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

Aim

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?

Registration:
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
News type	CallForPaper
File link	http://www.striver.no/news.php?read=53
File link local	TheSTRIVER_final_conference.pdf (application/binary, 409 Kb)
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

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