BEM/MRM 38

38th International Conference on Boundary Elements and Other Mesh Reduction Methods

21 - 23 September, 2015
 
New Forest, UK 

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK
University of Mississippi, USA

Overview

The Conference on Boundary Elements and Mesh Reduction Methods (BEM/MRM) is recognised as the international forum for the latest advances in these techniques and their applications in science and engineering.

The continued success of the Conference since the first meeting held in Southampton in 1978 is an indication of the strength of the research being carried out by many different groups around the world.

The history of the Conference, now in its 38th annual meeting, traces the evolution of these advanced methods since the first successful development of boundary integral techniques into BEM took place to the recent and most sophisticated Mesh Reduction Methods.

The objective of the research presented at these meetings is the further development of technologies that reduce or eliminate the type of meshes required by first generation computational methods such as finite differences and finite elements. This aim is being achieved firstly through the emergence of BEM as a method that eliminates the need for an internal mesh and more recently through the development of a series of advanced techniques for further mesh reduction approaches culminating in meshless methods.

All the meetings since 1978 have produced a series of edited volumes in which all major developments in the field have been presented. This valuable collection has been available in digital form since 1993 when the volumes began to be archived in the Wessex Institute’s eLibrary (http://library.witpress.com) where they can be easily accessed.

Conference Topics

• Advanced formulations
• Advanced meshless and mesh reduction methods
• Structural mechanics applications
• Solid mechanics
• Heat and mass transfer
• Electrical engineering and electromagnetics
• Computational methods
• Fluid flow modelling
• Damage mechanics and fracture
• Dynamics and vibrations
• Engineering applications

Webpage

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BIM 2015

International Conference on Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations

9 - 11 September, 2015

Bristol, UK

Organised by:
University of the West of England, UK
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

The recent emergence of Building Information Modelling (BIM) constitutes one of the most exciting developments in Built Environment Design, Management, Maintenance and Operations. These advances have offered project teams multi-sensory collaborative tools and opportunities for new communication structures. They have become powerful analysis and interdisciplinary decision-making tools, designed to represent and simulate existing or hypothetical buildings and settings. BIM has far reaching consequences on both building procurement and infrastructure.

The modern construction industry and built environment disciplines have been transformed through the development of new and innovative BIM tools and techniques. These have fundamentally altered the manner in which construction teams operate, the processes through which designs are evolved, and the relationships between conceptual, detail, construction and life cycle stages.

Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction, and Operations is the first in a planned series of conferences dealing with design coordination, construction, maintenance, operation and decommissioning. The conference fulfils the vital task of bringing together experts from industry, practice and academia, to debate these key topics, develop innovative solutions, and predict future trends. The conference includes a range of presentation fora, including plenary papers, workshops, seminars, and panel sessions.

The importance of interdisciplinary and collaborative practices within the built environment is reflected in the conference themes, which aim to attract a varied yet complementary range of participants including those engaged in design, surveying, visualisation, infrastructure, real estate, construction law, insurance, and facilities management.

Conference Topics

• BIM in design coordination
• BIM in construction operations
• BIM in building operation and maintenance
• BIM and sustainability
• BIM and collaborative working and practices
• BIM-Facilities management integration
• BIM-Soft landing
• BIM-GIS integration
• BIM and automation in construction
• BIM-Cloud data
• BIM and health and safety
• BIM standards
• Interoperability issues and BIM
• BIM and life cycle project management
• Legal aspects of BIM

Webpage

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Energy and Sustainability 2015

6th International Conference on Energy and Sustainability

2 - 4 September, 2015

Medellin, Colombia

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia

Overview

The 6th International conference on Energy and Sustainability will be reconvened at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin. The University is named in honour of the South American Liberator Simon Bolivar.

The meeting follows the success of previous conferences started in the New Forest, UK, home of the Wessex Institute (2007); followed by a second in Bologna (2009); the third in Alicante (2011); the fourth in Budapest (2013) and the fifth in Kuala Lumpur (2014).

The choice of Medellin responded to existing contacts between the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana and the Wessex Institute, and the dynamism and rapid growth of research in Colombia. A significant part of that research focuses on energy matters and the need to respond to the modern world’s dependency on conventional fuels. The world economy is fuelled by energy. Resources depletion and severe environmental effect resulting from the continuous use of fossil fuels has motivated an increasing amount of interest in renewable energy resources and the search for sustainable energy policies.

The changes required to progress from an economy mainly focused on hydrocarbons to one taking advantage of sustainable energy resources require considerable scientific research as well as new engineering systems. Energy policies and management are of primary importance to achieve the development of sustainability and need to be consistent with recent advances in energy production and distribution.

In many cases, the challenges lie as much in the conversion from renewable energies (wind, solar, etc) to useful forms (electricity, heat, fuel) at an acceptable cost (including damage to the environment), as in the integration of those resources into an existing infrastructure.

The conference will also discuss the energy use of industrial processes and focus in particular in the imbedded energy of materials, including those used in the built environment.

The diverse topics covered by the conference involve collaboration between different disciplines in order to arrive at optimum solutions, including materials, energy networks, new energy resources, storage solutions, waste to energy systems, smart grids and many others.

Conference Topics

• Sustainable energy production
• Energy in the built environment
• Energy production
• Energy networks
• Smart grids and metering
• Energy storage
• Energy policies
• Shale oil and gas
• Oil sands processes
• CO2 capturing and management
• Energy management
• Imbedded energy in manufacturing
• Energy and transportation
• Energy efficiency
• Renewable energy resources
• Biomass and biofuels
• Waste to energy
• The future of nuclear energy
• Environmental risk
• Greener power plant technologies
• Optimization of conventional energy resources
• Advances in energy production
• Case studies

Webpage

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Sustainable City 2015

10th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability

1 - 3 September, 2015

Medellin, Colombia

Organised by:
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

The 10th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability (Sustainable City) will be held at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin, Colombia. The University is named in honour of the South American Liberator Simon Bolivar.

This Sustainable City meeting follows a series of successful conferences starting in Rio de Janeiro in 2000 and regularly held since then in different locations throughout Europe and Asia. The meetings always attract a substantial number of contributions from participants from different backgrounds and countries. The variety of topics and experiences is one of the main reasons behind the success of the series. The dynamic growth of Colombia and in particular the rapid development of Medellin, which has recently been designated the most innovative city in the world, led to its choice as the venue for the Sustainable City 2015 conference.

Urban areas result in a series of environmental challenges varying from the consumption of natural resources and the subsequent generation of waste and pollution, contributing to the development of social and economic imbalances. As cities continue to grow all over the world, these problems tend to become more acute and require the development of new solutions.

The challenge of planning sustainable contemporary cities lies in considering the dynamics of urban systems, exchange of energy and matter, and the function and maintenance of ordered structures directly or indirectly supplied and maintained by natural systems. The task of researchers, aware of the complexity of the contemporary city, is to improve the capacity to manage human activities, pursuing welfare and prosperity in the urban environment. Any investigation or planning on a city ought to consider the relationships between the parts and their connections with the living world. The dynamics of its networks (flows of energy matter, people, goods, information and other resources) are fundamental for an understanding of the evolving nature of today’s cities.

The Sustainable City Conference addresses the multidisciplinary components of urban planning, the challenges presented by the increasing size of the cities, the amount of resources and sources required and the complexity of modern society.

Conference Topics

• Planning, development and management
• The community and the city
• Urban strategies
• Architectural issues
• Cultural heritage issues
• Landscape planning and design
• Urbanization of rural areas
• Environmental management
• Sustainable energy and the city
• Transportation
• Waste management
• Intelligent environments
• Quality of life
• Infrastructures and social services
• Sustainable urban tourism
• Planning for risk and natural hazards
• Case studies

Webpage

View the conference website, which has full details about the conference objectives, topics and submission requirements at: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/15-conferences/sustainable-city-2015.html

Water and Society 2015

3rd International Conference on Water and Society
15 - 17 July, 2015
A Coruña, Spain

Organsied by:
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

The Water and Society Conference is to be reconvened in 2015 following the success of the previous meetings, the first of which was held in Las Vegas in 2011, followed by the meeting in 2013 in the New Forest, UK, home to the Wessex Institute.

Over the centuries, civilisations have relied on the availability of clean and inexpensive water. This can no longer be taken for granted as the need for water continues to increase due to the pressure from an increasing global population demanding higher living standards. Agriculture and industry, major users of water, are at the same time those that contribute to its contamination. Water distribution networks in urban areas, as well as soiled water collection systems, present serious problems in response to a growing population as well as the need to maintain ageing infrastructures.

Many technologically feasible solutions, such as desalination or pumping systems are energy demanding but, as energy costs rise, the techniques currently developed may need to be re-assessed. The Conference will address the interaction between water and energy systems.

This meeting will encourage trans-disciplinary communication on issues related to the nature of water, and its use and exploitation by society. The conference is motivated by the need to bridge the gap between the broad spectrum of socio-political sciences and humanistic disciplines and specialists in physical sciences, biology, environmental sciences and health, among others.

The socio-political implications of a world short of clean, easily available water are enormous. Coupled with the increasing demands for energy, it will lead to realignments in international politics and the emergence of new centres of power in the world.

Policy makers need to be educated and advised on developing policies and regulations that will support the water systems of tomorrow. The role of society and its involvement with water is paramount. To meet the future demands for water, new standards, new training and additional support roles will best be delivered by those knowledgeable of the new technologies and direction of the industry.

The intention of the Water and Society series of conferences is to review these issues, as well as the more technical aspects of water resources management and quality, to help the policy makers put forward policies and legislation that will lead to improved solutions for all.

Conference Topics

• Water resources management
• Water as a human right
• Water quality
• Water resources contamination
• Water, sanitation and health
• Water and disaster management
• Policy and legislation
• Future water demands
• Irrigation and desertification

Webpage

View the conference website, which has full details about the conference objectives, topics and submission requirements at: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/15-conferences/water-and-society-2015.html

STREMAH 2015

14th International Conference on Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture
13 - 15 July, 2015
A Coruña, Spain

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

STREMAH 2015 is the 14th International Conference on Studies, Repairs and Maintenance of Heritage Architecture. The meeting has taken place on a regular basis since the first conference started in Florence (1989) and continued in Seville (1991); Bath (1993); Crete (1995); San Sebastian (1997); Dresden (1999); Bologna (2001); Halkidiki (2003); Malta (2005); Prague (2007); Tallinn (2009); Tuscany (2011), and the New Forest, UK home of the Wessex Institute (2013).

The importance of retaining the built cultural heritage cannot be overstated. Rapid development and the inappropriate conservation techniques are threatening many unique sites in different parts of world. This conference aims to provide the necessary scientific knowledge required to formulate regulatory policies, to ensure effective ways of preserving the architectural heritage. Because of that the series has been successful and continues to attract a wide range of high quality contributions since it started in 1989.

The meeting addresses a series of topics related to the historical aspects and the reuse of heritage buildings, as well as technical issues on the structural integrity of different types of buildings, such as those constructed with materials as varied as iron and steel, concrete, masonry, wood or earth. Restoration processes require the appropriate characterisation of those materials, the modes of construction and the structural behaviour of the building. This knowledge can be gained through a series of material characterisation techniques, preferably via non-destructive tests. Modern computer simulation can provide accurate results demonstrating the stress state of the building and possible failure mechanisms affecting its stability. Of particular importance are studies related to their dynamic and earthquake behaviour aiming to provide an assessment of the seismic vulnerability of heritage buildings.

This conference brings together contributions from scientists, architects, engineers and restoration experts from all over the world dealing with different aspects of heritage buildings. Papers contained in the volumes in the series have been published in paper and digital format in the WIT transactions of the Built Environment, and widely distributed around the world. They are also permanently archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary where they are available to the international community (see http://library.witpress.com).

Conference Topics

• Heritage architecture and historical aspects
• Learning from the past
• Surveying and monitoring
• Performance and maintenance
• Structural restoration of metallic structures
• Earth construction
• Modern (19th/20th century) heritage
• Maritime heritage
• Heritage masonry buildings
• Stone masonry walls
• Wooden structures
• Simulation and modelling
• Material characterization
• New technologies or materials
• Corrosion and material decay
• Seismic vulnerability
• Assessment and re-use of heritage buildings
• Heritage and tourism
• Social and economic aspects in heritage
• Guidelines, codes and regulations for heritage
• Heritage management
• Defence heritage
• Industrial heritage
• Transportation heritage

Webpage

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Coastal Cities 2015

International Conference on Coastal Cities and their Sustainable Future
7 - 9 July, 2015
New Forest, UK

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain 

Overview

This International Conference on Coastal Cities has evolved from a series of meetings organised by the Wessex Institute in the past, dealing with the Coastal Environment, Coastal Processes and City Sustainability. It felt necessary to convene a conference dedicated to the presentation and discussion of issues related to the integrated management and sustainable development of coastal cities.

Coastal zones are the most attractive areas of the world, where land, sea and air interact, leading to highly complex dynamic processes. The growth of world population and the preference for living in coastal areas has resulted in their ever-increasing development.

Coastal areas are the most common destination which brings in economic growth but implies additional urban development and increases the need for resources, infrastructure and services.

The strategic location of coastal cities for instance, facilitates transportation and the development of related activities, but this requires the existence of large ports, with the corresponding increase in maritime and road traffic with all its inherent negative effects.

The above-mentioned activities and others common to coastal cities require the development of well-planned and managed urban environments, not only for reasons of efficiency and economics, but also to avoid inflicting environmental degradation that causes the deterioration of quality of life and human health.

To resolve these problems it is necessary to consider coastal cities as dynamic complex systems which need energy, water, food and other resources in order to work and generate diverse activities, with the aim of offering a socioeconomic climate and better quality of life.

As a consequence, the integrated management and sustainable development of coastal cities is essential, with science, technology, architecture, socio-economics and planning all collaborating to provide support to decision makers. 

Due to the complex nature of the problem, the planners need the support of computational models to explore different options and forecast future services and plans. These models seek to simulate the dynamic of coastal cities leading to potential solutions.

This International Conference on Coastal Cities and their Sustainable Future aims to provide a multi-disciplinary forum to discuss a wide range of scientific, technological and socioeconomic issues related to the development of sustainability in coastal cities.

Conference Topics

• Landscape and urban planning and design
• The coastal city and its environs
• Infrastructures and ecoarchitecture
• City heritage and regeneration
• Urban transport and communications
• Commercial ports, fishing and sports harbours
• Energy systems
• Water resources management
• City/Waterfront interaction
• Coastal city beaches
• Quality of life and city leisure
• Tourism and the city
• Coastal processes
• Water pollution
• Air pollution
• City waste management
• Acoustical and thermal pollution
• Coastal risk assessment
• Coastal flooding
• Landslides
• Emergency plans and evacuation systems
• Health services management
• Intercity issues
• Socio-economic issues
• Legal aspects
• Modelling and simulation of coastal city systems

Webpage


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Ravage of the Planet IV

4th International Conference on Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards

1 - 3 July, 2015

Opatija, Croatia

Organised by:

Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

The success of the three previous International Conferences on Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards (Ravage of the Planet) held in Bariloche, Argentina (2006); Cape Town, South Africa (2009); and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2011), has led the organisers to reconvene the Meeting in 2015.

The Conference has always been well attended by a substantial number of scientists from all over the world, which underlines the concern of the international community regarding the state of the planet. The basic premise of the Meeting is the need to determine solutions before a point of no return is reached.

Our society has fallen into a self-destructive process by which natural resources are consumed at an ever increasing rate. This process is now spread across the planet in search of further sources of energy and materials. The aggressiveness of the quest is such that the future of our planet is in the balance; the emphasis has been in dominating nature rather than trying to achieve harmonious relationships with her. The process is compounded by the pernicious effects of the resulting contamination of air, water and soil.

The Conference will discuss the objective of reaching sustainability in the framework of different disciplines in order to arrive at optimal solutions. Hence this meeting is essentially trans-disciplinary in order to find appropriate sustainable ways forward, ie those involving collaboration across a wide range of disciplines. Like the first three meetings, the aim of this conference is to take stock of our situation and try to facilitate constructive principles and policies.

Conference Topics

The Re-Encounter

• Science and humanities
• Arts and sciences

Political, Economic and Social Sciences

• Social and sociological issues
• Environmental legislation and policies
• Environmental economics
• Regional planning and economics

Planning and Development

• City planning
• Urban design
• Landscaping
• Sustainable transport
• Resource management
• Waste management
• Tourism and the environment

Health Risks

• Water, air and soil pollution
• Radiation effects
• Food contamination
• Housing and health
• Social and economic issues

Energy

• Renewable energy
• Nuclear energy
• Hydrocarbons
• Economic and political issues
• Energy conservation

Water Resources

• Water management and planning
• River basin management
• Sustainable water use
• Irrigation and drainage
• Waste water
• Pollution monitoring and control

Air

• Air quality management
• Global and regional studies
• Climatology

Safety and Security

• Safety risk analysis
• Emergency response
• Disaster prevention
• Control management and protection
• Public safety and security
• Infrastructure protection

Soil

• Agricultural issues
• Contamination
• Soil remediation
• Brownfield recovery

Ecological issues

• Natural resources management
• Climate change and sustainability
• Biodiversity
• Environmental risk
• Recovery of damaged areas
• Ecosystem modelling
• Agricultural and forestation issues
• Landscapes

Learning from nature

• Design in nature
• Nature and architecture
• Solutions from nature
• Evolutionary structures

New technologies

• The impact of new technologies
• Energy-efficient technologies
• Eco-architecture

Webpage

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ERES 2015

10th International Conference on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures

29 June - 1 July, 2015
Opatija, Croatia

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

ERES 2015 is the tenth international conference on the series on Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures organised by the Wessex Institute. The Meeting provides a unique forum for the discussion of basic and applied research in the various fields of earthquake engineering relevant to the design of structures.

The conference began in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1997, followed by Catania, Italy in 1999; Malaga, Spain in 2001; Ancona, Italy (2003); Skiathos, Greece (2005); Bologna, Italy (2007), Cyprus (2009), Tuscany, Italy (2011) and A Coruña, Spain (2013)

Major earthquakes and associated effects such as tsunamis continue to stress the need to carry out more research on those topics. The problems will intensify as population pressure results in buildings in regions of high seismic vulnerability. A better understanding of these phenomena is required to design earthquake resistant structures and to carry out risk assessment and vulnerability studies.

The problem of protecting the built environment in earthquake-prone regions involves not only the optimal design and construction of new facilities, but also the upgrading and rehabilitation of existing structures including heritage buildings. The type of highly specialized retrofitting employed to protect the built heritage is an important area of research and appropriate to the conference objective of designing better earthquake resistant buildings.

This conference aims to address these problems continuing to expand on the development of previous meetings in the series. Papers presented at ERES are an invaluable record of the state of the art in this field. Most of those published since 1997 are now freely available on the Wessex Institute eLibrary (http://library.witpress.com) where they are a permanent record demonstrating the quality of the research presented at the ERES conference series.

Conference Topics

• Seismic hazard and tsunamis
• Building performance during earthquakes
• Vulnerability
• Earthquake prediction
• Seismic isolation and energy dissipation
• Performance based design
• Experimental studies
• Structural dynamics
• Passive protection systems
• Case studies
• Numerical analysis
• Monitoring and early warning systems
• Lifelines and resilience
• Forensic engineering
• Safety engineering
• Heritage structures
• Earthquakes and landslides
• Liquefaction
• Innovative technologies

Webpage

View the conference website, which has full details about the conference objectives, topics and submission requirements at: http://www.wessex.ac.uk/15-conferences/eres-2015.html

River Basin Management 2015

8th International Conference on River Basin Management including all aspects of Hydrology, Ecology, Environmental Management, Flood Plains and Wetlands
17 - 19 June, 2015
A Coruña, Spain

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

River Basin Management 2015 is the 8th Conference in the series which marks the growing international interest in the planning, design and management of river basin systems.

The first River Basin Management conference took place in Cardiff, UK in 2001, followed by a meeting in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (2003) and another in Bologna, Italy (2005), the fourth in Kos, Greece (2007), the fifth in Malta (2009), the sixth in Riverside, California (2011) and the seventh in the New Forest, UK (2013), home of the Wessex Institute.

The papers corresponding to all the conferences have been archived in digital form at http://library.witpress.com/ where they are permanently available to the international community.

River Basin Management includes all aspects of Hydrology, Ecology, Environmental Management, Flood Plains and Wetlands. Riverine systems are coming under increasing pressure due to anthropological and natural causes. Prominent amongst the problems affecting them is water scarcity and quality, which requires the development of improved surveying and measuring techniques for better river management.

Catastrophic events such as floods and associated landslides, erosion and sedimentation can have serious effects not only on life and property but also on the basin ecology. Frequently these problems are aggravated by the unforeseen consequences of man made changes in the river basin. This has led in recent years to work on river restoration and rehabilitation with various degrees of success.

Changes in the landscape, use of the land and climate conditions lead to a continuous revaluation of river basin management objectives. This requires the development of better measuring tools as well as the use of increasingly accurate computer software.

The objective of this series of conferences is to bring together practitioners and researchers in academia and industry in the hope that their interaction will foster mutual understanding and lead to better solutions for river basins.

Conference Topics

• Water resources management
• Flood risk management
• Ecological and environmental impact
• Erosion and sediment transport
• Hydrological modelling
• River restoration and rehabilitation
• Hydropower impacts and solutions
• River and watershed management
• Integrated management
• Water quality issues
• Eutrophication and agricultural pollution
• Trans-boundary river issues
• Estuaries and deltas
• Extreme event management
• Wetlands
• Climate change and adaptive water management
• Water quality and health
• Socio-economic and political issues
• Water governance and water justice
• Data acquisition, management and analysis
• Flood risk control
• Remote sensing and instrumentation
• Dam operation
• Experimental modelling
• River basin risk analysis
• Emerging technologies
• Rain water systems
• Erosion and sediment transport
• Hydrodynamics

Webpage

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Water Resources Management 2015

8th International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management
15 - 17 June, 2015
A Coruña, Spain

Organised by:
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

The eighth International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management will present the more recent technological and scientific developments, associated with the management of surface and sub-surface water resources.

The first conference on Water Resources Management was held in Halkidiki, Greece in 2001, the second in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria (2003), the third in the Algarve, Portugal (2005), the fourth in Kos, Greece (2007), the fifth in Malta (2009), the sixth in Riverside, California (2011) and the seventh in the New Forest, UK (2013), home of the Wessex Institute.

Papers presented at the Water Resources Management meetings are permanently available to the international community in digital format at http://library.witpress.com/

Water is essential for sustaining life on our planet and its uneven distribution is a source of permanent conflict. The growth of human population combined with the irregularity in precipitation and water availability may restrict even further the access to water in certain regions of the world. This problem is made more severe by anthropogenic activities that affect its quality.

The Conference provides a platform for professionals involved in water resources management to exchange knowledge and gain an insight in to the state of the art in the current technology, techniques and solutions in sustainable water management as they have been developed and applied in different countries. Participants include a wide variety of stakeholders from research and academia, like industrial sectors as well as government organisations.

Conference Topics

• Water management and planning
• Water rights and accessibility
• Water markets and policies
• Climate change
• Irrigation
• Urban water management
• Hydraulic engineering
• Water quality
• Pollution contaminants and control
• River basin management
• Flood risk management
• Geo-politics of water
• Water resources and economics
• Governance and regulations
• Desalination
• Water services

Webpage

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ECOSUD 2015

10th International Conference on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development
3 - 5 June, 2015
València, Spain

Organised by:
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Wessex Institute, UK

Overview

ECOSUD 2015 is the 10th International Conference in the well established series on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development. The meetings provide a unique forum for the presentation and discussion of recent work on different aspects of ecosystems and sustainable development, including physical sciences and modelling.

This successful series first started in Peniscola, Spain (1997) and continued in Lemnos, Greece (1999); Alicante, Spain (2001); Siena, Italy (2003); Cadiz, Spain (2005); Coimbra, Portugal (2007); Chianciano Terme, Italy (2009), Alicante, Spain (2011) and Bucharest, Romania (2013).

The aim of the Conference is to encourage and facilitate interdisciplinary communication between scientists, engineers, economists and professionals working in ecological systems and sustainable development. Emphasis will be given to those areas that will most benefit from the application of scientific methods for sustainable development, including the conservation of natural systems around the world. The conference objectives have evolved over the years, seeking to integrate thermodynamics, ecology and economics into “ecodynamics”.

The papers presented at this conference as well as all preceding meetings in the series have been permanently archived in the Wessex Institute eLibrary as WIT Transactions (see http://library.witpress.com) where they are easily accessible to the scientific community. They contribute a whole record of the state of the art in ecosystems and sustainable development fields. The conference books are produced in paper and digital format and widely distributed throughout the world.

Conference Topics

• Energy and the environment
• Environmental indicators
• Sustainable development and planning
• Ecosystem modelling
• Natural resources management
• Sustainable development studies
• Waste management
• Soil contamination and recovery
• Recovery of damaged areas
• Protection and mitigation
• Sustainable energy systems
• Economic and benefit analysis
• Policies
• Environmental management
• Climate change and adaptation
• Forensic analysis
• Knowledge dissemination
• Social responsibility
• Environmental monitoring and assessment
• Innovation in environmental management
• Sustainable indicators, monitoring and assessment
• Natural resources in periurban spaces
• Territorial risk management

Webpage

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