Hydroinformatics, with its focus on handling the information associated with the aquatic environment, is well placed to make significant contributions to the management of flooding in rivers. The key areas include 1. Acquisition of domain and performance data for a river liable to flooding 2. Archiving and analysis of such data to yield additional knowledge and information on flooding, its causes and consequences 3. Physically-based and data-driven modelling of rivers in flood for planning, design, prediction, forecasting and control 4. Implementation of decision support systems for reliable management of flood defence schemes and flood emergencies 5. Telematics for warning and communication during flood events 6. Internet-based tools for negotiation and education on flood protection schemes and awareness 7. Recognition that flooding in a river is as much a sociological as well as a technical issue (flooding is a socio-technical problem) Research and development in all of these and other areas is continuing, and promise to open up new, more cross-technological ways of managing rivers in flood.
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