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One Talk, Two Heads: Bloviating on Climate Adaptation in Two Languages
12/08/09 12:05
This
video is a fair
representation of the overview adaptation
talk I've been giving for the past few months,
describing how climate adaptation differs from
much of the economic development and
conservation work up to now and how climate
adaptation has some special challenges and
opportunities for the water sector. Filmed on 3
August 2009 in Brasilia, DF, Brazil, this is a
long flick at 25 minutes, so brace yourself.
Although I appear visually a few times in the
stream, most of what you see are the
presentation slides filling the screen with me
(in English) and Martin Charles (my most
excellent Portuguese translator) delivering the
substance of the keynote talk to a live audience
of leading policy and resource management staff
from various government and civil society
groups. The event was billed as a climate
adaptation workshop, spanning two days at a
place called the LBV (very interesting in
itself) but hosted by WWF-Brazil. Filmed in
August 2009. Read
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Fixed video streaming! The Cerrado of Brazil
09/08/09 08:19
I’ve just returned
from a trip to Brazil, where most of my time was
spent talking in Brasilia with colleagues and
policymakers working on climate adaptation issues
from a freshwater perspective. While I will soon
post a video of a talk that I gave (and perhaps
some other video content), I’ve just finished
a short video
from I trip I made
to the beautiful savannah or cerrado
of interior Brazil
a few hundred kilometers from Brasilia. Hope you
enjoy! — JM Read
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Dead Time in the Aeroporto
01/09/08 12:57
I’ve heard for years
about the “coffin hotels” of Japanese airports: you
rent a tiny room in a hotel inside of a terminal in
places like Tokyo. Most of the businessmen using
these are between long-haul flights. Apparently
Brazil’s Sao Paolo has something similar since I’ve
checked in. The hotel charges by the hour (five
hours comes to about the price of a regular hotel
room). It’s about two meters wide, three meters
long, and tall enough for me to stand up, assuming
I duck under the TV suspended from the ceiling.
There’s a mirror, a bunkbed, a wastebasket, and
four blank walls. It’s a coffin, unfit for the
claustrophobic or those in need of visual
stimulation. Sitting in the basement, the only
sound comes from the ceiling’s air vent. The warren
of hallways leads to showers, a hair salon, and
even a small gym. It’s a great idea, even if it
provides further disorientation to the travel
process. Read
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NEWS: climate adaptation case studies
22/08/08 13:31
A colleague closely
affiliated with WWF who is now at Australian
National University has just written an excellent
series of climate adaptation case
studies. Jamie Pittock, the author,
is in the highest tier of international
freshwater conservation and policy advocates. I
highly recommend downloading the 6.5 mb file. A
major recommendation behind this and a
companion overview
of climate
adaptation that I wrote with another colleague,
Tom LeQuesne, is maintaining healthy freshwater
species and ecosystems is the key to keeping
reliable and high-quality freshwater resources
for societies, economies, and livelihoods
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