Recording of the “instead of ICFM8” webinar

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Programme

Introduction

- Opening of the event

LYU Juan
Director of the Research Center on Flood & Drought Disaster Reduction of Ministry of Water Resources and IWHR, China

- “Instead of ICFM8”

Slobodan P. Simonovic
ICFM Chairperson, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Western University, Canada

- Life-time awards

Subhankar Karmakar
Professor, Environmental Science and Eng. Dept., Associate faculty, Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

A brief response from awardees:
CHENG Xiaotao, Flood Specialist, IWHR, China

Jos van Alphen, Delta Program Commissioner, the Netherlands

- ICFM now

ZHANG Cheng
Director of the Permanent ICFM Secretariat, IWHR, China

Distinguished presentations

Chaired by
Slobodan P. Simonovic
ICFM Chairperson, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, Western University, Canada

 

- Flood Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience in the Americas

Susan L. Cutter
Carolina Distinguished Professor, Director, Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute, Director, IRDR International Centre of Excellence on Vulnerability and Resilience Metrics (ICoE-VaRM), Department of Geography, University of South Carolina, the U.S.

- Managing the 2020 floods of the Yangtze - Engineering and Non-engineering Measures

ZHANG Jianyun
Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, China

- Shifting Time Horizons in Urban Flood Risk Management

Chris Zevenbergen
Professor, Water Engineering Department, IHE Delft, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering of the TU Delft, The Netherlands

Q & A session

Moderated by
Subhankar Karmakar
Professor, Environmental Science and Eng. Dept., Associate faculty, Interdisciplinary Programme in Climate Studies, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

ICFM9 invitation

Toshio KOIKE
Honorary professor, University of Tokyo, Director, International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management, Japan

Closing the event

ZHANG Cheng
Director of the Permanent ICFM Secretariat, IWHR, China


Host
International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM)
China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR)

Organizer
Permanent Secretariat of ICFM

Technical support
Medcon Conference Service Platform (MEDCON)

384 participants attended the webinar from all over the world. Thank you for your interest and we hope that you will join our future online events and conferences.

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