This ensures that the Environment Agency is brought into the consultative process for any proposed developments within or impacting on floodplains. The Environment Agency has established a programme to produce flood risk maps for England and Wales. These maps are being used to help curb inappropriate...
WALES: Are You at Risk as Flood Maps Are Redrawn?Byline: By HYWEL TREWYN NEW flood maps are being drawn up to show more accurately where...Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
While flood risk perception has been studied extensively in general populations, there remains a dearth of focus on youth perspectives – a key demogr
Continental-scale mapping initiatives have begun to address quality and coverage gaps inherent in local flood hazard maps (Sampson et al.2015; Dottori et al.2016). Inland flood maps are now available for the USA that are contiguous, high-resolution, span multiple flood return periods, and exhib...
In the meantime, researchers say their findings, which will be publicly accessible, could be useful for helping policymakers involved in land-use planning. They also represent a proof-of-concept method for efficiently updating flood maps in the future. ...
In Lismore, Australia, relocation was called for but neither planned nor funded properly (see Box). 6.3. Planning and governance Shifts in regulation and new flood hazard zones: The state of Rhineland-Palatinate, through its regional authority, issued new flood hazard maps (designated flood plain...
There are also flood alerts in force for the river Lugg north and south of Leominster, the river Arrow, the river Frome and the Leadon catchment as Storm Darragh batters Herefordshire today.
Update your business continuity plan and crisis communication planning checklist. Get your emergency response team together in preparation for a flooding event and assign responsibilities. Keep important records such as site maps, insurance policies, banking account records and computer backups in a water...
(2023) were considered, however, Open- PopGrid was selected based on its greater resolution, thus providing better compatibility with HEC-RAS flood maps. Values of risk and exposure were divided into quartiles to represent the magnitude of risk from moderate to very high. 3 Results 3.1 ...
2013), whereas for spatial planning, just the flood extent of a design return period may be sufficient (DCLG 2010). This, then, raises the question what information the national flood maps should contain. Ideally, they should map extent (which is common) but also flood depths, velocities ...