Further reading
Content to be supplied
This chapter's "External documentation to expand knowledge" section is present in the handbook as a heading with no content beneath it. No references, standards or guidance documents have been supplied for adaptation measures.
The page exists so the chapter matches the structure of the rest of the handbook and its URL is fixed now rather than after the fact.
What would belong here
Given the three categories covered in this chapter, the gap is worth filling deliberately rather than opportunistically. Useful additions would include:
| For | Likely sources |
|---|---|
| Green infrastructure | SuDS design guidance, and evidence on runoff reduction and urban cooling performance |
| Grey infrastructure | Drainage and flood-defence engineering standards, and design return periods |
| Soft measures | Heat-health alert and flood warning frameworks, rail hot-weather operating guidance, and evidence on behavioural response rates to warnings |
The behavioural evidence matters most
Of the items above, published evidence on response rates to warnings would do the most work.
The modelled benefit of every soft measure scales directly with the assumed level of demand reduction, and that assumption currently has no cited basis. See soft measures.
Related material elsewhere in the handbook
| Chapter | Relevance |
|---|---|
| Introduction: adaptation measures | The framework-level description of soft and hard measures, and baseline comparison |
| Transport thresholds | Operational thresholds and closure protocols, which are themselves soft measures |
| Performance metrics | How the effect of any measure is quantified |
| Case studies | Adaptation and intervention scenarios applied in practice |