Build to blot out another Boscastle

2005-03-08T00:00:00

Floods ravaged Boscastle in Cornwall, August 2004

Source: Sam Morgan Moore / Rex Features

Back in 1970 singer Joni Mitchell lamented the modern urge to “pave Paradise and put up a parking lot”. Three decades later CIRIA takes up the cry with a new book on dealing with the risk of flooding – a risk enhanced by our tendency to cover the earth with ...

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