An overview of research into river, estuary and coastal processes

This programme of work explored the long term processes that affect rivers, estuaries and coasts in order to support sustainable flood risk policies and activities.

• From: Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 12 February 2021

• Category: Understanding risks from all sources of flooding
• Topics: Adaptation, Big data, Climate change, Coast, Coastal erosion, Flood forecasting, Hydrology, Meteorology, Modelling, Sea level rise, Strategy and planning, Sustainability, Understanding physical processes
• Project status: Completed
• Project code: FD1810
• Date of completion: 31 March 2003

Documents

Fluvial esturarine and coastal processes theme Management 2002-03 - final report (65KB) PDF

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Details

This report outlines all the research work carried out between April 2002 and October 2003 exploring all the important processes that affect river, estuary and coastal systems. This research was commissioned to make it possible to develop effective and environmentally acceptable flood and coastal defence structures and approaches.

The benefits of studying how processes interact in the long-term means that it’s easier to develop policies for sustainable, long-term flood and coastal defence, rather than responding to problems as they happen.

The project started in 2002 and was completed in 2003 at a cost of £105,900

Published 12 February 2021