Conferences
18–22 February 2023, Tsukuba, Japan
The 9th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM9)
More frequent, severe torrential rainfall events due to climate change have had critical global consequences in terms of human losses and economic damage. The number of people vulnerable to devastating floods will continue to rise due to large-scale urbanization, population growth in flood-prone areas, deforestation, climate change and rising sea levels. In the current COVID-19 environment, the world’s attention is often focused on preventing the further spread of infection. However, the threat of floods remains as imminent now as it was before the pandemic. If we fail to learn from our past mistakes and likewise enact change in society to increase its resilience to changes and disturbances, flood disasters will hit humanity even harder.
Starting with the adoption of "The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030" at the third United Nations World Conference on DRR in March 2015, the international community agreed on the "Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development" in September 2015 and "The Paris Agreement on Climate Change" in December 2015. To support and implement those agreements, concerted, solid and strategic actions must be taken to enhance climate and disaster resilience and sustainability.
Flood disaster resilience and sustainable development are closely and structurally interlinked. For this reason, it is necessary to understand the challenges they pose in a comprehensive manner beyond disciplines, promote holistic, integrated and interdisciplinary approaches, and conduct planning, implementation and evaluation for such obstacles. With these aims in mind, the ICFM9 will provide a platform to discuss a wide, comprehensive range of issues related to the topic at hand from scientific, technological, social and economic perspectives. In addition, the ICFM Lifetime Achievement Award and Erich Plate Best Student Poster Award will be presented at the conference.
The ICHARM is well-positioned to serve as a local host of the ICFM9 in collaboration with several key organizations in Japan. ICHARM will encourage and coordinate participation with many countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America to introduce further diversity to the discources that will be held at the ICFM9.
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