CRRAO AIMSCS, UOH Campus Gachibowli Hyderabad India

University of Hyderabad Gachibowli, Hyderabad India

INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE

The conference will aim to cover (but not limited to) the following environmental issues:

• Air quality monitoring and assessment
• Bio-remediation and its utility for environmental clean-up
• Chemicals in agriculture and their impact on environment
• Ecology, forestry and environment
• Economic issues behind environmental monitoring and assessment programs
• Epidemiological and social dimension of pollutants
• Environmental and resource management
• Extremes in atmospheric and geologic factors and their effect on environment
• Global climate change and impacts on coastal areas
• Impact of natural disasters on environment
• Living with environmental change (LWEC)
• Methods of energy production and their environmental impact
• Policy formulation and decision making
• Transportation Pollution: Contrasts between developing and developed world practices
• River pollution and clean-up
• Role of remote sensing satellites in environmental monitoring and natural resource management
• Sensor networks for environmental monitoring
• Solid waste management:Contrasts between developing and developed world practices
• Usage of water resources and its environmental impact
• Water born diseases: Seasonality and environmental drivers

Quantitative/Statistical methodologies that will be applied in addressing the above environmental issues include but not limited to:

Data assimilation; extreme values methods; optimal (spatial) designs and analysis techniques; risk assessment; spatio-temporal modeling and point processes; statistical computing: software developments and Bayesian methods; statistical training; technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS); trend analysis and long-term memory; uncertainty and its communication: via the press - to the public - to policy makers; very high dimensional data.