12th International Conference on Urban Drainage

DATE: September 11 to 16, 2011 - VENUE: Porto Alegre/RS - Brazil

Sponsors

CONFERENCE

Format:

Plenary sessions will be organised as Open session; Poul Harremoës Award paper presentation and Closing session.

Two day pre-conference meetings plus evening meetings:

• First day: JCUD meeting;
• Second day: seminars on major research project issues.
• JCUD Working Group meetings, on the evenings, during the conference.

Topics:

Urban hydrologic and hydraulic processes:

• Rainfall, evapotranspiration, infiltration, exfiltration, runoff formation
• Hydraulics of urban drainage systems
• Processes in sewer systems
• Combined and separate sewer overflows
• Pollutants in urban areas: sources, accumulation and washoff
• Receiving environment pollution impacts
• Special conditions in cold climate, tropical climate
• Accounting for climate change, climate change and rainfall extremes

Technological issues

• Impact mitigation and restoration of impacted environment
• Storm water source control and best management practices
• Low impact development techniques, water sensitive urban design and sustainable urban drainage systems
• Urban drainage technologies for developing countries, developments and case-studies
• Monitoring, data collection and data processing
• Pollutant removal processes, stormwater treatment
• Sewer system design and rehabilitation
• Eco-hydrology and eco-hydraulics in urban areas
• Urban stream restoration
• Urban flooding: modelling, damage assessment, flood forecast and emergency planning, mitigation measures
• Modelling and simulation of integrated urban water systems
• Real time control
• Geographical information systems
• Rainfall and stormwater harvesting, water re-use

Institutional, managerial and legal issues

• Urban drainage and urban planning
• Integrated urban water management
• Integrated urban water planning and management in developing countries
• Benchmarking, performance indicators and asset management
• Regulation and institutional frameworks
• Education and training
• Historical development of urban drainage systems
• Risk analysis
• Effects of global change on urban water management
• Climate change adaptation, performance of existing and future infrastructure
• Integrated water resources management at different spatial scales: from urban catchments to river basins
• Urban drainage in very low-income settlements, shantytowns
• Participatory processes, decision making and social acceptance of urban drainage technologies

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