(Proceedings, World Congress on Natural Disaster Mitigation, February 2004, New Delhi, Vol. 2, pp. 447–454).
Flooding is a major natural hazard in the UK. Government policies towards flood hazard management have changed radically over the last 50 years both as a result of reactive responses to major flood events and incrementally in response to influences external to the flood defence policy field.
Flood risk management, Flood warning, Land-use planning, Policy change
