7th International Conference on Flood and Urban Water Management

FRIAR 2020 is the seventh conference of this successful series. The conference started at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London 2008 and was reconvened in Milan in 2010, Dubrovnik in 2012, Poznan in 2014, Venice in 2016 and A Coruna 2018. Since 2012 a parallel seminar on the Design, Construction, Maintenance, Monitoring and Control of Urban Water has taken place which is now an integral part of the conference.

The meeting is aimed to attract researchers, academics and practitioners actively involved in improving our understanding of urban water systems and flood events.

Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims numerous lives worldwide each year. Apart from the physical damage to buildings, contents and loss of life, which are the most obvious, impacts of floods upon households, other more indirect losses are often overlooked. These indirect and intangible impacts are generally associated with disruption to normal life as well as longer term health issues including community displacements and stress related illnesses. Flooding represents a major barrier to the alleviation of poverty in many parts of the developing world, where vulnerable communities are often exposed to sudden and life threatening events.

As our cities continue to expand, their urban infrastructures need to be re-evaluated and adapted to new requirements related to the increase in population and the growing areas under urbanization. Topics such as contamination and pollution discharges in urban water bodies, as well as the monitoring of water recycling systems are currently receiving a great deal of attention from researchers and professional engineers working in the water industry. This conference also considers these problems and deals with two main urban water topics: water supply systems and urban drainage.

FRIAR 2020 will generate an improved understanding of emerging flood risk management and urban water management challenges, drawing on the expertise of numerous disciplines and considering a range of responses. The conference provides a rich forum for the development of innovative solutions that can help bring about multiple benefits toward achieving integrated flood risk and urban water management strategies and policy.

Papers presented at this conference, as all other meetings run by the Wessex Institute, are archived in the Institute eLibrary and permanently and freely available to the international community.

Topics

The following list covers some of the topics to be presented at the conference. Papers on other subjects related to the objectives of the meeting are also welcome.

Floods

• Flood risk management
• Flood warning and forecasting
• Flood response and recovery
• Flood protection
• Flood modelling
• Flood mitigation
• Flood vulnerability
• Climate change impact
• Flood damage assessment
• Socio and economic impact
• Community engagement
• Emergency planning
• Blue-green infrastructure
• Resilient approaches
• Flood case studies
• Catchment based approaches
• Natural flood management
• Remote sensing in flood applications

Urban water systems

• Water supply networks
• Leakage and losses
• Modelling and experimentation
• Safety and security of water systems
• Water quality
• Water savings and reuse
• Waste water treatment and reuse
• Urban drainage systems
• Storm water management
• Watershed management
• Structural works and infrastructure
• Maintenance and repairs
• Sustainable urban drainage systems (SuDs)
• Greywater
• Rainwater harvesting
• Water and sewage systems in urban areas
• Water retention