Launch of a decade of FRM TC action: suggestions from the community welcome!!
Last update of the site: March 12, 2019.
For additional information, please contact Jennifer Duan (gduan@email.arizona.edu).
Flood Risk Management (FRM) is a key topic of current concern for the water community, driven primarily by transformations of rural landscapes, unsustainable urban population growth and climate change. At the same time IAHR needs to be more focused on problem–solving in practice and other Committees such as Fluvial Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics are narrowly focused on hydraulic processes.
Following discussion within IAHR (and also with other associations such as IAHS and IWRA), the IAHR council approved at the 2015 meeting the establishment of a new Technical Committee on Floor Risk management which held a launch meeting during the 2015IAHR World Congress in The Hague. The FRM TC will provide a platform within IAHR to promote and support FRM sessions in our key congresses, and will organise a dedicated FRM conference in Iowa in 2018; it is intended that the new Committee will also act as the main contact point to further stronger links with other associations with an interest in this domain.
Resiliency: working to ensure long-term resiliency of citizens, economies, ecological systems and watershed health for future flood events.
Master Classes on Flood Risk Management, River Flow Conference 2018, September 5-8, 2018, Lyon, France.
5th IAHR Europe Congress, New Challenges in Hydraulic Research and Engineering, Trento 12-14, June 2018, sessions sponsored by FRM TC.