THE Government is considering how to boost resilience against flooding and coastal change.

The Environment Agency measures and tracks the number of properties in England protected each year to understand the impact of investment and report on progress to Government.

A Government spokesman said: “We want to be able to measure and track other aspects to understand how flood and coastal risk management activity improves resilience to flooding and coastal change.”

So it has launched the national flood and coastal erosion risk management strategy for England.

The strategy is designed to boost resilience to flooding and coastal change using a range of activities: providing protective defences, improving place making, responding to flooding and coastal change and improving recovery.

“Increasing resilience is an important part of how the nation can adapt to climate change. We’ll only know if the picture is changing for the better if we measure changes in resilience over a period of time, so we’re delivering new research to determine how to do this.”

The research conducted will help focus groups dream up new ways of tackling the issues.