Resilience to flooding

Anticipate

Actions to prepare in advance
to respond to shocks and stresses

• Climate and socio-economic scenario analysis
• Methodological frameworks and approaches for planning and incorporating climate resilience
• Climate risk and vulnerability assessments (CRVAs)
• Asset management and condition assessment
• Integrated, multi-hazard assessments
• Systems analysis of interdependences 
• Stress testing and extreme analysis
• Growing portfolio of forecasting capabilities
• Earth observation monitoring and forecasting

Resist

Actions to help withstand or endure
shocks and stresses to prevent an
impact on infrastructure services

• Design and good practice guidance for barriers, defences and assets
• Catchment management adopting natural flood measures
• Smart technologies and apps (e.g. for monitoring assets)
• Emergency plans (e.g. using Life Safety Modelling)
• Flood product testing and building resilience.

Absorb

Actions that, accepting there will be or
has been an impact on infrastructure
services, aimto lessen that impact

• Operational forecasting
• Real-time monitoring.

Adapt

Actions that change the system
to enable it to continue to
deliver services

• Forward looking strategies to keep options open for future interventions 
• Scalable solutions involving multiple nested measures
• Decision pathways and adaptive management approaches
• Option appraisal, selection and optimisation, and visualisation
• Prioritisation of options and preparation of investment plans, and financing strategies
• Earth Observation for monitoring changes.

Transform

Actions that improve systems,
for example transforming infrastructure
to meet the net zero carbon target,
involving ambitious and even surprising
scaleable solutions involving multiple
nested measures.