2016 World Water Week programme

Tuesday | 30 August | 09:00-10:30
Seminar: Ecosystem degradation and livelihoods: Moving from vicious to
virtuous cycles
Convenors: ICIMOD, SIWI, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, WRC and We Effect
This seminar will discuss the conundrum of economic growth and water’s role in healthy ecosystems for mitigating poverty and achieving
the new SDG-targets. Perspectives from a range of ecosystems from source to sea will be discussed, along with innovative solutions
involving civil society, as well as public and/or private sectors.
Room: NL 357
Endangered ecosystems: Perspectives
from Source to Sea
09:00 Introduction
Dr Jakob Lundberg, We Effect
09:05: Keynote speaker (tbc)
09:15 Welcome
Anna Jöborn, SwAM
09:20 Ecosystems under threat:
Impacts for livelihood, security
and growth
Dr David Molden, Director
General, ICIMOD
09:30 Ecosystem Degradation Cycle
in the Himalayan Foothills of
Jammu, India
Dr Vikas Sharma, Kashmir
University of Agricultural
Sciences and Technology of
Jammu
09:35 Groundwater sustainability:
Narrowing the gap between
science, policy and society
Yolanda Lopez-Maldonado,
Ludwig Maximilian University of
Munich
09:40 Social-ecological deltas and
green infrastructure: lessons
from the Paraná and Dutch
delta
Martijn van Staveren,
Wageningen University
Johanna Hedlund, Tengbom
Architects
09:45 Barriers to integrated
watershed and coastal
management: case study in Vu
Gia – Thu Bon River Basin,
Central of Viet Nam
Bui Thi Thu Hien, IUCN
10:55 Interactive session
Moderator: Anna Jöborn, SwAM
10:25 Summary and wrap-up
Anna Jöborn, SwAM
10:30 Close of seminar
Eye on Asia: Securing Asia’s water future: The Asian Water Development
Outlook 2016
Convenors: Asia Pacific Center for Water Security, Asian Development Bank, International Water Management
Institute, REACH/Oxford University and WWF
A summary of Asian Water Development Outlook 2016 findings under five key dimensions of water security – household water security,
economic water security, urban water security, environmental water security and resilience will be presented. Related Approaches and
studies will be presented. Policy implications and key messages will be discussed.
Room: FH 202
09:00 Welcome
Yasmin Siddiqi, ADB
09:05 Launching of AWDO 2016
Bambang Susanto, ADB
09:15 Water babble – A discussion on
managing water security in a
changing Asia
Facilitator: Ravi Narayanan, Chair
Asia Pacific Water Forum
Panelists:
Mark Pascoe, International Water
Center
Representative from
International Water Management
Institute
Dr Fu Sun, Asia Pacific Center for
Water Security, Tshinghua
University
Eelco van Beek, GWP
09:30 Introduction of alternative
approaches to assess water
security
Yasmin Siddiqi, ADB
Alternative approaches to
water security assessment
09:35 Dr Katrina Charles, University of
Oxford (tbc)
09:42 Stuart Orr, WWF (tbc)
09:49 Aziza Akhmouch, OECD (tbc)
09:56 Simon Langan, IIASA
10:03 Government of People’s Republic
of China
10:10 Panel discussion
Moderator: Ravi Narayanan,
APWF Governing Council
Panelists: REACH, WWF, OECD,
IIASA
10:25 Summary and wrap-up
Ravi Narayanan, APWF
Governing Council
#AWDO #Eyeonasia
56 2016 World Water Week: Water for sustainable growth