Natural flood defences can help protect our coast and rivers

During last winter, the UK saw some of the worst flooding it has had for many years. With homes and farmland under feet of water, the questions that have inevitably followed focus on how flooding on such a scale can be prevented in the future. Daniel Bastreri is a principal marine consultant at leading UK ecology consultancy Thomson Ecology. In this article he discusses the different man-made and natural solutions that may help to solve this difficult issue.