Eighth International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM8)
"Lowering Risk by Increasing Resilience"
The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA
August 17 - 19, 2020
| Theme and Topics for Parallel Sessions | |
| PS I: Science & Technology for Flood Risk Management | |
| PS I.a | Citizen science in flood management |
| PS I.b | Dam Safety |
| PS I.c | Remote-sensing for flood management (from local to global scales) |
| PS I.d | Systems approach for flood management (monitoring, modelling) |
| PS II: Artificial Intelligence for Flood Risk Mitigation | |
| PS II.a | Big data and flood management |
| PS II.b | Risk communication |
| PS II.c | Flood decisions support systems |
| PS III: Flood disaster prevention, mitigation, and adaptation | |
| PS III.a | Flood-proof cities |
| PS III.b | The intersection between riverine and coastal flood risks |
| PS III.c | Climate change and flooding |
| PS III.d | Cooperation in the management of large flood events |
| PS III.e | Changing flood risk |
| PS IV: Flood preparedness, response, and recovery | |
| PS IV.a | Sponge city |
| PS IV.b | Low impact flood measures |
| PS IV.c | Impacts of life loss and damage estimation |
| PS IV.d | Flood adaptive infrastructure |
| PS V: Flood resilience | |
| PS V.a | Flood resilient communities |
| PS V.b | Nature-based solutions for flood management |
| PS VI: Flood decision-making, policy, and governance | |
| PS VI.a | Governance and partnerships (shared vision & responsibility) |
| PS VI.b | Infrastructure and investements |
| PS VI.c | Insurance and building level protection |
| PS VI.d | Integrated flood risk management |
| PS VI.e | Governance and partnerships (shared vision & responsibility) |