Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Network FCERM_Net

洪水现在是一个世界性的大问题。认识到这一点，英国洪水风险管理的资助者从2004年到2012年集中资源共同资助了洪水风险管理研究联盟（FRMRC）。该联盟的任务是建立一个高质量的科学项目，以加强对洪水的了解，提高社会降低洪水风险的能力。这一举措使英国负责FCERM的机构能够积极地与大学研究界合作，以促进成功地采用改进的科学和工程技术来支持洪水风险管理实践。在FRMRC结束的预期中，生活与环境变化（LWEC）伙伴关系于2011年制定并发布了《英国洪水和海岸侵蚀风险管理战略》。为了为这一策略提供投资，EPSRC举办了一个“创新的洪水风险解决方案”沙坑。其结果是颁发了三项新的赠款，以支持洪水风险管理方面的创新。洪水和海岸侵蚀风险管理网络（FCERM_Net）的目的是支持LWEC战略，通过促进研究和用户社区之间的互动，为EPSRC投资提供协调活动，以帮助研究的转化和吸收，识别新出现的研究差距，并鼓励开发新的研究建议来弥合这些差距。

Flooding is now a major problem worldwide. Recognition of this resulted in funders of flood risk management in the UK pooling resources to jointly fund the Flood Risk Management Research Consortium (FRMRC), from 2004 until 2012. The consortium was charged with establishing a programme of high quality science to enhance understanding of flooding and improve society's ability to reduce flood risk. This initiative enabled the agencies responsible for FCERM in the UK to actively engage with the university research community in a manner that facilitated the successful uptake of improved scientific and engineering techniques in support of flood risk management practice. In anticipation of the end of FRMRC the Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) Partnership developed and published its UK Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy in 2011. To provide investment in this strategy the EPSRC held an "Innovative Solutions to Flood Risk" sandpit. The outcome of which was the award of three new grants supporting innovation in flood risk management. The purpose of the Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Network (FCERM_Net) is to support the LWEC strategy by providing a co-ordinating activity for the EPSRC investment through the facilitation of interaction between the research and user communities to aid the translation and uptake of the research, identifying emerging research gaps and encouraging the development of new research proposals to bridge these gaps.