Risk, performance and uncertainty in flood and coastal defence review
This project reviewed all aspects of risk management to create a consistent approach to risk when managing flood and coastal erosion.
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Managing flood and coastal erosion risks means understanding the principles of risk, as well as the concepts, tools and techniques that go into assessing it. It’s particularly important that people carrying out research and development and developing guidance all use the same framework for making decisions based on risk.
This project aimed to create a common definition of risk management for flood and coastal erosion, by reviewing:
- issues surrounding flood and erosion management from a risk and performance perspective
- the principles of risk, performance and uncertainty and the related definitions
- how these principles should be applied in practice when making decisions
- the need for a more integrated risk-based decision-making framework
- supporting tools and techniques
It also created a vision for future related research, and for identifying research needs.
The ultimate goal was to achieve a standard approach to uncertainty and risk and create consistency in how R&D projects are approached and discussed.
The project started in 2000 and was completed in 2002, at a cost of £60,000.