Balancing UK agricultural production and environmental objectives
Supporting food and fibre production approaches that are environmentally sustainable and resilient to environmental change.
Natural flood management, defined here as the alteration, restoration or use of landscape features, is being promoted as a novel way of reducing flood risk. This POSTnote reviews the policy drivers of this approach, as well as the scientific basis, and implementation, of inland natural flood management strategies.
Natural Flood Management (322 KB , PDF)
Natural flood management, defined here as the alteration, restoration or use of landscape features, is being promoted as a novel way of reducing flood risk. This POSTnote reviews the policy drivers of this approach, as well as the scientific basis, and implementation, of inland natural flood management strategies.
Natural Flood Management (322 KB , PDF)
Supporting food and fibre production approaches that are environmentally sustainable and resilient to environmental change.
Water supplies could be better protected through a risk-based systems approach to managing the pressures currently degrading freshwaters.
Food systems face the triple challenge of food security, resilient supply chains and environmental sustainability.