Britain’s most artificial landscape may not survive climate change

By Katie Jenkins, British Academy Innovation Fellow, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia
Robert James Nicholls, Professor of Climate Adaptation, University of East Anglia

Stretching across much of eastern England, the Fens produce a third of the country’s vegetables and support tens of thousands of jobs. Yet around 33% of the region lies below average sea level, while 87% is below the highest spring tides

The landscape only exists due to centuries of engineering – pumps, embankments and drainage channels – that keeps water moving almost constantly. Now climate change is introducing new challenges that this system was never designed to face.

The Fens face several…

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