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Flood standards of protection and risk management activities

Research by Sayers Flood consultancy to inform the Commission's recommendations on flood resilience.

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The aims of the research by Sayers Flood Consultancy for the Commission, which inform the National Infrastructure Assessment, break down into three core requirements:

  • Enable a national scale assessment of the costs and benefits of adopting differing standards of protection (SoP)
  • Support the evaluation of national investment outcomes by developing and implementing a simple ‘exploratory’
  • Provide a short report describing the method, key data and assumptions to enable users to the tool to adjust adaptation levers and assess the corresponding effect on flood risk.

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National Infrastructure Assessment 1

An assessment of the United Kingdom's infrastructure needs up to 2050.

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