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Submit abstracts by 15 December
2017
Dear Dr. Kassam,
The 1st International
Conference on Water Security will be held in Toronto, Canada
from 17-20 June 2018.
This conference will allow academics, thinkers and practitioners from
around the world to present, discuss and highlight the key issues and
directions from a scientific perspective, including data needs, and how
data can be acquired, successful public and private sector business models
in different settings, and what the knowledge gaps are. The conference
provides a forum for in-person meetings to complement the journal Water
Security, which focuses on review and synthesis articles
covering the field.
Oral, poster and workshop abstracts are invited on the following
conference topics and should be submitted using the online abstract
submission system.
Topics:
- Regional themes: an integrated assessment of threats to and progress
towards water security in key regions (possible regions: High Mountain -
Andes, Himalaya-Hindukush, Central Asia, Tibet, Alps & Rocky Mountains;
S. Asia; SE. & E. Asia; Africa; Island States; Latin and Central
America)
- Institutions, infrastructure, economics and water governance as
vehicles to achieve water security
- The science of integrated water management (smart watersheds, water
services, environmental flows, legacies, collaborative governance,
BMPs)
- Climate, renewable energy, economic development and demographic change:
challenges or opportunities for regional water security
- "One Water" as a pathway to urban water security: can the Singapore
experience be scaled globally?
- Technological innovation and big data for water security: emerging
directions and prospects
- Indigenous knowledge systems and perspectives in water security
Accepted submissions will supplement presentations from our invited
speakers. In addition, we plan to have workshops to further promote
scientific interaction. Attendance will be limited for the workshops
(places on each workshop are available on a first-come, first-served basis
and attendees must be registered for the conference prior to booking their
place), so that we can nurture effective participation with the goal of
ending up with tangible ideas to synthesize and report at the end of the
meeting. These ideas will be circulated broadly through the journal as
well.
We welcome your participation and hope you will contribute to the
programme. Conference Chairs
Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, USA;
Editor-in-Chief, Water Security Philippe Van
Cappellen, University of Waterloo, Canada
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