Date: The conference will be held during 29-31 March 2021 in Dhaka, Bangladesh through an Online Platform. Detailed instructions will be announced soon.
Official Language: English
Climate Forecast: Clear with periodic clouds, 28° C.
Registration: January 5, 2021- February 7, 2021(No-extension)
23 September 2020
Abstract submission opens
14 December 2020
Deadline for abstract submission
04 January 2021
Notification of abstract acceptance
05 January 2021
Registration begins
21 January 2021
Deadline for Panel Session Proposal
7 February 2021
Deadline for conference registration
The International Conference on Water and Flood Management has been organized by the Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM) of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) biennially since 2007. ICWFM 2021 is the 8th event. Water management in general and flood management, in particular, is an interdisciplinary field that needs integrated knowledge from multidisciplinary fields, including hydrology, hydraulics, morphology, atmospheric science, climate, environmental pollution, ecosystem, agriculture, disaster, vulnerability, risk, gender, livelihood, and poverty. With changing physical and socioeconomic risks due to changes in climate and anthropogenic interventions, integrated approaches to analyzing these processes and their interactions, along with integrating nature-based solutions, are gaining traction. This conference aims to act as a common platform for bringing together the recent development in the above fields. The 8th ICWFM will be held in a situation when the whole world is struggling to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. The world has seen a new dimension of water and flood management during this condition. Although the natural system remained indifferent to this pandemic, the human system responded differently during disasters compared to its normal response. People were reluctant to move, and evacuation became difficult. In this context, the 8th ICWFM expects to generate some new insight into water and flood management. There will be many ‘new’ in this event of ICWFM. The platform of this 8th event of ICWFM will be new. For the first time since its inception, the entire conference will be held in an online platform. It is expected that this new platform will bring a wider community of its kind together to express and exchange their findings and thoughts. For the first time, the conference will be completely free for the students. It is expected that this will attract many new emerging scientists to share their findings on a global platform. Unlike the previous events, the 8th ICWFM does not have a central theme. Rather papers are invited from multidisciplinary fields with the expectation that at the end of the day, new insight will emerge that will shed light on the interdisciplinary nature of water and flood management.
Unlike the previous events, the 8th ICWFM does not have a central theme. Rather papers are invited from multidisciplinary fields with the expectation that at the end of the day, new insight will emerge that will shed light on the interdisciplinary nature of water and flood management. With this expectation, papers are invited from the following themes:
Floods and Drainage
Hydro-meteorological forecasting and warning
Flood damage mitigation and resilience
Urban flooding and storm-water management
Waterlogging and drainage management
Integrated approaches to flood management
Nature-based solutions in water and flood risk management
Rivers, Coasts and Estuaries
River dynamics and restoration
Hydro-morphology and bank erosion
Coastal and estuarine processes
Coastal sedimentation risk
Estuarine processes and impacts of storm surge and tidal flooding
Eco-hydrological considerations
Nature-based solutions to coastal risks
Water Infrastructure and Development
Sustainable environment and infrastructure development
Climate-resilient infrastructure
Landscape modification and flow regime changes
Shore protection, port structure and navigation
Hazard/ disaster resilient infrastructure
Integrating grey, green and blue: nature-based solutions
Hydrometeorological Hazards and Risk
Reduction of vulnerability to episodic natural hazards.
Managing disaster amid COVID-19 pandemic
Resilience against water-related hazards
Transformative adaptation for climate change
Incorporating climate change into national policy and planning
Trends in extreme climatic events
Water and Livelihood Security
Water security risks
Water conservation, water use efficiency and productivity
Agricultural water management
Sustainable fisheries and water management
Safe water and sanitation
Water entrepreneurship
Gender in water management practices
Participatory and adaptive approaches to water management
Sustainable livelihoods and livelihood security
Ecosystems and Environment
Ecosystem services and functions
Contamination of freshwater resources
Water pollution and ecosystem degradation
Management of aquatic habitats
Sustainable use of floodplain and coastal resources
Water-Energy Nexus for sustainable development
Transboundary Water Governance
International water laws, treaties, and water rights
Transboundary conflicts and opportunities for cooperation in water and flood management
Hydro-diplomacy and policy impact
Institutional integration for transboundary water management
Abstracts (maximum 300 words) on the conference topics are being invited from the interested authors. The abstract should be submitted through the online system by 14th December 2020. The detailed procedure of the abstract submission is available on the Conference website. An individual can be the lead author of a maximum of two papers. Notification of acceptance of abstracts will be sent by 04th January 2021. Post-conference proceedings of selected invited papers (in the form of full papers) would be published as post-conference proceedings by SPRINGER. The organizing committee is currently in touch with internationally renowned publishers regarding publishing the post-conference volume. A paper must be presented to be considered for selection for the post-conference proceedings. A panel of experts will make the selection based on the merits of abstract and presentation. It is noted here that the Post-conference proceedings from the ICWFM-2019 was published by Springer International (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030477851).
“Panel Sessions” are planned on emerging and interesting topics. Interested participants are requested to contact the Conference Secretariat for further information. The panel session should be on the research works done by the organization relevant to the topics mentioned in the flyer and can be presented by a representative of the organization or relevant researchers. The panel proposal must be submitted by 21st January, 2021
REGISTRATION FEES FOR AUTHORS AND PARTICIPANTS:
Local authors and participants (student) BDT 0
Foreign countries - authors and participants (student) USD 0
Local Authors & Participants (non-student) BDT 2000
Foreign Countries - authors & participants (non-student) USD 100
Bangladeshi citizens having full-time affiliations (as students/employees) abroad will not qualify as local participants.
Authors of accepted abstracts and interested participants will be able to do registration and make payment using the online platform hosted at ICWFM-2021 website. Registered authors and participants will be notified through email. Besides, authors and partcipants can make payments via direct bank transfer in favour of ICWFM-IWFM, Current Account No. 4404033011231, Sonali Bank, BUET Branch, Dhaka 1000, Bangladesh (Swift Code: BSON BDDH LOD/Routing Number: 200270522), fill in the registration from available on the conference website and send all the documents to conference secretariat through email by the specified date.
ICWFM-2021
Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM)
Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology,
Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
E-mail: icwfm2021@gmail.com
Phone: +880 2 9665601
Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)
Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB)
Local Government Engineering Department (LGED)
Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS)
Institute of Water Modelling (IWM)
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
WaterAid