Michael Hammond PhD, MSc

Biography

Michael joined the Environmental Engineering and Water Technology (EEWT) Department in September 2014. His research activities are focused on improving the design and management of urban drainage, and in particular their behaviour in response to extreme precipitation and flooding. Climate change, urban growth and economic development present key challenges and opportunities for cities in the 21st Century. He is also researching how cities can become more resilient to flooding and have developed methods to understand flood impacts, including damage to buildings, transport networks and impacts on human health. I have applied these methods to evaluate the effectiveness of flood mitigation strategies under different scenarios. At UNESCO-IHE, he is coordinating several modules on the Urban Water and Sanitation Program, including Urban Drainage, and he has taught water management and GIS in Colombia.

Before joining IHE, he was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Water Systems at the University of Exeter in the UK from 2010 to 2014. There, he worked on a EU FP7 Funded project Collaborative Research on Flood Resilience in Urban Areas (CORFU), studying the impacts of floods in several European and Asian Cities. Before that, he was an engineer from 2007 to 2010 at Atkins Limited, an international firm of consulting engineers, and gained much practical experience working on water management projects.  He graduated from the University of Bristol in the Department of Civil Engineering, where he researched flood forecasting using radar rainfall data. He graduated with a First Class degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Bristol in 2003, where he spent one year at INSA Lyon, in France. 

Publications

Recent peer-reviewed journal publications

Zhang, Y., Hammond, M., King, A., Block, P. Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam: Implications for Downstream Riparian Countries, 2015, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management (in press).

Hammond, M., Chen, A. S., Djordjevic, S., Butler D., Mark, O. 2015. Urban flood impact assessment: A state-of-the-art review, Urban Water Journal, 12 (1), 2015. DOI: 10.1080/1573062X.2013.857421

Bangash, R. F., Passuello, A., Hammond, M., Schuhmacher, M., 2012. Water allocation assessment in low flow river under data scarce conditions: A study of hydrological simulation in Mediterranean basin. Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 440, pp 60-71. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.08.031

Recent peer-reviewed conference publications

Veerbeek, W., Gersonius, B., Chen, A. S., Hammond, M., Khan, D. M., Zevenbergen, C. Applied Flood Resiliency: A method for determining the recovery capacity for fast growing megacities. Accepted at 13th International Conference on Urban Drainage, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 7 – 12 September 2014.

Zhang, Y., Block, P., Hammond, M. Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam: Filling Policies and Implications for Downstream Countries, 2014. World Environmental & Water Resources Congress. Portland, Oregon, June 1-5, 2014

Hsu M.- H., Chen C.-H., Chang C.-H., Liu W.-C., Chang T.-J., Lin J.-C., Chen A. S., Hammond M. J., Djordjevic S., Butler D, 2013. Flood impact assessment under climate change scenarios in central Taipei area, Taiwan. Proceedings of the International Conference on Flood Resilience, Exeter, 5- 7 September 2013.

Khan D. M., Taher I., Veerbeek W., Chen A. S., Hammond M. J., Djordjevic S., Butler D., 2013. Back to the future: Assessing the impact of the 2004 flood in Dhaka in 2050 under massive urban growth. Proceedings of the International Conference on Flood Resilience, Exeter, 5- 7 September 2013.

Chen A. S., Hammond M. J., Djordjevic S. and Butler D., 2013. Flood damage assessment for urban growth scenarios. Proceedings of the International Conference on Flood Resilience, Exeter, 5- 7 September 2013.

Kurzbach, S., Hammond, M., Mark, O., Djordjevic, S., Butler, D., Gourbesville, P., Batica, J., Veerbeek, W., Birkholz, S., Schlitte, F., Chen, A. S., Manojlovic, N., Ujeyl, G., 2013. The development of socio-economic scenarios for urban flood risk management. Proceedings of the 8th International Novatech, Lyon, 23-27 June 2013.

Other publications

Hammond, M., Chen A. S., Guidolin, M., Duncan, A., Djordjevic, S., Savic, D. 2014. Using hydroinformatics to predict and manage urban flooding, IWA Yearbook, IWA, London.

Hammond, M., Chen, A. S. Djordjevic, S., Butler, D. 2014. Making cities more resilient to flooding, Global Water Forum, June 2014

Hammond, M., 2013, The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam and the Blue Nile: Implications for transboundary water governance, Global Water Forum, Discussion Paper No. 1307, February 2013