webinar
Interactive "Future of Water" web event, 7 June
31/05/11 11:53
Last weekend, I was interviewed via skype about the single issue around water I was focused on. “The challenge,” said Megan, my interviewer, “is to keep it under one minute.” That was a challenge. For me, it took three attempts. My interview was part of a larger broadcast, which will occur as on 7 June 2011 as The Future of Water (or #futurewecreate if you tweet). Sixty interviews by a very wide range of thinkers, speakers, activists, and businesses will occur within one hour. A number of the speakers are profiled on the site already. Read More...
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Webinar: Changing climate, hydrology of the Tibetan plateau
08/11/10 13:41
Please join the Environmental Change and Security Program for a
discussion of Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia:
Developing a Blueprint for Addressing Glacier Melt in the Region
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discussion of Changing Glaciers and Hydrology in Asia:
Developing a Blueprint for Addressing Glacier Melt in the Region
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Climate adaptation, water, and governance: An emerging nexus
21/09/10 15:39
Update: Session now available for download here. When the roundtable session begins after the introduction, sound quality drops. You can skip forward to 59:26 to hear the roundtable summaries (very interesting!). The panel discussion and questions begin at 1:41:00.
Changing Climate, Shifting Institutions: Building Governance and Capacity through Freshwater Adaptation
Efforts to respond to the impacts of a shifting climate in the water community have widely focused on particular eco-hydrological changes in freshwater systems, such as floods, droughts, and higher water temperatures. From this perspective, climate change is defined largely as a problem with an engineering (or engineering finance) solution. Engineers themselves, however, have declared that the current measures for designing long-lasting water infrastructure assumes that the recent historical hydrological information is a fair representation of future conditions — an assumption that has recently been declared “dead,” since historical statistically “normal” hydrological states are expected to shift, but without knowing how much or often even in what direction. Climate change thus causes increasingly uncertain hydrological futures for decades and possibly centuries.
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Changing Climate, Shifting Institutions: Building Governance and Capacity through Freshwater Adaptation
Efforts to respond to the impacts of a shifting climate in the water community have widely focused on particular eco-hydrological changes in freshwater systems, such as floods, droughts, and higher water temperatures. From this perspective, climate change is defined largely as a problem with an engineering (or engineering finance) solution. Engineers themselves, however, have declared that the current measures for designing long-lasting water infrastructure assumes that the recent historical hydrological information is a fair representation of future conditions — an assumption that has recently been declared “dead,” since historical statistically “normal” hydrological states are expected to shift, but without knowing how much or often even in what direction. Climate change thus causes increasingly uncertain hydrological futures for decades and possibly centuries.
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