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Flood Risk Management
A Straegic Approa
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Flood Risk Management
A Straegic Approah
Paul Sayers, Li Yuanyuan, Gerry Galloway, Edmund Penning-Rowsell, Shen Fuxin, Wen Kang, Chen Yiwei and Tom Le Quesne
 
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About the authors
Paul Sayers
 is a Partner at Sayers and Partners, a consultancy specialising in the management of the water environment and its associated risks. Paul has over twenty years international experience in all aspects of 󿬂ood risk management – including large scale strategic planning studies in China, Europe and the US. Paul is an advisor to the Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management research programme in the UK and co-led the UK Flood Risk Management Research Consortium (www.frmrc.org.uk) and FLOODsite (www.󿬂oodsite.net). He is an associate editor for the CIWEM Journal of Flood Risk Management and a Senior Visiting Fellow at Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford.
Li Yuanyuan
 is Vice-President, Professor, and Senior Engineer of the General Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Planning and Design at the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources. He studied hydrology and water resources in Chengdu University of Science and Technology. His research 󿬁elds include water resources mechanisms, the interaction between human activities and water resources, water resources system analysis and planning, water ecology and environment protection. He has led at the national-level many water resources surveys, the development of water resources strategies, comprehensive water resources planning activities, policy formulation, and management activities, as well as international programs. He is widely published on water-related topics.
Gerald (Gerry) Galloway,
 is a Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and an Affiliate Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, where his focus is on water resources policy and 󿬂ood risk management. He also serves as a consultant to several international, federal, state and non-governmental agencies and is involved in water projects in the US, Asia and South America He served for seven years as a member of the Mississippi River Commission and led the White House Study of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1993. A veteran of 38 years of military service, he retired from the military as a Brigadier General and Dean of Academics at West Point. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Public Administration.
Edmund Penning-Rowsell
 is a geographer, taking his PhD from University College London. His research interests are the political economy of major hazards and how this affects decisions about investment in hazard mitigation. He has more than 40 years experience of research and teaching in the 󿬂ood hazard 󿬁eld. His focus is on the social impact of 󿬂oods, and the policy response from regional, national and international organisations. He has acted as consultant to numerous national and international environmental agencies, including the OECD, the Red Cross/Crescent, the UN, the World Bank, and the World Health Organisation. Professor Penning-Rowsell was awarded the O.B.E. by the Queen in May 2006 for services to 󿬂ood risk management.
Shen Fuxin
 is a professor-level senior engineer of the General Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Planning and Design, Ministry of Water Resources based in Beijing, China, with 28 years professional experience in the water sector. He is a professional engineer with a bachelor degree in hydrology and water resources from Hohai University. He has worked extensively on strategic, technical and planning aspects related to the water sector in China. He has engaged in 󿬂ood management and planning, water conservancy planning, water conservancy science and technology research and applications, 󿬂ood forecasting and dispatching decision analysis. In particular he has been actively involved with National Flood Mitigation Planning, National Storage and Detention Areas Construction and Management Planning, and 󿬂ood risk mapping in China.
Wen Kang
 is a senior engineer and the former director of the Flood Control Research Division at Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute (NHRI), Ministry of Water Resources of China (MWR). He has 58 years of professional experience in the water sector, and is a Registered Consultant of Jiangsu Province of China and is member of Chinese Hydraulic Engineering Society. He is a senior member of the Steering Committee for the Research Center for Climate Change, MWR. He was one of the 14 core experts appointed by MWR for the examination of 󿬂ood control planning in China’s major river basins. In particular he has been actively involved in 󿬂ood design innovation solutions, 󿬂ood control and mitigation strategies, 󿬂ood control standards for dyke protective areas assessment and national urban 󿬂ood control planning in China.
Chen Yiwei
 is an engineer of the General Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Planning and Design, Ministry of Water Resources based in Beijing, China, with 5 years professional experience in the water sector. He is an engineer with a master’s degree in hydrology and water resources from Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute. He devoted himself to 󿬂ood management strategic planning aspects in China. In particular he has been actively involved with National Flood Mitigation Planning and National Storage and Detention Areas Construction and Management Planning, and has been involved in 󿬂ood risk mapping in China.
Tom Le Quesne
 is a Senior Policy Advisor at WWF-UK. Tom works on water policy and sustainability issues across the WWF Network, including work in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe. This has included a particular focus on water and environmental policy issues in China and India. Tom has published a number of reviews of water management and environmental issues, including work on water allocation, environmental 󿬂ows and climate change. Tom holds a Masters and PhD in economics.
Citation
P. Sayers, Y. L.i, G. Galloway, E. Penning-Rowsell, F. Shen, K. Wen, Y. Chen, and T. Le Quesne. 2013.
Flood Risk Management: A Strategic Approach
. Paris, UNESCO.
Acknowledgements
 This book has been drafted as part of an extended dialogue that took place between 2009 and 2012, between a team of international experts led by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and a policy team within the General Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Planning and Design (GIWP), Ministry of Water Resources, China. The international team included Guy Pegram (South Africa), Gabriel Azevedo (Brazil), Gerry Galloway (United States of America), Paul Sayers (United Kingdom), Robert Speed (Australia), Daniel Gunaratnam (United States), Doug Kenney (United States), Tom Le Quesne (United Kingdom) and Ma Chaode (China).  The team from GIWP has been led by Professor Li Yuanyuan, and has included Professor Shen Fuxin, Li Jianqiang, Zhou Zhiwei, Huang Huojian, and Dr Chen Yiwei with support from Professor Wen Kang.In addition to the lead authors and team members described above, this book has bene󿬁ted from contributions by Karis McLaughlin (WWF-UK) and reviews undertaken by Ian Makin (Asian Development Bank, ADB). The following people have contributed to the layout, 󿬁gures and 󿬁nal editorial of the book: Alicia Doherty (WWF-UK), Ian Denison, Shahbaz Khan, Alain Michel  Tchadie, Martin Wickenden, Aurelia Mazoyer (UNESCO) and Susan Curran (Copy-editor).Principal funding for the project has been provided by HSBC through the HSBC Climate Partnership. Additional funding support for publication has been provided by the ADB and the Australian Agency for International Development, AusAID. WWF and GIWP would like to extend their thanks to HSBC, ADB and AusAID for their support for this project.
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