Important Environmental Conferences
An important conference aimed at bringing environmental decision-makers and researchers together, to illustrate practical uses of recently developed approaches, tools, and decision-support systems that can be used to assess current and future environmental vulnerabilities, happened on May 13-15, 2003.
The organizer: the USEPA’s Office of Research and Development (ORD), working in partnership with the USEPA’s Region 3 and various state and local environmental managers has encouraged all researchers from USA and around the world, interested in the assessment of environmental vulnerability and environmental forecasting, to participate.
Recent works working in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the US, aimed to develop effective approaches, models, and decision-support systems to assist environmental managers and stakeholders with implementing more effective and timely environmental assessment and management programs, will be reviewed. Basically, ORD Research activities have focused on four main themes:
- Diagnosing potential causes for impaired condition;
- Measuring and monitoring environmental condition;
- Developing effective restoration and remediation activities, and
- Forecasting future environmental stressors and conditions.
The conference has combined elements of all of these research themes and focused on the assessment of current and future environmental vulnerabilities and targeting of risk reduction activities. The conference will highlight research approaches and models developed by ORD’s Regional Environmental Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA) Program during the last decade.
The conference has been sponsored by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
