Recent progress in flood and drought management research

Flood and drought management is one of the important research fields in China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research.Since the founding of the Department of Water Hazard Research and the Research Center on Flood and Drought Disaster Reduction,Ministry of Water Resources in the beginning of the new century,progresses have been made in this field,which offer a powerful support scientifically and technologically for the shifts to "flood management" and "overall drought control".In this paper,some progresses made recently are introduced at 3 levels: disaster science,disaster-prevention science and disaster-prevention technology.