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Course on Urban Flood Risk Mitigation (UFM)
operated by Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
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The UFM has been designed with a view to support flood mitigation initiatives in the Asian cities through improving knowledge on the causes of flooding; risk analysis, mapping and flood policy; assessment of flood damages; and providing information on flood mitigation measures and their advantages and disadvantages, raising awareness integrating urban flood mitigation in the urban planning, motivating participants to initiate action for flood risk mitigation and learning from sucessess and failures by systematized sharing of experiances. The course proposes that damages from floods has been increasing in most countries in Asia. Floods are most destructive because they occur most frequently. Floods are excessive flows of water which results from heavy rainfall, cyclones, snow melt, high tides or other causes, such as dam burst, embankment failure. Although flooding is primarily natural phenomenon, human interventions such as deforestration, poorly developed land drainage systems, greater agricultural land use and rapid urbanization have exacerbated the occurrence and severity of flood disasters. Mitigation offers the best and most cost-effective approch to deal with floods.
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| Course Type | Classroom Training with Field Exercise | | CourseDuration | 2 weeks | | Course Cost | Tution fee: US $ 2000, boarding and lodging: US $ 750, Travel (c/o participant) | | Course Schedule | 23 August - 3 September 2004
Naga City, Philippines | | Course Audience | Officials from Provincial and City Administrations, Ministries, departments and institutions dealing with urban planning and development, representatives from cities and towns UN agencies, NGOs & international organisations working on disaster mitigation. |
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