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Cost of UK flood protection doubles to £1bn a year
Thu 18th Feb 10 - 14:24
Latest data from the Environment Agency shows that more than half a million UK homes are at 'significant' risk of flooding.
More than half a million homes are at "significant" risk…
Environment Agency outlined flood investment plans for Thames region
Fri 12th Feb 10 - 15:08
The Environment Agency today announced how it will use £99.6m central Government funding to reduce the risk of flooding across the Thames region for the year to March 2011.
Atkins Calls For More Flood Defence Spend
Wed 20th Jan 10 - 13:18
By Ed Owen
Consultant Atkins has backed the Environment Agency's call to increase flood defence spending to some £1bn per year.
Responding to the Environment Agency's assertion that the 2007 floods cost £3.2bn, Atkins say spending on flood defences will avoid similar bills in…
Climate Change - What Is The Property Sector Doing?
Tue 19th Jan 10 - 16:20
The widely held view is that the effects of climate change are already impacting on us, are unavoidable and will be dramatic. The world has warmed up by 0.7°C in the last 100 years.
Addressing climate change needs two types of response: first, mitigation action to…
Facing Up to Rising Sea Levels: Retreat? Defend? Attack?
Thu 14th Jan 10 - 11:14
Assessing the Future of Our Coastal and Estuarine Cities.
Retreating inland, creating habitable defence structures and building out into the sea are three options proposed to cope with the extremities of rising sea levels, in a futuristic project released today by the Royal Institute of British…
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