ICHARM will hold "ICHARM
Quick Report on Floods 2007" at ICHARM on 6th November,
2007.
The year 2007 has again been a special year with a number
of devastating flood-related disasters all over the world.
Climate change is progressing. Adaptation is the top agenda
item for all nations.
From June through August, the Huai River
and other south-eastern parts of China were hit by successive
floods and about 1,300 were killed. Britain experienced a
long spell of the June-July rain with a daily rainfall of
100mm in various parts of the country. It was an unusually
heavy rainfall in Britain, affecting more than a million people
and costing insurance companies ?2 billion (about 500 billion
Yen). In July and August, Nepal, India and Bangladesh were
flooded resulting in a total of 2,200 people killed and more
than 30 million evacuated.
In such circumstances, we organizes a collection of quick
reports on the most serious floods occurring so far this year,
inviting top local experts responsible for national flood
research and management in China and U.K.;
" Dr. KUANG ShangFu, President, China Institute of
Water Resource and Hydropower Research, Beijing, China
" Dr. Ian Cluckie, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering,
University of Bristol, U.K.
After all the presentations, a panel discussion will follow
towards the establishment of international collaboration mechanisms
for adaptation to climate change.
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Agenda (Tentative) Organizer:
International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management
(ICHARM)
Venue: ICHARM Auditorium, Public Works Research Institute
Date: November 6th 2007
Language: English only
10:00-10:15 Opening Remarks
Dr. Tadahiko Sakamoto, Chief Executive of PWRI
Dr. Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Director of ICHARM
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-12:00 Report 1 "Flood Disasters and Counter Measures
in China"
Dr. KUANG ShangFu, President of IWHR, China
12:00-13:30 Lunch & Break
13:30-15:00 Report 2 "Flood-related disasters in U.K."
(Tentative)
Dr. Ian Cluckie, Prof. of Bristol Univ., U.K.
15:00-15:30 Report 3 "Flood-related disasters in Japan"
Mr. Noriyuki Mori, River Bureau, MLIT
15:30-15:50 Break
15:50-16:50 Panel Discussion (Moderator: Dr. Takeuchi)
-Effects of Global Warming and flood fighting strategies in
the world-
16:50- Closing Remarks