Environmental law expert Professor William Howarth will chair a national seminar focusing expert discussion on the UK\u2019s recent flooding crisis.<\/p>\n
Professor Howarth will be joined by a panel of speakers drawn from the legal, business and regulatory sectors at The Flooding Seminar<\/a>, a half-day event being held in London on Monday 29 September.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n The seminar has been organised by the Water Working Party of the UK Environmental Law Association<\/a> (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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n He is author, co-author or editor of 14 books relating to fisheries and water law, including Water Pollution and Water Quality Law<\/em>(2001); Flood Defence Law<\/em> (2002); Wisdom’s Law of Watercourses<\/em> (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<\/em>. He is also the author of over 100 reports, monographs, and academic journal articles on water and environmental law.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Read more about Professor Howarth\u2019s research interests on his staff profile.<\/a><\/p>\n More information about related specialisations available as part of the Kent LLM Masters in Law Programme is available on ourwebsite<\/a> with further detail about the study of this topic available on our Environmental Law mini-site<\/a>.<\/p>\n