V International Symposium on Transboundary Waters Management

Conference Topics:

1. Impact of global climate changes on transboundary integrated water management

2. Historical and cultural backgrounds of transboundary waters

3. Governance, legal and institutional issues

4. Flood management in the transboundary context

5. Drought management in the transboundary context

6. Ecosystems management in the transboundary context

7. Socio-economic and human aspects of transboundary water management

8. Cooperation and conflict prevention

9. EU WFD implementation and lessons learned

10. Review of UNESCO ISARM and GEF International Waters Projects

Objectives:

To assess the state-of-the-art and the progress recently made in the sustainable management of transboundary waters by different disciplines such as law, socio-economics and water science;

● To promote interdisciplinary approaches for integrated transboundary water resources management;

● To review current major international programmes concerned with the assessment and management of transboundary water resources.

Call for papers/posters:

Participants intending to present a paper or poster should submit anabstract of 400-500 words in English by e-mail (bled2011@fgg.uni-lj.si)by 15 June 2011.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by end July 2011 and full papersshould be submied by 31 August 2011.

The accepted contributions will be included in the book of abstracts available at the conference and published at a later stage in a book(after review).

Contact information	Maja Koprivšek, The Local Organizing Committee Team: University of Ljubljana Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering Chair of Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering Hajdrihova 28 1000 Ljubljana Slovenia (email: bled2011@fgg.uni-lj.si ; info@albatros-bled.com ; majda@albatros-bled.com) Phone: +386 1 426 42 88 ; Fax: +386 1 251 98 97
Event type	Conference
File link	http://ksh.fgg.uni-lj.si/bled2011/
File link copy	Bled_IW_2ndAnnouncement.pdf (PDF, 192 Kb)
Source	http://ksh.fgg.uni-lj.si/bled2011/
Subject(s)	FINANCE-ECONOMY , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY
Relation	http://ksh.fgg.uni-lj.si/bled2011/Bled_IW_2ndAnnouncement.pdf
Geographical coverage	Slovenia,
Address	Bled
Organizer	Slovenian National Committee for the UNESCO-IHP & UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (IHP)
Target audience	International
Period	[03/10/2011 - 05/10/2011]
Status	Confirmed
Working language(s)	ENGLISH