Special Issue "Lowering Risk by Increasing Resilience: Selected Papers from 8th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM 8)"
A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2022) | Viewed by 28286
Special Issue Editors

Interests: water management; systems analysis; complexity; risk; resilience; hydrology
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Interests: analysis of hydro-climatic extremes; floodplain hydrology and management; uncertainty modeling and decision science
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2. Permanent secretariat of ICFM
Interests: hydrology; water resources; flood management; resilience; eco-hydrology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM), hosted every 3 years, offers a platform to discuss a range of flood-related issues and realize significant change in a multidisciplinary, multisectoral area. The eighth International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM8) under the title “Lowering Risk by Increasing Resilience” was planned for August 17–19, 2020 at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA. The main objective of ICFM8 is to provide a unique opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences on a range of issues that affect flood management, particularly the need to build resilience into future planning.
Unfortunately, due to extraordinary circumstances, we had to cancel the in-person ICFM8. However, the ICFM decided to do their best to continue and use as much as possible of the work toward ICFM8. One of our main follow-up activities is the publication of a Water Journal Special Issue (or issues) from submissions to ICFM8.
The Special Issue/s will identify key concerns and significant challenges of the future as currently perceived by researchers, industry, policymakers, and other flood management stakeholders. The main themes to be addressed include: science and technology for flood risk management; handling data and information for flood risk management; flood disaster prevention, mitigation, and adaptation; flood preparedness, response, and recovery; flood decision-making, policy, and governance; and flood resilience.
All conference submissions will be published in the conference book of abstracts, and selected papers will be considered for publication in this Special Issue. All the papers considered for publication in the Special Issue will be subject to the review process according to the journal requirements.
Prof. Dr. Slobodan P. Simonovic
Prof. Dr. Subhankar Karmakar
Prof. Dr. Zhang Cheng
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Flood
- Disasters
- Risk
- Resilience