Severe flooding in December 2015 and early 2016 caused significant damage and disruption in the north of England and parts of Scotland. This report details first hand experiences of the flooding in Cumbria, and makes recommendations for building greater flood resilience.
Working in partnership with the Zurich Insurance Group we have released a report detailing first hand experiences of flooding in Cumbria following Storm Desmond in December 2015.
The environmental community team up with mathematicians to tackle the challenge of ‘identifying coherent weather features in three dimensions’ and publish a Challenge Solutions Report.
Research outputs from a PhD investigating modelling approaches for catchment flood management.
We have published a consolidated chronology of railway asset failures relating to flooding for the period 1846 to 2013. The most common failure mechanism was found to be the undermining of abutments or piers by scour, resulting in their collapse.
We supported the development of a new tool to identify and assess the potential multiple benefits of SuDS schemes.
This NERC funded project aimed to transfer advances in statistics to flood risk science.
The JBA Trust supported the Holnicote Project with a position paper on rural land management change.
In partnership with The University of Gloucester, we delivered four workshops on different aspects of river restoration
Scientific evidence supporting the Government’s National Flood Resilience Review
The Government’s National Flood Resilience Review was published on 8 September 2016. One of the Review’s critical tasks was to improve the national understanding of flood risk in England. The Review says that experience from recent events has “made it clear that describing flood risk in traditional terms such as a ‘1% chance of flooding’ […]
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