Flood and Coastal Defence Appraisal Guidance FCDPAG3 Economic Appraisal Supplementary Note to Operating Authorities
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Title:
Flood and Coastal Defence Appraisal Guidance FCDPAG3 Economic Appraisal Supplementary Note to Operating Authorities Climate Change Impacts
Creator:
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Language:
English

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Subjects / Keywords:
Climate change ( lcsh )
Flooding ( lcsh )
Erosion ( lcsh )
Sea level rise ( lcsh )

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Summary:
Climate Change impacts on flooding and coastal erosion are a challenge and risk for Defra and Operating Authorities (i.e. Environment Agency, Local Authorities and Internal Drainage Boards). These impacts are well documented and include sea level rise and the potential increase in intensity, severity and frequency of coastal storms, and rainfall events affecting flooding in fluvial catchments and urban surface water systems. On sea levels for example, the period from 1960 to 1996 brought a rise of around 50mm at Lowestoft1. These impacts were captured in the 2004 Foresight report. Since the 1980s, Defra’s response to such impacts has been as follows: • promote policy guidance, based on appropriately precautionary allowances and sensitivity testing to enable Operating Authorities to take climate change impacts into account in planning, appraisal, decision making and operations; • undertake an ongoing programme of related research in association with the Environment Agency and building on the work of other key research areas, notably from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and from UK Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIP); • ensure guidance is kept under review as further understanding of the likely impacts of climate change develops. • In Making Space for Water (MSfW), Defra undertook to review the existing guidance on climate change as part of a wider ranging review of appraisal guidance in 2007. This supplementary note therefore provides interim policy guidance prior to the wider ranging review in MSfW and supports the publication of Planning Policy Statement 25 (PPS25) ‘Development and Flood Risk’. ( English )

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