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UK
Programme of meetings
All ICID meetings are open to members
and non-members.
Autumn Technical
Meeting
Friday 6th November 2009 10.30 to
17.00 Venue
Institution of Civil Engineers
Climate Change, Water and Food Security Meeting
Climate change has been widely seen as a global technical
challenge and humanitarian/ environmental issue, but now it is increasingly a
political issue. The feed-in from science to political pressure is intensifying
so that world leaders, who have the mandate to act, act correctly. Such guidance
needs to be founded on sound technical analysis and on widespread consultation.
Next month (December 2009) world leaders, and their advisers, will meet in
Copenhagen to try to develop a consensus and agree a way forward that will
enable governments to take responsible, effective and coordinated action.
ICID is
strongly interested in both mitigation and adaptation aspects of the climate
change situation. Its interest is focused on the issues of food security, land
resource use and water resource management. We take the opportunity to provide a
series of expert viewpoints on the situation, and to provide a forum for
discussion. The objective of the meeting is to update and exchange views on how
climate change impacts are expected to impact the water resource sector, and
what can be done both in UK/Europe and around the world (especially in
developing countries). What messages for representatives attending the
Copenhagen Talks?
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9.30-10.30
Registration and coffee/tea
(10.00-10.30 Internal meeting for ICID members) |
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10.30
Welcome by ICID and ICE Prof
Paul Jowitt (President ICE) |
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10.45
Overview of UK Adaptation to Climate Change Programme
Mark Filley, Head of Government and Statutory Framework
Team, ACP, Defra |
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11.15
Policy directions for irrigated food security in Africa: Responding to
Obama’s Right Irrigation
Dr Bruce Lankford, Head, School of International
Development, University of East Anglia |
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11.45
Impact of climate change in Africa - focus Swazi sugar industry
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Impact of climate change on UK Agriculture
Dr Jerry Knox, Principal Research Fellow, Cranfield
University /
Dr Keith Weatherhead, Senior Lecturer in Water Resources and
Irrigation, Cranfield University |
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12.15
Climate change impacts on UK river flows - a look at the observational
evidence
Dr Terry Marsh, Principal Hydrologist, Centre for Ecology
and Hydrology |
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13.00
Lunch |
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14.00
Climate Change with respect to land management and food/water security
Dr Jean Venables, Chief Executive, Association of Drainage
Authorities |
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14.30 Stochastic modelling of soil moisture under anticipated
climate change in the UK
Dr Derek Clarke, Lecturer, University of Southampton |
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15.30
Water resources management for crop production under climate change (ICID
Working Group on Global Climate Change & Agricultural Water
Management.
Dr R Ragab, Head Water, Soils and Landscapes Group, Centre
for Ecology and Hydrology |
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15.30
Coffee |
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16.00
Role of renewables in climate change mitigation and adaptation
Lau Saili, Policy Analyst: Water – Energy – Climate Change,
International Hydropower Association |
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16.30-17.00 Discussion |
Cost per delegate
(includes lunch and refreshments):
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ICID members (membership no.: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ) |
£45 |
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Student/Non-earning ICID member (membership no.: _ _ ____ _ _ _ _ ) |
£25 |
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Non-members* |
£70 |
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Student non-members* |
£45 |
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Retired |
£35 |
Please contact:
Tim Fuller, British Section of the International Commission on Irrigation and
Drainage (ICID.UK), at the Institution of Civil Engineers, One Great George
Street, London SW1P 3AA ring: 020 7665 2234.
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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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