Paul Pavelic from IWMI presented the Underground Taming of Floods concept at the The 6th Annual Conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM 2015), entitled “Disaster Risk Reduction: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Growth”. This collaborative three day conference aimed to develop a comprehensive roadmap on a regional framework for earthquake, flood, extreme weather and other natural hazard triggered disaster risk management. The conference was hosted by TIFAC in partnership with International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRiM) and supported by several national and international organizations including, the Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI) (Japan) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) (Austria).
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