The HAC (High Advisory Council) of the Valencian Community held an extraordinary meeting due to the DANA disaster, on the initiative of the Commission for the Protection of the Environment.

After the presentations of four spokespersons, there was a general debate with the participation of all those present. The presentations were made by Jose Luis Rubio, under the title “How to prevent and mitigate the impact and catastrophic risks of DANA in Mediterranean environments”, followed by the intervention of José María Baldasano, who spoke about the geographical, meteorological and climatic causes of the flooding in the Community of Valencia. He was followed by Juan Bautista Marco, professor at the UPV, who presented his idea of “Science and technology in the defense against floods. The essential interdisciplinarity”. The winners of the Rei Jaume I Prizes ended with Alfonso Vegara, who spoke about the intelligence of the territory, and Ramón Tamames, who recalled “The experience of 1957: floods and southern solution. The importance of certain infrastructures in the long term”.