Latin American water funds
WORLD
WATER WEEK
The Nature Conservancy and ACRA
Latin America Focus
Successful Practices in Water Resource Management in Latin America: Delivering Multiple Benefits
With growing competition over limited water resources, governments have begun to accept the concept of integrated resource management as a fundamental approach to resource allocation issues, steering away from traditional sectoral approaches. Read More...
The Nature Conservancy and ACRA
Latin America Focus
Successful Practices in Water Resource Management in Latin America: Delivering Multiple Benefits
With growing competition over limited water resources, governments have begun to accept the concept of integrated resource management as a fundamental approach to resource allocation issues, steering away from traditional sectoral approaches. Read More...
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Faculty: Limnologist/aquatic ecology
Limnologist/Aquatic
Ecologist:
University of Nebraska
The School of Natural Resources (SNR) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is seeking an assistant professor (tenure-track, 9-month appointment) to conduct basic and applied research in aquatic ecology and limnology. We seek individuals whose research integrates theory and basic science with applied issues to address emerging environmental challenges in managed ecosystems. Areas of expertise may include water quality, invasive species, land-use impacts, ecotoxicology, and other topics that improve our understanding of the structure, function and health of surface water ecosystems. The individual will be expected to teach courses in aquatic ecology, limnology and other water quality topics contributing to undergraduate and graduate programs in SNR which includes bachelor’s degrees in Water Sciences, Fisheries and Wildlife, Environmental Restoration Science, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees Natural Resources Sciences. Read More...
University of Nebraska
The School of Natural Resources (SNR) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is seeking an assistant professor (tenure-track, 9-month appointment) to conduct basic and applied research in aquatic ecology and limnology. We seek individuals whose research integrates theory and basic science with applied issues to address emerging environmental challenges in managed ecosystems. Areas of expertise may include water quality, invasive species, land-use impacts, ecotoxicology, and other topics that improve our understanding of the structure, function and health of surface water ecosystems. The individual will be expected to teach courses in aquatic ecology, limnology and other water quality topics contributing to undergraduate and graduate programs in SNR which includes bachelor’s degrees in Water Sciences, Fisheries and Wildlife, Environmental Restoration Science, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees Natural Resources Sciences. Read More...
Conservation books for the developing world!
02/09/10 16:44 Filed in: Grant
The British Ecological
Society and the NHBS Environment Bookstore together
are offering free ecology and conservation books to
readers and professionals in developing nations.
Please see further information at http://www.nhbs.com/Conservation/gratis-books
and feel free to share
with your colleagues. Read
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Virtual Water Conference
02/09/10 16:25 Filed in: Conference
| Virtual
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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Call for African women in climate change work
The International
Foundation for Science (IFS) Eastern Africa Hub
together with the Regional Universities Forum for
Capacity building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), the
Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for
Development (RCMRD) and the IGAD Climate Prediction
and Application Center (ICPAC) with support from
NORAD have announced a training and networking
project on "enhancing the participation of African
Women Scientists in Climate Change Assessment,
Information Dissemination and Policy Advocacy.”
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Latin American climate adaptation focus: World Water Week
01/09/10 07:08 Filed in: Conference
| workshop
Climate adaptation and water management in Australia
31/08/10 16:54 Filed in: Conference
Tuesday, September
712:30 - 2:00 PM
Room J 1-050 * Coffee and
cookies will be provided
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Water Planning and Adapting to Climate Change in Australia: Policy, Law and Practice |
Youth environmental issues conference
31/08/10 15:52 Filed in: Conference
| workshop
Are
you interested in Energy and Environment
issues?
You are invited to the Launch Conference of the new European Youth Energy and Environment Platform on Tuesday 5th October 2010 from 15:30 to 18:30 at the European Parliament.
Read More...CARE climate adaptation and development newsletter
Please find a link to
the bi-annual newsletter of CARE International's
Poverty, Environment and Climate Change Network
(PECCN). If you want to share our newsletter,
please feel free to pass it on and encourage others
to sign up for future issues
at www.careclimatechange.org/newsletter.
This is a public document. Read More...
Regional US Midwest water management, climate change conference
The effect of climate
change on community water resource management will be
the focus of the Clean Water and Climate Adaptation
Summit planned for September 16 and 17 at the
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. Presented by the
Arboretum, in collaboration with the Minnehaha Creek
Watershed District and the Minnesota Climate Change
Adaptation Working Group, the summit is aimed at
local government officials and staff, industry
leaders, natural resource professionals, scientists
and citizens interested in learning how climate
trends might affect Minnesota and the region.
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Summit on environmental literacy and education
Ecology and Education
Summit: Environmental Literacy for a Sustainable
World October 14-15, 2010,
Washington, DC
Advanced Registration
available through Sept 20.
Co-organized by: Ecological Society
of America and National Education Association and
more than 20 national organizations and
partners.
Monitoring & evaluation for climate adaptation meeting
WHAT:
World
Resources Institute (WRI) presentation on Monitoring
and Evaluation for Integrated Climate and Development
Programs
WHEN: September 22, 2:00-3:00 pm EST
WHERE: InterAction, 1400 16th St. NW, Suite 210, Washington DC 20036
RSVP: Space is limited. Please RSVP to Danielle Heiberg (dheiberg@interaction.org) by Friday, September 17 Read More...
WHEN: September 22, 2:00-3:00 pm EST
WHERE: InterAction, 1400 16th St. NW, Suite 210, Washington DC 20036
RSVP: Space is limited. Please RSVP to Danielle Heiberg (dheiberg@interaction.org) by Friday, September 17 Read More...
Postdoc: Great Lakes climate change impacts
A team at Michigan
Technological University has just been recommended
for NSF funding to assess the sustainability of water
resources in the Great Lakes region in the face of
changing climate and land use. We need to get a
post-doc started on the project early this fall.
Please forward the attached announcement to any of
your recent or pending graduates who might be
qualified. We need someone with good GIS and computer
modeling skills who can apply those skills to
modeling hydrology and water quality.
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Webinar on adaptation and governance
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.
Read More...
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.
Read More...
International IWRM conference: Germany Nov 2010
Be a part of IWRM
Karlsruhe 2010 at Karlsruhe Convention Center on 24th
and 25th November 2010, when
international experts from science and
the economy meet to bring together and exchange the
globally available know-how on IWRM - Integrated
Water Resources Management. IWRM Karlsruhe
2010, which is organised by Fraunhofer IOSB and
Karlsruher Messe- und Kongress-GmbH
and which is under the patronage of the Federal
Ministry for Economic Cooperation and
Development, addresses cutting-edge topics and issues
concerning IWRM in three parallel sessions.
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US EPA comments on water utility adaptation requested
U.S.
ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY
[FRL-9192-2; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2010-0701]
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Four Case Studies of Water Utility Practices
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of public comment period.
SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 45-day public comment period for the draft
document titled, ``Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Four Case
Studies of Water Utility Practices'' (EPA/600/R-10/077a). The document
was prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment within
EPA's Office of Research and Development. Read More...
[FRL-9192-2; Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-ORD-2010-0701]
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Four Case Studies of Water Utility Practices
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of public comment period.
SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 45-day public comment period for the draft
document titled, ``Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment: Four Case
Studies of Water Utility Practices'' (EPA/600/R-10/077a). The document
was prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment within
EPA's Office of Research and Development. Read More...
US student fellowships for Asia-Pacific research
2011
NSF EAPSI Fellowship Program Now
Open
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC SUMMER INSTITUTES FOR U.S. GRADUATE STUDENTS - 2011 APPLICATION NOW OPEN (Link: www.nsfsi.org ) Read More...
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION EAST ASIA AND PACIFIC SUMMER INSTITUTES FOR U.S. GRADUATE STUDENTS - 2011 APPLICATION NOW OPEN (Link: www.nsfsi.org ) Read More...
Strategic Water Policy Forum: Slovenia
24/08/10 22:13 Filed in: Conference
| Panel
The Bled Strategic
Forum: Global and National Water Policy
for the Next Decade
30 August 2010, Bled, Slovenia
As a result of climate change, population growth, environmental degradation and increased demand for food and energy, almost half of the world's population will have lived in areas of high water stress by 2030. With longer droughts, more frequent extreme meteorological events and changes in precipitation patterns, global warming affects particularly the water cycle. Climate change will impact on the most vulnerable communities in developing countries, multiplying the effects of poverty, poor governance and political instability. Read More...
30 August 2010, Bled, Slovenia
As a result of climate change, population growth, environmental degradation and increased demand for food and energy, almost half of the world's population will have lived in areas of high water stress by 2030. With longer droughts, more frequent extreme meteorological events and changes in precipitation patterns, global warming affects particularly the water cycle. Climate change will impact on the most vulnerable communities in developing countries, multiplying the effects of poverty, poor governance and political instability. Read More...
Sustaining Water in a Changing Climate conference
24/08/10 20:29 Filed in: Conference
| Report
Sustaining Water for All in a Changing Climate
The World Bank’s Board has recently endorsed a Progress Report on the Bank’s Water Strategy. It calls for renewed emphasis on:
• Integration of new technologies
• Hydropower
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Agriculture
• Sanitation
Read More...
