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A Round-Table meeting addressing the global decreased delivery of sediment by rivers to seas will be held Beijing |
A Round-Table meeting addressing the global decreased delivery of sediment by rivers to seas will be held in Beijing, China on April 8-9, 2020. Invited global experts, stakeholders as well as potential research and innovation funding organizations will come together with sediment experts from the UNESCO Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP), the International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation (IRTCES), the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR) and the European Sediment Network (SedNet), co-organizers of the Round-Table, to raise awareness of the above issue and to suggest further actions. The meeting is also involving as cooperative partners the IHP World’s Large Rivers Initiative (IWRI), the IHP International Sediment Initiative (ISI) and the World Association for Sedimentation and Erosion Research (WASER). | |
