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Green Infrastructure Conference

Wednesday 29 April 2020, 9.00 - 17.00
Royal Society of Chemistry, Burlington House, London, W1J 0BA
A joint meeting with the Water Science Forum.  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/green-infrastructure-and-the-chemical-sciences-tickets-82282879307

Green Infrastructure (GI) can be used for removing or reducing the concentration of aquatic pollutants or for managing water flows. It includes sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) and constructed wetlands together with parks and woodlands, street trees, green roofs and walls.


GI contributes to the protection and enhancement of nature and natural processes by consciously integrating these into spatial planning and development, improving our quality of life and providing environmental benefits. GI dates back to 2013 when two European Commission documents, Green Infrastructure — Enhancing Europe’s Natural Capital (COM(2013) 249) and 'Building a Green Infrastructure for Europe' described how social, environmental and biodiversity benefits could flow from using GI to address climate change adaptation and mitigation of its effects.

GI is becoming an increasingly important component of our built environment and often provides a more sustainable outcome to our water management issues than traditional hard-engineered solutions.

Conference Aims
This conference/workshop will bring together those who wish to review current research and technologies directed towards the use of green infrastructure for pollution abatement. The talks and Q&A sessions will explore the removal of priority pollutants using biological wetland/ sustainable urban drainage (SuDS)-type systems and other nature-based solutions.

A number of different aspects will be discussed including the application of GI to catchment management and the attenuation of both agricultural contaminants and urban/road runoff pollution. The use of GI in the removal of specific pollutants such as phosphate ion, ammonia, metals, glycol, hydrocarbons and refinery wastes, pesticides and pharmaceuticals will also be discussed.

Who should attend:
  • Water policy developers and urban planners
  • Environmental regulators, planners and policymakers
  • Drinking water regulators 
  • Water treatment engineers
  • Freshwater biologists
  • Water Industry personnel
  • Water quality managers
  • Groundwater specialists
  • Agriculture and Aquaculture sectors
  • Water analysts
  • Public health & pharmaceutical industry employees
  • National and regional government water policy 
  • Academic water policy and water science researchers
  • Local authority and municipal representatives
  • Third sector organisations involved in water and public health
  • Businesses wanting to address the UN Sustainable Development Goals - particularly SGD6
  • Companies providing scientific services to the water sector
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  • About
    • Committee
    • Annual reports
  • Environmental Briefs
  • Distinguished Guest Lectures
    • 2020 Disposable Attitude: Electronics in the Environment
    • 2019 Radioactive Waste Disposal >
      • Juliet Long
    • 2018 Biopollution: Antimicrobial resistance in the environment >
      • Andrew Singer
      • Celia Manaia
    • 2017 Inside the Engine >
      • Frank Kelly
      • Claire Holman
      • Jacqui Hamilton
      • Simon Birkett
    • 2016 Geoengineering >
      • Alan Robock
      • Joanna Haigh
      • David Santillo
      • Mike Stephenson
    • 2015 Nanomaterials >
      • Eugenia Valsami-Jones
      • Debora F Rodrigues
      • David Spurgeon
    • 2014 Plastic debris in the ocean >
      • Richard Thompson
      • Norman Billingham
    • 2013 Rare earths and other scarce metals >
      • Thomas Graedel
      • David Merriman
      • Michael Pitts
      • Andrea Sella
      • Adrian Chapman
    • 2012 Energy, waste and resources >
      • RAFFAELLA VILLA
      • PAUL WILLIAMS
      • Kris Wadrop
    • 2011 The Nitrogen Cycle – in a fix?
    • 2010 Technology and the use of coal
    • 2009 The future of water >
      • J.A. (Tony) Allen
      • John W. Sawkins
    • 2008 The Science of Carbon Trading >
      • Jon Lovett
      • Matthew Owen
      • Terry barker
      • Nigel Mortimer
    • 2007 Environmental chemistry in the Polar Regions >
      • Eric Wolff
      • Tim JICKELLS
      • Anna Jones
    • 2006 The impact of climate change on air quality >
      • Michael Pilling
      • GUANG ZENG
    • 2005 DGL Metals in the environment: estimation, health impacts and toxicology
    • 2004 Environmental Chemistry from Space
  • Articles, reviews & updates
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