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Assessing attenuation storage volumes for SuDS
Posted on: 20 March 2014
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This factsheet outlines the approaches to providing Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) attenuation volumes, and highlights some important considerations when approaching attenuation designs or evaluations.
Delivering SuDS not duds: Local authorities and developers working together. London, 11 March 2014
Posted on: 20 March 2014
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This event focused on approaches to Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SuDS) in Oxfordshire and Leicestershire with presentations from developers and local authorities involved n delivering SuDS schemes voluntarily in lieu of the National Standards. Presentations are available online.
The Somerset Levels and Moors Flood Action Plan: A 20 year plan for a sustainable future
Posted on: 6 March 2014
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This Plan sets out targets and aims to prevent the same level of flooding hitting Somerset’s levels and moors that has been suffered in 2014.
Greening the European Semester
Posted on: 5 March 2014
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Two studies published by the European Commission recently show how environment policy can spur economic growth by boosting flood protection and making more of a switch to greener taxes. One produces more evidence about the overall economic benefits from timely investment in defences against flooding, and the other highlights the advantages of moving the tax burden away from labour and towards resource use and pollution.
Flooding and property values
Posted on: 4 March 2014
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This report, first published in June 2009, analyses the impact of flooding on the value of property, a matter of great concern not only to home owners but also mortgage lenders and valuation professionals. It is the first research in the UK to use actual transaction data, and complements previous studies by estimating the impact of flooding on the price of transacted properties. It concentrates on multiple sites across the UK with varying flood histories and risk.
The hidden costs of the UK floods will surpass the obvious damage
Posted on: 28 February 2014
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This article looks at the hidden cost of disasters at home and abroad.
Responding to extreme weather: A practical guide for tourism businesses
Posted on: 24 February 2014
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The aim of this plan is to provide practical guidance to help businesses affected by the extreme weather and flooding, create both an immediate and longer-term approach to communicating with their customers and signpost operators to further sources of support and advice, to help reduce the impact on their business.
Delivering flood and coastal schemes and projects: Partnering, joint funding and frameworks. Developing practice and emerging lessons. London, 30 January 2014
Posted on: 19 February 2014
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CIWEM Rivers and Coastal Group Annual Conference considered ways of working and funding arrangements involved in the delivery of major flood and coastal schemes and projects are changing fast. The aim of this conference was for flood and erosion risk professionals be to showcase the developing and innovative partnership approaches to the effective delivery of schemes and projects. This will include the identification of the multiple benefits, working with partners, large consortia projects, framework agreements, shared services agreements, different contractual arrangements and risk management. Presentations are available online.
Flooding
Posted on: 14 February 2014
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The Institution of Civil Engineers provides a range of information sources on the issue of flooding.
The recent storms and floods in the UK
Posted on: 13 February 2014
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This paper, from the Meteorological Office, documents the record-breaking weather and flooding, considers the potential drivers and discusses whether climate change contributed to the severity of the weather and its impacts.
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