ABSTRACT

A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual' 

This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency. It builds upon a previous book known as the "multi-coloured manual" (2005), which itself was a synthesis of the blue (1977), red (1987) and yellow manuals (1992). As such it expands and updates this work, to provide a manual of assessment techniques of flood risk management benefits, indirect benefits, and coastal erosion risk management benefits. 

It has three key aims. First it provides methods and data which can be used for the practical assessment of schemes and policies. Secondly it describes new research to update the data and improve techniques. Thirdly it explains the limitations and complications of Benefit-Cost Analysis, to guide decision-making on investment in river and coastal risk management schemes.

chapter 1|32 pages

Introduction

The purpose and contents of this Manual

chapter 2|24 pages

Using appraisals to make better choices

chapter 3|29 pages

Flood risk management benefits

Theory and practice

chapter 5|51 pages

Flood damage to non-residential properties

chapter 6|72 pages

Other flood losses

Utility services, schools, hospitals, transportation networks and emergency costs

chapter 7|19 pages

Coastal erosion risk management

Potential losses and benefits

chapter 8|38 pages

Recreational gains and losses