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MAIN ACTIVITIES |
a.
Training
Specialised training courses: "Knowledge
and management of coastal risks"
Previous courses: 12-15 October 2009,
22-26 November 2010
Courses designed for local and
regional authority staff and postgraduate students
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Physical risks: erosion, storm surges,
flooding, cliff collapse
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Chemical and biological risks: pollution of
marine and terrestrial origin (drainage basins)
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Information about management and
decision-making tools
This training is attended by coastline
stakeholders and researchers and is intended to promote exchanges between users
and producers of decision-making methods and tools.
Participation in the "Coastal hazard
assessment and risk management" course run by the CERG European Centre (19-25
June 2011)
b.
Research
The "Vulner'hab" project
Research programme, run in
co-operation with the AZTI-Tecnalia foundation (Spanish Basque
country), assessing loss of habitats when sea levels rise at a
"pilot" site, Txingudi Bay.
c.
Other activities
Organisation of an
international symposium on coastal risks:
"Vulnerability of coastal
ecosystems to global change and extreme events"
The research described at this symposium will be considered from
three angles, giving an interdisciplinary approach:
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Physical
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Biological
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Chemical
The symposium will be accompanied by a professional exhibition of
innovative coastal risk assessment and prevention techniques.
Information about
the symposium :
http://wwz.ifremer.fr/biarritz_2011. |
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