Multidisciplinary Workshop "VULNERABLE COASTAL AREAS"
The Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences is organizing on Thursday 10 December 2015 the Multidisciplinary Workshop « Vulnerable Coastal Areas».
The meeting will take place at the Palais des Académies, rue Ducale 1 / Paleis der Academiën, Hertogsstraat 1, 1000 Brussels.
Please find the programme, the list of the posters and the registration form in attachment.
Registration is FREE.
Deadline: 30 November 2015.
You can register online.
Lectures will take place in the Espace Baudouin, the poster sessions in the Patio.
An abstract book will be available.
Programme
09.00 – 09.30 Registration & Poster installation
09.30 – 09.45 Welcome Address and Introduction
09.45 – 11.05 Keynote Lectures — Chair: Cecile BAETEMAN, RAOS Member
Ecosystem functions, goods and services of Mangroves
Nibedita MUKHERJEE, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom)
Discussion (10’)
Groundwater and sinking coastal zones: how pumping and drainage create more trouble than climatic changes
Alain DASSARGUES, Department ArGenCo - Architecture, Geological, Environmental and Civil Engineering - Université de Liège (Belgium)
Discussion (10’)
11.05 - 11.30 Coffee break & Poster session
11.30 – 12.30 Papers — Chair: Philippe MUCHEZ, RAOS Member
Household vulnerability to natural hazards in the coastal Tran Van Thoi District, Ca Mau Province, Mekong Delta, Vietnam
Matthieu KERVYN
Department of Geography, Earth System Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) & RAOS Member
Tropical Cyclones: The Dialects of Social and Environmental Change in the Bay of Bengal
Debojyoti DAS, School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Preparedness of coastal populations of Bangladesh to adverse impacts of natural hazards in the context of climate change
Mohammad Abdul QUADER
Department of Geography, Earth System Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
12.30 – 13.45 Lunch + Poster session
13.45 – 14.45 Papers — Chair: Thierry CAMELBEECK, RAOS Member
Sand and gravel winning for the protection of vulnerable coastal areas
Lucien HALLEUX Director G-tec SA/NV Visiting Professor KU Leuven & ULg (Belgium)
Using coastal geology to improve hazard assessments along tectonically active coasts: current progress along the Nankai Trough, Japan
Ed GARRETT, Geological Survey, Royal Belgian Institute of Belgium (Belgium)
Bimodal Recurrence of Tsunamis in South Central Chile
Philipp KEMPF, Renard Centre of Marine Geology, Universiteit Gent (Belgium)
14.45 – 15.20 Coffee break & Poster session
15.20 – 16.20 Papers — Chair: Philippe Goyens, RAOS Member
La difficile harmonie entre les risques naturels, l’offre immobilière et le développement urbain: le cas de la côte de Concón au Chili central
Federico ARENAS, Instituto de Geografía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile)
Mangroves as sustainable coastal defence: the coast of Surinam (South-America)
Erik TOORMAN, Associate professor, Hydraulics Div., KU Leuven (Belgium)
Coral reef quality off the west coast of Unguja Island, Zanzibar
Henrique BRAVO GOUVEIA, Marine Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)
16.20 – 17.00 General discussion & Conclusion