| EGU session: Sustainable management of river deltas under pressure (8-13 April 2018) Invitation to submit an abstract to the session ‘Sustainable management of river deltas under pressure’ (Session GM6.6/BG7.6/HS5.17), to be held at the EGU General Assembly 2018, 8-13 April 2018, Vienna, Austria.
The aim of this session is to bring together knowledge of both natural and societal processes (inter)acting in a delta, and their impacts, which is essential to find sustainable solutions for delta management. We invite contributions to this session on (1) human-induced processes driving change in river deltas, (2) impacts of these changing conditions, and (3) optimising delta management solutions, in particular by using an interdisciplinary approach. Future Deltas |
| Mini-debate and book launch 'State of the Delta' (18 December 2017) The book ‘The State of the Delta’ by Professor Han Meyer describes how the rise of advanced technologies of hydraulic engineering and water management in The Netherlands are related to the development of specific urban patterns and particular social and political institutions and resulted in a completely artificial, man-made landscape. |
| AGU Session “Progress in research on the world’s major river deltas” (11-15 December 2017) |
| Call for papers - Special journal issue "Recent Progress in Research on River Deltas" (deadline: 31 July 2018) Water, an international and interdisciplinary open-access journal covering all aspects of water, including water science, technology, management and governance, is publishing a Special Issue on "Recent Progress in Research on River Deltas". |
| 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit (11-12 December 2017) In pursuit of the SDGs adopted by the UN General Assembly in 2015, the upcoming 3rd Asia-Pacific Water Summit (APWS) will be held in Myanmar under the overarching theme “water security for sustainable development”. |
| Launch event at COP23: Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation (14 November 2017) Launch of the Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation (GCECA) at the COP23 in Bonn. GCECA |
| Amsterdam International Water Week (30 October-1 November 2017) AIWW |
| Bringing in the floods. A comparative study on controlled flooding in the Dutch, Bangladesh and Vietnamese deltas (8 November 2017) On Wednesday 8 November Martijn van Staveren (WUR) will defend his thesis. |
| DIMI on Tour 2017 - Integrated design in.. Deltas, Houston after hurricane Harvey (19 October 2017) TU Delft DIMI organises a seminar about Houston after Hurricane Harvey. The seminar presents the results of a quick fact finding study into the cause, effects and underlying causes of the huge floods which hit Greater Houston. DIMI TU Delft |
| Webinar: Modelling and Integrated Assessment: Overcoming data issues and barriers to integrated modelling in practice (26 September 2017, 16:00 CEST) Modelling and Integrated assessment: Overcoming data issues and barriers to integrated modelling in practice This webinar discusses two common challenges: The 1st relates to recognizing and obtaining good quality data, namely typical fault patterns and the selection of proper tools for their detection. The 2nd challenged addressed will be the barriers that are preventing the application of an integrated model for decision support in urban water management. The webinar introduces a systematic way to increase receptivity towards integrated models.
IWA, International Water Association |
