DELTAS2010: World Delta Dialogues
October 17-20, 2010 - Ritz Carlton, New Orleans
DELTAS2010: World Delta Dialogue will be held at the Ritz Carlton in New Orleans, Louisiana from October 17 - 20, 2010. DELTAS2010 brings together a select delegation representing governments, NGOs, and the science and engineering community from across the globe, along with local and regional authorities on the world’s great deltas.
DELTAS2010 is an invitation-only, four-day, hands-on conference focused on designing sustainable development, restoration and protection scenarios for world deltaic regions, using the setting of the Mississippi Delta as the focus for the discussion. In addition to pre-conference, off-site lab sessions, tours and thematic plenary sessions, a series of facilitated, highly interactive working design charettes will produce cross-disciplinary approaches to the issues facing deltas worldwide.
DELTAS2010 will result in a report of findings that will be presented to organizations interested in comprehensive forecasting, best practices, technology transfer, research, and policy for deltaic regions. The report will also encourage the development of one or more pilot projects identified by potential partners during the conference, with a status report to be delivered to participants in the second World Delta Dialogues planned for 2012.
DELTAS2010 is the result of a partnership between, the America’s WETLAND Foundation, the Royal Netherlands Embassy, The Nature Conservancy and the Greater New Orleans Foundation, and our sponsors.