From 2006-06-29 to 2006-07-01
Venue: Timisoara, Romania
Summary:
The goal of this conference is to focus specialists' interest in order to answer the question: ‘Is it possible to fight and especially to prevent a hydrological disaster?’
Future actions of interdisciplinary research implemented at the catchment scale will be evaluated. These must take climate variation, climate change and the globalization and privatization of water resources into consideration.
The main topics of this conference are:
• natural and accidental floods
• hydrological droughts
• pollution of water resources
• policies and strategies.
Organizers: Hydrotechnical Faculty of the Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania; Romanian Water Authority; Romanian National Committee of the UNESCO’s International Hydrological Programme
Contact Name: Gheorghe Cretu
E-mail: gcr@mail.dnttm.ro
URL: http://www.upt.ro/pfhd/pfhd2/index.html