AICWER 2013 - Abuja International Conference on Water, Energy and Environmental Research

Abuja International Conference on Water, Energy and Environmental Research
AICWER2013
Venue: FCT Education Resource Center, Abuja-Nigeria 20-22 August, 2013
Co-sponsored by
Sub-Themes and Topics
Environmental Science and Development
Environmental Science and Engineering
Water pollution and treatment
Air pollution and treatment
Soil pollution and treatment
Groundwater issues
Wastewater management and treatment
Waste management and Environment
Green manufacturing and technologies, Pollution prevention
Desalination
Renewable and non-renewable energies
Energy management
Oil spillage
Bioremediation
Biofuels
Environmental safety regulations
Greenhouse effect, global warming
Environmental protection
Impact of industrialization on the environment
Pollution and health issues
Environmental sustainability and development
Environmental education
Nanotechnology impacts on environment
Environmental risk assessments Environmental Geotechnology Energy and Waste Management
Advanced biological treatment
Agricultural wastes
Brownfields and Land Revitalization
Cost and benefits of waste management options
Decontamination and Decommissioning
Drought and Desertification
Energy from waste
Energy, the Environment and Waste Management
Environmental Geotechnology and Management
Environmental impact
Environmental Remediation
Erosion and Sediment Transport
Fate, Transport and Remediation of Contaminants
Geological Carbon Sequestration
Global Scale Environmental Issues
High-Level Radioactive Wastes
Hydraulic Fracturing
Industrial waste management
Landfills, design, construction, and monitoring
Landslide Hazards
Long-Term Nuclear Waste Containment
Low-Level, Intermediate Level, Mixed Waste
Management of emerging wastes
Medical wastes
Methane Recovery
Mining and mineral wastes
Nuclear and hazardous waste
Nuclear Power Plant Waste Nuclear Fuel Management
Packaging and Transportation
Reduce, reuse and recycle
Resource and energy recovery
Site Monitoring/Characterization Systems
Soil Science
Spent Nuclear Fuel/Used Nuclear Fuel Long-Lived Alpha Transuranic Radioactive Waste
Surface and Ground Water Quality
Waste Containment and Impoundment Systems
Waste from electronic and electrical equipment
Waste incineration and gasification
Waste-to-Energy Systems
Wastewater treatment
Water Conservation and Reuse
Water Sustainability Agriculture Geography and Regional Planning
Watershed Management and Protection Environmental dynamics
Meteorology
Hydrology
Geophysics
Atmospheric physics
Physical oceanography
Global environmental change Ecosystems management
Climate and climatic changes
Global warming
Ozone layer depletion
Carbon capture and storage
Integrated ecosystems management
Satellite applications in the environment
Environmental restoration Ecological engineering
Habitat reconstruction
Biodiversity conservation
Deforestation
Wetlands
Landscape degradation and restoration
Ground water remediation
Soil decontamination
Eco-technology
Bio-engineering
Environmental sustainability
Resource management
Life cycle analysis
Environmental systems approach
Renewable sources of energy-energy savings
Clean technologies
Sustainable cities
Health and the Environment
Health related organisms
Hazardous substances and detection techniques
Biodegradation of hazardous substances
Toxicity assessment and epidemiological studies Estate Management
Quality guidelines,regulation and monitoring
Indoor air pollution
Water resources and river basin management
Regulatory practices in Water and Energy
Public participation Oil and Gas
Economic instruments
Modelling and decision support tools
Institutional development
Transboundary cooperation
Management and regulation of pollution
Monitoring and analysis of environment
Ground water management
Wastewater and sludge treatment
Nutrients removal
Suspended and fixed film biological processes
Anaerobic treatment
Quantity Surveying
Process modelling
Sludge treatment and reuse
Fate of hazardous substances
Industrial wastewater treatment
Advances in Water & Energy processes
On site and small scale systems
Storm-water management
Air pollution and control
Emission sources
Atmospheric modelling and numerical prediction
Interaction between pollutants
Control technologies
Air emission trading Land Surveying Petroluem Economics Environmental Economics Natural Resource Management
Guidelines for Authors
The Full Text papers in MS Words should be submitted by one of the authors of the paper through email attachment.The submitting author takes responsibility for the paper during submission and peer review. All submitted formatted full-text papers should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical. Papers submitted to the conference should meet these criteria and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Manuscripts must be submitted on the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere and are not currently under consideration by another conference. The submitting author is responsible for ensuring that the article's publication has been approved by all the other co-authors. It is also the authors' responsibility to ensure that the articles emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution. Only an acknowledgment from the editorial office officially establishes the date of receipt. Further correspondence and proofs will be sent to the author (s) before publication unless otherwise indicated. It is a condition of submission of a paper that the authors permit editing of the paper for readability. All enquiries concerning the publication of accepted manuscripts should be addressed to conference secretariat.All manuscripts are subject to peer-review and are expected to meet the scientific criteria of significance and academic excellence. Submissions will be considered by two members of the scientific committee.All manuscripts should include the following information:Paper title,Full author names,Full institutional mailing addresses and E-mail addressesWhen submitting manuscripts for potential publication in the conference proceedings, please submit an original editable file. All figures, images, tables, etc., should be embedded into the original file. All submitted full text articles should report original, previously unpublished research results, experimental or theoretical. Articles submitted to the conference proceedings should meet these criteria and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The manuscript should contain an abstract with five keywords. The abstract should be self-contained and citation-free and should not exceed 150 words.One of the authors of the manuscript should sign the copyright agreement of their manuscripts, and all open access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.The use of general descriptive names, trade names, trademarks, and so forth in this publication, even if not specifically identified, does not imply that these names are not protected by the relevant laws and regulations.While the advice and information in this conference are believed to be true and accurate on the date of its going to press, neither the authors, the editors, nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The organizers and publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein.Deadline for paper submission is July 31,2013
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must be registered for the conference for that paper to appear in the proceedings and be scheduled for presentation. Delegates are entitled to attendance to All Sessions, Proceedings, Conference Program, Name Tag, The Working Lunches and Coffee Breaks, Certificate of Attendance, conference bag and other gift items. If you cannot attend the conference, we are happy to accept a substitute colleague at any time. If you have to cancel entirely, we regret that no refunds can be made after your registration.
Conference Registration: International Local
Registration: US $200 N32500
Registration at Venue US$275 N40500
Corporate Participation US$350 N55000
NB: Payment in local currency is only possible for delegates resident in Nigeria. Authors whose paper(s) are accepted shall be informed of the bank details for payment registration.
Responsibility and Visa Requirements
In registering for the conference you agree that neither the Organizing Committee nor the Conference Secretariat accept any liability. For people from outside ECOWAS region planning to attend the conference, an entrance visa may be required and you should contact the nearest Embassy or Consulate for more information. Participants are requested to make their own arrangements in respect of health and travel insurance. The organizers do not accept responsibility for any personal injury, damage or loss of property which may occur in connection with this conference. All participants are advised to arrange international health insurance before departure from their home countries.
Conference Information
For any information related to the conference, please contact the Conference Chairs, Professor Gehard Berchtold or Professor Joseph Kosu,Tel +34698504504 or the Chair, Local Organising Committee,Professor Peter U. Akanwa, Dean, College of Business Administration, Imo State University, Owerri-Nigeria,Tel:+2348036683508.Email:abujaconference-AT-gmail.com