1st Announcement
CONFERENCE ON FLOOD CATASTROPHES IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT 2018 (CFCCE’18)
- Theme: Floods in Urbanized Area
- Venue: Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
- Date: 15-18th NOV 2018
Call for Papers (CFCCE’18)
Flooding is one of the natural disasters that causes severe losses and damage across the world. Recent studies indicated that the occurrence frequency of flooding might increase under future climate conditions. In addition, strong human activities, e.g. rapid urbanization and construction of hydraulic engineering, significantly modified drainage networks and further promoted floods risk. This is particularly true in many large rivers and lakes in the world, including Yangtze River and the connected lakes. Damages arisen from flooding attract serious attention of the government and local communities.
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.
Selected papers will be published in a special issue of international journal “Hydrology Research” (Scopus Indexed IF: 1.81)
Organized by:
Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGLAS)
Co-organized by:
- Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, (UTM), Skudai-Johor. Malaysia.
- Asian Network on Climate Science and Technology International Steering Committee (ANCST)
- Sate Key Laboratory of Watershed Geographic Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences (WSGS)
- Poyang Lake Aquatic and Wetland Ecosystem Observation and Research Station, CAS
REGISTRATION FEES:
Standard: US$300 (RMB¥2000)
Students: US$150 (RMB¥1000)
- Important Deadlines
- Submission of Abstract: 15th October 2018
- Acceptance Notification : 31th October 2018
Abstract Submission: YYNIU@niglas.ac.cn or CFCCE16@gmail.com
Topics:
- Climate change and floods
- Human activities and floods
- Prediction of flood events
- Flood mitigation
- Watershed floods management
- Paleoflood Hydrology
- Transboundary effect, issues on flood
General Inquiry: Miss Lei TAN. E-mail: LTAN@niglas.ac.cn
Organizing Committee:
Prof. Ji Shen (Director, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS)
Prof. Xuejun Duan (Vice-director, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS)
Prof. Guishan Yang (President, Nanjing Branch of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Prof. Qi Zhang (Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS)
Prof. Zulkifli Yusop (Centre for Environmental Sustainability and Water Security (IPASA), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM))
Prof. Joy Jacqueline Pereira (Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative, Unversiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (SEADPRI-UKM))
Prof. Yuanbo Liu (Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, CAS)
Emeritus Prof. Lord Julian Hunt (Cambridge & UCL)
Prof. Johnny Chan (City University Hong Kong)
Prof. Youpeng Xu (Nanjing University, China)
Prof. Zhijia Li (Hohai University, China)
Prof. Dato’ Azizan Hj Abu Samah (Universiti of Malaya (UM))
Prof. Talib Latif (UKM)
Dr. Kogila Vani Annammala (IPASA-UTM)
Dr. Nor Eliza Alias (IPASA-UTM)