Future Events

Scotland

Holyrood Magazine: Sustainable Flood Risk Management 2010 - Tuesday 5 October 2010, Glasgow

Holyrood Magazine's annual flood risk management conference will cover presentations and round table discussions on the Implementation of the FRM (Scotland) Act. There will also be breakout sessions on: Contingency Planning and Emergency Response, Advances Warning Systems, Buildings and Developments to Minimise Flood Risk, and Working with Nature to Manage Flooding.

For more information, please visit flooding.holyrood.com/

Rest of Europe

Inside Goverment: Civil Contingencies: Meeting Tomorrow's Threats and Challenges, Today - Tuesday 29 June 2010, London

Last year, the Prime Minister introduced the UK’s first National Security Strategy to Parliament in the document ‘Security for the Next Generation.’ This forum will explore the primary challenges that the UK faces in meeting the civil threats that it faces, how they are changing and will consider how best to meet them in the context of the government’s strategy. For more information, please see http://www.insidegovernment.co.uk/environment/civil-contingencies

WAPUG Research Forum - Flood Risk Mapping and Damage Estimation - 7 July 2010, Derby

WaPUG, now CIWEM's Urban Drainage Group, promotes best practice in the field of urban drainage. This event is a technical research forum identifying research needs for practical applications on a more local level, and the barriers to producing detailed flood risk maps for local applications. For more information, please see http://www.ciwem.org/groups/wapug/

Catchment Change Network (CCN) & Royal Town Planning Institute: Beyond PPS25 - should uncertainty in flood risk mapping make a difference? - 28 September 2010, Lancaster

This workshop is hosted by CCN in conjunction with the Royal Town Planning Institute. The event, aimed at planners with an interest or involvement in development planning and flooding will give an overview of the importance of visualizing an uncertain flood risk within decision making. For more information and registration details, please visit http://www.rtpi.org.uk/ct/EVENT/972/11/events/972