Flood Management 09

Later this year, I am going to be on the same 'bill' as Michael Palin... 
Well, not quite. He is speaking at Shrewsbury School as part of the GA Shewsbury branch's programme for 2009-10, and I'm doing a talk on the Yorkshire Floods of 2007 later in the branch programme, which will be an updated version of the presentation I did in Manchester at the end of last year to around 150 people. 

My talk will take place in 2010 - so a bit of advance notice there....
Earlier today, got an invitation to attend an event at the Barbican, and have duly registered, as this will allow me to get some high-end information on flood management and the various measures that are being used to mitigate future flood events (I won't use the word prevention...)

There are some interesting speakers:

Speakers Include:

Phil Rothwell,
 Head of Flood Risk Management Policy, The Environment Agency
Professor Robert Watson, Chief Scientific Advisor to DEFRA; Director for Strategic Direction for the Tyndall centre
Professor David Balmforth, Technical Director with international consultants MWH; Editor in Chief of CIWEM’s International Journal on Flood Risk Management
Professor David Proverbs, Head of Construction and Infrastructure Department , SEBE, University of Wolverhampton
Moya Wood-Heath, Civil Protection/Emergency Planning Advisor British Red Cross Society
Angela Currie, Head of Emergency Services, WRVS
Justin Jacobs, Head of Property, Motor and Liability Insurance, Association of British Insurers

An interesting aspect of the conference details is that there is a list of the occupations who might be interested in the event, and this would provide a useful list of possible vocations that GEOGRAPHY could lead you into:

Campaign & Emergency Planning Mgr 
City Emergency Planning Manager 
Civil Contingencies Manager 
Civil Protection Consultant 
Civil Protection Manager 
Contingency Planning Officer
Corporate Public Safety Officer 
County Emergency Planning Officer 
County Health & Safety Officer 
County Office Manager 
Deputy Emergency Planning Officer 
Director of Health Safety & Environment 
Emergency Planning & Contingencies Manager 
Emergency Planning & Protection Officer 
Emergency Planning Co-Coordinator 
Emergency Planning Manager
Emergency Planning Officer 
Emergency Planning Officer, Civil Protection 
Environment Officer 
Fire & Rescue Service 
Head of Civil Contingencies 
Head of Contingency Planning 
Head of Emergency Planning 
Head of Environmental Health 
Head of Human Resources 
Head of Policy & Performance
Head of UK Emergency Response 
Head of Emergency Planning 
Head of Environmental Health
Projects & Emergency Planning Manager 
Regional Resilience Officer 
Resilience Deputy Director 
Risk Manager
Head of Planning
Drainage Engineers
Civil Engineers
Main Contractors
Town Planner
Urban Planners
Head of Regeneration
Lead Architect
Surveyor
Actuaries
Meteorologist
Information Commissioner
Drainage Engineer
Infrastructure Planning Officer


Looking forward to fillleting the particularly geographical content from the day, and thinking about how to use this to enrich the curriculum experience of students looking at floods.

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