Living with flooding—Noah's legacy

✍ Scribed by Peter Borrows

• Book ID: 102283349
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 73 KB
• Volume: 55
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1531-0353
• DOI: 10.1002/ird.260

✦ Synopsis

The effects of climate change and the growing world population are together increasing both the chance of flooding and the consequences. There is increasing recognition that reliance on structural flood defences alone may be neither sufficient nor sustainable in the longer term. The lessons of the past and our developing understanding of the mechanisms causing flooding and the range of measures available to manage the risk, need to be harnessed in a new approach to living with flood risk. In particular, residual flood risk, being that remaining after any mitigation measures have been taken, should be assessed and addressed with an appropriate response. That response must command the support of those at risk. Flood warning is one tool and an outline is provided of the Environment Agency's service.