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Guest blog: Tom Harrison, Imperial College London

England’s traditional approach to flood defence became well established throughout the twentieth century: the greater the threat of floods to our towns and cities, the higher we built the concrete barriers to keep out the floodwater. And for a time, this tact didn’t serve us too badly! But in the face of climate change and growing flood risk, building taller and taller flood walls was never going to be enough to hold back the flood…