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Environment Agency outlines shift to resilience in future flood plans

Source(s): New Civil Engineer
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The Environment Agency has begun introducing planning assumptions for a global rise of up to 4°C due to climate change, with a shift to resilience rather than an onus on protection of properties in the future.

Speaking as part of New Civil Engineer’s Future of Floods conference, Environment Agency director of flood risk strategy and national adaptation Julie Foley said that future schemes will be planned with a 4°C rise in temperatures in mind.

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Foley sees this improvement as proof of the pudding that the resilience measures so far have worked. In terms of concrete flood protection measures in future, the Environment Agency is rethinking part of its plans, with the aim to shift to resilience in future events.

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The Environment Agency set out a four-year flood framework earlier this month to tackle the growing threat from river, sea and surface water flooding as well as coastal erosion.

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