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URflood: Understanding uncertainty and risk in communicating about floods

Project background

URflood was developed in response to the second pilot call for projects resulting from the ERA-Net CRUE consortium, a consortium brought together with the vision to support and develop an extensive coordination and integration of regional, national and European research programmes and policies in the filed of flood risk management. The objective of the call was to establish transnational collaborative research projects on "Flood resilient communities - managing the consequences of flooding". URflood looks more specifically at the first of the two thematic areas considered by the call "Improvement of risk awareness and increasing public participation."

Project Purpose

URflood hopes to produce guidance for use throughout the EU looking at how to implement good practice flood communications and how to respond to differences in how information is interpreted and utilised. This guidance will support the move towards Flood Risk Assessment and Management (FRAM) under the EU Floods Directive, improving resilience to the social, economic and environmental consequences of flood risk.

URflood aims to improve flood risk planning and responses to flood warnings by investigating and illustrating how flood risk communications are incorporated into the knowledge systems of different actors.