Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank all those who assisted in the preparation of this report with comments and suggestions. He would particularly like to thank Anna McGuire for her tireless efforts in typesetting, proofing and checking for errors.

He also thanks the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency for their detailed comments, but would emphasise that any views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the policies of these agencies. He would also like to thank the Hadley Centre at the Met Office, and the UK Climate Impacts Programme for permission to reproduce some of their diagrams, Stirling Council for permission to reproduce the front cover of their flooding report, and those who contributed photographs.

Finally he would like to thank his wife Haf, for her patience and for her assistance with Welsh sources.




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