated ground ‘Record levels’ of flow in the rivers Prolonged rain, high river levels and warnings Some defences work … whilst the problem is pushed further down the catchment […]