Committee on Flood Risk Management
Newsletters
Inauguration of the newsletter series, download
Future Events
8th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM8) in August 9-11, 2021 in Iowa City, (USA), sessions sponsored by FRM TC.
Initiatives
Launch of a decade of FRM TC action: suggestions from the community welcome!!
Data/Model Repository
Flood Damage Models (FDM): Download
Typical Flood Management Case Studies
On the role of hydraulic engineering to support flood resilience and mitigation (Outline based on discussions held during the IAHR FRM TC on September 6, 2018 during the River Flow conference in Lyon)
Dam-break flows over mobile beds: experiments and benchmark tests for numerical models
Flood Risk Management Technical Committee (FRMTC) Activities
Last update of the site: March 12, 2019.
For additional information, please contact Jennifer Duan (gduan@email.arizona.edu).
Background and Scope
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 2015 IAHR 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.
Research Agenda
Prevention: preventing damage caused by floods by avoiding construction of houses and industries in present and future flood-prone areas; by adapting future developments to the risk of flooding; and by promoting appropriate land-use, agricultural and forestry practices;
Protection: taking measures, both structural and non-structural, to reduce the likelihood of floods and/or the impact of floods in a specific location;
Preparedness: informing the population about flood risks and what to do in the event of a flood;
Emergency response: developing emergency response plans in the case of a flood;
Recovery and lessons learned: returning to normal conditions as soon as possible and mitigating both the social and economic impacts on the affected population;
Resiliency: working to ensure long-term resiliency of citizens, economies, ecological systems and watershed health for future flood events.
Past 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.
Developing and Assessing Resilient Systems in Support of National Security organized by Military Operations Research Society (MORS), April 10-11, 2018, Vicksburg, MS.
Workshop “Validation in Flood Risk Modelling: combining scientific, policy and market perspectives”, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, 20-21 November 2017 www.eko.polimi.it
Flood Risk Management committee meeting in Kuala Lumpur (August 14, 2017)
Special Session on Flood Science for Flood Prediction, Mitigation, and Resilience, River Flow 2016, St Louis, July 12-15th, 2016
Dr Xiatao Cheng–secretary of the FRM TC-was actively involved in the delivery of the: Regional Workshop on South-South Cooperation in Flood Management Workshop (December 14-16 2015; Foshan, China)
Launch Meeting, June 30th, 2015, The Hague (during the 36th IAHR World Congress)