Sessions:

1. Climate Change
   climate history, proxy data interpretation, future scenarios and impact of global warming
   
2. Hydrology and Hydrogeology
   water systems in general, groundwater recharge, underground reservoirs, dams, water transfer, desalinization
   
3. Decision making
   legal aspects of water, cross-boundary cooperations, water management plans
   
4. Land use systems, soils, vegetation and agriculture
   integrated land management systems, agriculture under changing climate, success and failure of development projects, virtual water, vegetation, soils and soil development
   
5. The past as a key for the future
   ancient societies and their dependence on water, old water technologies, climate and history of the Middle East, environmental history, landscape archaeology, interpretation of myths and legends