Including 6 closely related terms such as floods, flood, and flooding.
… in its Local Climate Impacts Profile (LCIP), 2009, which stated: “The number of significant weather events is predicted to increase over the next ten years as a result of climate change and Herefordshire Council and the County as a whole needs to develop an increased level of adaptation strategies for events such as flash flooding.” We will be following the National Adaptation Programme (NAP…
…. The floods of February 2020 were some of the worst to date and are an example of the “new normal” to which we need to adapt. Adaptation to climate change needs to form part of an integrated risk management strategy in order to increase our resilience to and mitigate the impacts of severe weather events and the associated human and economic costs. The council first explored the need for adaptation…