Last week this blog covered four articles on Cities and Water: Flooding, Green Infrastructure, SuDS, Resilience, Awareness & Climate change. This week another four case studies from Richard Ashley highlighting the way cities across the world a reframing and transforming the urban environment to meet the challenges of water, flooding and climate change in a […]
Communicating effectively with the public Jacqui Cotton, EA ‘People need to know how a flood will affect them; what it will do to their homes and how it will disrupt their lives. Authorities have often shied away from such stark content in communications as it may cause fear or panic. Key to avoiding that fear […]
The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee hears from Flood Re and the insurance industry on the affordability and availability of insurance for customers in flood risk areas and the impact of the government-backed Flood Re reinsurance scheme. Brendan McCafferty, Chief Executive Officer, Flood Re and Mark Hoban, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Flood […]
The Environmental Audit Committee publishes report finding that the Government is failing to protect communities at risk of flooding. Report: Flooding: Cooperation across Government Report: Flooding: Cooperation across Government (PDF 1.11 MB) Inquiry: Flooding: Cooperation across Government Environmental Audit Committee Funding for flood defences The Committee warns that a reactive approach to funding for flood defence […]
Order: 6th These big storm events are notable, common and expensive; lucky it wasn’t SE England. Seine rises 6m above normal for a 34 year high not as high as the 8.10m in 1910 Comparisons with the 1910 flood & in pictures Across Europe 14 people have died in this storm event Don’t keep your […]
Ambiental has been involved in pioneering research which uses unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to image areas at risk of flooding. Aerial surveys can occur pre-emptively, as well as during and directly after a flood event. By using UAVs, as opposed to light aircraft, it is possible to capture high resolution images of the areas affected […]
The Environmental Audit Committee hears from carries on with its review by interviewing Rory Stewart from Defra and Oliver Letwin (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) from the Cabinet office. Not a very comfortable afternoon for Rory Stewart who has to defend sitting on the Worsfold report and its recommendations. Watch the video Tip you […]
We all know about burying bad news, the EAC and Parliament have done their work in holding Government to account. The Environmental Audit Committee publishes the 2014 review of the Government’s Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) (the “Worsfold Review”). The Worsfold Review was commissioned by the Government following the flooding of winter 2013-14 and […]