Improving flood warnings and responses to flooding

This project took an in-depth look at how flood warnings are communicated and how people, communities and businesses prepare and respond to floods.

Documents

Work package 1: Improving Institutional and Social Responses to flooding - summary (97KB) PDF

Work package 1a: Improving flood warnings - technical report (1.9MB) PDF

Work package 1b: More targeted flood warnings - technical report (1.9MB) PDF

Work package 2: improving response, recovery and resilience - summary (117KB) PDF

Work package 2: improving response, recovery and resilience - technical report (2.3MB) PDF

Work package 3: Collaboration with civil contingency partners and communities for improved FCERM outcomes (126KB) PDF

Work package 3: Collaboration with civil contingency partners and communities for improved FCERM outcomes - technical report (2.5MB) PDF

Work package 4: Mainstreaming collaboration with communities and stakeholders for FCERM - summary (132KB) PDF

Work package 4: Mainstreaming collaboration with communities and stakeholders for FCERM - technical report (2.2MB) PDF

Work package 5: Improving institutional and social responses to flooding synthesis - technical report (119KB) MB

Work package 5: Improving institutional and social responses to flooding synthesis - technical report (1.7MB) PDF

Supporting documents: improving institutional and social responses to flooding - technical report (3MB) PDF

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Details

This project used five different work packages to investigate how the Environment Agency could improve the way floods are managed. This included how:

  • communities and individuals recover from floods
  • to make homes, communities and businesses more resilient to floods

The research included literature reviews, case studies, drop-ins and surgeries with the public, developing tools and processes for working with partners, workshops and surveys.

The results of the research were used to improve:

  • the way the Environment Agency works with partners
  • how flood warnings are communicated
  • many other aspects of managing flood risk

The project started in 2006 and was completed in 2009.

Updates to this page

Published 18 February 2021