Research
Shaping resilience through collaborative research
Working collaboratively with colleagues, fellow industry academics, universities and non-profit organisations, we’re highlighting significant research papers, reports and technical guidance documents that are helping to shape the way we build resilience to climate change.
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Modelling the impact of spending on defence maintenance on flood losses
- Contribution by:Pettit, A., Garrett, J.
- Publish date:01.05.2021
This research evaluates the benefits of maintaining flood defences over a 30-year period for several different spending scenarios. This study explored the relationship between inland flood defence maintenance and flood defence failure due to breaching (caused by structural failure). It also estimated the total benefit derived from river flood wall and embankment defences and the associated upkeep costs of these defences.
- Tags: Flood Resilience
- Published by:FloodRe & Association of British Insurers
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A semantic approach to enable data integration for the domain of flood risk management
- Contribution by:Hankin, B., Lamb, R.
- Publish date:02.03.2021
Data heterogeneity is a pressing issue for the flood domain. This paper seeks to addresses the issue of data variety by exploring an approach that uses Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing techniques to resolve the heterogeneity arising in data formats, bring together structured and unstructured data and provide a unified data model to query from disparate data sets.
- Tags: Flood Resilience
- Published by:Environmental Challenges Journal
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Managing the effects of extreme sub-daily rainfall and flash floods—a practitioner's perspective
- Contribution by:Dale, M.
- Publish date:01.03.2021
This paper describes how UK flood risk guidance incorporates allowances for climate change and how recent research using convection-permitting climate models is helping to inform this guidance.
- Tags: Climate Resilience, Policy and Research Flood Resilience
- Published by:The Royal Society Publishing, Philosphical Transactions of the Royal Society A
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Enhanced surface water flood forecasts: User-led development and testing
- Contribution by:Shelton, K.L., Rabb, B., Lamb, R., Hunter, N.
- Publish date:27.01.2021
This paper describes the new surface water flood forecasting products that were created as part of the co-led JBA and University of Leeds iCASP project. The paper also details how the products were tested in a realistic scenario in a workshop attended by a variety of stakeholders including Met Office and Environment Agency personnel, local councils, water companies and flood wardens.
- Tags: Flood Resilience
- Published by:Journal of Flood Risk Management
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Rapid evidence assessment of non-stationarity in sources of UK flooding
- Contribution by:Faulkner, D., Luxford, F.
- Publish date:01.11.2020
JBA led this Environment Agency-funded evidence review, which is accompanied by another report giving recommendations for future research.
- Tags: Flood Resilience Hydrology
- Published by:Environment Agency
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Rethinking data-driven decision support in flood risk management for a big data age
- Contribution by:Lamb, R., Hankin, B.
- Publish date:11.08.2020
This paper examines the potential of a data-driven approach to support decision-making in flood risk management, with the goal of investigating a suitable software architecture. The key contribution is a cloud-based data hypercube that achieves the desired level of integration of highly complex data.
- Tags: Flood Resilience
- Published by:Journal of Flood Risk Management
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Property flood resilience – Scottish baseline study
- Contribution by:Pettit, A.
- Publish date:26.06.2020
This study provides a baseline best estimate of the potential for PFR in Scotland and current uptake.
- Tags: Flood Resilience
- Published by:ClimateXChange
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Can we still predict the future from the past? Implementing non-stationary flood frequency analysis in the UK
- Contribution by:Faulkner, D., Warren, S.
- Publish date:03.12.2019
This paper calls for the adoption of a new approach to flood frequency analysis when planning and designing defences. The publication of this guidance led to a national-scale project, completed in 2020.
- Tags: Flood Resilience Hydrology
- Published by:Journal of Flood Risk Management