Scotland’s Flood Resilient Future
The conference theme for 2024 is Scotland’s Flood Resilient Future. During 2023 Scottish Government has been working with partners to create a Flood Resilience Strategy that enhances the Flood Risk Management Planning process by clearly setting out Scotland’s long-term ambitions for increasing flood resilience. The Strategy is still being developed and many of you will have been involved in the engagement and co-creation process over the last six months. It is anticipated that a draft of this strategy will be available for public consultation in spring 2024 and the conference will be an ideal opportunity to raise our collective ambition and plan together for the future.
Emerging themes suggest that practitioners and communities want the Strategy to:
- focus on how we can make our places more resilient to flooding in the context of the climate crisis;
- move away from an approach centred on a relatively small number of large civil-engineered flood ‘schemes’ and toward mainstreaming adaptation, nature based solutions and resilience into building design, placemaking and land management;
- put communities and delivery of cobenefits at the heart of that process; and
- set out the principles by which flood resilience will be delivered over the coming decades.
The conference will be held at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh on 08-09 February 2024 and will be a hybrid event.