Day Two, December 1, 2010

8:30 - 9:15

Table Discussions on Previous Day's Break-Out Sessions (Work from hand-out provided as participants enter)

9:15 - 10:00

Panel Discussion on Moving Forward: Addressing Difficult Decisions

Session Description

Panelists made short opening remarks, followed by discussion among panelists with questions from the audience.
Panelists: Filip Raymaekers, Flemish Environment Agency, Belgium; Steve Stockton, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Minoru Kamoto, ICHARM, PWRI, Japan; David Rooke, Environment Agency, United Kingdom
Read-Ahead Materials (pdf, 47 KB)

• Economics of flood risk management (cost of measures, cost-benefit analysis, non-quantifiable aspects)
• Strategy and criteria for deciding the proportion of physical infrastructure and other diverse measures (including taking advantage of natural/beneficial functions of floodplains)
• Prioritization given limited resources
• State of current infrastructure given uncertainty and non-stationarity, maintenance, lifecycle considerations

10:00 - 10:20

Break

10:20 - 11:05

National Governance

Session Description

Papers from individual nations were provided in advance to participants. This session began with a short presentation synthesizing papers received, followed by a panel discussion with questions from the audience.
Panelists: Meike Gierk, Germany; Edward Hecker, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Robert Smaak, The Netherlands; Guillermo Q. Tabios III, Philippines
Panelist Presentation (pdf, 550 KB)

Papers Submitted

• Belgium (pdf, 590 KB)
• Germany (pdf, 111 KB)
• Japan (pdf, 59 KB)
• Netherlands (pdf, 172 KB)
• Philippines (pdf, 224 KB)
• Spain (pdf, 185 KB)
• Switzerland (pdf, 31 KB)
• Taiwan (pdf, 514 KB)
• United Kingdom (pdf, 186 KB)
• United States (pdf, 57 KB)

Comparison of Governance Approaches (pdf, 206 KB)

11:05 - 11:30

National Visions and Plans

Session Description

The example of the Delta Commission provided an example for discussion.

• The Delta Program in the Netherlands: Adaptation of flood risk management to climate change
  Speaker: Jos Van Alphen, Delta Program Commission, the Netherlands
  Read-Ahead Material (pdf, 31 KB) | Presentation (pdf, 1.23 MB)

11:30 - 12:15

Legislative Approaches and Transnational Cooperation

Session Description

Speakers provided 10-minute presentations, followed by discussion.

• European Flood Directive and progress in developing flood risk management plans
  Speaker: Gunter Hörmandinger, First Counselor for Environment, EU Delegation to the United States
  Read-Ahead Material (pdf, 309 KB) | Presentation (pdf, 1.56 MB)
• Transnational commission: U.S. and Mexico, preparing for and managing Rio Grande flood conditions
  Speaker: Commissioner Edward Drusina, International Boundary and Water Commission
  Read-Ahead Material (pdf, 24 KB) | Presentation (pdf, 4.57 MB)

12:15 - 1:30

Lunch

1:30 - 3:00

Insuring, Underwriting, and Sharing the Risks

Session Description

Speakers provided 10-minute presentations, followed by discussion.

• Insurance: roles and comparisons
  Speakers: Nick Starling, Association of British Insurers, United Kingdom
  Read-Ahead Material (pdf, 44 KB)
  Ed Pasterick, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency
  Read-Ahead Material (pdf, 25KB) | Presentation (pdf, 3.12 MB)
• International insurance underwriting
  Speaker: Dennis Burke, Reinsurance Association of America
• Investing in flood risk reduction and mitigation
  Speaker: Michael Grimm, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency
  Read-Ahead Material (pdf, 24 KB) | Presentation (pdf, 440 KB)
• How to augment decline of social capital
  Speaker: Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, ICHARM, PWRI, Japan
  Read-Ahead Material (pdf, 35 KB) | Presentation (pdf, 1.11 MB)
• State and regional flood risk management teams (Silver Jackets)
  Speaker: Jennifer Dunn, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  Read-Ahead Material (pdf, 113 KB) | Presentation by Bruce Munholand (pdf, 1.55 MB)

3:00 - 3:20

Break

3:20 - 4:45

Bringing it all Together; Making Further Progress

This session was a facilitated discussion with participants to identify strengths and transferability of flood risk management approaches, continuing challenges, and opportunities where mutually beneficial partnerships may assist in making further progress. Discussion concluded with 5-minute observations from three different perspectives on what they heard.

Observations provided by:
Mark Adamson, Ireland (administrative perspective)
Guillermo Q. Tabios III, Philippines (academic perspective)
Norbert Schwartz, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (practitioner perspective)

4:45 - 5:00

Summary and Close

Sandra Knight, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mitigation, U.S. Federal
Emergency Management Agency