Eighth International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM8)
"Lowering Risk by Increasing Resilience"
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
August 17 - 19, 2020
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The conference submissions entails contributions for the Parallel Sessions (PS) and Special Sessions (SS). The PS and SS are grouped around the main conference themes listed below. The PS and SS will run simultaneously over identical session time slots and will contain the same number of papers per session. The PS contributions are open for all conference participants. The SS contributions can be either by invitation only or open to all conference participants as specified on the Special Sessions page. Theme and Topics for Parallel Sessions |
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I: Science & Technology (S&T) for Flood Risk Management |
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| PS I.a | Systems approach for flood management |
| PS I.b | Remote-sensing for flood management |
| PS I.c | Flood infrastructure |
| PS I.d | Citizen science for flood management |
| SS I.e | Mitigating flood risk through innovations in S&T |
| SS I.f | Flood risk in mountain regions |
| SS I.g | Flood risk reduction under climate change towards sustainable development: Scientific & technological approaches |
| SS I.h | Capacity development for risk informed decision making |
| II: Handling Data and Information for Flood Risk Management | |
| PS II.a | Big data and flood management |
| PS II.b | Risk communication |
| PS II.c | Flood decisions support systems |
| SS II.d | Validation database for flood model assessment |
| III: Flood Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Adaptation | |
| PS III.a | Climate change and flooding |
| PS III.b | Changing flood risk |
| PS III.c | The intersection between riverine and coastal flood risks |
| PS III.d | Cooperation in the management of large flood events |
| SS III.e | Cooperation in the management of large flood events |
| SS III.f | Compound events and correlated extremes |
| SS III.g | "No one is surprised by a flood" WMO long-term ambitions for the operational hydrological community |
| IV: Flood Preparedness, Response, and Recovery | |
| PS IV.a | Flood-proof cities |
| PS IV.b | Low impact flood measures |
| PS IV.c | Impacts of life loss and damage estimation |
| PS IV.d | Flood adaptive infrastructure |
| SS IV.e | Anticipating accelerated sea level rise |
| SS IV.f | Floods of 2019 in the U.S. |
| SS IV.g | Climate preparedness and resilience for climate-impacted hydrology and changing sea level |
| SS IV.h | Extreme floods in South Asia under changing environment |
| V: Flood Decision-making, Policy, and Governance | |
| PS V.a | Governance and partnerships (shared vision & responsibility) |
| PS V.b | Infrastructure and investments |
| PS V.c | Insurance and building level protection |
| PS V.d | Integrated flood risk management |
| SS V.e | Flood risk reduction under climate change towards sustainable development: national & international approaches |
| SS V.f | Lessons learned in the implementation of flood management projects by international organizations |
| VI: Flood Resilience | |
| PS VI.a | Flood resilient communities |
| PS VI.b | Nature-based solutions for flood management |
| SS VI.c | Flood resilience in practice |
| SS VI.d | Interagency and international resilience efforts |
| SS VI.e | Critical infrastructure resilience to extreme events |