UK Flood & Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM) Research Strategy

Living With Environmental Change's first UK Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research Strategy was published in Jan 2012 and can be downloaded below.

The strategy identifies  priority research topics under 3 broad themes: Understanding Risk, Managing Probability and Managing Consequences of flooding. It also highlights some of the delivery challenges ahead.

A steering group to oversee delivery of the strategy met for the first time in March 2012. The Steering Group, which consists of the main flooding research funding organisations, will facilitate collaboration on future research projects and strengthen the exchange of knowledge between researchers and practitioners. The Steering Group will review progress on delivering the strategy and will use feedback from research and practitioner groups to update the strategy at appropriate points.

To start the process of collaborative working the LWEC partners will share information about their planned work to help identify opportunities to work together on projects.

See for example, the EPSRC sandpit event.

This page will be kept updated by Dr Geoff Baxter, Research Scientist for the UK Environment Agency's Evidence Directorate: Flooding and Communities.