Czech Republic, September 7, 2015

This symposium aims at presenting and discussing integrated
studies on the environment, particularly in the session
'Environmental impact on infrastructures'

Description:

 

Dear colleagues 

 

This is to advertise the 'Multidisciplinary Earth Sciences 

Symposium' held in Prague (Czech Republic), September 2015. 

As the title states, it would be a great opportunity for 

presentations and discussions of any Earth Sciences topics, 

with an eye to the environmental problem integrating not 

only different investigation approaches, but also different 

topics to each other (thus conjugating Earth Sciences, 

Engineering, Physics, etc...). In particular, it is to 

highlight the following session 'Environmental impact on 

infrastructures': 

 

''Environmental and geological processes, as well as 

man-made occurrences with an environmental impact, can 

greatly interact with infrastructures. Such processes span 

from subaerial to subaqueous, and involve the transport of 

fluids (water, gas) and solids (sediment, powder), impacting 

the infrastructures they encounter on the way. By 

infrastructures we mean any built (and generally inhabited) 

environment and its exposed value that can be impacted by 

any of these processes, which are: sand and dust storms, 

snow avalanches, volcanic ashes, tsunami waves, pollutant 

and powder emissions, debris avalanches, floods and lahars, 

gas and petroleum leakages, controlled demolitions, and 

nuclear wastes. All of these events, which can generate from 

earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and disasters of various 

origins both natural and man-made, can severely damage 

infrastructures like buildings, bridges, airplanes, 

highways, railways, and natural architectures, among others. 

In this session, we aim at presenting and discussing the 

state of the art and future perspectives of the 

environmental impact of the abovementioned processes on 

infrastructures. Multidisciplinary contributions that 

integrate different approaches, such as modeling, 

observations, and experiments, are of particular interest 

when characterizing the associated hazards, and quantifying 

the eventual risks at the border of earth sciences and 

engineering. Such a debate can also be of interest for 

public administrators, and private investors working in 

areas where it may happen that a given impact triggers a 

secondary one, amplifying the damage.'' 

 

http://www.mess-earth.org/ 

 

There will be the opportunity to publish not only your 

abstract, but also regular papers on a special issue (see 

also http://www.mess-earth.org/committee.html) 

 

Please do not hesitate to contact me for any further 

informations. Many thanks for your interest, and best regards 

 

 

Dr. Domenico Doronzo (Polytechnic School of Bari, Italy, 

domenico-doronzo@libero.it) and co-conveners