Flood resilience technology in Europe: Identifying barriers and co-producing best practice

© 2016 The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Flood resistance (FRe) and resilience technologies hold considerable potential to limit the damage caused by flooding. Resistance technologies generally aim to keep water out of buildings, while resilient measures may allow ingress but create the conditions for a quicker recovery of individuals, communities and buildings. However, despite their potential contribution to flood risk management (FRM), their use remains uncommon. This paper draws on pan-European research of local communities at risk and their representatives, and professional stakeholders working at a more strategic scale, to explore the barriers to use and describe the co-production of new best practice. It interrogates the issues in terms of level of awareness, degree of acceptance and the integration into decision making. We found that even where awareness was high, there was a reluctance to use these measures. This is due to issues related to comparability, costs, installation, performance and maintenance. The research also revealed that FRM policy and practice has struggled to incorporate this emergent approach and that many individuals at risk are reluctant to take responsibility and protect their properties in this way. In response, this paper details how good practice guidance - the 'Six Steps approach' - was co-produced with key stakeholders to facilitate the wider contribution of FRe to FRM

Flourish Skin: Technical Report

Numerous people have various skin issues, and some companies have taken advantage of this reality by promising to offer a cure while charging exorbitant prices for their goods. The objective of this research is to identify the variables that have impacted the costs of the goods that businesses are selling. This paper describes the knowledge acquisition strategy used by the KDD technique. It describes the steps taken to obtain and prepare the data for analysis. I employed a variety of machine learning approaches for this project, which helped with the outcomes. Among other tools, I have used decision trees, random forests, and logistic regression. Using Python, this analysis was carried out. The datasets that were provided to me were scraped from websites like Cult Beauty and Look Fantastic as well as Kaggle. The analysis's findings highlight the influencing elements that have an impact on a product's pricing. The study demonstrated how a product's value point is mostly decided by its brand

Worm burden, pathophysiology and indirect nutritional effect of

Thirty-two rats infected with 500, 1 000 and 4 000 Nippostrongylus brasiliensis larvae generated different responses. Autopsies performed 48 hours post infections showed a retention of fewer worms in the lungs of moderate infections than the heavy infections. Moderate decreases in total protein were observed in sera of rats ni experiments B and D, except that the average found in experiment C was markedly lower than the control’s. The reduced levels varied from 23-37 per cent. Average diameter of muscularis externae in experiments D and E were almost twice or twofold the measurements found in experiments C and B compared with the control’s. The mean adult worm population recovered from each experiment appeared proportional to the larval dose given per infection. Infections with moderate and heavy burdens produced lower glucose figures in the serum compared with the control’s. The range of reduction was 40-68 per cent. Reduction in weight gains were more pronounced in the rats heavily infected than in the groups which were moderately inoculated. These qualitative and quantitative differences obtained in this study of light, moderate and crowed infections demonstrate that gradient and true competitions for the host’s diet by the worms existed. The decreased results collected from the biochemical tests were pathologically important and were consequently indirect results of reduced digestion and absorption rate of available food materials in the host’s intestine. The histo-pathological and physiological findings, and the poor weight gains shown by the infected rats were directly caused by the host-parasite interactions associated with the operating nutritional mechanism during the infection

"Hopes," Not Dreams

This item is part of the Arizona Land and People (formerly Progressive Agriculture in Arizona) archive. It was digitized from a physical copy provided by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at The University of Arizona. For more information about this periodical, please email CALS Publications at [email protected]

Delevering benefits through evidence: Temporary and demountable flood protection guide

The research found that in the large majority of situations where temporary and demountable systems have been used, they have provided adequate protection. There have been some occasions however where operational processes or inaccurate hydraulic assessments has led to a failure of the systems. These failings highlighted the importance of reinforcing the performance and failure characteristics of temporary and demountable systems, and the role of the understanding of the hydraulic loading and operational management within this. They also highlighted that these systems only perform their flood protection role when fully in place before inundation occurs and the importance of the success of the associated operational processes within this. The guide therefore focuses on the whole life cycle of the design and management of the systems and associated products to ensure the development of an appropriate product and the achievement and continued maintenance of an optimum level of reliability. These are underpinned as necessary by an understanding of the risk and performance issues, including how the risk can be minimised and performance enhanced. The guide takes a user through a systematic process from deciding whether the use of temporary and demountable systems are appropriate for particular scenarios, through the design of systems that offer appropriate solutions to the required functional, structural and operational requirements. It then provides guidance on optimising the operational reliability and taking other local, economic, environmental and whole life management issues into consideration to enable the design to be finalised. This is supported by Appendices containing information on available products and their characteristics to aid design choices. The user is then guided through the development of operational support plans and protocols to ensure the system and associated products can be managed effectively over its life

The costs and impacts of the winter 2013/14 floods in England and Wales

Between December 2013 and March 2014, the UK witnessed heavy and prolonged rainfall, including the wettest January on record in parts of the country and around twice the average monthly rainfall in other locations. The East Coast was also affected by the largest coastal surge since 1953. These events resulted in significant coastal damage and prolonged fluvial and groundwater flooding affecting a large expanse of England and Wales. During this period many properties, crucial transport infrastructure and farmland were flooded. This study for the UK Environment Agency, led by Risk & Policy Analysts (RPA) in association with HaskoningDHV UK, John Chatterton Associates and Morris Resource Economics, reviewed more than 500 documents, articles and reports and requested information from more than 640 individuals and organisations. Through careful consideration of the reliability of each and every piece of data, we were able to calculate a best estimate for the economic costs of the winter 2013/14 floods (in 2014 values) of €1.7 billion, with uncertainty resulting in a range of between €1.3 billion to €1.9 billion. Residential properties suffered the greatest proportion of damages, with 25% of total damages (best estimate of €410 million incurred by 10,465 properties)

The costs and impacts of the winter 2013/14 floods in England and Wales

Between December 2013 and March 2014, the UK witnessed heavy and prolonged rainfall, including the wettest January on record in parts of the country and around twice the average monthly rainfall in other locations. The East Coast was also affected by the largest coastal surge since 1953. These events resulted in significant coastal damage and prolonged fluvial and groundwater flooding affecting a large expanse of England and Wales. During this period many properties, crucial transport infrastructure and farmland were flooded. This study for the UK Environment Agency, led by Risk & Policy Analysts (RPA) in association with HaskoningDHV UK, John Chatterton Associates and Morris Resource Economics, reviewed more than 500 documents, articles and reports and requested information from more than 640 individuals and organisations. Through careful consideration of the reliability of each and every piece of data, we were able to calculate a best estimate for the economic costs of the winter 2013/14 floods (in 2014 values) of €1.7 billion, with uncertainty resulting in a range of between €1.3 billion to €1.9 billion. Residential properties suffered the greatest proportion of damages, with 25% of total damages (best estimate of €410 million incurred by 10,465 properties)

The costs and impacts of the winter 2013/14 floods in England and Wales

Between December 2013 and March 2014, the UK witnessed heavy and prolonged rainfall, including the wettest January on record in parts of the country and around twice the average monthly rainfall in other locations. The East Coast was also affected by the largest coastal surge since 1953. These events resulted in significant coastal damage and prolonged fluvial and groundwater flooding affecting a large expanse of England and Wales. During this period many properties, crucial transport infrastructure and farmland were flooded. This study for the UK Environment Agency, led by Risk & Policy Analysts (RPA) in association with HaskoningDHV UK, John Chatterton Associates and Morris Resource Economics, reviewed more than 500 documents, articles and reports and requested information from more than 640 individuals and organisations. Through careful consideration of the reliability of each and every piece of data, we were able to calculate a best estimate for the economic costs of the winter 2013/14 floods (in 2014 values) of €1.7 billion, with uncertainty resulting in a range of between €1.3 billion to €1.9 billion. Residential properties suffered the greatest proportion of damages, with 25% of total damages (best estimate of €410 million incurred by 10,465 properties)

Temporary and demountable flood protection Interim guidance on use

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