index - World Wide Workshop for Young Environmental Scientists

WWW-YES-2008

WWW-YES-2008

7th edition of the World Wide Workshop for Young Environmental Scientists (WWW-YES-2008)

13 - 16 May 2008 at Créteil, France

General programme

The workshop has taken place at Maison des Syndicats, 11 rue des Archives at 94000 CRETEIL (phone: +33 (0)1 43 39 50 49) (5 km South-East of Paris) from Tuesday 13 May to Friday 16 May 2008 from 9:00 to 17:30.

1/ Oral presentations (DAY 1 - DAY 3)

Each participant had to prepare a technical / scientific presentation, in English, on his / her research project and be ready for detailed scientific discussion during the workshop. The attendance is limited to 30 doctoral or post-doctoral students, in order to give enough time for scientific presentation of 30 min and the discussion of 15 min with other participants.

The workshop topic " Urban Water, resource or risks, the North-South perspective" is open, i.e. not targeted towards a specific scientific field. Each participant should use at least 2 keywords (except urban water) in his/her paper from the following list:

Urban water + resources, ecosystem, quality, drainage, collecting systems, sewers, discharges, overflow, treatment, re-use, recycling (water and or nutrients), ecological sanitation, rainwater harvesting, sanitation, pollution, contaminants, pathogens, source control, water born deseases control, toxicity, flooding, modelling, risk assessment, management, decision support systems, politics, geopolitcs, social conflicts, gender issues, sustainable development, developing countries.

The WWW-YES organising committee intends to publish selected, refereed and possibly revised manuscripts within a special issue Open Source proceedings collection (see below).

2/ Field visit (DAY 2)

A half-day of the workshop was dedicated to a technical visit related to themes of water management in the conurbation of Paris.

3/ Collaborative projects (DAY 3 - DAY 4)

During two half-day sessions, participants have prepared jointly international collaborative projects on ongoing research activities on urban waters. These projects had to answer a virtual call for proposals for scientific North-South co-operation on topics implied by the decentralized co-operation. The proposals were presented, at the end of the workshop, to a panel of experts (Scientists, NGOs, and international cooperation representatives) in order to further develop them and possibly obtain a support for the future scientific collaborations.

Scientific programme: presentations and manuscripts files when available

Date

Time

Session topic

#

Author name (link with manuscript when published)

Presentation title (links with presentation files when accepted by authors)

13 May

 

10:00

Water policy/management

1

KHAROUF GAUDIG

Rana

Urban water in a few Middle Eastern countries: a challenge for development?

 

10:40

Break

 

10:55

Water policy/management

2

FULTON

Julian

Customer preferences in public and private water agencies

 

11:35

3

NIEDERLAENDER

Julie

What territorial organization for a sustainable urban water policy? The French experience. (paper)

 

12:15

Lunch

 

13:30

Water policy/urban development

4

STAUFER

Philipp

Safeguarding urban areas confronting climate trends and
extreme weather by means of a trans-disciplinary approach

 

14:10

5

JALAIS

Savitri

The river of Benares: between 'sacred' waters and sewage water (paper)

 

14:50

6

VIEIRA DE MELLO

Rebeca

Representation of sustainable city: the example of the practices of urban planning in the borders of the rivers in Recife (Brazil) (paper)

 

15:30

Break

 

16:00

Integrated water management

7

SAMSON

Katelyn

Social learning: a complementary approach to participative and integrated water management at the catchment scale (paper)

 

16:40

8

CORDIER

Mateo

The economico-environmental foresight as a tool for integrated coastal zone management

14 May

 

8:30

Water ressource/supply

11

BLANCHET

Thomas

How useful is the Berlin Centre of Competence for Water for the urban management of water supply ? A contribution to an inter-organisational analysis in the field of sustainable innovation (paper)

 

9:10

12

DOREA

Caetano

"Appropriate technologies" for drinking water supply in developing countries (paper)

 

9:50

13

CISSE

Arona

Decentralised cooperation and management of urban services in southern countries: which impact on water accessibility for poor people or areas? (paper)

 

10:30

14

SANDOVAL MINERO

Ricardo

Multicriteria aggregation of performance indicators as a vehicle for building governance in urban water supply - case analysis in Mexico (paper)

 

11:10

Break

 

11:40

Waste water reuse

15

CARR

Gemma

Urban wastewater reuse for irrigated agriculture in Jordan: soil sustainability, perceptions and management (paper)

 

12:20

16

VELASQUEZ ORTA

Sharon Belinda

New technologies for electricity generation from urban wastewater treatment.

 

13:00

Lunch

 

14:00

Field visit

15 May

 

8:30

Water quality/pollution

17

CAMARA

Papa Demba

Problem of land use and water supply in urban area: the case of the city of Touba, Senegal (paper)

 

9:10

18

PARKER

Alison

Measuring groundwater parameters to improve modelling and regulation (paper)

 

9:50

19

PRIADI

Cindy R

Identification of heavy metal pollution sources in particulate phase using scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive spectrometer (SEM-EDS) (paper)

 

10:30

Break

 

11:00

Water quality/pollution

20

SHAPIRO

Karen

Urbanization and emerging infectious disease in humans and wildlife populations: transport of Toxoplasma gondii oocysts from urban runoff to coastal ecosystems

 

11:40

21

ZGHEIB

Sally

Monitoring of urban stormwater pollutants in both particulate and dissolved phases in separate sewers

 

12:20

22

RAYA

Rudra Bahadur

Impact of land use on water quality of Phewa lake

 

13:00

Lunch

 

14:15

Research cooperation project: introduction

 

14:30

Research cooperation project: preparation

16 May

 

8:30

Research cooperation project: summary preparation

 

10:00

Break

 

10:30

Research cooperation project: presentation preparation

 

12:30

Lunch

 

13:45

Research cooperation project: presentation & discussion

 

16:15

Research cooperation project: classification

 

16:35

Farewell party

 

18:00

End of workshop