Designing and managing forests and woodlands to reduce flood risk
Practice Guide
Document Status
Current
Supplement
Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Series
Practice Guide
Abstract
Provides advice on how forests and woodlands creation and management can affect flood flows and flood water storage as part of natural flood management (NFM), which aims to provide a more sustainable approach to protecting communities from future flooding. Looks at: designing new forests and woodlands, forest and woodland management, interventions to slow run-off, monitoring, further reading and useful information.
History
UK Forestry Standard Practice Guide.
ISBN
9781839150173
Subjects
- Planning and development
- Environmental planning/land
- Flood management
- Natural environment
- Trees
- Forestry
Publisher History
The Forestry Commission publishes a wide range of information in support of sustainable forest management in Britain. The information they produce is: Crown Copyright, courtesy Forestry Commission, licensed under the Open Government Licence.
Information
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