Events

IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition

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The 2014 IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition benefits from its host city, Lisbon. Portugal has continued evolving solutions to its historic and recent water challenges between the city’s aqueducts and canals at the mouth of the Tagus River and the international management of the five river basins it shares with Spain. The city is […]

6th International Conference on Flood Management

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The 6th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM6) marks the continued advancement of flood management practices and policies around the world. The name change from “Defence” as used in the previous four events to “Management” is reflective of the more integrative approaches to flood management that nations are increasingly employing. The first International Symposium on Flood […]

4th International Conference on Building Resilience

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When confronted with increasing risks and vulnerabilities caused by natural hazards and amplified by rising population and infrastructures in urban areas, the importance of resilience becomes more and more evident. Applying both to the structures that humans build and to the way society perceives and reacts to disasters, the notion of resilience has been widely […]

13th International Conference on Urban Drainage

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Urban Drainage in the Context of Integrated Urban Water Management: A Bridge between Developed and Developing Countries The conference is aimed at looking at the most recent ideas, technologies, behaviours, economics and policies related to centralised and decentralised systems for managing urban drainage as part of an integrated approach to the water cycle.

International Disaster and Risk Conference Davos

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IDRC Davos 2014 attempts to find solutions to today’s challenges by managing risks, reducing disasters and adapting to climate change. Focussing on a multi-sectors, multi-stakeholders  and multi-disciplines approach IDRC helps to build stronger ties with adequate public-private partnership models among risk management communities and sectors, enabling a move towards a truly integrative way of thinking […]

11th International Conference on Hydroinformatics

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Hydroinformatics is a strongly inter-disciplinary field, which links water and environmental problems with various computational modelling methods and fast developing information and communication technologies. Especially the need to standardize and harmonize data protocols and descriptions has prompted many researchers to seek approaches and solutions to overcome data and communication heterogeneity aimed at increased levels of […]

Coastal Risks: Hazards, Stakes, Representations, Management

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The aim of the conference is to strengthen the knowledge and the understanding of coastal risks in terms of erosion and marine flooding. The conference will present a selection of both disciplinary and interdisciplinary research projects on coastal risks and will compare experiences and approaches used in various geographic contexts linked to particular forcings, both […]

PEARL 2nd PEARL Project Committee Meeting

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Venue Our next project committee meeting will be held at Aegean Pearl Hotel in Rethymno, Greece, 2-4 of July 2014. Find information on the venue and travel suggestions here. What to prepare? The agenda is uploaded onto the IWA WaterWiki platform. For now, participants are requested to fill out the roster and return it to NTUA.

Global Estuaries Forum

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Meet the economic, political and scientific stakeholders of the estuarine world The world’s estuaries are a source of wealth, both for the ecosystems they nurture and for the populations that line their banks. This inaugural forum, hosted by the Association Estuaire de la Seine Territoire de L’Eau in Deauville, France will bring together a cross-sector […]

4th International Conference on Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response

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FRIAR 2014 is the fourth Conference of this successful series. The conference started at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London 2008 and was reconvened at the Lombardy Region in Milano in 2010 and in Dubrovnik in 2012. Flooding is a global phenomenon that claims numerous lives worldwide each year. When flooding occurs in populated […]