WASWAC
World Conference II was held successfully in Chiang
Rai, Tailand, Sept. 4-7, 2013
The
2nd WASWAC World Conference with topic “Threats to land and water
resources in the 21st century: prevention, mitigation and restoration”was
held in Chiang Rai, Tailand, during the period of Sept. 4-7, 2013. This
conference was organized by World Association of Soil and Water Conservation,
Sub-committee on Water Resources of Engineering Institute of Thailand, and Department
of Civil Enginneering in Faculty of Engineering at Thammasat University of
Thailand. The cooperating organizations include 22 government agencies or
academic societies distributed in Thailand, China, Japan, Philippines,
India and USA. More than 300 participants from 24 counties or regions attended
this conference.
Opening Ceremony of WASWAC WC II
Prof. Blum is giving a theme topic
On
the opening ceremony, Prof. Li Rui, the president of WASWAC, gave a welcome
speech, Prof. Winfried.E.H.Blum made a theme report with title “Soil
and land resources: general trends and future scenarios – a worldwide
perspective”. Prof. Liu Zhen, the honorary president of
WASWAC and the director for soil and water conservation department, the
Ministry of Water Resources of China, attended conference and presented the
newly achievement of soil erosion census in China.
Over
two days conference, a series of sessions have been involved, 65 excellent
reports were given in the related aspects such as methodologies to assess the
extent of land degradation, soil loss and landslide, debris flow,
sedimentation, effects of global climate change, evaluation of impacts of land
degradation, ecological aspect of land degradation and restoration, SWAT
achievements, control measures to prevent/mitigate land degradation and for
restoration, integrated measures that enhance soil and water conservation,
water resource management, law and policy, famers’role in
conserving soil and water resources, land use change and consequences.
Communication
Communication
The
Award-winner for several awards set up by WASWAC have been released by Dr.
Samran Sombatpanit, the president of Award Committer of WASWAC. Outstanding scientists
in soil erosion and conservation research have shared the honors.
The award-winner (Mr Pitsanu is on the left and Prof
Teerapong is on the right)
Most
participants attended the post-conference tour on Sept. 7 to visit Chiang Rai
Land Development Station, Mae Fah Luang University and Land Development
Study Center. Measures to control soil and water loss were discussed and
communicated.
In
addition, prior to this conference, the council meeting was held on Sept. 4.
President Li Rui introduced the process of council building and main
progresses. Prof. Ning Duihu, the secretary-general of WASWAC, gave a summary
report on structure building, member management, conference, communication,
publicity, publication and financial status. This reports showed clearly that
what have been done by the secretariat in the last three years and what will be
done in the following three years. The Nomination Committee of WASWAC
pronounced the next term candidates of councilor, which have been discussed and
agreed by all councilors. As a special regulation, to enlarge our association’s
size quickly, free of charge the member’s fee before 2020 has been decided by
the attended councilors. Finally, Serbia was chosen to be the organizer of
WASWAC WC III, which will be held in Serbia in 2016, after discussion on the
application proposal mentioned by Serbia delegate and Columbia delegate.
Council
meeting
Application
for the WASWAC WC III by Prof. Zlatic
Beautiful
Chiang Rai
