FLOODrisk 2008 will explore research advances in flood risk analysis and innovations in flood risk management practice. The conference will consider all aspects of flood risk and will all cover the causes of floods, their impacts on people, property and the environment, and portfolios of risk management measures.

FLOODrisk 2008 is an initiative of FLOODsite, the largest European research project on flooding, coordinated by HR Wallingford. FLOODrisk 2008 is an open forum for researchers, flood risk managers, policy makers and practitioners from government, commercial and research organisations, designers, owners and national agencies to discuss advances, case studies and best practice in this important subject.

The Local Organising Committee of FLOODrisk 2008 would like to invite prospective authors to submit papers dealing with the conference topics
or related subjects. You can register your interest now via the conference website.

Abstract preparation

Guidelines and templates will be available online from 14 September 2007. Abstracts must be submitted via the website by 14 January 2008.

Conference topics

Flood Risk Analysis

• Flood generation mechanisms
• Assessment of extremes
• Flood defence infrastructure reliability and failure
• Economic assessment of flood impacts
• Human and social impacts of flooding
• Risk tolerance, acceptance and resilience
• Systems analysis and modelling
• Flood inundation modelling
• Sediment movement and morphological change

Flood Risk Management

• Institutional and governance arrangements
• Policy development, including the EU Directive
• Safety standards, risk sharing, insurance, social justice and equity
• Spatial planning and land use management
• Use of future scenarios for social and environmental change
• Environmental impacts and opportunities
• Flood alerts, forecasting and warning
• Infrastructure management, inspection, maintenance and renewal
• Civil contingency planning
• Emergency response, temporary defence and evacuation
• Relief and disaster management
• Public communication and understanding of risk
• Education, training and professional development

Decision Support

• Long term planning
• Flood event management
• Design criteria, scenarios and ensembles
• Uncertainty representation, estimation and integration into decisions
• Integrated decision making

Real Cases

• Use of portfolio of measures
• Transnational issues
• Combination of flood sources
• Examples from flash floods, lowland river floods, urban floods, tidal surge, coastal storms