Urban Environmental Pollution - UEP 2010
Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life
Boston, USA • June 20-23, 2010
www.uep2010.com
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Register now to hear from leading experts on the latest developments and information about urban pollution problems and what measures can be taken to overcome obstacles to sustainability and life quality. The role of urban vegetation in storm water retention, pollution and temperature reduction, green roofs, re-surfacing buildings, reducing albedo, reducing asthma and other advances will be presented.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Christopher Kennedy, University of Toronto, Canada
- Urban metabolism
SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
The Honorable Ian Bowles, Secretary for Energy and Environment, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA
PLENARY SPEAKERS
Douglas M. Brugge, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, USA
-Traffic pollution and human health
Linda Davies, Imperial College, London, UK
OPAL - Open Air Laboratories
Francisco J. Escobedo, University of Florida, USA
- Urban trees and sustainability
Roy M. Harrison, OBE, University of Birmingham, UK
- Air quality in urban environments
Marc L. Imhoff, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
- Gray Wave of the Great Transformation: A Satellite View of Urbanization, Climate Change, and Food Security
Jan Kleissl, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Urban heat island mitigation
Ingo Kowarik, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- Biodiversity in urban environments
Frauke Kraas, University of Cologne, Germany
- Megacities of the world
Bradley Rowe, Michigan State University, USA
- Ecoroofs (green roofs)
Yong-Guan Zhu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Urbanization in China: Problems and prospects
YOUNG RESEARCH SCIENTIST AWARD WINNERS
Dr. Cristoff Gromke, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research, Switzerland
- Urban air quality in street canyons with avenue-like tree planting
Dr. Mark J. Potosnak, DePaul University, USA
- Urban carbon dioxide concentration and flux measurements from a building rooftop in Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Lina Yang, The University of Hong Kong, China
- Ventilation by thermal buoyancy for better urban environment
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Urban Environmental Pollution is organized and sponsored by Elsevier and the journalEnvironmental Pollution.
Conference Chair
William Manning, University of Massachusetts, USA
Editor-in-Chief: Environmental Pollution
Program Committee and Scientific Advisory Committee
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