Flood Resilient Areas by multi-layEr Safety (FRAMES)

FRAMES aims to reduce the impact of floods from increasing sea levels and extreme rainfall patterns to keep the North Sea Region economically and environmentally sustainable. Due to the effects of climate change, the impact from floods is likely to increase the physical, economic and social damage in flood prone areas. Traditional flood protection measures may become less effective and sustainable in the future.

FRAMES increases flood resilience by building on the Multi-Layer Safety (MLS) concept. In MLS different ‘layers’ of resilience (prevention, spatial adaptation, emergency response and recovery) are integrated to result in:

• Flood resilient areas: improved infrastructure and spatial planning measures
• Flood resilient communities: better prepared inhabitants and social stakeholders
• Flood resilient authorities: reduced recovery times and increased response capacity

The MLS principles are being acknowledged by more and more authorities and practitioners across the North Sea Region, but not yet developed in a transnational way. The FRAMES partners are experimenting with MLS related concepts and will build on this experience to realise sustainable strategies and improve the capacity of authorities and society to cope with flooding.

The wiki area of the project summarizes all the relevant results achieved: the Policy recommendations, the Toolkit for the improved management of Multi Layered Safety (MLS), and other relevant information (infographics, videos, pilot site's descriptions and results, etc.).