Commissioned to complement the EA's Flood Risk Management Strategy for the Humber Estuary, this study explores and promotes ideas and partnerships that will tackle the issues of flood risk management in creative, multidisciplinary ways
The driver for the Landscape and GI study is the new partnership approach to funding flood defence works. Aiming to maximise the value of partner contributions, this study has considered how the estuary frontage might be designed in ways that deliver additional objectives alongside flood risk management as a means to draw in extra funding and create efficiencies in delivery. It provides examples of how these designs might work in different settings around the estuary.
This creative, integrated approach is relevant because the Humber hinterland landscapes face exceptionally high levels of flood risk and this prompts the need for a step change in the way we tackle flood risk management. The Humber Landscape and Green Infrastructure Study is intended to prompt the type of dynamic partnership working that will be required to respond to the risk.