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The Foresight Future Flooding project has analysed future flood risk in a scenario framework for the whole of the UK. The analysis predicts increasing flood risk unless current flood management policies and investment levels are changed, with up to a twentyfold increase in economic risk by the 2080s. The increase is attributable to a combination of climate change and increasing value of household, industrial and infrastructure assets. Potential responses are assessed in terms of the three pillars of sustainability: social, environmental and economic. The work described has formed much of the evidence base for the new government strategy for flood risk management in England, ‘Making space for water’.
Author(s): Evans EP, Hall JW, Penning-Rowsell EC, Sayers PB, Thorne CR, Watkinson A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Water Management
Year: 2006
Volume: 159
Issue: 1
Pages: 53-61
Print publication date: 01/03/2006
ISSN (print): 1741-7589
ISSN (electronic): 1751-7729
Publisher: Thomas Telford Ltd.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/wama.2006.159.1.53
DOI: 10.1680/wama.2006.159.1.53
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