Megacities: Interactions between land use and water management

DEADLINE for abstract submisson: 05.08.2009!

Venue: Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, P R China
Time: November 25 - 26, 2009
Language: English

Scope and guiding questions

This forum aims to offer a multi-disciplinary platform for water experts and professionals, within and outside of the region, to exchange their views and research findings on a wide range of water problems in the Pearl River Delta as well as in other (mega) urban agglomerations.

How does land use change affects natural and technical water cycles?
What are the driving forces for land use changes?
What informal actions, positive as well as negative ones, influence water quantity and water quality?
How can the interactions of land use (change) and water be assessed and conceptualized within the global change processes?
Did the similar situation of land use change and the corresponding water use change once happen in the history of Germany?
What is the difference of water use and water management between China and Germany?

Sessions

Impact of land use on water resources
Water quality and health aspects
Methods and data modeling
Water resource management

Important Dates of Deadline

August 05, 2009 Submission of abstracts with no more than 500 English words
August 10, 2009 Notification of acceptance, sending of acceptance letters to selected participants
September 10, 2009 Deadline submission of full papers with no more than 8 pages
October 05, 2009 Deadline correction of review notification

Organization

Xiaohong Chen
Sun Yat-sen University
Department of Water Resources & Environment

Rafig Azzam
RWTH Aachen University
Department of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology

Scientific Committee
R. Azzam (GER), K. Baier (GER), S. Guo (CHN), F. Kraas (GER), Z. Lei (CHN), C. Liu (CHN), C. Neukum (GER), H. Sun (CHN), H. Wang (CHN), J. Xia (CHN), J. Zhang (CHN)

Organizing Committee
X. Chen (CHN), Y. Chen (CHN), T. Fernández-Steeger (GER), S. Kang (CHN), W. Li (CHN), L. Lu (GER), C. Post (GER), R. Strohschön (GER), W. Xu (CHN), D. Yang (CHN), Z. Xu (CHN)

Submission of abstracts and full papers to submission@megaurban-water.org