报告信息：

题目: Flood Risk Management: Lessons on Flood Resilience from Pandemic Responses Globally

地点：ZOOM (ID: 87849968723 密码：654321)

时间：2020年10月13日15:00-16:30 (北京时间)

报告人：Professor Nigel Wright (Nottingham Trent University)

报告摘要：

The ongoing pandemic has caused challenges to those having to respond to floods due to the already heavy load on emergency response agencies and the challenges of social distancing in emergency situations.  Flooding has not decreased during the pandemic and incidents across the globe will be highlighted.

Conversely, however, there are lessons to be learnt from the pandemic response for flood response.  This includes the necessity of making proper preparations; the need to inform populations in advance of the emergency in order to ensure a good understanding of the level of risk whilst making it clear that zero impact (flooding or infection) is impossible; the need to identify and protect vulnerable groups; and the fundamental concept behind resilience that the system will not return to the previous state, but a state that delivers similar functions with adaptations to the new threat. 

报告人简介：

Professor Wright studied Mathematics at the University of Bristol and completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds.  He joined the University of Nottingham as a Lecturer in 1993 and was ultimately promoted to a Professorial Chair in 2005.  In 2006 he moved to the Netherlands to take up the Chair of Hydraulic Engineering and River Basin Development at UNESCO-IHE and the Technical University of Delft. He moved to the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds in 2009 as Director of Research and later as Head of School. 

In 2015 he moved to De Montfort University, as Pro Vice-Chancellor/Dean for the Faculty of Technology and took on the additional role of Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation soon after arriving, before focusing solely on that role from 2017.  In 2018 he moved to his current role as Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Research and Enterprise at Nottingham Trent University. 

From initial research on the use of computers to predict the movement of fluids in the natural and built environment, Professor Wright’s research has expanded into the cross-disciplinary aspects of flood risk management and climate change adaptation.  This has led to funding from a range of national research councils, government bodies in the UK and the Netherlands and the European Union. 

Nigel has published over 120 papers in peer-reviewed journals along  with many book chapters and conference papers.  Along with co-authors he was awarded the Harold Schoemaker Prize of the IAHR for the best journal paper in the period 2007-9.