Conference Overview
Conference Format
The conference will be held January 5-7, 2009 in Bangkok, Thailand at the AIT Conference Centre. AIT is a well reputed institute known for its excellence in engineering education. The campus is fully equipped with conference and auditorium facility, hotel, restaurant and cafeteria, sport facility, and is extremely well connected with frequently scheduled public transportation to most places.
Thailand 2009 will be a three-day conference (Monday through Wednesday) and will include an opening keynote session, a closing panel discussion session, and three concurrent technical session tracks in between the opening and closing sessions. The conference will also include social and networking events as well as tours of Bangkok. For convenience of networking, all lunches will be provided during the conference. Pre- and post-conference tours to Pattaya and Phuket beaches and Chiang Mai along with other smaller tours will also be made available for participants. Proceedings and abstracts will be published and will be available for distribution at the conference.
About the Conference
This conference will cover a wide variety of topics related to environmental and water resources. While technical sessions will include topics on both developed and developing countries, much of the focus of this conference will be on water resources and the environment in developing countries, especially in Asia and Africa. The emphasis will be focused on global effect of regional issues and solutions. Participants, including paper presenters and attendees, will include engineers, scientists, planners, economists, and legal professionals from all over the globe.
Conference topics will include, but not limited to:
Climate and Natural Hazards
- Global Climate Change: Effect on Environment and Water Resources
- Tsunami: Impact on Environment and Water Resources
- Weather Modification
- Global Warming: Cause, Effect and Solutions
Water Resources and Water Supply
Integrated Management: Environment and Water Resources- Water Supply and Sanitation in Non-urban Areas
- Urban Watersheds and Stormwater Management
- Wetlands Restoration and Protection
- River Basin Management
- Inter-basin Transfer of Water
- Conflict Resolution in Interstate and International Water Disputes
- Aquifer-Storage-Recovery and Artificial Recharge of Aquifers
- Irrigation Management and Land Reclamation
- Saltwater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers
- Privatization and Pricing in the Water Sector
- Socioeconomic Issues in Water Resources Development
- Water Management for Food Security and Sustainable Rural Development
- Other Relevant Topics
Environment, Ecology and Waste Management
- Ecological Modeling
- Environmental Modeling and Assessment
- Innovative Technologies in Hazardous Waste Management
- Management of Contaminated Aquifers
- Prevention of Disasters from Industrial Facilities
- Addressing Widespread Arsenic Contamination in Aquifers
- Advancement in Air Treatment Technologies
- Solid Waste Management
- Radioactive Waste Management including Transborder Shipments
- Human Health and Ecological Risk Assessment
