[csaa-forum] UQ Public lecture on 'Living with Flooding' by Prof Sarah Whatmore on 21 March @ 5.30pm

Mon Mar 4 12:30:25 CST 2013

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Public Lecture Invitation
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Professor Sarah Whatmore: 'Living with Flooding: Redistributing Environmental Expertise'
Thursday 21 March 2013, 5:30 - 6:30pm
Social Sciences and Humanities Library Conference Room, Level 1, Duhig Building<http://www.library.uq.edu.au/locations/duhig-building-level-1> (No. 2<http://www.uq.edu.au/maps/index.html?menu=1&id=69>)
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ABSTRACT

As flood events become more frequent and severe so their toll on communities and livelihoods around the world becomes articulated, not least through the imperatives of a twenty-four hour global news media, as a shared matter of concern. For all the science / policy talk of improving flood risk management, affected communities are unavoidably in the business of learning to live with flooding. In practice, this means learning to live with the scientific uncertainties and policy constraints that characterise flood risk management expertise quite as much as with the hydrological parameters of how much rain falls out of the sky, over what time frame and onto what kind of landscape/topography.

In this presentation, Professor Whatmore will argue that these two dimensions of flood risk management - expertise and hydrology - are inextricably linked. This makes the challenges of learning to live with flooding centrally concerned with how effectively communities are able to bring their experience and knowledge to bear on the framing and management of flood risk problems that affect them.
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Sarah Whatmore is a Professor of Environment and Public Policy. She is the Head of the School of Geography and Environment at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on relations between people and the material world.
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