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At all stages introducing the study of environmental
protection measures, invaluable treasure of the world – soil and water deserved
special attention, and nowadays, can be considered as a center of scientific investigations.
It is well-known that none of the biosphere components,
starting with human and finishing with primitive beings, can exist without soil
and water. And such gems of the world are being destroyed by floods, inflows
and associated with them such conditions as erosion and debris flow processes.
The global warming observed during the last years
intensified the occurrence of floods and inflows, and their intensity depends
on the development of such dangerous conditions as erosion, landslide and
debris flow.
Frequently, the erosion processes caused by floods can be
considered as reasons for desertification of areas, migration of population and
other negative ecological and social conditions. Moreover, the fact that such
negative natural conditions do not decrease, but have a tendency of
distribution on more areas, makes us to think about.
Taking into account the mentioned above it becomes clear
that mankind needs help to use soil and water resources wisely and, at the same
time, to provide its timely development. We should not change our invaluable
treasures – numerous, generally, unused rivers from friends into our
enemies. Only such kind of approach to
the environment will give us appropriate results, which will not cause
irreparable damage to the nature, stability of ecosystems, economy and, most of
all, to the integral component of nature – a human being. We shall not forget that just as in the
ancient period, a human being can be considered as the king of nature. And we
shall think not only about the rational use of environment and its protection,
but also about the welfare of humans. We suppose that the symposium held under
the aegis of UNESCO and dedicated to floods and modern methods of defense
against them will provide the interchange of information concerning the defense
and prediction of the above-mentioned problems, processing the different
aspects of modern methods and its use worldwide.
The International Organizing Committee of the Symposium
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