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June 2022
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JUNE discussion of more constructive and progressive approaches to
ensure sustainability. A major motivation for the meeting is to
5 - 8 June 2022 learn from past failures, to avoid repeating similar mistakes, while
attempting to prevent emerging threats to environmental and
2022 WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL AND WATER ecological systems.
RESOURCES CONGRESS: Adaptive Planning For further details see the website:
and Design in an Age of Risk and Uncertainty
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(https://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2022/waste-
email: wit@wessex.ac.uk
The 2022 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress
will feature 8 concurrent technical tracks over three days.
7 - 9 June 2022
Approximately 900 leading engineers and scientists from around
FLOOD AND COAST 2022:
the world attend the EWRI Congress each year to discuss the
latest research, case studies, and evolving “best practices” in Conference and Exhibition
water resources and the environment. Telford International Centre, UK
Further information available on the conference
website: (https://www.ewricongress.org/) Flood & Coast is a unique event that attracts exhibitors,
email: registrations@asce.org speakers and visitors from around the world to advance the
debate about the impacts of climate change on flood and
7 – 9 June 2022 coastal erosion risk management (FCERM).
Produced by CIWEM in partnership with the Environment
WASTE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL Agency, the event brings together professionals across the
IMPACT 2022: 11 International FCERM community to discuss innovative ways of working
th
Conference on Waste Management and together and with the communities most affected by flooding NEW ENTRY
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and coastal erosion in today’s changing climate.
Environmental and Economic Impact on
(https://www.floodandcoast.com/)
Madrid, Spain
email: info@floodandcoast.com
Waste management is one of the key problems of modern society

due to the ever-expanding volume and complexity of discarded
9 June 2022
domestic and industrial waste and its implications on health and

the environment. Society is increasingly aware of the need to CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTION IN THE UK

establish better practices and safer solutions for waste disposal. WATER SECTOR: A strategic solution for
This creates a need for more research on current disposal methods population protection
such as landfills, incineration, chemical and effluent treatment, as TBC Birmingham, UK
well as recycling, clean technologies, waste monitoring, public and
corporate awareness and general education. A combination of growing population, land management practices,
The desired direction of waste management is towards combined sewers, extreme rainfall events and public awareness
sustainable strategies that avoid the short term solutions applied of water pollution are creating a perfect storm for the UK’s water
in the past. The approach which has emerged as the most utilities – all against the context of stringent carbon reduction NEW ENTRY
requirements.
promising has been called 4Rs, where reduction, reuse, recycling
NEW ENTRY concepts have given rise to the new model of the ‘Circular this is presenting a perfect storm of opportunities: with agricultural
Although we might be experiencing a perfect storm of challenges,
and recovery are seen as the best actions. More recently these
subsidies shifting away from a simple focus on food production and
Economy’, which is based on the reuse of what up to now has
more towards provision of ‘public goods’ it should be increasingly
been considered waste, reintroducing them into the production

simple to design and implement landscape-scale interventions
cycle. Further steps are required towards the improvement of

current technologies, increased collaboration between the public,
across multiple sectors, whilst simultaneously meeting carbon
government and private sectors and increased involvement of all that knit together soft and hard infrastructure to deliver resilience

stakeholders. objectives.

A focus will also be placed on the impact of economic constraints For further details see the website:
on the environment, taking into account the social aspects as well as (https://conferences.aquaenviro.co.uk/events/conferences/
the over-use of natural resources, contamination and toxicity. The climate-change-adaptation-in-the-uk-water-sector/)
conference will address problems of great importance, promoting email: sarah.brown@aquaenviro.co.uk