Integrating resilience into decision-making in the UK and Germany

This case study shows how, in higher-resource contexts, comprehensive resilience data can be used to spur more coordinated and systems-level decision-making. Researchers from the Grantham Research Institute - London School of Economics (LSE) are supporting the shift toward forward-looking, holistic flood risk management from the local to national levels in Germany and the United Kingdom (UK).

In the UK, LSE advocacy supported national flood and coastal risk management policies and strategies to go beyond hard infrastructure and consider broader resilience and adaptation measures. In Germany, LSE advocacy supported cross-sectoral dialogues on flood resilience among local decision-makers in Cologne and Remscheid that go beyond hard infrastructure.