Outcomes from the FLOODsite programme: interim report

A project investigating the most relevant outcomes from the FLOODsite research programme on the environmental, ecological and socio-economic aspects of floods.

From:
Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Environment Agency
Published
22 February 2021
Category:
Policy, governance and funding
Topics:
Ecosystem service benefits, Flood costs, Flood risk governance, Health, safety and wellbeing, Partnership working, Recovery and Strategy and planning
Project status:
Completed
Project code:
SC040035
Date of completion:
31 March 2012

Documents

FLOODsite liaison interim report - summary (122KB) PDF

FLOODsite liaison interim report - technical report (2.4MB) PDF

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Details

Background

Flood risk management has been identified as a priority for research within the UK and throughout Europe. Several major R&D projects began in 2004 and 2005. One of these was FLOODsite, an integrated project on flood risk management. It’s the longest ever EC research project on floods and aims to provide a European approach to the management of flood risks from rivers, estuaries and the sea.

FLOODsite addresses the environmental, ecological and socio-economic aspects of floods and covers:

  • socio-economic flood damage
  • assessing risk to life
  • flood warning benefits and socio-economic data use
  • risk perception, flood awareness and social resilience
  • developments in flash flood modelling
  • evacuation planning

Objectives

A need has been identified to liaise with FLOODsite and other R&D programmes to avoid duplication of work and maximise the benefits of the programmes.

This project aims to inform the Environment Agency of the most relevant outcomes from the FLOODsite research programme.

It’s important to note that:

  • the FLOODsite research programme produced a large amount of new knowledge and advancements relevant to the work of flood forecasting and flood incident management
  • FLOODsite developments are assisting the Environment Agency in improving the understanding of the costs and benefits of flood incident management
  • new insights into risk perception, communication and flood awareness have fed into new developments in flood incident management

This review of the FLOODsite project ran from 2004 to 2012.

Updates to this page

Published 22 February 2021
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