- Consequences may be lessened through raising public awareness.
- Improving meteorological forecasting can give due warning of such events, so that time is given for evacuation. However, this is more suitable for developed countries and less so for countries with emerging economies where large populations live in low lying & mainly agricultural regions which are very susceptible to the impact of surge floods and where information is often not available and/or adequately disseminated to the population early enough.
- Man-made defences, are necessary, as without them, economic losses caused by a current 10 yr storm surge event, would reach Euros 2.5 billion.
- Without man-made defences, sea level rise would increase coastal flood risks in a significant manner, i.e. 50 cm of sea level rise would increase by 55% the losses caused by the 120-yr event, from Euros 3billion to 5 billion.