IFNet Action Report 2006

IFNet Action Report 2006

March 2006 IFNet

"IFNet Action Report 2006" introduces good practices and lessons against flood disasters drawn upon the information provided by the IFNet members, in accordance with the decision made at the 2nd IFNet General Meeting in January 2005. 13 reports in response from Asia, Europe, Africa and North America are carried in this report.

We can learn quite a lot from the experience of other areas and people, and we hope that such knowledge will be used to improve actions being taken in your area or be incorporated into flood management measures newly developed in the future. As there might be much more good practices and lessons for flood mitigation, we wish to continue this effort introducing such unknown actions.

Objectives

To identify leading flood damage mitigation initiatives and training programs and disseminate these to promote awareness of flood damage
To raise awareness of the relevance of social factors such as poverty, unemployment and uncontrolled urban development to flood damage
To promote diversified participation from national to community level in flood damage mitigation initiatives

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As a precautionary measure in case the authors' intention is not fully conveyed in the summarized versions, the original reports can be downloaded [PDF].

List of original reports

	Title	Author(s) (Affiliation)	Countries/Regions
1	Non-structural Measures - Also Significant Factors of Flood Disaster Reduction	Babiakova Gabriela, Leskova Danica (Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute)	Slovak Republic
2	Alternative Local Disaster Countermeasures for Agos River, Infanta Quezon	Resito V. David, Jessie C. Felizardo (Sabo Engineering Center of Dept. Public Works and Highways	The Philippines
3	Action towards Typhoon-related Disasters Reduction in China	Liu Jinping (Ministry of Water Resources)	China
4	Use of Satellite Image to Map Flood Extension around the City of Saint Louis in the Senegal River Estuary	Aliou Mamadou Dia (Univ. of Dakar)	Senegal
5	Making a Difference in Managing Water Related Disaster through Survey and Assessment	Yolanda Benitez-Gomez (Mariam College)	The Philippines
6	Action Report toward Flood Disaster Reduction, Indonesian Case	Sutardi (Indonesia Water Partnership)	Indonesia
7	A Flood Forecasting Device in Quezon City, Philippines: a Sound Practice for Flood Disasters Reduction Measure	Noel L. Lansang (Dept. of Public Order and Safety)	The Philippines
8	Floods in India - Disaster and Management	Supriyo Nandy (Centre for Built Environment)	India
9	Computerized Decision Support for Flood Management: Red River Basin Case Study	Slobodan P. Simonovic (Univ. of Western Ontario)	Canada
10	The Application of Sabo Technology for Lahars Flood Mitigation and Warning System in Volcanic Area	Agus Sumaryono (Ministry of Public Works)	Indonesia
11	Flood Prevention and Drainage Modeling in Hong Kong	Henry C.K. Chu (Drainage Service Department)	Hong Kong (China)
12	Flood Forecasting and Warning System to the Most Vulnerable Communities in Cambodia	Long Saravuth (Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology)	Cambodia
13	Flood forecasting system and flood management in Lao PDR	BouaNgeun Oudomchit (Department of Meteorology and Hydrology)	Lao PDR