Abstracts due April 30 for ICOLD 2021!

The French Committee of Dams and Reservoirs has selected the theme “Sharing Water: Multipurpose of Reservoirs and Innovations” for the Symposium to be held in Marseille, France from June 4 to 11, 2021.

Authors are invited to submit abstracts on any of the given themes. All accepted papers will be published electronically in the Symposium Proceedings.

Themes include:

Theme 1: Territorial and Water Multi-Purpose Issues
1A. Evaluation of current and future resources and needs
1B. Evaluation of socio-environmental and bio-diversity benefits and impacts, positive and negative externalities
1C. Analysis of resilience and adaptability of projects to respond to climate change and changing uses. Decision making methods for choosing a solution, cost-benefits analysis at a regional scale
1D. Lessons learnt from recent water resource crises (drought, floods…)

Theme 2: Governance and Funding
2A. Institutional aspects, stakeholder commitments and inter-relationships
2B. Financial aspects, project funding
2C. Participatory approaches, stakeholder involvement
2D. Special cases of cross-border assets

Theme 3: Innovative solutions in reservoir uses
3A. Multi-usage hydraulic projects: energy storage, hydropower, hybrid solutions with other renewable intermittent energies, irrigation, navigable waterways, water supply, floods mitigation, protection against marine submersions...
3B. Combining structural and non-structural solutions
3C. Integrating a project into a territory with multiple reservoirs
3D. Complementarities and synergies with intermittent renewable energy, related issues

Theme 4: Operating multi-usage facilities
4A. Hydrology for resource management at short and medium term
4B. Tools for operation related decision-making including risk management
4C. Short, medium and long-term operation simulation and modelling
4D. Water sharing criteria, trade-off between uses, operation compatibility of additional uses
4E. Performance evaluation of asset management methods

Authors are asked to consider the following:

• Innovative aspects (methods, tools, governance, etc.),
• the assessment of the performance of the adopted solutions,
• the problems encountered and how they were solved,
• Abstracts and full articles can be written in English or in French,
• Submitted abstracts must be original. Abstracts previously published or presented at an international scientific meeting cannot be submitted.

How to submit
The abstract submission can be done through the submission & registration platform. Please note that this submission requires that the main author creates an account on the submission & registration platform.

The length of the abstracts should not be more than 200 words, plain text.

Title in English AND in French: Make the title of the abstract brief, clearly indicating the nature of the proposed subject.

Names of the authors: Submit the full given name(s) and the family name. Do not include degrees or professional titles.

Deadline
Abstracts are due April 30, 2020.

Contact
If you have any questions regarding abstract submission, please contact
abstracts-papers@cigb-icold2021.fr

Additional information can be found on the website http://cigb-icold2021.fr/en/symposium/call