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Call for Papers - WEFTEC 2010

Once again, WEFTEC was a huge success for the Water Environment Federation. WEFTEC.09 drew in 950 exhibiting companies and 18,000 attendees. Do you want to be a part of WEFTEC.10 in New Orleans? Submit your abstracts today. The submittal deadline is December 2, 2009. For topics and instructions on how to submit, please visit http://www.weftec.org/Education/CallforAbstracts.

The conference aims at promoting Jubail Industrial City, keep up with the latest in the various fields of planning, identify and benefit from the experience of others for future application, recognize disadvantages to avert them, exchange expertise, enhance interaction between government and private sectors and engineers working in the field of city planning to accumulate further experience, highlight private sector's role in developing urban and architectural planning and underline the significance of environmental protection and sustainable development in city planning.

Topics will include:

Strategic and structural planning.
Transportation planning.
Urban design.
Technology applications in planning.
Sustainable development and green cities.
Recent concepts and techniques in city planning.
The economic dimension of Urban development.
Tourism planning as a tool for development.
Development and marketing of city centers and seafronts.
Role of private sector in city planning and urban design development.
Effect of planning patterns on city development.

For more information and registration, visit: http://www.jubailcityplanning.com/

Every two years, in Nantes, France, the World Forum on Human Rights opens a large public debate on issues that are of critical importance for the present and future of human rights.

As the 4th Forum approaches the world is experiencing severe crises: a food crisis, and economic and social crisis, and even a moral and political crisis. The Forum to be held in 2010 will therefore look at the consequences these crises may have on human rights. Will we see a human rights crisis as well?

The Nantes Forum will also examine how human rights may contribute to finding feasible solutions.

The world’s leading Counter Terror Expo will be held on the 14 – 15 April 2010 at London Olympia. Bringing together governmental agencies, security services, law enforcement, leading specialists and technologists for two days of high level debate against a backdrop of an extensive exhibition.

Five key conference strands including one supported by NaCTSO (National Counter Terrorism Security Office) will form the forum through which specific counter terrorism themes will be addressed by over 85 speakers from organizations such: United Nations, European Union, European Commission, NATO, Australian Federal Police, London First, ACPO, CPNI, Home Office, Office for Security and Counter Terrorism, Danish Intelligence Service, Office of Cyber Security – a full programme and speaker information will be available from the 30th of November to request a copy of the programme please email: ngreenaway@niche-events.com

90 free-to-attend specialist workshops will focus in on counter terrorism technologies, whilst the extensive exhibition space of over 250 suppliers will be home to world's leading defence and specialist security suppliers to deliver an informative and interactive demonstration of the latest counter terror hardware and software solutions.

As environmental awareness grows, so does the need for innovative engineering, economics, infrastructure, and legislation that protects our habitats. Cities of the Future and Urban River Restoration 2010 are designed to initiate dialogue on these topics, and to discuss realistic and affordable community projects. Taking place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, nestled among some of the top institutions and minds in the United States, these co-located conferences aim to be at the peak of the sustainability learning curve.

Educational credits are awarded for participation in Workshops, the Opening General Session, Technical Sessions, and the Tour. Join fellow attendees and book your room at the Boston Marriott Cambridge. Registration is now open for these new and exciting learning opportunities. Please visit www.wef.org/CitiesOfTheFuture or www.wef.org/UrbanRiver for more information.

If you work on regional issues as an academic, or at the regional level as a policy maker or practitioner this conference is for you.

Being held in the beautiful city of Pécs, Hungary, this important event brings together established policy makers, practitioner from regions and all stages of academic from student to senior professor to address key policy issues affecting the lives of millions of the world’s citizens.

The conference includes innovative session types including plenary sessions, roundtable discussion groups and conventional workshop sessions, along with opportunities to network with friends and colleagues during the refreshment breaks and evening functions and excursions.

The key note address from Dirk Ahner, Director-General, European Commission, will open the conference giving insights to the 2010 Cohesion Report – prior to its formal publication. Attend for early results.

The conference is open to all and relevant papers meeting the conference criteria will all be accepted.

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Future risk management solutions will undoubtedly involve a mix of approaches, from state-of-the art technology to forward-thinking policy making and wise institutional governance. Experts from all over the world are invited to submit abstracts and contribute to the unique, interdisciplinary dialogue in Davos. The underlying perspective of IDRC Davos 2010 is global, but with a particular focus on similarities and differences between regions of the world, representing various phases of development, political systems, and societal and environmental conditions.

Call for Papers - Networks for Mobility
The Future of Mobility: Necessity, Affordability, and Implementation

The Centre of Transportation Research Universität Stuttgart (FOVUS) is very pleased to announce the official Call for Papers for its 5th International Symposium, “Networks for Mobility” that will take place in Stuttgart, Germany on September 30th and October 1st, 2010.

In a time of fluctuating fuel prices, global warming, and world population growth, many questions are raised to the topic of: “The Future of Mobility: Necessity, Affordability, and Implementation”. The Networks for Mobility Symposium is a platform for international researchers and practitioners from all areas of transportation and their related fields to come together to exchange ideas, and examine and answer these pressing questions of today and of the future.

We invite you and your colleagues to come to Stuttgart, Germany to participate and contribute to our discussion of the future of mobility by presenting your ideas and work. Please see the Networks for Mobility website for more information about the Call for Papers and Symposium details; the deadline for abstract submission is February 28th, 2010.

Cities are places of competition, stress, inequalities, traffic jams, environmental stresses and strains and permanent struggle.
Cities often are an aggressive environment, not only for children, the elderly and the weak.
But even more then that cities are the centers of economy, culture, creativity, science and innovation and therefore provide the best perspectives and biggest chances for many people - CITIES ARE ATTRACTIVE! Meanwhile more then 50 percent of world population lives in cities, soon it will be about 70 percent.

REAL CORP 2010 asks for CITIES FOR EVERYONE, that are LIVEABLE, HEALTHY and PROSPER!
Is this a promising vision we should work on or is it an unrealistic phantasy? Is it possible to keep and even improve the advantages of cities and reduce the negative effects? Or does the one require the other?
What are the possibilities and contributions of URBAN PLANNING and REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT? And where can ICT, URBAN-, TRANSPORT- and ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES help to improve quality of live, health, sustainability and prosperity in cities.

Some of the major aspects and questions to be dealt with and on which we invite you for high-quality paper submissions are:

The CALL FOR PAPERS is open until December 23rd 2009 (abstract, approx. 1000 characters; full paper until Feb. 28th). www.corp.at

The Inaugural International Healthy Parks Healthy People Congress will explore how nature significantly contributes to our wellbeing and broader societal benefits. It is expected to attract over 1000 delegates from Australia and around the world.

Participants will come from many different sectors including urban planning, community development, physical and mental health, tourism, education, recreation, ecology and park management (urban and protected area). This diversity of perspectives will allow delegates to understand the benefits of nature through the eyes of many.

IC-IC 2010 welcomes City and Regional decision-makers from all over the world and is open to any interested individual, party or organisation, young professional, expert and interested professional from all related disciplines. All national and international registrations are handled on-line.

The final goal of the meeting is to plan a global network of people involved with innovations in cities, searching for a permanent exchange of innovative technologies of all sorts (including the social ones) among connected cities.

1 - The Revival of Cities | Remarkable experiences on social and technological innovations that are competing for the construction of a new urban environment (including the environment for the development of the new industry)| Cities in Globalization and Glocalisation.

2 - The reinvention of the government from cities | Remarkable experiences on management innovations (including urban planning and management of policies and innovative programs)| Remarkable experiences on political innovations (including policies and politics) | The City as "Living Organism".

3 - The development governance in cities | Remarkable experiences on innovations for the endogenous development | Remarkable experiences on innovations for sustainability | The City as a Network and Sustainability of Cities.

4 - Networking City and City Networks | Presentation of the FIEP-OPTI project, 'Curitiba, Innovative City' | Formation of the Innovative Cities Network initial center.