United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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This case study shows how, in higher-resource contexts, comprehensive resilience data can be used to spur more coordinated and systems-level decision-making.
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This paper reports the findings of a structured review that was conducted to identify critical failure factors in flood early warning and response systems.
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This report shines a light on the extent to which climate change and the increased propensity of floods are affecting the housing market in England.
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The briefing shares knowledge and good practice on operationalising societal resilience, lessons from ongoing design and implementation work on the NCSR+ strategy to create local resilience capability, and promotes events relevant to societal resilience.
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This paper presents a readiness assessment methodology designed to facilitate effective project development and stakeholder engagement in the context of Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management in England and Wales.
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This multidisciplinary study collectively analyses meteorological, tidal gauge and newspaper data from Storms Ciara and Dennis in February 2020 to assess the environmental, social and political impacts and causes of the catastrophe in Western Britain.
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This report provides the Committee’s biennial report of progress in preparing for climate change as required under the Climate Change Act. It provides an assessment of progress at the end of two National Adaptation Programmes.
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In this study, the authors investigate the impact of two natural flood management (NFM) measures, tree planting and herbal ley–crop rotations, on peak flows to address their effectiveness for low-probability flood events.

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