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SPECIAL SESSIONS
Special sessions will be organized in parallel to the traditional theme sessions.
Special sessions will be organized directly by conveners, who will be in charge of proposing themes, inviting speakers and managing abstracts.
Extended abstracts for special sessions must be submitted until November 17, 2023.
When submitting an abstract for a special session, kindly enter this information in the "Remark/Message from the Authors to the Program Committee and Chairs" section on the submission platform.
SS A1: Monitoring and modelling approaches for watershed erosion and sediment dynamics |
SS A2: Buoyancy-driven flows |
SS A3: Geomorphological river bed changes because of floods |
SS A4: Global perspectives on eco-hydraulics: addressing impacts, restoration, and mitigation in river ecosystems |
SS A5: Dams and large hydraulic schemes |
Conveners
Melissa Latella, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC Foundation), Italy
Luis Cea Gómez, Universidade da Coruña, Spain
Pierfranco Costabile, University of Calabria, Italy
Description
Sediment yield within watersheds partly results from water-induced soil particle detachment and the following transportation by flowing water. It is intrinsically linked with soil erosion and, therefore, influenced by all those factors that affect the land's erodibility, like soil properties, land cover and use, and morphological characteristics of the landscape. Sediment yield plays a pivotal role in the biogeomorphological evolution of the hillslopes, as well as of rivers and their ecosystems. Also, it can lead to water quality degradation and increased sedimentation in water bodies, thus impairing navigation and water supply infrastructures.
Monitoring sediment yield encompasses diverse activities, from field measurements to the application of cutting-edge proximal to remote sensing techniques to provide multitemporal data and offer a perspective of sediment transport within watersheds. Complementary to monitoring, modelling provides insights into the complex interplay of factors influencing sediment yield for past, present, and alternative future scenarios. Together, monitoring and modelling can complement each other and help informing sustainable land and water resource management practices, with a focus on flood and environmental protection, infrastructure maintenance, and testing the effectiveness of soil protection practices in agriculture.
This session aims at collecting contributions from researchers and practitioners to (i) showcase innovative methods, technologies, and best practices for monitoring and modelling such processes and (ii) discuss the current challenges and emerging issues related to sediment management, particularly in the context of changing climate and land use patterns.
SS B1: Coastal forecast systems: recent advances, challenges and opportunities |
SS B2: Energy transition in ports |
Conveners
Marta Rodrigues, Associate Researcher, LNEC, Portugal
André B. Fortunato, Coordinator Researcher, LNEC, Portugal
Anabela Oliveira, Principal Researcher, LNEC, Portugal
Description
Coastal forecast systems can support the sustainability of coastal systems and of human activities in the coastal zone. Coastal predictions are used for many purposes, including response to extreme events and pollution, harbor management, and search and rescue operations.
This special session aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners to present the latest advances in coastal forecasting, and discuss future challenges, emerging issues and opportunities.
SS C1: Water efficiency strategy and water quality control |
SS C2: Drainage management and control |
SS C3: Transient flows in pressurized conduits |
SS C4: Floods in climate change scenarios |
Conveners
Maria João Telhado, Lisbon Municipality (CML)
Pedro Teixeira, Lisbon Municipality (CML)
Description
Society development combined with climate change will continue to pressure our water resources. Increasing water demands can lead not only to water scarcity, but also to water quality decrease. Urban water management can thus pose significant challenges in the light of current climate change challenges and an integrated systemic approach is required.
This Special Session aims to promote knowledge exchange and best practices on the topics of efficient water use and reuse, water quality control, undue inflows into sewers, or the environmental impact caused by hospital wastewater.
SS D1: Developing smart water management through a participatory approach |
SS D2: Innovative modelling techniques in coastal and offshore engineering in a changing world/climate |
SS D3: Advances in flow and particle tracking methods and instrumentation |
SS D4: Techniques and methods for flow field analysis around scoured structures |
SS D5: Aquatic vegetation in the flow: from the field to numerical modelling |
SS D6: Applying CFD methods to improve the performance of aeration tanks and other gas-diffuser driven processes |
Conveners
Esther Díez Cebollero, Scientific Officer, French National Research Agency, France
Description
This session will be organised by the Water4All Partnership, a co-funded Horizon Europe programme that brings together more than 80 partners from across Europe, South Africa and Brazil. As part of its activities, Water4All launches calls for proposals and a wide variety of additional activities such as networking, impact assessments, international cooperation or PhD schemes.
The purpose of the proposed session is to exchange knowledge and information on possible research and innovation pathways for smarter water management strategies. The results of those exchanges and key recommendations provided by the audience will feed future orientations of Water4All.
SS E1: Flood risk management for El Niño phenomena global impact 2023-2024 |
SS E2: Understanding and assessing compound flood risk in the coastal zone
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SS E3: Disaster risk management in European rivers and coastal areas |
SS E4: Climate change adaptation in hydraulic design |
Conveners
Cesar Adolfo Alvarado Ancieta, International Expert IAHR
Description
El Niño event in 2023–2024 will have massive consequences around the world. El Niño is not a product of the climate change, however, El Niño is impacted due to climate change, increasing flood events worldwide. Most of these hazards will hit hardest in countries that are ill-equipped for the economic and political fallout, and even the consequences would be higher due to political constraints which decide not to provide adequate action and reaction flood risk management for large populations, mainly considering flood event as a business for large flood control structures without an effective flood protection for humans.
This session aims to bridge the connection between authorities, scientific researchers, practitioners, and flood managers.
We solicit papers to 1) present bad and good experiences on flood risk management tools, such as master plans; 2) discuss obstacles from the non-understanding complex solutions, political and corruption points of view, 3) provide adequate concept and design criteria for suitable integrated master plans with immediate contingency measures, and make understand to non-engineering decision authorities the necessity of an adequate flood risk management plan.
SS F1: Cross-goals water management in the light of sustainable development |
SS F2: Examples and proposals for innovative water governance |
Conveners
Roberta Padulano, Assistant Professor, Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy
Monia Santini, Division Head, Fondazione CMCC, Italy
Elpida Kolokytha, Professor, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Description
Sustainable Development represents one of the main challenges of our time, as researchers and citizens. The progress in the accomplishment of such challenges is monitored by means of indicators established in the context of the well-known Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are defined, collected and reported at the global level, by the UN, at the European level, by EUROSTAT, up to the national level.
Among the 17 existing SDGs, SDG6 “Clean water and sanitation” is recognized as one of strategic interest by IAHR since it deals with the availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for everybody. However, the concept of water security can be considered even broader, affecting different sectors, and, in turn, water-related variables can be considered useful to indirectly monitor the progress of non-water SDGs.
In other words, whereas water intended as water resource is directly tackled by SDG6, water in all its forms is a trans-disciplinary, cross-goals quantity, impacting for example climate mitigation, urban planning, marine environment, food security, forestry and landscape management, thus impacting, among others, SDG1 “No poverty”, SDG2 “Zero Hunger”, SDG3 “Good health and well-being”, SDG7 “Affordable and clean energy”, SDG10 “Reduced inequalities”, SDG11 “Sustainable cities and communities”, SDG13 “Climate action”, SDG14 “Life below water” and SDG15 “Life on land”.
This special session aims at collecting contributions that, despite being water-related, give significant, useful or perspective insights about multiple or different SDGs which are involved in or impacted by water security.
Trans-disciplinary, out-of-the-box contributions focusing on monitoring approaches, data integration, spatio-temporal multi-resolution datasets, simple (empirical formulations, statistical regressions) up to more complex and integrated (Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, process-based) methods for data exploitation will be particularly appreciated.