Julie Foley, Director of Flood Risk Strategy and Adaptation Understanding of flood and coastal erosion risk is vital to ensuring that policy makers, practitioners and communities are ready to adapt to a changing climate. The Environment Agency is required to …
By Philip Duffy, Environment Agency CEO. This week is Flood Action Week, our annual media campaign to raise awareness about how everyone can take action to know their flood risk and prepare. Today alongside Penny Endersby, Chief Executive of the …
The Cumbria River Restoration Strategy was developed to help improve the quality and function of three Cumbria catchments - the Rivers Eden, Derwent and Kent. From its humble beginnings to setting its sights on the World River Prize this year, read about why this programme has been so successful.
The Environment Agency has teams out on the ground ready to support local authorities in responding to potential floods and is urging the public to take care.
Getting the right kind of growth in the right places is one of the main ways of achieving climate resilient places. Effective spatial planning is an essential tool for making land use choices that help to achieve greater flood and …
Today, 25 pioneering projects have received a share of £150 million of funding to put new aspects of the National Strategy for Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management to the test.
What is the Environment Agency’s role? The Environment Agency shares responsibility for managing flood and coastal risk in England with many partners and organisations all of whom play a really important part. Our role is varied. We build and maintain …
In this blog, Becky and Gabi write about their experiences as female engineers, the Environment Agency graduate scheme from both mentor and trainee perspectives and the Next Generation event at the Flood and Coast conference. Bio: Becky Sharpe: I’m Catchment Engineer …
“Prepare. Act. Survive.” Those are the simple but stark words behind the campaign we’ve launched this week to help keep people safe from flooding. Over 5 million properties across the country are at risk of flooding – that’s more than …
It’s been 2 years since we made our lidar (light detection and ranging) data available to the public, for free, as open data – and the interest in it has been incredible. In 2016/17, over 500,000 lidar downloads were …
