Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
DEFRA
Governments
Items: 27
The report covers flood risk management in England. It evaluates whether the government’s approach to managing the risks of flooding and coastal erosion is achieving value for money in three parts:
A look the problems and relaunch of the Environment Agency's long term flood risk service, designed around the needs of the people who utilize it.
This evidence review is part of a larger project looking at community engagement for long-term adaptation to flood and coastal erosion risk.
This report is intended to assist local UK governments with preparing for the impacts of climate change adaptation.
Using telemetry outstations, the UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has successfully integrated river level data into a flood information service. Striving to improve its service, the department is upgrading its data communications infrastructure to reduce systems costs and to poll its stations every 15 minutes for quicker updates.
This project aims to identify barriers and propose solutions to promote low cost measures that would make properties at flood risk more resilient to damage from flood waters in the UK. The objectives set for the project were to:
This is the final report of the Flood Risk Communications Public Dialogue project, funded by the Environment Agency and Sciencewise.
The Environment Agency has developed a new guide that will help flood risk managers identify and manage the uncertainty in their flood risk assessments and flood defence designs.
Voluntary Commitments
The organization has no registered commitments.
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.