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Key documents

• Investing for the future (2009)  

• An ICZM strategy for England (2009)  

• Future Water, Government's water strategy for England (2008)

• Fact sheet on flood and coastal erosion risk management (2006)

•  Government strategy for flood and coastal erosion risk management in  England, Making Space for Water (2005), Exec. Summary: Timeline:

• High level target 5 / progress report on development and flood risk (2006)

• Flood and Coastal Defence Appraisal Guidance, MAFF (2001-2006):

- Overview and general guidance (2001)
- Strategic planning and appraisal (2001)
- Economic appraisal (2000)
- Approaches to risk (2000)
- Environment appraisal (2000)
- Update for climate change impacts (2006)
 
• National Appraisal of Assets at Risk from Flooding and Coastal Erosion,
including the potential impact of climate change (2001)

• UK implementation of EU ICZM recommendation (2005)

• Shoreline management plan guidance / Volume 1: Aims
and requirements (2006)

• Planning Policy Statement PPS25: Development and Flood Risk (2006)

• A practice guide companion to PPS25, consultation paper (2007)  

• Building and maintaining river and coastal flood defences  
in England, NAO / EA (2007), House of Commons version:

Further reading


Overview

• Introduction to British coastal geomorphology (GCR 2003)


Risk assessment and management

•  Integrated risk analysis of coastal flooding and cliff erosion (2007)

• Sustainable flood and coastal erosion risk management (2007)  

• Sand dune management for flood and coastal defence (2007)  

• RASP: risk assessment for strategic planning (2005)

• Risk, performance and uncertainty in flood and coastal defence (2003)

• The appraisal of human related intangible impacts of flooding (2005)

• Regional assessment of coastal flood risk (2005)

• Soft cliffs: prediction of recession rates and erosion control (2002)

• The response of soft rock shores to increased sea level rise (2006)

• Beach recharge in Sussex and East-Kent, BAR (2005)


Policy lessons

• Summer floods 2007: learning the lessons, ABI (2007)

• Development in flood risk areas - prevention ís better than cure (2001)

• Coastal Flood Risk – does the New Orleans catastrophe
hold lessons for London? Hazard Forum (2006)

• Adapting to climate change – lessons for London (2006)  

• Coastal Squeeze, implications for flood management (2005)

• Shoreline Management (2006)


Looking back

• FHM: from land drainage to flood risk management (2004)

• Crisis as catalysts for adaptation: human response to floods (2005)

• 1953 UK Floods: 50 year retrospective. RMS (2003)


Looking ahead

• Foresight Flooding, long-term vision for flood and coastal defence summary

• Foresight key-messages for: researchers , environmentalists , financial professionals , and local and regional professionals (2004)

• STERN Review: The Economics of Climate Change (2006) summary

• Climate change response and coastal management in the UK (2004)

• Coastal flood risk - thinking for tomorrow, acting today. ABI (2006)

• Integrated effects of climate change on extreme sea levels (2001) 

• Sea-level rise and coastal subsidence in Southwest England (2006)

• Impacts of climate change on coastal flood risk (2006)
 
• Adapting to changing coastlines and rivers, preliminary report (2006)

Relevant weblinks

• Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
• Environment Agency (EA)
• Environment Agency (Floodline)
• Department for communities and local government
• Local Government Association
• Health protection agency (floods)
• UK resilience (civil protection)
• English Nature
• Anglian coastal authorities group
• Cardigan bay coastal authorities group
• South Downs coastal authorities group
• South East coastal authorities group
• Thames estuary partnership
• Thames Gateway development
• Essex estuaries initiative
• Isle of Wight centre for the coastal environment
• Local Government Association: coastal issues interest group
• Channel coastal observatory
• Association of drainage authorities
• Foresight Flooding and coastal defence
• Shoreline management plans
• Futurecoast (coastal evolutionary tendencies)
• Living with the sea (sustainable long term iczm)
• Met Office
• CIWEM (institute of water and environmental management)
• Hadley centre for climate prediction and research
• Tyndall centre for climate change research
• Flood hazard research centre (fhrc)
• Proudman oceanographic laboratory
• RASP project (flood risk assessment for strategic planning)
• Floodranger (educational flood management game)
• Scopac (Standing conference on coastline problems)
• UK Climate impacts programme / UKCIP
• London climate change partnership
• South East climate change partnership
• South West climate change impacts partnership
• Tomorrow's climate, Today's challenge (communicating climate change)
• UK legislation
• Partnership sustainable development in england's northwest
• English heritage (protecting england's historic environment)
• MCCIP (marine climate change impacts partnership)
• Association of British insurers (flooding)
• BBC: Flooding, What to do?
• CIRIA (repairs and restoration after flooding)
• ROSPA (royal society for the prevention of accidents)
• Environment and human behaviour
• National Flood Forum
• Flood risk management research consortium
• FPA (flood protection association)
• NERC (natural environment research council)
• ICE (institution of civil engineers)
• MSG (marine studies group)
• COZONE (national coastal engineering network)

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