United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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This report reviews the current sets of environmental and public health indicators that can be used to monitor progress in climate change adaptation and mitigation in the United Kingdom (UK), with a focus on England.
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This report explores the potential for CRAs to be used as a tool for assessing adaptation effectiveness, expanding on the implications of designing or updating CRAs and monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) systems for NAP processes.
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The authors highlight the barriers that must be overcome to safeguard the UK against heatwaves and provides recommendations for what the government and local authorities need to prioritise, including:
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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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