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Floods are one of the most devastating natural disasters affecting humanity and in recent years they have become increasingly powerful and destructive. In June 2022, Sydney experienced an extremely rare and torrential rainfall, triggering the 4th overwhelming flood to strike the city within 16 months and causing huge economic losses. A similar disaster occurred in Bangladesh, resulting in over 110 deaths as of July 17. The floods caused by the monsoon rains since mid-June have killed over 1,000 people in Pakistan. Destructive floods have also hit the old city of Sana’a, Yemen (World Heritage), several provinces in Afghanistan, and Seoul, the capital city of Korea.

The UN Secretary General António Guterres pointed out at the Fifth UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters that “Climate change is altering rainfall patterns, affecting water availability, prolonging periods of drought and heat, and increasing the intensity of cyclones, which can lead to horrific flooding events.”

IAHR, a worldwide independent organization of engineers and water specialists working in fields related to the hydro-environmental sciences and their practical application, has over the years been making great efforts in advancing human understanding of the relevant disciplines.

Below is a guide to part of the related resources IAHR has to offer our members and the global research community.

Institutional Setup

IAHR Technical Committee on Flood Risk Management

In 2015 IAHR established this technical committee whose main objective is to provide a platform where researchers and practitioners may collaboratively take on the challenges and opportunities of Flood Risk Management. This is achieved by creating occasions for exchanging knowledge and practice like seminars, workshops, and conferences on key subjects of Flood Risk Management, as well as by acting as a contact point with sister associations dealing with the topic.

» More about this technical committee

» Join this technical committee

Events

IAHR convenes events that set agendas, harness and amplify the collective knowledge of the global hydro-environment community through the organization of congresses, symposiums, seminars, workshops and webinars that have been a popular success since the outbreak of COVID-19. Listed below are just a few of the events closely related to this topic.

» For more events, visit IAHR Events.

Publications

IAHR inspires, disseminates and catalyzes state-of-the-art knowledge and thinking on the most important water engineering and related environmental issues of present times through high quality products and peer-reviewed publications.

Search “flood” in the IAHR Document Library to view and download articles of proceedings, journals, Hydrolink, etc. related to this topic.

» For more publications, visit IAHR Document Library · Journals · Books · Hydrolink · White Paper

Videos

Find out what interests you most among the 340 hours of about 1000 video clips in 100 collections in the IAHR Video Library that have been viewd more than 800,000 times (statistics as of October 20, 2022).

» For more videos, visit IAHR Video Library.

Ongoing Initiatives

Check out the new and interesting initiatives IAHR is currently working on.

Expert Insights

IAHR gathers global top scholars, researchers, scientists and engineers working in fields related to the hydro-environmental sciences and their practical applications, and acts as a global voice to facilitate understanding, inspire ideas and make calls for actions.

IAHR Experts

Below is the list of IAHR individual members who are or were serving on the leadership team of the Technical Committee on Flood Risk Management. If you would like to connect with one or some of them, please contact our membership manager Ms. Sally Feng.

Please note that there are many IAHR experts in this research discipline who are not listed here.

• Daniela Molinari | Politecnico Di Milano - DICA, Italy
  Flood risk assessment and management, flood damage assessment

• Alastair G. Barnett | HYDRA Software Ltd, New Zealand
  Numerical Analysis Methods; Engineering, Applied and Computational Mathematics; Numerical Modeling; Computational Fluid Dynamics

• Marian Muste | IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa, United States of America
  Hydraulics and Surface Water Transport, Cyberinfrastructure for Integrated River Basin Management

• Larry J. Weber | IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of Iowa, United States of America
  Modeling of fish passage facilities, hydraulic structures and river restoration and protection of endangered species

• Stefan Haun | University of Stuttgart, Germany
  Sediments; Numerical Modeling; Sediment Transport; Numerics; Rivers; Water; Erosion; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Numerical Analysis; Reservoirs; Hydrodynamics; Numerical Simulation

• Xiaotao Cheng | China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), China
  Flood control and flood risk management, ranging from strategy planning to emergency response

• Cesar Adolfo Alvarado Ancieta | Cesar Alvarado Ancieta - Team Leader - International Expert: River Engineering, Flood Control, Sedimentation, Hydropower & Dams, Peru
  Rivers, Hydrology, Water Resources Management, Hydrological Modeling, Environmental Impact Assessment, Hydraulics, Water Resources Engineering, Water Engineering, Physical Geography, Hydrologic and Water Resource Modeling and Simulation

• Tomasz Dysarz | Poznan University of Life Sciences, Department of Hydraulic and Sanitary Engineering, Poland
  River flow modeling, sediment transport modeling, flood hazard assessment, geoprocessing, python scripting

• Daniele Pietro Viero | University of Padova, Italy
  Free-surface geophysical flows by means of numerical modelling and of field and laboratory experiments

• Ravindra Vitthal Kale | Western Himalayan Regional Centre, National Institute of Hydrology Jammu, J&K, India
  Hydrology and hydraulics dealing with Surface water assessment using deterministic, conceptual & Remote Sensing approaches; Irrigation; Integrated Water Resources Management involving Eco-hydrology & Climate Change; Spring Hydrology, Disaster Risk Assessment & Management; Soft-computing technqiues in hydrology etc

• Mustafa Altinakar | Argonne National Laboratory, United States of America
  Fluvial hydraulics and its environmental aspects, sediment transport and local scour, flood simulation and mapping, natural hazards and emergency management, decision support systems, and the design of hydraulic structures

• Mark Babister | WMAwater, Australia
  Rainfall, Hydraulic Modelling, Hydrological Modeling, Precipitation, Surface Hydrology, Rainfall Runoff Modelling, Hydraulics, Flood Modelling, Frequency Analysis

• Yongping Chen | Hohai University, China
  Hydrodynamic Modeling, Coastal Engineering, Wave Hydrodynamics, Coastal Processes, Environmental Engineering, Civil Engineering, Waves, Hydrodynamics, Estuaries, Sediments

• Na Li | China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR), China
  Development of flood analysis software with independent intellectual property rights, the production of dynamic flood risk maps, the application of flood risk maps, typhoon disaster management and flood impact assessment

• Jennifer G. Duan | University of Arizona, United States of America
  Experimental study of turbulence flow field and computational simulation of flow and sediment transport in rivers

• Benjamin J. Dewals | University of Liege, Belgium
  Flood risk management, fluvial hydraulics and reservoir sedimentation

• James Ball | University of Technology Sydney, Australia
  Water engineering, Urban drainage, Hydroinformatics, Water quality, Catchment modelling

• Francesco Ballio | Politecnico di Milano, Italy
  Sediment Transport, Flood Risk, Bridge Engineering

• Arthur Mynett | IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, Netherlands
  Flood Modelling, Hydraulics, Hydraulic Engineering, Hydraulic Modelling, Water Resources Management, River Engineering, Integrated Water Resources Management, Water Resources Engineering, Hydrologic and Water Resource Modeling and Simulation, Environmental Impact Assessment

• Silke Wieprecht | Institute for Modeling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems, University Stuttgart, Germany
  Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Sediment Transport, Morphology

• Kamal El Kadi Abderrezzak | Electricité de France, Division R&D, France
  Sediment Transport, Fluvial Geomorphology, Fluid Dynamics, Open Channel Hydraulics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Experimental Modeling, Flood Modelling

• Aminuddin Ab. Ghani | River Engineering and Urban Drainage Research Centre (REDAC), Malaysia
  Sediment Transport; Urban Drainage

» To find more Experts in the field of Floods, visit the IAHR Member Finder.

» To become an IAHR individual member, visit join.IAHR.org.

IAHR Institutes

Among the 118 institute members of IAHR, many of them have research departments, centers, business, and teams devoted to flood-related activities, listed below. If you would like to connect with one or some of them, please contact our membership manager Ms. Sally Feng.

» To become an IAHR institute member, visit join.IAHR.org.

More resource guides will be released in the coming months, please stay tuned. Any comments will be sincerely welcomed to Ms. Sally Feng.

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