Evidence to support an adaptive approach to flood and coastal risk management
This project provides the evidence to better understand adaptive approaches and how they are applied to flood and coastal risk management planning.
Documents
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Details
To understand current knowledge of adaptive approaches, the project carried out:
- a rapid evidence assessment of academic literature
- a rapid evidence assessment of non-academic literature
- discussions with interested groups
The research analysis will help us understand the benefits of adaptive approaches and what’s needed to implement them in flood and coastal erosion risk management.
This research will support future work to deliver the Environment Agency’s flood and coastal erosion risk management (FCERM) strategy for England. This sets out the vision for managing flood risk in the future and one of its core ambitions is to take a dynamic approach to risk management, known as an ‘adaptive approach’. This means planning for a range of future scenarios in climate, growth and other uncertainties so the capacity to adapt is built in to investment and strategies.
Last updated 8 June 2021 + show all updates
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Welsh research summary added to the documents section
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First published.