resilience

This is a free dissemination workshop for the Urban Flood Resilience: Property Flood Resilience Database project. Three workshops will be taking place across the UK over a series of dates in September. Workshop locations include, Liverpool, Watford (England) and Ravenscraig (Scotland) – see below for dates and booking.

With 6 million UK homes already at risk of flooding, property owners facing difficulties getting adequate insurance, and property level flood resilience currently going undocumented there is a wide scope for improving on the current situation.

Severn Trent Water has started work on its £300 million Birmingham Resilience Project after years of planning.

An official groundbreaking ceremony was help at Lickhill, near Stourport. For over a century, most of Birmingham’s water has flowed down the Elan Valley Aqueduct (EVA) from reservoirs in the Welsh hills. The aqueduct is over a hundred years old and needs maintenance to keep it in service, which means draining it for extended periods.

The UK Government has released a review of flood risk assessment, reductions in the likelihood of flooding, and ways make the country as resilient as possible to flooding. The reports says, "In the light of the severity of recent events, and the risk that these or similar events will occur again, it is appropriate to reconsider our approaches to assessing flood risk, to reducing the likelihood of flooding, and to making our nation as resilient as possible to flooding."

Applications to attend workshop closes: 27^th June 2016      

Closing date: 16:00 on Tuesday 6^th September

As part of the GCRF, NERC, AHRC & ESRC invite proposals to address the challenge of Building Resilience in developing countries.