REF 2021 12Z_ICS_A Establishing Property Flood Resilience (PFR) in Flood Risk Management

    Impact: Public Policy or Services impacts, Quality of life impacts, Societal impacts

    Description of impact

    Research carried out by the Water, Environment and Communities Research Group has pioneered the establishment of property flood resilience (PFR) in UK flood risk strategy and response. The findings have driven UK policy on PFR, leading to the implementation of resilient technologies in in 11,000 thousand homes in 2015-16 alone and with the potential for 200,000 homes to benefit across the UK by 2039. PFR is strongly advocated in the 2020 Environment Agency Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management strategy and the research has informed the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment. Defra has described this research “as one of the most influential flood resilience studies of recent times”. The research is used by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors as part of its international guidance for professionals and in Brazil, the coastal state of Santa Catarina (population more than 6,000,000) has adopted PFR measures across its 295 municipalities.
    Impact date2015 → 2020
    Category of impactPublic Policy or Services impacts, Quality of life impacts, Societal impacts

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