Social Science. Sustainable Strategies of Urban Flood Risk Management with non-structural Measures to cope with the Residual Risk | wise-rtd.info. Keywords: information giving, participation, awareness raising, flood, forecasting, flood management Start date of the project: SUFRI is part of the ERA-Net CRUE, a research network with the vision to establish border conditions for a European research space for the tasks of flood risk management. In the recent past, flood events occurred ever more frequently, and with snowballing effects for the landscape and its habitants. As a result of the current situations in many European cities that relate to flooding the demand of the population for absolute safety becomes top priority. In terms of the implementation of the Floods Directive in 2007 a broad basis of knowledge and tools, as well as the development of improved strategies for flood risk management are required.
Particularly in regard to urban areas flood protection and retention are more problematical than in rural areas due to limited space in combination with a high density of population. Brochure, policy brief, Countries: Dipl. Non-structural mitigation measures: E-Learning Platform for IFM. Publications. University of Delaware: DRC-Disaster Research Center. The Disaster Research Center’s 50th Anniversary Workshop & Celebration “Taking Stock and Taking Action: Disaster Research and the Challenges Ahead” When: Wednesday April 30th through Saturday May 3rd, 2014 Where: Clayton Hall, University of Delaware We would like to invite you to our upcoming 50th Anniversary Workshop & Celebration Wednesday April 30th through Saturday May 3rd, 2014. The Disaster Research Center was established in 1963 and, fifty years later, DRC is celebrating its continued success in research, training, and service to the disaster community. The 50th Anniversary Workshop and Celebration will bring together researchers and practitioners from throughout the history of DRC and the larger disaster science, policy, and management field in a unique opportunity to assess the state of the art and to map out future research paths.
For more information about the conference visit the event webpage: DRC 50th Anniversary Conference. Public Works Research Institute. United Nations University. International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research. ICHARM The International Centre for Water Hazard. Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.