Green Construction Research & Training Centre Seminar Series
Beyond Infrastructure: Toward Proactive and Systems-based Flood
Risk Governance Integrating Local (indigenous) Knowledge
January 29th, 2026 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (PST)
Please join us for the next session in the Green Construction Research & Training Centre (GCRTC) Seminar Series, featuring Dr. Kh Md Nahiduzzaman, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Citinnov for Integrated Territorial Planning & Smart Cities, Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P).
Dr. Nahiduzzaman will deliver a talk entitled “Beyond Infrastructure: Toward Proactive and Systems-based Flood Risk Governance Integrating Local (indigenous) Knowledge.”
This presentation critically examines the limitations of traditional flood risk management, which has largely focused on structural measures such as dikes, embankments, and pumping systems. Drawing lessons from the 2021 British Columbia floods, Dr. Nahiduzzaman highlights persistent gaps in data-driven risk assessment, outdated floodplain mapping, and an overreliance on infrastructure-led responses. Such approaches are ill-equipped to address the growing reality of compound and cascading hazards and are further constrained by fragmented, siloed environment. His research advances a systems-thinking framework so that it integrates scientific tools with Indigenous knowledge systems and adopts a rights-based perspective recognizing rivers’ natural rights to occupy floodplains. By calling for a shift from reactive response to proactive planning, this can be supported with analytical tools such as cost–benefit analysis to demonstrate long-term social and economic benefits.
Prof. Kh Md Nahiduzzaman is a faculty member at Citinnov for Integrated Territorial Planning and Smart Cities at UM6P’s Rabat campus. An internationally recognized scholar in urban and territorial resilience and transformational planning, he has held prior academic appointments at the University of British Columbia and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals. His research is highly collaborative and internationally engaged, supported by over $6 million in competitive funding from organizations including DFID, the British Council, SSHRC, UM6P, and multiple industry partners. He has authored more than 115 scholarly publications and edited several influential volumes on urban and territorial resilience. In 2024, he received the Career Award at the 24th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA) in Hanoi, Vietnam, in recognition of his sustained impact and innovative contributions to the field.
Date: January 29th, 2026
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. (PST)
Location: Join via Zoom
Meeting ID: 626 7476 8659
Passcode: 110763
Room EME 4218 will also be available for those who wish to join in person.