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Past Flood CoP events

Get further information on each Flood CoP seminar and workshop held. Videos, Slideshows and supporting documents are available. See all upcoming events or join the community so you don’t miss any updates.

An author’s insight – Rising from the Flood:Moving Grantham

Future threats from naturla perils will mean not all settlements can stay where they are now. What needs to happen to enable and empower a community to want to relocate. Key lessons from the Grantham resettlement via Jamie Simmonds recently published book - provide invaluable insights on what can make it happen.
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Probing the Book – River with a City Problem

A new local book on the History of Flood in Brisbane has created a fresh insight into the evolution of issues over time and how well adapted we may or may not be!!!
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Adaptation Pathways: Planning for our uncertain WaterFutures

Latest workshop event on looking at future combination of actions that best deal with uncertain times and changing climatic conditions
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What is in the Strategic Floodplain Management Plan for the Brisbane River, our communities and us, as professionals?

Since the Floods of January 2011, there has been an extended effort to initiate, undertake and finalize a Strategic Floodplain Management Plan for the Brisbane River floodplain and catchments.  In March 2019, the SFMP was launched and over the last 5 years the Flood CoP network has had a long interest on what it might entail and what it means for professional working in sectors that overlap with the actions arising out of the Plan.
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Managed Retreat from the Floodplain – Lessons from USA case studies and what it might mean for Australia?

What dos over 100 years of 30 managed retreat from the floodplain in the USA tell us? Nichols Pinter from Unibersity of California, Davis takes us on a guided historic tour of what has been possible - with both the good and the poor highlighted.
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Tools for water sensitive cities – what can they tell us & what can “we” do?

A rapid tour of tools that bring decision making and design of water sensitive cities into the reaches of professionals with a desire to have good alternatives rather than business as usual
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