European Co-operation
in the Field of Scientific and
Technical Research
COST C22/
11/09/2006
COST Urban Civil
Engineering
COST C22
Urban Flood Management
2nd Call for Papers
Join the Aquaterra-Conference in February 7-9, 2007
Participate with a paper at the
Special Session on Urban Flood Management
Due to the special nature of their flood regime, water courses in urban catchments need
special consideration and their own strategies for flood management. As, at the moment, each
city or district embarks on its own mitigation strategy - with more or less success, there is a
strong need to exchange present practice of flood management for these urban catchments at a
European level and to identify good practice solutions, and improved ways of managing urban
streams to cope.
Programme
Aquaterra has selected this issue as a key topic of its next conference in February 2007. Please
see the full program on the website www. aquaterraforum.com. In cooperation with the COST
initiative C22 a special session will be organized which addresses the state of the art in
“Urban Flood Management” (UFM).
The UFM-session will address the following four main topics:
 Flood modelling and probability assessment
Computational methods to determine flood hydrographs of urban watercourses
(hydrological models), the flood propagation in the storm water pipe network and
open channel network (hydraulic models) and the assessment of the probability of
extreme floods (statistical methods). Special reference should be given to data
management by making use of Web-Services, the modelling of flash floods, SUDS
(sustainable urban drainage systems), the “daylighting” of urban streams by removing
culverts and restoring open space for flood storage and the assessment of the climate
change effect.
 Flood Risk Assessment and Mapping
Methods to determine the impact of flood in urban environments. Special reference
should be given to the assessment and mapping of risk, and to methods to assess the
impact of flood mitigation through structural and non-structural measures.

Flood Resilience
Methods to reduce the flood damage at the build-environment. Special reference
should be given to the techniques of dry- and wet-proofing, the capacity building of
residents and the prerequisite for an efficient flood resilience. (damage assessment on
micro-scale level)
 Integrative Concepts of Urban Flood Management
Strategies to integrate technical and non-technical aspects to an holistic approach of
flood risk management with special reference to non-structural solutions and the
relevance of policy, insurance industry, risk awareness, communication, consistency
management and socio-cultural environment.
At the beginning of this UFM-session Key note speakers will raise the problem and introduce
into the different aspects of Urban Flood Management. Politicians, decision makers in the
water administration and researchers will present their views and motivation. The keynotes
will be given in a plenary session with the Aquaterra session of “Urban Dilemmas”.
Application
Researchers, flood experts and decision makers being involved with urban floods in the
administration, private consultancy or public organisations are invited to present their
knowledge in papers and to discuss within workshops about their accomplishments,
experiences and innovative strategies to manage the flood risk along urban watercourses.
The application should be expressed by a letter of intent. It should give the title of the paper,
the name and affiliation of the authors. No abstract is needed. In response the authors receive
a registration number and the guidelines for authors. On this basis the paper need to be
prepared.
Please respect the following deadlines:
Letter of Intent:
31. October 2006
Confirmation of Registration:
07 . November 2006
Final Paper:
31. December 2006
The advisory committee, composed of members of the COST initiative “Urban Flood
Management”, will review and approve the papers. The papers will be published in the
conference proceedings which are provided at the conference.
Please send your Letter of Intent to the following address:
Prof. Dr. Erik Pasche
Advisory Committee Urban Flood Management
Hamburg University of Technology
Institute of River & Coastal Engineering
Denickestr. 22
21075 Hamburg
You will receive the necessary documents for preparing the paper (instructions for authors)
and detailed information on the Aquaterra-conference.