Environmental law expert Professor William Howarth will chair a national seminar focusing expert discussion on the UK’s recent flooding crisis.
Professor Howarth will be joined by a panel of speakers drawn from the legal, business and regulatory sectors at The Flooding Seminar, a half-day event being held in London on Monday 29 September.
Discussions will take in a range of topics to include groundwater flooding, contamination, insurance; drainage, flood insurance and the siting and design of new developments to adapt to flooding.
The event is aimed at anyone with an interest in flood response and flood management programmes, including environmental lawyers, government advisers, Non-Governmental Organisations, academics, local authorities, businesses and students.
The seminar has been organised by the Water Working Party of the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA) in association with the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM). UKELA is a UK forum which aims to make the law work for a better environment and to improve understanding and awareness of environmental law.
William Howarth is Professor of Environmental Law at Kent Law School and Joint Convenor of the Masters Programmes in Environmental Law and Policy, and International Environmental Law.
He is author, co-author or editor of 14 books relating to fisheries and water law, including Water Pollution and Water Quality Law(2001); Flood Defence Law (2002); Wisdom’s Law of Watercourses (2011), and acted as consultant editor of the Water and Waterways title (2009) and the Environmental Quality and Public Health title (2010) in Halsbury’s Laws of England. He is also the author of over 100 reports, monographs, and academic journal articles on water and environmental law.
As well as being a member of UKELA, Professor Howarth is the Regional Representative for the International Association for Water Law and is an Honorary Legal Adviser to the Institute of Fisheries Management.
Read more about Professor Howarth’s research interests on his staff profile.
More information about related specialisations available as part of the Kent LLM Masters in Law Programme is available on ourwebsite with further detail about the study of this topic available on our Environmental Law mini-site.