| Session Details | |
| Section | HS - Hydrological Sciences |
| Session Title | Urban Water-related Disasters |
| Main Convener | Prof. Akira Kawamura (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. So Kazama (Tohoku University, Japan) Prof. Sudhindra Panda (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, India) |
| Session Description | Urban areas are considered to be the most vulnerable areas to water-related disasters, such as flash floods, Tsunami and storm surges, landslides and mudflows, epidemics, droughts that are exacerbated by a large earthquake and climatic change. Water-related disasters in urban areas lead to great human losses and economic damages. Those urban water-related disasters are highly recurrent and intricately linked with each other, and pose major impediments to the achievement of human security and sustainable socio-economic development of the cities. However, it seems that they have not yet been comprehensively and profoundly discussed for better understanding of the disaster vulnerability in order to fight against and mitigate the disasters. This section is thus intended to provide a wide range of topics and collective perspective on urban water-related disasters that may include, but not limited to, the following items: (1) Urban “guerrilla rainstorm” (a localized downpour) (2) Urban rainfall-runoff and inundation caused by various storms (3) Early warning and information systems (4) Tsunami and storm-surge attack on urban areas (5) Landslide and mudflow in urban areas (6) Urban droughts (7) Urban water-borne epidemics (8) Urban wastewater management (9) Impact of a large earthquake on urban water resources (10) Sustainable water management (11) Other issues related to urban water-related disasters |