LNEC Lisbon Conference

Conference 2023

Floods, Water Scarcity and Extreme Events

Extreme hydro-meteorological events, such as inland flooding, coastal storms and severe water scarcity, have major social, economic and environmental impacts. These adverse impacts may be exacerbated by climate change.

It is therefore important to better understand extreme events and water security challenges, and to take action to reduce increasing risks. In particular, there is a need to adopt strategies to increase the resilience of cities and critical infrastructure.

The aim of the LNEC Lisbon Conference 2023 is to discuss how the research community, in collaboration with local authorities and citizens, can contribute with tools and solutions to address these water-related challenges.

Conference 2024

Urban Risks and Societal Resilience

Urban societies are growing in complexity, leading to a rise of interdependence between various sectors and systems. Densely populated urban areas, with concentrated infrastructure and economic activities, are at greater risk of adverse impacts from natural hazards, such as geohazards.

Severe geohazards may trigger cascading effects across and within regions and sectors, amplifying critical vulnerabilities. They transcend geographical boundaries while crippling networked infrastructure that sustains urban regions, revealing the systemic risk posed by such events.

Improving societal resilience to major geohazard risks involves recognising and addressing their inherent uncertain and systemic nature. Current risk management practices that are primarily concentrated on specific sectors and assets would benefit from further development to achieve more comprehensive approaches. This entails drawing insights from different disciplines, experiences, and perspectives, as envisaged during the 2024 LNEC Lisbon Conference.

Conference 2025

Towards a Sustainable Built Environment: Challenges & Innovation

The aim of the LNEC Lisbon Conference 2025 is to explore science-based challenges and innovative approaches related to sustainable built environment, identify stakeholders’ needs to inform research agendas on fields related to a sustainable built environment, its challenges and innovation; and promote stakeholders’ involvement on the exchange of knowledge and expertise.

The theme of this conference will be Towards a Sustainable Built Environment: Challenges & Innovation and the sub-themes will be the following a) Innovative Technologies for Construction; b) Smart Cities: Living 4 Tomorrow; and c) Sustainable Buildings and Circular Economy.