Role and Function
Our Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Specialist Panel provides expert advice for CIWEM and is a sounding board for current and new initiatives. Originally formed from Rivers and Coastal Group and Urban Drainage Group members, the Panel enables CIWEM to deliver technical and policy outputs to a consistently high standard in this subject area. It acts as a focal point, bringing together practitioners working in the area or for whom FCERM is a particular area of interest or expertise, and includes professionals from across the public and private sectors. For more information about our work on FCERM, please visit the flooding page.
The Specialist Panel recently published a Policy Position Statement on FCERM, and also provided expertise for our consultation responses to the Environment Agency's Draft National FCERM Strategy for England, and for the EFRA Committee's Coastal flooding and adaptation inquiry.
If you are a CIWEM member working in FCERM or have an interest or expert knowledge and would like to join the panel, please email policy@ciwem.org for more information. Membership of the Specialist Panel is a great way to keep in touch with our work on flooding and to engage with peers.