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Driving policy innovation over decades: natural flood management timeline (PDF)
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The impact publication and timeline describe how the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, the Environment Agency, and partners have collaborated to identify and de-risk a more sustainable way to deliver flood and coastal resilience.
Thanks to a strong evidence base natural flood management (NFM) is now key to UK flood and coastal erosion strategy.
NFM approaches deliver multiple benefits, such as sustainable flood resilience, biodiversity gains, improvements in water quality, carbon capture, and enhanced health and wellbeing for communities.
The journey from a defence-focused strategy to one that embraces resilience and adaptation through NFM showcases the transformative power of evidence-based policy and a collaborative approach to research.
Policy developments and research advancements have progressed in tandem, with each informing and reinforcing the other. The impact publication and timeline show how these parallel efforts have evolved over time.