#Thread Interesting in @thetimes today on #Flooding ( https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/defences-in-demand-as-climate-change-makes-britain-even-wetter-ff6zg8pxd) (£) highlights that Govt action to improve protection of 300,000 covers "a fraction of the 5.2 million homes and businesses" that are at risk.

We ( @SMFthinktank @wpi_economics ) have worked on how the rest of that 5.2m could improve their resilience to flooding. A lot will rest on individual action (as it does to protect against, e.g. burglary) - but there are significant barriers to this ( https://www.smf.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/SMF-Incentivising-household-action-on-flooding_web-14-03-2018.pdf )

And our work with @B_I_Tweets for Environment Agency highlighted even more barriers - and started to think about how they might be broken down: http://wpieconomics.com/publications/applying-behavioural-insights-property-flood-resilience/

Our most recent work with @floodre put forward details of how Flood Performance Certificates could be used to prompt and support households to take action to improve flood resilience. https://wpieconomics.com/case-study/flood-performance-certificates/ . Taking this forward could be game changing for take up of resilience.