FCERM-AG supporting guidance

• Economic appraisal spreadsheets are available to assist economic analysis (Excel, 775KB) 
• Supporting document for the appraisal summary table (PDF 396KB) - enables the clear presentation of negative and positive impacts to aid the consideration of wider issues within the appraisal.
• Guidance on applying the scoring and weighting methodology (PDF, 410KB) - enables the economic valuations of more intangible benefit types.
• Economic Valuation of Environmental Effects (PDF, 2.7MB)
• Assessment of coastal erosion and landsliding for the funding of coastal risk management project guidance notes (PDF, 2.9MB)
• Adapting to climate change: advice for flood and coastal erosion risk management authorities (PDF, 411KB) - this advice replaces the Defra 2006 guidance 'Treatment of climate change impacts' using the latest science from UK Climate Projections 2009, UKCP09.  This applies to England only.
  
  
• The Multi-Coloured Manual (and Handbook) 
  
  
• Managing flood risk by working with natural processes

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Defra supplementary guidance

The following Defra Supplementary Notes support the use of the FCERM-AG.

• Treatment of climate change impacts (PDF, 70KB) - following the publication of new climate change advice for England (above) this guidance now applies to Wales only.  Welsh Government are working with the Environment Agency to produce revised guidance using the latest science from UKCP09. 
• Treatment of agricultural land - May 2008 (PDF, 104KB)
• Risk to people guidance - May 2008 (PDF, 170KB) - covers a method for the evaluation of the risk to life associated with flood risks.  
• Interim guidance note - July 2004 (PDF, 161KB) - which takes account of Defra's policy on socio-economic equity and appraisal of human-related impacts of flooding.
• Treatment of risk (optimism bias) (PDF, 235KB) - guidance for applying optimism bias is covered in Revisions to economic appraisal procedures arising from the new HM Treasury Green Book March 2003.