Date: 27-28 June 2016
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Organizer: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences of Vienna
Participating Countries/Organizations: River Experts from all over the world
Number of Participations: 30
Number of Female Participations: 15 (50%)
Objectives/Outcomes:
- To create the knowledge base required for a holistic scientific assessment of the state of the World Large Rivers (WLRs)
- To promote their integrated and sustainable management
- To analyze the current state and the future development of the WLRs
- To establish a platform to build, facilitate and harvest hydrological science synergies between countries and to provide education and training at technical and tertiary level
- To develop innovative strategies for the sustainable management of the WLRs for the benefit of both humans and nature, while recognizing the individuality of rivers
- To assess future trends of river hydro-morpho-ecodynamics in order to develop and test adaptation and mitigation strategies
