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Conference Water Security, Risk and Society

Datum: 16-04-2012 t/m 18-04-2012
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This symposium will convene leading scientists and members of industry and government to advance the water security agenda and build partnerships across theory, policy and practice.
 
Keynote speakers will include:
  • Dr. Don Blackmore (Member of the Order of Australia, Former CEO of the Murray Darling Basin Commission),
  • Professor David Grey (University of Oxford)
  • Professor Jerson Kelman (CEO, Light S.A. Brazil)
  • Professor Mike Muller (Commissioner, National Planning Commission of South Africa; University of Witwatersrand)
  • Dr. Letitia Obeng (Chair, Global Water Partnership)
  • Professor Charles Vörösmarty (University of New Hampshire).
A series of panel sessions and presentations, including the open call for papers, will examine the following themes.

Defining and measuring water security

  • Sources of water security
  • Metrics of water security
  • Development impacts of water security
  • Current state of water security around the world.

Pathways to water security

  • Managing risk and variability
  • Policy and institutional responses
  • Infrastructure, incentives and financial instruments
  • Information and technology
  • Informing decision-making
  • An agenda and timelines for action
 
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