Subject: Conference, Europe

Description: This meeting is aimed at providing specialists interested in economics, statistics, and financing of water and sanitation with the opportunity of getting together and constituting a forum to debate on how utilities are financed, their various water tariff structures and their measurement of performance, national and regional water industry statistics, water facts, water consumption and charging figures. A parallel conference will be organized at the same venue by the IWA Specialist Group on Strategic Asset Management entitled Asset Management of Medium and Small Wastewater Utilities. Arrangements have been made for participants to attend this event.

Subject: Conference, Europe

Description: GCGW-09 will include plenary sessions, keynote lectures, and several specialized sessions on different topics related to global warming and potential solutions. Industry participation is very welcomed, and we hope that the conference will lead to effective and fruitful communication between the research, government and industrial communities.

Subject: Europe, Symposium

Description: The Genomics in Aquaculture symposium will review the state-of-the-art of genomics research in various aquaculture systems, its industrial applications and future perspectives. The symposium proceedings will be published in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - Genomics and Proteomics. A selection of papers will also be published in a special issue of this journal.

Subject: Meeting, Americas

Description: The theme for PAGES 1st Young Scientists Meeting (YSM) is "Retrospective views on our planet's future".

Subject: Meeting, Africa

Description: Environmental ethics is the part of environmental philosophy which considers the ethical relationship between human beings and the natural environment. It exerts influence on a large range of disciplines including law, sociology, theology, economics, ecology and geography. Within the frame work of the 7th Phase of UNESCO-IHP activities in the Arab region, the UNESCO Cairo Office supported the establishment of the Arab Network for Water Use Ethics (ANWE) in 2006 with a major goal to actualize water uses ethics and to contribute to the alleviation of the Arab water crisis. ANWE's mission includes dissemination of knowledge, exchange of experiences, improvement of behavior and social conduct and raising awareness on water ethics. A plan of action for developing an ethical framework for IWRM implementation in the Arab region is also proposed. This meeting will identify the regional priorities and action plan for water ethics, ecological/ecosystem ethics, and public awareness/capacity building.

Subject: Conference, Americas

Description: The Interdisciplinary Environmental Association (IEA) invites you to participate in the 15th International Interdisciplinary Conference on the Environment! The conference is motivated by the increasing need to combine ideas and research findings from different disciplines to enhance our understanding of the interactions between the natural environment and human institutions.

Subject: Meeting, Asia

Description: The Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB) invite you to Beijing, China 11-16 July 2009 for the International Congress for Conservation Biology (23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology), it is recognized as the most important global meeting for conservation professionals and students.

Subject: Workshop, Africa

Description: The purpose of the workshop is to improve access to geographic data and information generated from GEF IW projects and partners worldwide.

Subject: Conference, Americas

Description: Sustainability Summit ‘09 will bring together global corporate visionaries, policy makers, environmental advocacy groups, and many others to discuss how industry can work together to meet the needs of a planet in crisis.

Subject: Conference, Americas

Description: To this end, the IJC has developed and begun implementing its International Watersheds Initiative (IWI) over the past decade. The IWI was created on the premise that water resource and environmental problems can be anticipated, prevented, or resolved at the local level. Rather than simply measuring the quantity or quality of border lakes and rivers in isolation, the IWI promotes an integrated ecosystem approach to watershed preservation that acknowledges the complex interrelationships in the entire watershed.

Subject: Workshop, Asia

Description: This workshop has been designed to fulfill the demands of hydraulic engineers, managers, stakeholders and decision-makers in various countries. Through lectures, discussions, exchanges and a one-day field study, the participants will be given the opportunity to improve professional river basin management theory and knowledge, acquire the latest concepts, techniques and information, and establish linkages among participants.

Subject: Workshop, Africa

Description: FAO recently produced a software (AquaCrop) for the simulation of the response of the cultures to the availability D ’ water. Focusing on the water resource is justified by the fact that L ’ water is the factor which limits more the agricultural production. AquaCrop uses a limited number of parameters, which are explicit and intuitive, aiming at combining simplicity, precision, and reliability.