IIASA researchers Reinhard Mechler and Adriana Keating will give a keynote on Measuring community flood resilience across the globe at the 4th European Conference on Flood Risk Management.

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Flood Risk Management is by definition dealing with uncertainty. Floods occur often enough, but the timing and location of flood events are uncertain, and so is the response of society. But the concepts and methods of flood risk analysis and management are progressively tuned to deal with this kind of uncertainties.

This challenge of scientific innovation and practical adaptation is too big for the current generation of scientists and practitioners. FLOODrisk2020 is therefore committed to attract, coach and listen to the next generation of scientists and practitioners who will future-proof our research methods and help to improve our flood risk management practice in order to better cope with deep uncertainty.

June 22nd, at 11:20 -11:40 CEST

Plenary Session 2: Measuring community flood resilience across the globe
Reinhard Mechler and Adriana Keating with the IIASA Systemic Risk and Resilience Research Group