Risk assessment for flood and coastal defence systems for strategic planning

The RASP project developed methods for assessing risk combining the causes of flooding with defence performance and the people and properties at risk.

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme, and Environment Agency
Published
15 February 2021
Category:
Understanding risks from all sources of flooding
Topics:
Asset performance, Asset system optimisation, Coast, Flood forecasting, Flood risk assessment, Hydrology, Meteorology, Modelling, Monitoring and detection, Understanding physical processes
Project status:
Completed
Project code:
SC010017
Date of completion:
31 March 2004

Documents

Risk assessment for flood and coastal defence systems for strategic planning - technical report (6 MB) PDF

Risk assessment for flood and coastal defence systems for strategic planning - summary (536 KB) PDF

Risk assessment for flood and coastal defence systems for strategic planning - high level methodology, pages 1-33 (1 MB) PDF

Risk assessment for flood and coastal defence systems for strategic planning - high level methodology, pages 34-69 (883 KB) PDF

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Details

This project developed improved ways of assessing flood risk to help the Environment Agency and Defra understand more about how flood defences, and investment into ways of managing flood, change the risk of flooding. These methods are particularly focused on:

  • improving understanding of how flooding might be distributed across a particular area
  • how likely flooding is to happen
  • the potential consequences of flooding

This approach combines the sources of risk (water levels and waves) with the ways in which defences might perform under pressure. It also looks into the people and properties at risk to provide an integrated assessment of risk.

This project started in 2001 and was completed in 2004.

Published 15 February 2021
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