International workshop: New Opportunities and Challenges in Water Governance
Organisation: CROSSTALKS in collaboration with the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and PLACES (www.openplaces.eu/)
Part of project: (2011-...): Bridges over troubled water
The management of water and water-related issues will become central to sustainable adaptive actions. Hence CROSSTALKS, in her own interdisciplinary and bottom up way, wants to use its network and open exchange platform to build bridges between the sciences and society, between academic and corporate research, between the perils for our earth and the needs of an expansive population, between the insights at the CROSSTALKS forums and the priorities on the political agenda.
Programme
Chairs: Ludo Diels (VITO) & Steven Degraer (Marine Ecosystem Unit, MNW)
| 09h00: | Registration, coffee & tea |
| 09h30: | Welcome and introduction |
| 09h35: | PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS Museum & Foundations: Ecology communication and awareness: a major challenge Jorge Wagensberg (Fundacio ‘La Caixa’, SP) |
| 10h10: | ACADEMIC RESEARCH Patrick Meire (University Antwerp, BE) |
| 10h45: | ACADEMIC RESEARCH Modeling the Future Keith Beven (Lancaster University – Centre for Sustainable Water Management, UK) |
| 11h20: | Q&A followed by coffee & tea |
| 11h45: | POLICY MAKING Future prospects for the battle over the rivers: a Comparative History of River Policy Developments and Paradigm Shifts in the Netherlands, United States and South Africa Tom van der Voorn (Universität Osnabrück, GE) |
| 12h20: | POLICY MAKING (Ciência Viva - Agência Nacional para e Cultura Científica e Tecnológica Pavilhão de Conhecimento I Pavilion of Knowledge, PT) |
| 13h00: | WALKING LUNCH |
| 14h00: | Welcome |
| 14h10: | CASE I: City of Copenhagen (DK) or Watersensitivecities program, University of Innsbruck (AU) tbc |
| 14h30: | CASE II: Arctic Paper (SE) tbc |
| 14h50: | CASE III: Towards a climate versatile vegetation model Flip Witte (KWR Watercycle Research Institute, NL) |
| 15h10: | CASE IV: Ecover - Michael Bremans(BE) tbc |
| 15h30: | CASE V:Bio-remediation of ponds in Brussels Ludwig Triest (VUB, BE) |
| 15h50: | CASE VI: Beware of low water levels due to global climate change Thomas Vansteenkiste (KULeuven, BE) |
| 16h10: | Final discussion, drinks & networking |
Registration fee:
- 120,00 Euro (excl. VAT)
- 80,00 Euro (excl. VAT) for academics
- FREE for partners and students
To register click here or send an e-mail to goedele.nuyttens@vub.ac.be
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