Smart urban coastal sustainability days

2021

Interdisciplinary approaches to the understanding of coastal systems

8th and 9th of April 2021 ON LINE

La Rochelle Université

 

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Smart urban coastal sustainability is the scientific theme chosen by La Rochelle Université for its scientific positioning. This “signature” is an answer to the societal challenges of environmental transition, energy transition, and digital transformation. La Rochelle Université promotes a complementarity and interdisciplinarity approach to these major societal challenges. The University has developed its high-level expertise in various disciplinary fields concerning the environment, digital technology, engineering, social sciences and the humanities.

 “Les rencontres Littoral Urbain Durable Intelligent” have been organised since 2018. In 2020, because of the sanitarian context, they were postponed. In 2021, they are part of the European university for Smart Urban Coastal Sustainability (EU-CONEXUS, https://www.eu-conexus.eu/) coordinated by La Rochelle Université and become “The smart urban coastal sustainability days”. During these scientific conference researchers and experts from all disciplines will have the opportunity to discuss the challenges and issues related to sustainable development in coastal areas.
Moreover, these workshops will provide a great opportunity for the researchers of the European University to meet and to network. The challenges linked to sustainable development in coastal areas are deeply interdisciplinary. This is why the conference will address four main topics covering different aspects of smart urban coastal sustainability and is organised in four sessions: (1) Coastal hazards and risks, (2) Coastal cities and infrastructures, (3) From coastal ecosystem services to social-ecological perspectives and (4) Coastal societies.

1. Coastal hazards and risks (8 april : 9am - 12pm France local time (GMT+1))

Coastal zones host a growing part of the world population, despite increasing erosion and flooding risks associated with sea-level rise and local changes in storminess in a context of climate change. As other regions in the world, European coastal areas and seas have been changing over the time, under both natural processes and centuries of human activities, such as polderisation, dredging or shoreline artificialization. The ongoing sea-level rise makes coastal areas more exposed and vulnerable to coastal hazard and dreads the sustainability of urbanized coastal areas. In this context, this workshop will bring together scientists and students to share the latest progress and discuss new ideas dealing with coastal hazards and risks.

9h00-9h05 - General introduction : BERTIN XAVIER, JEANNIN MARC- La Rochelle Université

  • 9h05-9h20 “Towards improved extreme sea level information for coastal flood risk analyses” LEIGH MACPHERSON - University of Rostock
  • 9h20-9h35 “Cross-shore profile evolution after an extreme erosion event, Palanga, Lithuania” LORETA KELPŠAITE-RIMKIENE - Klaipeda University
  • 9h35-9h50 “Wave-current-vegetation interactions over a schorre along the Western Coast of France” LAURA LAVAUD - La Rochelle Université
  • 9h50-10h05 “Storm surges and coastal flooding in the central part of the Bay of Biscay” XAVIER BERTIN - La Rochelle Université
  • 10h05-10h20 “Recent advances on storm waves modelling in the nearshore area: What implications on wave setup?” MARC PEZERAT - La Rochelle Université

10h20-10h45      Coffee break   

  • 10h45-11h00“Sandy beach evolution under the climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressure: Eastern Baltic Sea case” ILONA ŠAKUROVA - Klaipeda University
  • 11h00-11h15 “An overview of flooding in coastal cities in Croatia” LONCAR NINA - University of Zadar
  • 11h15-11h30 “Protection of coastal structures against marine submersion: interest of using the Geocorail additional protective material” DAZA ZADI - La Rochelle Université
  • 11h30-11h45 “Tool for prediction of regional pharmaceutical loads in Baltic Sea catchments” ALENA KAISER - Rostock University

11h40 - 12h00 General discussion, conclusions and perspectives              

2. Coastal cities and infrastructures (8 april : 2pm - 6pm France local time (GMT+1))

In this session, we address the challenges related to coastal cities and their associated infrastructures in terms of: (2a) their sustainability with regards to their challenging context, (2b) their digitalization strategy with regards to their specific settings, and (2c) their management with regards to their heterogeneous population formed by residents, secondary inhabitants and tourists.

Hereafter, you will find the description of the topics for which we are expecting contributions for this session.

2.a. Sustainable coastal cities and infrastructures

All coastal environments’ structures (alloys, concrete, industrial structures…) are subject to specific problems associated with the intrinsic aggressiveness of seawater towards materials. However, due to sea spray, the effects of the marine environment on materials constituting these structures are not restricted to the immediate vicinity of the sea. Atmospheric corrosion processes are affected by seawater as far as many 10 km, even more accounting for prevailing winds from the shore.

In addition, increasing concentration of population in coastal areas makes the management of their energy consumption a key global challenge. The associated growth of urban areas has amplified urban microclimate development. The microclimate phenomenon known as Urban Heat Island (UHI) is characterized by higher temperatures in urban areas than in rural areas.

2.b. Smart coastal cities and infrastructures

By 2050, 70% of the world’s population is expected to live in urban areas, from which an important part will live at less than 100km from the coastline. To support such a rapid growth, many cities concentrates their efforts in creating and adopting digitization strategies with the aim of enhancing the quality of life of its citizens and fostering local economies and businesses. Indeed, Smart Cities initiatives provide the catalyst for urban communities to become more resilient and sustainable, affording economic efficiencies, environmental innovations, fresh economic activity, and 21st century jobs. City Smartification concerns all the processes that rules urban life and operations, with some of these being purely related to coastal area. This session will provide a forum for presenting and discussing how information and communications technologies advances are becoming the key enablers for such Smartification, allowing coastal city dwellers interacting with their cities seamlessly.

2.c. Management of coastal cities and infrastructures

The development of urban areas gives rise to a new challenge for local government, socio-economic organizations and urban planners. In one way the concentration of activities in cities provides numerous and various amenities for citizens but also job opportunities and leisure/cultural activities. On the other hand, this concentration increases transport congestion, rents and inequalities. Social sciences have a lot to say about these transformations, especially for coastal cities which face additional challenges with the massification of tourism and environmental issues. This session will give opportunities to discuss these changes but also the role of digital technologies, both as a solution and a concern, to address these issues.

14h00 - General introduction : CHRISTIAN INARD, SYLVAIN DEJEAN, YACINE GHAMRI DOUDANE - La Rochelle Université

  • 14h15 - 14h30 “CircularSeas – Turning ocean plastic waste into green products for maritime industries” COUSTATY MICKAEL - La Rochelle Université
  • 14h30 - 14h45 “Smart small and medium-sized ports challenges and prospects” VYTAUTAS PAULAUSKAS - Klaipeda University
  • 14h45 - 15h “The potential of crack-healing of concrete structures in coastal environments” CHITEZ ADRIANA - Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest
  • 15h00 - 15h15 “Supporting synergistic regional planning with a coherent GIS-based approach” TRÄNCKNER JENS, SCHILLING JANNIK - Universität Rostock
  • 15h15 - 15h30 “Application of AI in Precision Agriculture and Precision Lifestock Farming.” DAVY STEVEN - Waterford Institute of Technology

15h30 - 16h15: PhD Student short presentation

    • “Digital traces for studying human touristic activities in indoor and outdoor contexts” CAYERE CECILE - La Rochelle Université
    • “Occupant behavior-based energy and comfort trade-off in smart buildings” HAIDAR NOUR - La Rochelle Université
    • “The Filter feeders in harbour areas: key species in a poorly known socio-ecosystem” HAMANI VINCENT et al. - La Rochelle Université
    • “Airbnb in city: assessing short-term rental regulation in Bordeaux” ROBERTSON-CHEVRE CALUM 1, DEJEAN SYLVAIN1, SUIRE RAPHAEL2 - La Rochelle Université1, University of Nantes2
    • “The effect of the presentation of information on the urban mobility behaviour.” SOULAT ULYSSE, LALLEMENT JEANNE - La Rochelle Université
    • “Risks induced by the hydrotechnical works in the karst aquifers from the urban coastal area Constanta” MOLDOVEANU MATEI - Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest
    • “Sustainable solution for strengthening concrete elements in the marine environment” HASAN HAKIM HUSSEIN, GEORGESCU DAN PAUL - Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest
    • “How to assess ecodistrict resilience to urban heat stress under future heatwaves?” MACHARD ANAIS - La Rochelle Université
    • “Experimental studies of glazed solar collector a solution for sustainable coastal cities” SIMA CATALIN et al. - Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest

16h15: Back to plenary session

  • 16h30 - 16h45 “Application of the QGIS plugin WaterNetAnalyzer for water management in and around coastal cities” SCHILLING JANNIK - Universität Rostock
  • 16h45 - 17h “Wind tunnel modelling of a residential ensemble in a high rise building urban area” GEORGESCU ANDREI-MUGUR - Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest
  • 17h00 - 17h15 “InnoAerogel: production, research and application” PAULAUSKIENE TATJANA, KATARZYTE MARIJA, UEBE JOCHEN - Klaipeda University
  • 17h15 - 17h30 “Why students do not cycle more? A case study University of Zadar, Croatia” PEJDO ANA, MARKULINCIC FRANKO- Zadar University
  • 17h30 - 17h45 “Promotion of Sustainable Urban Mobility in Klaipeda: Challenges in Development of Bike-sharing, Bike-storage and Bike-counting Systems” SPIRIAJEVAS EDUARDAS - Klaipeda University

17h45 - 18h00   - General discussion, conclusions and perspectives

3. From coastal ecosystem services to socio-ecological perspective (9 april : 9am - 12pm France local time (GMT+1))

Coastal areas provide provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural ecosystem services which are important, not only for local communities, but also for the wellbeing of whole nations. However, coastal ecosystems are expected to be heavily affected by climate change in the future, but also by many other threats related to natural and human disturbances. As a result, ecosystem services or nature contribution to people will be altered as well. The main goal of this session will be to assess and analyse the evolution of coastal ecosystem services in a context of the global change and of human influences in the functioning of coastal ecosystems. Aims will be to analyse the pros and the cons related to assessments based on ecosystem services, in order to highlight the potential limits of such assessments, and to determine how such assessments could be improved to better address issues at the scale of the socio-ecosystem in order to foster sustainable management of the coastal zone.

9h00 - 9h10 General introduction by CAMILLE MAZE, BENOIT LEBRETON - La Rochelle Université

  • 9h10 - 9h30 “From the notion of ecosystem service to the governance paradigm of socio-ecosystems as a path to sustainability. The case of coastal and marine socio-ecosystems in the face of global change” MAZE CAMILLE - La Rochelle Université
  • 9h30 - 9h45 “Urban Ecosystem Assessment for coastal urban areas in the province of Cádiz” CHAVARRIA LAURA - Cadiz University
  • 9h45 - 10h00 “Pinna nobilis: Critically endangered species. Importance of citizen support” HERNANDIS SEBASTIÁN et al. - Universidad Católica de Valencia
  • 10h00 - 10h15 “Potential flaws of ecosystem services monetary valuation: Case study of intertidal bare mudflats.” LEBRETON BENOIT - La Rochelle Université

10h15 – 10h28 Coffee break                     

  • 10h28 - 10h35 “Baltic sandy beach ecosystem services - Understanding the impact of beach wrack and litter to support a sustainable management” ROBBE ESTHER -Klaipeda University & Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde
  • 10h35 - 10h50 “Baltic beach wrack - conversion of a nuisance to a resource and asset” WOELFEL JANA - Rostock Universität
  • 10h50 - 11h05 “Integrated aquaculture of European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) and green seaweeds (Ulva sp.) in Recirculating Aquaculture System: effects on water quality, fish growth performance and chemical composition of cultured species” CHATZOGLOU EVANTHIA et al. - Agricultural University of Athens
  • 11h05 - 11h35 “Integrating renewable offshore wind devices into coastal ecosystems: An interdisciplinary framework” LEYER MICHAEL et al. - Rostock Universität
  • 11h35 – 11h47 “Ecosystem services from small cetaceans’ populations: the contribution of small cetaceans to nutrient fluxes in European coastal ecosystems” GILBERT LOLA et al.– La Rochelle Université

 11h40 - 12h00 General discussion, conclusions and perspectives              

4. Coastal societies (9 april : 2pm - 5pm France local time (GMT+1))

For many centuries, the societies living on the coasts have co-evolved with the ecosystem, each of them forcing the evolution of the others, in terms of socio-cultural flux, "natural" resources, and material constrains. The contemporary era of Anthropocene redefines this nexus of societies and coasts, bringing new and reinforcing old societal risks and inequalities. Contributions to this thematic session are expected to propose a retrospective approach and present analysis about the urban and rural societies living on the coasts, their uses of the coastline for work or leisure, the cultural and imaginary constructions to which they gave shape, the challenges of and for their management (especially in terms of cultural heritage) and long-term preservation and development.

14h00 - 14h20 General introduction by LAURENT VIDAL, DJEGO JARAK – La Rochelle Université

  • 14h20 - 14h35 “Rethinking the relationship between city and nature: A pressing challenge in the aftermath of COVID-19” GISBERT-ENRIQUE LAURA, VIDAL-GONZALEZ PABLO - Universidad Católica de Valencia
  • 14h35 - 14h50 “Thinking Sustainability through Human Sciences: The Case of the Aquitaine Coastline in Bernard Charbonneau & Jacques Ellul's Work. Critical Perspectives for the 21st Century” HUERTA ANTOINE - La Rochelle Université
  • 14h50 - 15h05 “Systems Approach to Eastern Baltic Coastal Zone Management” BALTRANAITE EGLE et al. - Klaipeda University
  • 15h05 - 15h15 “Campus Capacitas-UCV: a university model of social transfer” – Poster MARTINEZ-RICO GABRIEL et al. -Universidad Católica de Valencia

15h15 - 15h35 Discussions          

15h35 - 15h45 Coffee break       

  • 15h45 - 16h00 “Sustainable Coastal development Through design for all” BAÑULS LAPUERTA FRANCESC et al. - Universidad Católica de Valencia
  • 16h00 - 16h15 “Robust and multilingual analysis of digitised documents (notably, historical)” DOUCET ANTOINE - La Rochelle Université
  • 16h15 - 16h30 “Researching and valorizing the heritage of rochelais naturalist Aimé Bonpland through modern immersive technologies” ANZERONA AGUSTIN - La Rochelle Université
  • 16h30 - 16h40 “After 6 years: First inclusive underwater trail” – Poster LOPEZ FERRANDO DIANA et al.- Universidad Católica de Valencia

16h40 - 17h00 General discussion, conclusions and perspectives              

The conference will take place ONLINE on the 8th and 9th of April 2021. Abstract submissions will be closed on 26th March 2021. General registrations will be possible until 6th of April 2021.

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