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As for Figure 1 but for river flooding only. Note that the vertical scale is the same as Figure 1 for comparison.
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As Earth’s climate changes, individual nations must develop adaptation plans to respond to increasing or new climate risks. This study focuses on changing flood risk in England, UK, and examines the policy framework and actions that underpin England’s adaptation from a flood risk management (FRM) perspective. Specifically, the flood risk projection...
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... Mandating the implementation of SuDS has been delayed, uptake of SuDS has been slow (Melville-Shreeve et al., 2018) and the legal frameworks are considered complex and ineffective (Ellis and Lundy, 2016;Potter and Vilcan, 2020). This is problematic given the increasing future flood risk from surface water flooding (Russell and Sayers, 2022) and the potential of SuDS to address other issues such as water quality and biodiversity, mitigate urban heat risk (Green, 2019) and align with other key policies such as biodiversity net gain. In 2020, Ofwat published the Code for Adoption, which allows water companies to adopt certain kinds of SuDS legally (although the right to connect remained). ...
Yorkshire Water provides clean water and wastewater treatment for over five million customers in the north of England, UK. Weather and climate determine water supply, and extreme weather, particularly flooding, can severely alter their operations and ability to process wastewater. This article provides a unique longitudinal (2013-2023) perspective of how an infrastructure owner and operator has responded to changing policy contexts and embedded climate adaptation within operational processes. The uptake in adaptation measures was driven by a combination of factors including the Adaptation Reporting Power mandated by the Climate Change Act, increased availability of climate data, the need to recover from extreme weather events, particularly flooding, and changes to water management policies. The latter have instigated greater partnership working to reduce risk associated with flood events, and placed more emphasis on managing water via landscape-led natural processes such as Natural Flood Management, with actions delivered through partnership working. This article describes Yorkshire Water’s leadership in the early days of adaptation within the UK and discusses the changing policy frameworks, business needs, climate knowledge, and societal context that have led to more holistic and sustainable water resource management.
