| The Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS) is co-organising the Conference on Flood Catastrophes in a Changing Environment 2018 (CFCCE’18) in partnership with the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology International Steering Committee (ANCST), Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative (SEADPRI-UKM), Sate Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (WSGS) and Poyang Lake Aquatic and Wetland Ecosystem Observation and Research Station, CAS. The
This conference is the 2nd one following the first one held in 2016 in Malaysia. It will provide a forum for researchers and managers to share the latest research outcomes on floods in typical areas. It is anticipated an improved understanding of the driving mechanism of flood events be achieved, and approaches of possible mitigation be suggested. Practice on flooding management from different regions will be shared in this conference.
Topics of the conference are as follows:
- Climate change and floods
- Human activities and floods
- Prediction of flood events
- Flood mitigation in urban area
- Watershed floods management
- Paleoflood Hydrology
- Transboundary effects, issues on flood and interactions
Please submit your abstract to YYNIU@niglas.ac.cn by 10th November 2018. Selected papers will be published in a special issue of international journal “Hydrology Research” (Scopus Indexed IF: 1.81).
For more information, please refer to the programme brochure or contact Miss Lei TAN (LTAN@niglas.ac.cn).
Thank you and best wishes. |
