Joe Morris

A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency. It builds upon a previous book known as the "multi-coloured manual" (2005), which itself was a synthesis of the blue (1977), red (1987) and yellow manuals (1992). As such it expands and updates this work, to provide a manual of assessment techniques of flood risk management benefits, indirect benefits, and coastal erosion risk management benefits. It has three key aims. First it provides methods and data which can be used for the practical assessment of schemes and policies. Secondly it describes new research to update the data and improve techniques. Thirdly it explains the limitations and complications of Benefit-Cost Analysis, to guide decision-making on investment in river and coastal risk management schemes.

If you've ever wondered what the connection is between football and poetry then wonder no more. Football's Poetic Licence is your perfect reading companion. It'll make you giggle, laugh and smile. It's Shakespeare swapping shirts with the modern Beautiful Game. It's Keats and Wordsworth making sense of the offside law. It's Yeats coming off the subs' bench and then dribbling past a forest of defenders for the winning goal, tracking back in defence. But above all, it's about the fun of football. Football as poetry in motion.

'Ollie and His Friends' is all about a group of musical instruments who suddenly come to life in the family home where children Peter and Julie join them on an adventure of a lifetime. Ollie and his friends are naughty, cheeky, mischievous, funny, happy, sad, frightened, upset, and angry, but always determined to have a brilliant time with their family. Incidentally, they love eating jam sandwiches.

A new ‘Multi-Coloured Manual' This book is a successor to and replacement for the highly respected manual and handbook on the benefits of flood and coastal risk management, produced by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University, UK, with support from Defra and the Environment Agency. It builds upon a previous book known as the "multi-coloured manual" (2005), which itself was a synthesis of the blue (1977), red (1987) and yellow manuals (1992). As such it expands and updates this work, to provide a manual of assessment techniques of flood risk management benefits, indirect benefits, and coastal erosion risk management benefits. It has three key aims. First it provides methods and data which can be used for the practical assessment of schemes and policies. Secondly it describes new research to update the data and improve techniques. Thirdly it explains the limitations and complications of Benefit-Cost Analysis, to guide decision-making on investment in river and coastal risk management schemes.