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STRIVER Conference Announcment: Integrated water resources management in theory and practice
The STRIVER
Final Conference 'Integrated water resource management in theory and
practice' will be arranged in Brussels May 28-29, 2009. It is an open
conference. Abstract submission by March 1, 2009.
Key topics addressed are:
- IWRM methodologies
- Stakeholder and public participation
- Scenarios as a tool for management
- Transboundary water management
- Pollution models
- Environmental flows
- Water law and water governance
- Land and water interactions
- Climate change and IWRM
- The science-policy bridge
This open international conference is intended as an arena for discussions around recent findings in the field of integrated water resources management (IWRM).
This conference will show the major findings from the EC-funded FP6 project STRIVER (www.striver.no)
The conference is open and external oral presentations are highly encouraged. Contributions from researchers, water managers, river basin planners and policy makers are particularly stressed.
Besides oral presentations in plenary and parallel session, break-out working groups discussing various IWRM-issues will ensure active participation of all attendance.
Examples of questions addressed at the conference are:
- How to use research results in operational water management?
- How can the science-policy interactions and stakeholder participation be strengthened?
- What are the lessons learnt and tools in IWRM?
Online registration at www.niva.no/striver. Deadline for registration is March 25, 2009
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Striver project: Strategy and methodology for improved IWRM - An integrated interdisciplinary assessment in four twinning river basins
| Contact information |
Per Stålnacke (PhD), Bioforsk (Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research), FA Dahls vei 20, N- 1432 Ås, Norway
(email: per.staalnacke@bioforsk.no ; STRIVER@niva.no) Phone: Mobile: +47 93202520 ; Fax: +47 630 09 410 ; Switch-board: +47 40 60 41 00 ; Skype: per.stalnacke ; Web: www.bioforsk.no |
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| News type | CallForPaper |
| File link |
http://www.striver.no/news.php?read=53 |
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| Source of information | STRIVER Project |
| Keyword(s) | EU-INCO-MED, FP6, IWRM, transboundary water management, climate change, public participation |
| Subject(s) | HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY |
| Relation | http://ec.europa.eu/research/sd/conference/2009/index_en.cfm |
| Geographical coverage | Belgium |
| News date | 27/01/2009 |
| Working language(s) | ENGLISH |
