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Launched today – International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management

The international NNBF Guidelines provide practitioners with the best available information concerning the conceptualization, planning, design, engineering, construction, and maintenance of NNBF to support resilience and flood risk reduction for coastlines, bays, and estuaries, as well as river and freshwater systems. Read more here. The NNBF Guidelines include 20 chapters organized into three sections: overarching […]

Exploring partnership funding for flood risk management

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CIRIA has released the results of a Scoping study to explore support for partnership funding in flood & coastal erosion risk management. You have to register to download the publication, but the key points are as follows. In 2011, the UK Government announced a new approach to funding projects that would reduce flood and coastal […]

Scottish national flood risk plan – Flood protection

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Scottish Government: A plan to protect homes, businesses and communities from flooding has been launched by Environment Minister Aileen McLeod. The Flood Risk Management plan contains 14 local strategies and proposals for 42 flood protection schemes or engineering works planned for 2016-21 and a range of other flood alleviation measures. This will be supported by […]

Flood Resilience Review announced by Government

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There is clearly a need for integration across Government – just look the departments involved! Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Environment Agency, Rory Stewart MP, The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP, The Rt Hon Oliver Letwin MP, Department for Communities and Local Government, Department of Energy & Climate Change, Government Office for Science […]

Cumbria Floods – record breaking rain – Is ‘extreme’ actually a new normal?

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This is what extreme events look like. We know that climate change predictions suggest that we will have more extreme events. Cumbria: Met Office – Storm Desmond’s records: http://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/ The Met Office’s warning re climate change a month ago: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/news/2015/global-average-temperature-2015 How will the insurance industry respond? This is what the insurance industry has done in […]

Cumbria Floods – George Monbiot – reaping what we sow

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Whilst it might be tempting to kill the messenger, George Monbiot outlines what we instinctively know. We need a fully integrated approach to climate change, energy policy, flood defences, land management and lots more. He points out the contradictions and problems with our current ‘leadership’ on these issues. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/07/hide-evidence-storm-desmond-floods-paris-talks George Monbiot (Guardian) ‘It’s as if […]

Flood Re insurance scheme delayed until 2016

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In February Lord Krebs of the Committee on Climate Change Adaptation wrote to Brendan McCafferty, CEO of Flood Re in letter entitled: ‘Designing Flood Re to encourage flood risk reduction’. The letter raised serious concerns about Flood Re – its value for money and lack of incentives to take preventive measures on flooding. To read […]

Flood Re – Missed Opportunities for long term flood risk reduction

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Bernadette Ballantyne, Infrastructure Intelligence: This summer the Flood Reinsurance Scheme (Flood Re) will become operational, offering affordable insurance cover to properties at a high risk of flooding.The Association of British Insurers, which is implementing the scheme, estimates that without it 300,000 to 500,000 homes would struggle to get insurance in the face of rising flood […]