Working Group on Comprehensive Approaches to Flood Management (WG-CAFM)

Working Group on Comprehensive Approaches to Flood Management (WG-CAFM)

Mandate

To identify and disseminate various structural and non-structural measures of flood management, and
to study the social, political and economic aspects of flood mitigation measures, ecologicaly sound development, internatinal cooperation, as well as people's participation in disaster preparedness.

Members

(1) Dr. K. Emami, Chairman, 2010 (Iran, 2009); (2) Dr. Takao Masumoto, Secretary (Japan, 2009); (3) Dr. Lajos Szlavik (Hungary, 1996); (4) Prof. M.F. Viljoen (South Africa, 1997); (5) Mr. Jin Soo Kim (Korea, 2000); (6) Prof. Josip Petras (Croatia, 2002); (7) Mr. Ahmet Seren (Turkey, 2006); (8) Mr. Maurice Roos (USA, 2006); (9) Prof. dr. Franc Steinman (Slovenia, 2006); (10) Ir. Jos van Alphen (The Netherlands, 2007); (11) Dr. Jianming Ma (China, 2008); (12) Mr. G.S. Purba (India, 2009) and (13) Secretary General, ICID.

Permanent Observers: (i) FAO Representative; (ii) UNDRO Representative; (iii) WMO Representative; and (iv) World Bank Representative

Agenda : 62nd IEC, Tehran, Iran [In PDF format] ARCHIVE

Minutes : 61st IEC, Yogyakarta, Indonesia[In PDF format] ARCHIVE

Presentations:

2011

The Great East Japan Earthquake

The Iranian New Criteria for Selection of Design Floods

Flood Management in Iran - Country Report, Jabbar Vatanfada, Fariba Avarideh, and Maryam Samimi

Value Engineering: An effective and efficient tool for sustainable Irrigated Agriculture, Kamran Emami

Adaptive Flood Management, Kamran Emami

2010

Floods 2010 (PANCID - Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 2010)