Mid-term review. January 2011. Foresight project: flood and coastal defence
Foresight
Document Status
Current
Supplement
Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Series
Foresight
Abstract
Assesses the impact of the future flooding report published in April 2004 on government, the research community, business, civil society, NGOs and the media and internationally.
History
Produced by Foresight and the Government Office for Science. Related to the following: Learning lessons from the 2007 floods: an independent review by Sir Michael Pitt: final report (also known as the Pitt Review) and Update of the Foresight Future Flooding 2004 qualitative risk analysis - an independent review by Sir Michael Pitt (both Cabinet Office, 2008); Future flooding - executive summary; Future flooding - scientific summary. Volume 1 - future risks and their drivers; Future flooding - scientific summary. Volume 2 - managing future risks; Future flooding - action plan; and Future flooding - Scotland (all DTI, 2004).
Subjects
- Planning and development
- Flood management
- Environmental planning/land
Publisher History
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills resulted from a merger between the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) and Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) in June 2009. In 2016 it was replaced by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. Content was published under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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