Sharing and facilitating good practice for communicating local flood risk

Best practice guide for lead local flood authorities on communicating and engaging with communities about flood risk management.

From:
Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research and Development Programme and Environment Agency
Published
23 February 2021
Category:
Increasing resilience to flooding
Topics:
Communicating risk, Community participation, Community response and resilience
Project status:
Completed
Project code:
SC110007
Date of completion:
31 March 2015

Documents

CIRIA guides: communication and engagement

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email: enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

This guide from the Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA) highlights approaches for communication and engagement for local flood management. The Environment Agency contributed to this guide through case studies and experience of communicating flood risk.

Local Lead Flood Authorities (LLFAs) are responsible for managing local flood risk. This includes risk from:

  • surface runoff
  • groundwater
  • ordinary watercourses

When producing this guide between 2011 and 2015, CIRIA brought together experience and ideas from practitioners across the flood and coastal erosion risk management industry.

The guide shares tried and tested good practice. It supports:

  • communication teams
  • flood risk managers
  • drainage engineers and planners in LLFAs
  • local councils
  • water companies

It’ll also help communication and engagement with the public on local flood risk management.

Updates to this page

Published 23 February 2021
Contents