02 Dec 2021
Executive summary Effective planning is essential for getting the right kind of sustainable growth in the right places. This includes avoiding development in flood risk areas and creating and maintaining places that are resilient to flooding. This report describes how flood risk information is used in strategic spatial plans and decision making, and the barriers […]
23 Nov 2021
The EEA’s new ‘Europe’s changing climate hazards’ is an interactive report that gives an overview of past and projected changes in Europe’s most important climate hazards and how they impact European regions. The EEA report is especially valuable for policymakers and experts concerned with climate risk assessment and adaptation planning in Europe. EU Member States can also use the information to […]
01 Sep 2021
From edie news The index accounts for the water impact of each industrial activity across the whole value chain; for fashion, for example, cotton and livestock farming, fossil fuel extraction for synthetics production, manufacturing and dyeing are all accounted for. It also covers impacts on both water quantity and quality. Each industrial activity is given a […]
25 Aug 2021
River modelling: technical standards and assessment Environment Agency – read more Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review hydraulic models and provide evidence for flood risk management decisions. These standards are techniques that you can use in the fields of hydrological analysis and hydraulic modelling. Use this best practice […]
17 Aug 2021
This review identified key areas of the planning process related to flood risk management and sets out actions the government will take to strengthen its approach. The government’s Planning for the Future policy paper announced a review of policy for building in areas at flood risk. In July 2020 the government published its Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk […]
17 Aug 2021
Nature ‘Disastrous floods have caused millions of fatalities in the twentieth century, tens of billions of dollars of direct economic loss each year and serious disruption to global trade. In this Review, we provide a synthesis of the atmospheric, land surface and socio- economic processes that produce river floods with disastrous consequences. Disastrous floods have […]
17 Aug 2021
The £2.1million government-funded Weardale Natural Flood Management scheme, which includes a series of nature based solutions such as storage areas, wooden leaky barriers and timber fences, could reduce flood risk across 41km2 to communities including Lanehead, Wearhead, Westgate and Stanhope. It’s also seen 150 hectares of peatland restored, will aim to create up to 75 […]
28 Jun 2021
Thanks to Kate Spencer for this. ‘I’ve linked a paper we produced from an EA funded project – this outlines > 1200 historic landfill sites that are in the coastal flood risk or erosion risk zone. These are old landfills that pre-date modern legislation, where solid industrial, hazardous and domestic wastes were landfilled along our […]
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