Disaster and Climate Change
This theme addresses disaster and climate change and encompasses papers that:
- Align drowning prevention to disaster management plans, strategies for climate change adaptation, and Disaster Risk Reduction agendas including the Sendai Framework.
- Explore systematic approaches to assessing flooding risk and impact
- Present strategies to build agency and community capacity to respond during flood emergencies
- Outline best practice in systems and techniques of swift water rescue
- Explore preparedness against flood or coastal inundation impact (early warning systems, country/ regional warnings)
- Impact of extreme weather on drowning and drowning prevention
- Address community-based preparedness and resilience
The WCDP committee have released the Disaster and Climate Change accepted papers, take a look below. More papers to follow.
Disclaimer: papers were correct at the time of publishing. Please note, circumstances may change beyond the control of the organisers, which may necessitate substitutions or alterations to the conference program.
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Presenting |
Title of submission |
Format |
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Gordon Wenzek |
In Germany, water rescue and drowning prevention is largely based on voluntary workers. After the “Bernd” flood of the century in 2021, the helicopter-assisted rescue of people and the use of drones as resources for averting danger should be evaluated and applied across the board |
Poster |
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Kyra Hamilton |
Can planning curtail people’s willingness to drive into urban flash flooding? |
Oral |
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Martin Hagger |
Beliefs and attitudes of Australian learner drivers toward driving and avoid driving into floodwater |
Oral |
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Sadrul Mazumder |
Building Awareness among communities to save children from Drowning during floods and cyclones |
Poster |
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Adrian Mayhew |
Climate, Flooding & Heat: Lab to Policy |
Oral |
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Gridsana Pimpanon |
The Evolution of Flood Rescue Training in Thailand |
Oral |
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Tony van den Enden |
Floodwater response, evacuation and rescue: An Australian perspective |
Oral |
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Norman Farmer |
A community resilience project to ensure disaster preparedness along Australia’s coastline |
Oral |
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Richard Franklin |
Examining the risk relationship between drowning and heatwave |
Oral |
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Pradipta Ghosal |
Required Preparedness due to Rapid Shift in Drowning circumstances primarily due to changing Social behaviour, Climatic changes and Global Warming! |
Oral |
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Dirk Bissinger, PhD |
The Flooding in Germany Summer 2021 – a retrospective evaluation |
Oral |
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Muhammad Said |
Development of a community based search and rescue service in a low-resource setting: a case study from Zanzibar |
Oral |
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Justin Sempsrott |
Drowning and climate change, the results from a project by the International Drowning Researcher’s Alliance |
Oral |
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Nahid Akther |
Worst waterway tragedy of the country in the recent decades in Bangladesh: seventy people died in one incident |
Poster |
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Notan Chandra Dutta |
Assessing the drowning risks in the flood affected areas in east-north part of Bangladesh |
Oral |
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Paulo Costa |
Risk perception analysis of atmospheric electric discharges by professionals working in the aquatic environment. |
Poster |