Browse in : [ Conferences ]

Making Water Knowledge Work - IWE Research Day


Location
Wageningen
Date
September 3, 2010
Duration
All day

The Irrigation and Water Engineering group (IWE) of Wageningen University organizes its yearly research day around the theme 'Making water knowledge work: bridging the natural and social sciences'. In the morning there are four keynote speakers and in the afternoon there's a program with parallel sessions.


Morning key-note speakers:


 


Amita Baviskar


'Contested Grounds: Essays on Nature, Culture, and Power' (2008)


 


Robert Chambers


'Rural Development: Putting the Last First' (1999)


 


Richard Norgaard


'Development Betrayed' (1994)


 


Marten Scheffer


'Critical Transitions in Nature and Society' (2009)


 


Afternoon parallel sessions


 


- Water Knowledge and Democracy;


 


- Water Technology and Design;


 


- Modelling and Water Planning;


 


- Water Justice and Scarcity.


 


Everyone is welcome! Please register at events.iwe@wur.nl.


More information can be found at makingwaterknowledgework.blogspot.com.