Time: 9:15am - 5:30pm Venue: Geography Building, Mile End campus and Mayesbrook Park
Field trip and workshop on sustainable water management and restoration of environmental services
Water management is essential for the development and well-being of human populations. However, maintaining environmental quality and natural goods and services is challenging when there are so many competing and often conflicting demands on our water resources. We need innovative approaches and technologies from across all disciplines to safeguard the future, when current practices and historical legacy are often counterproductive.
Thus, join us to hear about the issues from experts and visit a real river restoration site. Share with us ideas from your own scientific community which could influence better, more sustainable water management practices, conservation and restoration. This event will provide you with training and opportunity for discussion on how we can address current challenges in the protection of water ecosystem services, not to mention the chance to meet professionals working in the field.
There will be a morning of multidisciplinary presentations and group activities hosted by experts from science, NGOs and private companies on how aquatic environments function and the services they provide. In the afternoon, we’ll have a guided tour of the inspiring Mayesbrook Park stream restoration in east London, given by professionals involved in the project. Attending this workshop will give you the chance to talk informally with professionals from research, state and private institutions as well as your peers across the University of London, and to learn and think critically about water management in your own community.
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Organizers (on behalf of SMART - Science for MAnagement of Rivers and their Tidal systems)*:
Workshop capacity: 30 attendants
Audience: Post-graduate students of University of London
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*SMART (Science for the management of rivers and their tidal systems) is an international Joint Doctorate program (EACEA- European Union) hosted by the University of Trento (Italy), Queen Mary- University of London (UK), and Freie Universität-Berlin (Germany). SMART is a multidisciplinary program which focuses on the core areas of natural and engineering sciences relevant to the sustainable management of river systems from their headwaters to estuaries.
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