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Programme of meetings
All ICID meetings are open to members
and non-members.
AGM and Gerald
Lacey Memorial Lecture
Friday 15 May 2009 - AGM 14:00-15:00; Tea
15:00; and Gerald Lacey lecture 15:30-17:00 Venue
Institution of Civil Engineers
Flood
Risk Science and the Environment Agency
We are pleased to
announce the Memorial Lecture this year will be given by Mr Douglas
Whitfield, Flood Risk Science Programme Manager to the Environment
Agency.
Doug Whitfield has
worked for the last 20 years at the Environment Agency and NRA. His
background is in Civil Engineering, having started with capital scheme
design and construction in Yorkshire before moving into flood warning and
forecasting. After several years developing the forecasting service in the
Environment Agency’s North East Region, he joined the Agency’s National
Flood Warning Centre and led the technical implementation of the National
Flood Forecasting System. This was followed by a spell in flood incident
management process before moving into the Science Department. Last year he
was appointed as the Environment Agency Programme Manager for the joint
Environment Agency/Defra Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Research
and Development Programme.
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Download details of AGM
Autumn Technical
Meeting - at the
Institution of Civil Engineers
Friday 6 November 2009 (One-day,
chargeable)
TBA
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Presentations from previous meeting available for downloading
ICID - UEA International seminar
Towards a political ecology of irrigation
&water use efficiency
and productivity
Meeting Thursday 6th November 2008 all day event
Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George St, London
SW1P 3AA
Programme
9:00 am Arrivals, coffees/teas and register (Please arrive for a prompt 9:30
am start)
Session 1. Paradigms
and political ecology
9.30 Welcomes &
Introduction: Ragab Ragab and/or Peter Lee (ICID), Bruce Lankford (UEA)
‘Towards
a political ecology of irrigation efficiency and productivity’
9.45 Keynote: David Molden
(IWMI): ‘Water
productivity - is it a watertight concept?’
10.15 Chris Perry:
‘Efficient irrigation;
inefficient communications; flawed recommendations?’
10.45 Peter Mollinga
(University of Bonn): ‘From
'clear definitions' to paradigm change. Efficiency and productivity as
boundary concepts in irrigation’
11:15 am Coffee, tea, biscuits
Session 2. Scales,
contexts and trade-offs
11.45 Jerry Knox
(Cranfield University), (with M.G. Kay and
E.K. Weatherhead): ‘Recognising
reality - what efficiency means to a farmer’
12.15 John Gowing
(University of Newcastle upon Tyne): ‘The
Emperor’s Clothes? Inflated claims for deficit irrigation ignore the
efficiency-equity trade-off’
12.45 Bruce Lankford (UEA)
‘Localising irrigation efficiency’
1.15 pm Approximately for 45 minutes for lunch and coffee
2.00 Linden Vincent,
Gerardo van Halsema (Wageningen University):
‘Managing water
for productivity: A matter of contextual relativism as opposed to general
absolutism’
2.30 François Molle (IRD,
Montpellier): ‘Irrigation
efficiency and water productivity in closing basins: tricks and traps’
Session 3. Performance
and measurement
3.00 Luis Pereira
(University of Lisbon): ‘Looking
for performance indicators to support a new paradigm in irrigation and water
productivity’
3:30 pm Coffee, tea, biscuits
4.00 Bert Clemmens (ARS,
US Dept of Agiculture): ‘Impact
of Agricultural Water Conservation on Water Availability’
4.30 Julien Harou
(University College London):
‘Potential economic gains of
irrigation inefficiency: Conjunctive use and groundwater banking in
California’
5.00 Group discussion:
‘Towards
a political ecology of irrigation efficiency and productivity’
Finish at 6.00
pm
6.30 pm Buffet
meal for seminar participants** (Optional,
requires separate notification)
Water governance: Emerging theory and
practice
Meeting held on Friday
19 October 2007 at
Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George St, London
SW1P 3AA
Presentations now available for downloading in pdf format. Just click on
the presenter's name
As an emerging field of theory and practice, water governance
is a term that holds different meanings to different individuals. To some
it addresses corruption, while for others it covers connections between
knowledge, political economy, laws and institutions that frame water
management responses and outcomes. While many agree that governance is more
than management, few might definitively distinguish the two. In this
workshop we will use a number of presentations by leading researchers and
policy advisers to initiate round-table discussions on governance. The
seminar is guided by the ‘theory and practice’ of water governance; it is
purposively inclusive and looks at a range of concepts regarding the
concept.
Presenters were:
Tom Franks & Frances Cleaver,
University of Bradford, : ‘A framework for water governance: from analysis to
diagnosis
Patrick Moriarty, IRC International
Water and Sanitation Centre: ‘EMPOWERS: stakeholder dialogue and participatory
planning for improved local water governance in the middle-east
Laurence Smith, Imperial College:
‘Governance for Catchment Management and Protection of Water Resources: Drawing
on International Experience
Mark Zeitoun, London School of
Economics and Political Science: ‘Hydro-Hegemony: obstacle or catalyst for
international transboundary water governance’
Stephen Hodgson, Independent
Environmental Lawyer: ‘Water rights: a pre-requisite for effective water
governance?
Felicity Chancellor
Independent consultant
List of delegates
Programme summary
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Wednesday 28 March 2007 All day meeting
8th ICID.UK Research Day
Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Crow marsh gifford,
Wallingford, Oxford
Climate change: will there be
enough water for agriculture?
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The eighth annual
research day organised by ICID.UK aims to enable UK-based
researchers, from all backgrounds, to share current initiatives in
relation to the challenges of climate change. The emphasis is on
the expected impacts on water availability for agriculture. The
programme allows generous time for discussion. Abstracts will be
circulated shortly.The meeting is open to all who are interested in the
exchange of ideas and in familiarising themselves with current research
in this area of interest.
Programme:
10:05
Keynote Address
Climate
change and the global water cycle (5.8mb
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Richard Harding, Head of Process, Hydrology Section, Centre for
Ecology and Hydrology
Questions and discussion
11.00
Coffee
11:30
Session 1
Paper 1:
Remote sensing for better understanding of
interactions between climate, agricultural productivity and water
use
(5.8mb
) Chris Perry, '
Independent consultant
Paper 2:.
Some thoughts on Management of Drought
Risk
(0.8 mb
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Michael Snell,
Independent Consultant
Questions and
discussion
12:45 Lunch
14:00
Session 2
Paper 3:
Water balance at Ainsdale National Nature Reserve 1972-2100
(5.8mb
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Derek
Clarke, University of Southampton
Paper
4: The effect of climate change on UK
river flows - impacts on agriculture
(5 mb
)Dr Steven Wade, Group Manager, Water
Management Dept., HR Wallingford
Paper 5:
Climate
change impacts and adaptation for UK irrigated agriculture
Keith Weatherhead,
Cranfield University
Questions and discussion
15:15 Tea
15:30 Session 3
Paper 6:
Institution-building for water abstractor groups in East Anglia: how
they might approach climate change
(5.8mb
) Melvyn Kay Independent consultant
Paper 7: Are floods
and droughts in the UK becoming more severe?
(5.8mb
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Terry Marsh,
CEH Wallingford
Questions and discussion
1645 Close
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