Thematic areas and sessions

Water and wastewater treatment and reuse

• Water treatment

• Wastewater treatment

• Advanced Oxidation Processes

• Water and wastewater reuse

• Desalination

• Microplastics in water treatment fate, toxicity assessment and removal technologies

• Case studies of macro and microplastics pollution in coastal waters and rivers

• Wastewater-Based Epidemiology to monitor COVID-19 Outbreak: Present and Future Diagnostic Methods to be in Your Radar

• Viruses during wastewater treatment: effective removal technologies and risks associated to exposure within the treatment plants and after disposal

Hydrology and water resources

• Process understanding through innovative sensors and remote sensing

• Model hypothesis testing, diagnostics and causality

• River systems in diverse climate and environments

• Estimation and prediction under past and future conditions (climate, population, land and use change)

• Prediction in ungauged basins and prediction under uncertainty 

• Operational and impact-based forecasting, and data assimilation

• Floods, Droughts and Water scarcity

• Water and climate services-challenges and user-tailored developments

• Water policy, Management and Society

• Water, Energy and-or Food Nexus

• Hydrological education and cooperative experiments (exchange programme and virtual laboratories)

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Waste management

• Solid waste management

• Food waste

• Hazardous waste management

• Biowaste

• Microplastics in the marine environment

• Electric and electronic waste

• Waste strategies development

• Mineral Carbonation of Alkaline Waste Materials

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Environmental planning, management and policies

• Spatial environmental planning

• Environmental impacts of tourism and Sustainable tourism development

• Climate change mitigation and adaptation

• Disaster risk Reduction and Management

• Marine environment and coastal management

• Water management in arid communities places

• City Metabolism or Areas Metabolism

• Environmental impact of maritime transport

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Environmental Pollution

• Soil and groundwater contamination and remediation

• Environmental odor, monitoring and control

• Air pollution

• Emerging pollutants

• Heavy metals in the environment

• Gas emissions control and utilization

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Ecology, Environmental Change and Management

• Biodiversity conservation

• Ecological effects of environmental change

• Agroforestry, forest and agricultural sustainability

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Analysis of environmental systems

• Environmental data analysis and modelling

• Energy technologies and sustainability

• Life cycle analysis (LCA)

• Atmospheric chemistry and physics​

Environmental health

• Biomonitoring

• Urban environment and health

• Pollution control and contaminated sites

• Drinking water safety

• Antibiotic resistance

• Environmental exposures and human health

• Changes in Exposures due to COVID-19 Responses

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Innovative environmental solution

• Green chemistry

• Circular economy and industrial symbiosis

• Nanomaterials in the environment: applications and effect

• Environmental Biotechnology and Bioenergy

• Bioplastics

• Sustainable supply of raw materials

• New solution for a better and sustainable agriculture

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