Diary

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(2011), "Diary", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 22 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2011.08322aac.001

Diary

Article Type: Diary From: Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal, Volume 22, Issue 1

The 1st EnvironmentAsia International Conference

Bangkok, Thailand, 22-25 March 2011

The 1st EnvironmentAsia International Conference on “Environmental supporting in food and energy security: crisis and opportunity” is being conducted by the Thai Society of Higher Education Institutes on Environment (TSHE). The conference aims to address the crisis and challenges we face, and seize the opportunity in emerging areas of energy, environment, and food security to achieve sustainable development.

The 1st Environment Asia International Conference shall provide a forum for academicians, technologists, researchers, students, entrepreneurs, and policy makers worldwide to exchange ideas and emerging technologies in the fields of food, energy, and the environment. The conference will attempt to evolve an agenda for environmental policies, and the identification of green technologies and their subsequent implementation for sustainable development. The Conference will take a multidisciplinary approach across various fields and perspectives through which the fundamental questions of sustainability can be addressed.

Further details are available at: www.tshe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=26

Sustainable Environment Technologies SET2011

Los Angeles, California, United States, 31 March-2 April 2011

The SET2011 Convention is designed to accelerate the implementation of green/clean technologies in all market sectors. Its function is to facilitate the sale and transfer of equipment, products and services, licensing agreements, and consulting contracts.

The event is a marketplace for suppliers and consumers of sustainable technologies within green building, alternative transportation, clean tech investments, and lifestyle remodeling. It addresses and provides solutions to environmental problems such as water treatment, air pollution, waste handling and recycling, and renewable energy.

SET2011 supports economic-based solutions to environmental issues by providing a live “green” marketplace to promote innovative, clean and efficient technologies. Further details are available at: www.set2011.com

Water and Environment 2011: CIWEM’s Annual Conference

London, United Kingdom, 6-7 April 2011

On 6-7 April 2011, CIWEM will hold a two-day Annual Conference, this time under the heading “Water and Environment 2011”, that will address multidisciplinary issues across all areas of the global water and environment sector and will also focus on the issue of the “big society” and the implications for the environment sector.

The aim of the conference is to challenge and inspire the water and environmental community by sharing knowledge and best practice, which is at the heart of meeting key global challenges. There will be a mix of keynote speakers, offered papers, exhibitions and networking opportunities that will make this the key event for water and environment professionals. Further details are available at: www.ciwem.org/events/annual-conference.aspx

ECOSUD 2011

Alicante, Spain, 13-15 April 2011

ECOSUD 2011 is the 8th International Conference in the well-established series on Ecosystems and Sustainable Development. The meetings provide a unique forum for the presentation and discussion of recent work on different aspects of ecosystems and sustainable development, including physical sciences and modelling.

This successful series first started in Peniscola, Spain (1997) and continued in Lemnos, Greece (1999); Alicante, Spain (2001); Siena, Italy (2003); Cadiz, Spain (2005); Coimbra, Portugal (2007); and Chianciano Terme, Italy (2009). It was decided to reconvene the conference again in Alicante to commemorate the 10th Anniversary of Ilya Prigogine’s opening of the 2001 meeting which took place at the same university. Further details are available at: www.wessex.ac.uk/11-conferences/ecosud-2011.html

6th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems

Dubrovnik, Croatia, 25-29 September 2011

The 6th Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia from 25 to 29 September 2011. This conference is dedicated to the improvement and dissemination of knowledge on methods, policies and technologies for increasing the sustainability of development by de-coupling growth from natural resources and replacing them with knowledge based economy, taking into account its economic, environmental and social pillars, as well as methods for assessing and measuring sustainability of development, regarding energy, transport, water, environment and food production systems and their many combinations.

Sustainability being also a perfect field for interdisciplinary and multi-cultural evaluation of complex system, the Dubrovnik conference has during the first decade of the twenty-first century become a significant venue for researchers in those areas to meet, and originate, discuss, share, and disseminate new ideas. The conference will have a broad rational scope of the program, maintaining attention to energy, water and environment as the essential commodities needed for human life. Participants at the conference will include scientists, (post)graduate students and professionals from engineering and environmental disciplines who are working on sustainable development. Further information is available at: www.dubrovnik2011.sdewes.org