CRUE ERA-Net research: flooding - management and resilience

The findings of three CRUE ERA-Net research projects on managing the consequences of flooding and increasing community resilience to flood incidents.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme, and Environment Agency
Published
22 February 2021
Category:
Increasing resilience to flooding
Topics:
Community participation, Community response and resilience, Flood forecasting, Incident management, Modelling, Monitoring and detection, Partnership working, Recovery
Project status:
Completed
Project code:
SC080005
Date of completion:
31 March 2012

Documents

CRUE European Research Area Network (ERA-Net) - project summary (69 KB) PDF

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Details

Background

The CRUE European Research Area Network (ERA‐Net) was set up to improve the coordination of European flood research programmes and funding initiatives. The network has 12 partner organisations from 10 different countries. These organisations have funded research projects aimed at increasing the resilience of communities to flooding.

The second phase of CRUE funding (from 2009) resulted in a €2.6 million, three year research programme. It focused on managing the consequences of flooding and increasing community resilience to flooding. Seven collaborative projects from around Europe were selected for funding.

Findings

This report outlines the main findings of the three projects that were part-funded by Defra and the Environment Agency. These were the:

  • development of a framework to help in the production and revision of emergency flood plans by local authorities
  • use of computational river models and a web-based collaborative platform to interact with the public and flood management professionals in Greater London
  • involvement of members of the public and professional bodies to improve the content and visualisation of flood maps

This project ran from 2008 to 2012.

Published 22 February 2021