The BIWAES series started in 1998. The 8th edition was held in Mumbai, India, in the year 2012, in collaboration with the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research. Since 1998, the Workshop was organized in Italy (4 times), Brazil, Austria, Spain, India.
The present Workshop edition brings together worldwide intellectual skills and talents with the aim to perform a critical assessment of environmental security and development of energy technologies suitable to meet the increasing world energy demand in the next decades, with special focus on urban systems.