Subject: Regional WEAP Conference: May 25-27, 2009, Damascus Posted: 2/27/2009 Viewed: 64700 times
Applying WEAP as a Decision Support System (DSS) for IWRM
25 - 27 May 2009
Damascus, Syria
organized by
The Arab Center for the Studies of
Arid Zones and Dry Lands (ACSAD)
and
German Federal Institute for
Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR)
and sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, UNEP, UNESCO, and the Stockholm Environment Institute.
Workshop topics will include WEAP applications in the field of:
Water Planning
Transboundary Water Policy
Climate Change Studies
Socio-economic Applications
River Ecosystem
Water Utilities
Water Rights Administration
Water Quality
Safe Yield Analysis
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis/Optimization Modeling
Watershed Management
Groundwater Recharge Modeling
Irrigation Demand and Supply Modeling
Groundwater Flow Model Integration (WEAP-MODFLOW-coupling)
Reservoir Management
The deadline to submit papers is April 1, 2009.
The conference itself will be free of charge. For presenters of accepted papers, travel and accommodation expenses can be
refunded by the organizers.
