In total nearly 90 audience members - including representatives of the Environment Agency, the insurance industry, local flood action groups, water companies, interest groups such as Greenpeace and the National Trust alongside students and academics - joined together to consider floods (and droughts): predictions, risks and the big issues for the future.
The flyer for the meeting includes a programme which provides a good sense of the breadth of issues covered. Our speakers: a statistician, an engineer, a government agency manager and a climate change/insurance industry consultant and researcher shared sometimes very different and sometimes converging angles on the issues and helped us to unravel the complexities attached to a really fascinating topic.
Slide presentations are available below:
Richard Chandler's presentation entitled 'Floods, Droughts and Fat Cows'
Jim Hall's presentation on 'Flood Risk Management'
Gary Lane's presentation on 'Evidence-based Policy'
David Crichton's presentation entitled 'Are insurers getting out of their depth?'
For more information on the presentations and a snapshot of items raised during the lengthy open floor discussion, please see the full report of the meeting.
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