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| Living with Floods Symposium, March 10th-12th, 2009 2/24/2009
“Living With Floods: From Science to Policy,”
March 11-12, 2009, offers an opportunity to better understand the disastrous floods of summer 2008. National experts will address topics ranging from the science of floods to the psychological impact of displacement, from flood mitigation to flood risk insurance.
Sessions on the first day of the symposium will focus on flood prediction and impacts (social, economic, and environmental). Sessions on the second day will focus on flood mitigation strategies, flood risk management and insurance, and community planning. Invited speakers represent top flood and natural disaster experts from major universities across the U.S. and from appropriate state and federal agencies.
The Forkenbrock Series on Public Policy is a regular public series presented by The University of Iowa Public Policy Center to provide a forum for dialogue about policy areas from an applied, academic, and interdisciplinary perspective.
Symposium focus
* Social, environmental, economic impacts
* Flood mitigation strategies
* Risk management & insurance
* Community planning |
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