 The floods are common occurrences in human life. While the seasonal floods are useful, in as much as they deliver topsoil and nutrients to farms (such as in Nile River Valley), the floods of higher magnitudes mostly cause destruction with loss of property and lives. Who can forget the flooding caused by hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (USA) in 2005, devastating floods in Pakistan in 2010, the Japanese Tsunami and the Bangkok floods in 2011 and more recently the floods in Niger, Myanmar and Manila city in Philippines (all in 2012). There are several factors responsible for such catastrophic floods among which climate change and rising sea levels, deforestation, occupation of floodplains by people and exceptional hydro meteorological phenomena are most commonly found reasons. The protection of property and lives after such natural disasters are of crucial importance and this is attempted through both nonstructural and structural interventions. ICID’s Working Group on Comprehensive Approaches to Flood Management (WG-CAFM) has since taken lead and published a manual on "Planning of structural approaches to flood management" in 2005 and another was on "Non-structural approaches to flood management” in 1999.
The current Working Group on Comprehensive Approaches to Flood Management (WG-CAFM) is mandated to study the social, political and economic aspects of flood mitigation measures. The Group aims at making flood management ecologically sound through and encourage people’s participation in disaster preparedness. In view of the new emerging issues like climate change, sea level rise, increasing number of flash floods, adaptation strategy of living in flood prone areas is also addressed with a view to set up holistic, integrated and adaptive flood management schemes.
Estd : 1999
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, ecologically sound development, international cooperation, as well as people's participation in disaster preparedness. The objective is to help the planners, managers and designers setting up holistic, integrated and adaptive flood management schemes in view of uncertainties resulted from the climate and hydro systems changes.
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Name |
Country |
Membership |
1 |
Dr. Kamran Emami |
Iran |
(1999) Chair (2010) |
2 |
Dr. Takao Masumoto |
Japan |
(2009) Vice Chair 2015) |
3 |
Mohd Adnan bin Mohd Nor |
Malaysia |
(2013) Secretary (2015) |
4 |
Mr. Maurice Roos |
USA |
(2006) |
5 |
Mr. Olli-Matti Verta |
Finland |
(2011) |
6 |
Mr. Marcel Marchand |
Netherlands |
(2011) |
7 |
Dr. Arthon Suttigarn |
Thailand |
(2012) |
8 |
Ms. Aysen Pervin Gungor |
Turkey |
(2012) |
9 |
Dr. Herman Booysen |
South Africa |
(2012) |
10 |
Mr. R.K. Agarwal (Direct Member), WAPCOS India Limited |
India |
(2014) |
11 |
Dr. Rozalija Cvejic |
Slovenia |
(2014) |
12 |
Mr. V.D. Roy |
India |
Provisional Member (2015) |
13 |
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Rottcher |
Germany |
Observer (2015) |
14 |
FAO representative |
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Observer |
15 |
UNDRO representative |
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Observer |
16 |
WMO representative |
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Observer |
17 |
World Bank representative |
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Observer |
ICID Position Paper on the Management of Riverine Flood Risk
[ Presentations ]
| AGENDA (Previous) | MINUTES (Previous)
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WG-CAFM Website |
Earlier this WG was known as WG on Non-Structural Aspects of Flood Control (1986-1990)
Renamed as Working Group on Comprehensive Approaches to Flood Management (WG-CAFM) in 1990
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