Virtual
Water Footprint News
02/09/10 16:34
Virtual Water Conference
02/09/10 16:25
Tuesday
September 28 - Wednesday September 29, 2010
Tapping into Solutions: Leading Water’s Future is an online conference bringing together a diverse group of leaders from industry, government, not-for-profit organizations (Foundations and Non-Government Organizations), and academia to explore water’s complex role in society. Each sector seeks solutions, often independently, to improve water quality and ensure water availability for competing uses. This conference aims to create a dialog between leaders in these sectors and explore their future technical and leadership needs. Please join us as we bring together diverse perspectives to explore and debate these complex water issues, identify the leadership needed to manage the resource, and offer a framework to illuminate potential solutions.
http://www.elpnet.org/events/water
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Tapping into Solutions: Leading Water’s Future is an online conference bringing together a diverse group of leaders from industry, government, not-for-profit organizations (Foundations and Non-Government Organizations), and academia to explore water’s complex role in society. Each sector seeks solutions, often independently, to improve water quality and ensure water availability for competing uses. This conference aims to create a dialog between leaders in these sectors and explore their future technical and leadership needs. Please join us as we bring together diverse perspectives to explore and debate these complex water issues, identify the leadership needed to manage the resource, and offer a framework to illuminate potential solutions.
http://www.elpnet.org/events/water
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Webinar on adaptation and governance
27/08/10 00:52
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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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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Adaptation and Biodiversity Law: Archived Talks
19/06/09 21:50
On June 3, 2009 the
Environmental Law Institute hosted an International
Roundtable Discussion on the question posed in the
subject heading: “What does adaptation to climate
change mean for biodiversity law?” This discussion
is part of an ongoing project at ELI to identify
options and make recommendations for countries
seeking to build adaptive capacity into the
governance of their biological resources. Working
with environmental law and policy experts from
around the world, we are currently developing a
Toolkit for regulatory authorities and
stakeholders, and a Report for policymakers (drafts
planned for release Spring 2010).
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Tropical Cyclones/Hurricanes and Climate Change Forum
19/06/09 21:22
At
the forum -
Hurricane Science for Safety Leadership Forum:
Safe Homes For All -
we’ve aligned some strange bedfellows to come
together to discuss these land use, environmental
and social challenges. Panelists include
environmentalists, government officials, free
market thinkers, and insurance
representatives. We anticipate lively, yet
constructive discussions focused on solutions based
strategies to natural disaster risk mitigation and
how best to balance the needs of communities with
the protection of sensitive ecosystems (and
hopefully some great angles for your blog posts).
The topics are quite timely as we’ve just entered
the Atlantic hurricane season and many important
environmental and social challenges need to be
addressed by the nation.
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