This paper focusses on the development of a metric to quantify how well the generated flood maps for events compare to observed flooding from remote sensing.

This article explores the importance of environmental management by highlighting opportunities to increase understanding to ensure it from stands out from standardised mitigation measures.

Among many objectives set out in the EA National FCERM Strategy is a commitment for risk management authorities to mainstream the use and take-up of property flood resilience (PFR). In 2021 a new Code of Practice (CoP) was published, providing guidance on six standards: hazard assessment, property survey, options development, construction, commissioning and handover, and operation and maintenance. This paper explores the objective of the Code, its benefits and limitation, highlighting that while the Code remains voluntary, growing awareness and application by risk management authorities such as the Environment Agency (EA) and lead local flood authorities will help drive up standards.

This research explores findings from the Q-natural flood management project in Cumbria. Co-developed with the Environment Agency, the project involved monitoring 18 micro-catchments to study the affect of nature-based solutions on the flow of water. This paper demonstrates an approach to applying donor-parameter-shifts obtained from modelling two of the paired micro-catchments to a much larger scale, in order to understand the potential for improved distributed modelling of nature-based solutions in the form of additional tree-planting.

Using resampling approaches adapted to the Flood Estimation Handbook methods, this paper quantifies the sampling uncertainty for single site, pooled (ungauged), enhanced single site (gauged pooling) and across catchment types.

This paper reports on new hydrometric data collected from one of eighteen small-scale, accurately monitored micro-catchments in Cumbria, UK, to study the effect in more detail.