National Flood Resilience Strategy: consultation analysis

Footnotes

1 Where possible, these rankings have been included but have been adjusted as necessary to read across to the ranking scale given.

2 As an ‘Other’ option was given at each question, there is always one more ranking option than the choices offered in the consultation paper.

3 Please note that this also applies to the analysis of ‘Other’ suggestions at the closed questions. The comment rate at these questions tended to range between around 70-90 comments. However, many of these made general points rather than a specific suggestion. These more general comments have been eliminated before assessing whether a suggestion was frequently made.

4 Some organisations also answered this question. It is not clear whether they were answering the question in terms of what they or their organisation could do, or in terms of what they saw as important for others to do.

5 RCPs capture assumptions about changes to the environment in a set of scenarios that are used in modelling possible future climate evolution. RCP8.5 assumes the greatest increase in radiative forcing – the difference between the solar energy absorbed by the Earth’s atmosphere and that radiated back into space – and hence the largest increases in global mean surface temperature and global mean sea level rise. It is based on continued growth of greenhouse gases with no mitigating actions and has been viewed as a worst-case scenario.

6 This was reported as a conclusion from the review of Defra’s Coastal Pathfinder Programme, a project that tested new approaches to planning for and managing coastal change. The report is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coastal-change-pathfinder-review.