DEFRA webpage on the new government strategy for flood and coastal erosion risk management. Provides links to "Making space for water: taking forward a new government strategy for flood and coastal erosion risk management in England: first response to the autumn 2004 Making space for water consultation exercise", the original consultation, further background information and progress on the strategy. The first response sets out the aim of the new strategy: to manage the risk from flooding and coastal erosion by employing an integrated portfolio of approaches which reflect both national and local priorities, so as to reduce the threat to people and their property; to deliver the greatest environmental, social and economic benefit consistent with the government's sustainable development principles and to secure efficient and reliable funding mechanisms that deliver the levels of investment required to achieve the vision of this strategy.