2016 World Water Week programme

Room: FH 307
Room: FH 202
Impacts of droughts and floods in cities: Policies and governance
Convenors: Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and National University of Singapore
The session will discuss urban resilience and the impacts of extreme events such as droughts and floods at the global level. Case studies will
focus on preparedness, policy responses, roles of institutions (formal and informal), governance perspectives and practices, infrastructure development,
overall investments and science and technology.
16:00 Welcome
Prof Eduardo Araral, Lee Kuan
Yew School of Public Policy,
National University of Singapore
Panel session
Chair: Dr Cecilia Tortajada,
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public
Policy, National University of
Singapore
Panelists:
Dr Olli Varis, Aalto University,
Finland
Dr Kimio Takeya, JICA, Japan
Dr Scott Moore, World Bank
Dr Nuanchan Singkran, Faculty
of Environment and Resource
Studies, Mahidol University,
Thailand
Panel session
Chair: Dr Aziza Akhmouch, The
Organisation for Economic Cooperation
and Development
Panelists:
Dr Marleen van Rijswick,
Utrecht Centre for Water,
Oceans and Sustainability Law,
Utrecht University, The
Netherlands
Dr D. Parthasarathy, Indian
Institute of Technology Bombay
Dr Hans Nicolai Adam,
Norwegian University of Life
Bashir Jillo, Isiolo County
Government, Kenya
Dr Caroline King-Okumu,
International Institute for
Environment and Development
Maintaining healthy watersheds: Improving governance of
ecosystems management for sustainability
Ka Leung Lam, University of
Queensland, Australia
Dr James Horne, College of Asia
and the Pacific, Australian
National University
Closing statements
Dr Cecilia Tortajada,
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public
Policy, National University of
Singapore
17:30 Close of event
Convenors: Conservation International, IUCN, IWMI, Luc Hoffman Institute - WWF, UNEP-DHI and WWF
The event brings together researchers and practitioners interested in mainstreaming ecosystem health in water governance. Panelists will
highlight challenges in translating theory into practice, and decision-support tools such as indicators. Roundtable discussions will address
themes raised during the panel and inform a white paper on water governance and ecosystem health.
16:00 Welcome and overview of
challenges in ecosystembased
watershed management
Brian Richter, The Nature
Conservancy
16:10 Moderated panel introducing
perspectives from applied
research and practice
Rebecca Welling, IUCN
Naomi Oates, Overseas
Development Institute
Derek Vollmer, Conservation
International
Sarah Freeman, WWF
Maija Bertule, UNEP-DHI
Partnership
16:30 Roundtable discussions to
expand on themes introduced
by the panelists. Breakout
groups will focus on one of the
following themes for
discussion:
• The importance of healthy
watersheds in ensuring
sustainable growth and the
challenges in ecosystem-based
integrated management
• Providing targeted information
to decision-makers for better
decision-making and target
goal setting
• The interplay between the
various levels of governance
structures – local to national
to transboundary – in the
context of freshwater
ecosystem management and
sustainable growth
17:10 Report back, led by a
moderator
17:30 Close of event
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