November, 2009
The America's Energy Coast Policy Forum
Wednesday, November 04 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Sidney Coffee, America's WETLAND Foundation; Ted Falgout, Port Fourchon, LA; Gerry Galloway, University of Maryland; John Gillen, Texas General Land Office; Garret Graves, Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority; Jody Henneke, Texas General Land Office; Mark Hurley, America's Energy Coast Industry Council & Shell; Tanner Johnson, Office of Senator Mary Landrieu; Ken Koposis; U.S. House of Representatives, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee; Valsin A. Marmillion, America's WETLAND Foundation; R. King Milling, America's WETLAND Foundation; Karla Raettig, National Wildlife Federation; Tina Shumate, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources
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October, 2009
And on the Last Day, Plant a Tree: Photography Exhibition by Prince Hussain Aga Khan
Friday, October 23 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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July, 2009
The International Watersheds Initiative: Implementing a New Paradigm for Transboundary Basins
Thursday, July 23 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Charles Lawson, Secretary, U.S. Section, International Joint Commission; Willem Brakel, Senior Adviser, International Joint Commission
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June, 2009
Climate Change and Water: Challenges and Responses in Australia and California
Monday, June 15 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Jon Barnett, Associate Professor, Department of Resource Management & Geography, University of Melbourne; W. Michael Hanemann, Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley, and Director, Cal Climate Change Center
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May, 2009
Confronting the Crisis of Sustainability and Resource Scarcity
Thursday, May 14 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Hilary Benn, U.K. Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and Member of Parliament
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Land Grab: The Race for the World's Farmland
Tuesday, May 05 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Carl Atkin, Partner and Head of Research, Bidwells Agribusiness; Gary R. Blumenthal, President and CEO, World Perspectives, Inc.; David Hallam, Deputy Director, Trade and Markets Division, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO); Chido Makunike, Agricultural Exporter and Consultant (Senegal); Ruth Meinzen-Dick, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Raul Q. Montemayor, National Manager, Federation of Free Farmers Cooperatives, Inc. (Philippines); and Alexandra Spieldoch, Director, Trade and Global Governance Program, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP)
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Water: A Conversation With Dean Kamen
Monday, May 04 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Dean Kamen, Founder, DEKA Research & Development Corporation
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April, 2009
Asia's Next Challenge: Securing the Region's Water Future
Wednesday, April 22 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Saleem Ali, Brookings Institution's Doha Center; Geoff Dabelko, Environmental Change and Security Program, Wilson Center; Suzanne DiMaggio, Asia Society
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The Challenge for Africa: A Conversation With Wangari Maathai
Monday, April 13 2009, 2:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Wangari Maathai, Founder, Green Belt Movement; Recipient, Nobel Peace Prize (2004)
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March, 2009
From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment (Report Launch)
Tuesday, March 24 2009, 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Andrew Morton, Programme Manager, Disasters and Conflicts Programme, UN Environment Programme; Daniel A. Reifsnyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Bureau of Oceans, Environment, and Science, U.S. Department of State; Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme
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Making the Case for U.S. International Family Planning Assistance (Report Launch)
Tuesday, March 17 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Joseph Speidel, Adjunct Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and Director for Communication, Development and External Relations, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California, San Francisco; Duff Gillespie, Professor, The Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Steven Sinding, Senior Scholar, Guttmacher Institute; Ruth Levine, Vice President for Programs and Operations, Center for Global Development (discussant)
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Protection of the Mediterranean Ecosystem
Wednesday, March 04 2009, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Spyridon Kouvelis, Member of Parliament, Greece, and in charge of the Environment Sector, Policy Coordination Body, PanHellenic Socialist Movement
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February, 2009
Climate Security Roundtable: U.S. and EU Research and Policy
Thursday, February 19 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sharon Burke, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security; Nick Mabey, Founding Director and Chief Executive, E3G; Clionadh Raleigh, Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin
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Temperatures Rising: Climate Change, Water and the Himalayas
Thursday, February 12 2009, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Isabel Hilton, chinadialogue; Kenneth Hewitt, Wilfrid Laurier University, Cold Regions Research Centre; Katherine Morton, The Australian National University
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The Future of Science and Environmental Journalism
Thursday, February 12 2009, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Peter Dykstra, Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar; Former Executive Producer, CNN (Science, Technology, Environment and Weather); Seth Borenstein, Science Writer, Associated Press; Jan Schaffer, Executive Director, Pew Center for Civic Journalism; Elizabeth Shogren, Environment Correspondent, National Public Radio
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The World's Water 2008-2009: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources (Report Launch)
Wednesday, February 04 2009, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Peter Gleick, President, Pacific Institute
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January, 2009
Water Abundance in Canada and the United States: Myth or Reality?
Monday, January 26 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
David B. Brooks, Senior Advisor on Fresh Water, Friends of the Earth, Canada; G. Tracy Mehan III
former Assistant Administrator for Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and environmental consultant, The Cadmus Group, Inc.; Benjamin H. Grumbles, former Assistant Administrator,
Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency (moderator)
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November, 2008
Running on Empty: Pakistan's Water Crisis
Thursday, November 20 2008, 8:45 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Samia Altaf, Woodrow Wilson Center Pakistan Scholar; Kaiser Bengali, National Coordinator, Benazir Income Support Programme, Government of Pakistan; Anita Chaudhry, Assistant Professor of Economics, California State University, Chico; Adrien Couton, Water Portfolio Manager, Acumen Fund; Sarah J. Halvorson, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Montana; Simi Sadaf Kamal, Chairperson, Hisaar Foundation (Pakistan); Feisal Khan, Assistant Professor of Economics, Hobart and William Smith Colleges; James L. Wescoat Jr., Aga Khan Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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September, 2008
Governance of Marine Ecosystem-Based Management: A Comparative Analysis
Monday, September 29 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Nygiel B. Armada, Fisheries Management Advisor, Fisheries Improved for Sustainable Harvests (FISH) Project, Tetra Tech; Patrick Christie, Assistant Professor, School of Marine Affairs and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington; Robin Mahon, Professor of Marine Affairs and Director of the Centre for Resource Management and Environmental Studies (CERMES), University of the West Indies, Barbados; Alan White, Senior Scientist, Global Marine Initiative, The Nature Conservancy
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July, 2008
Washington, DC, Launch of Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment
Tuesday, July 01 2008, 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Achim Steiner, Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP); Daniel Reifsnyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State; Hennie du Toit, Counsellor of Political Affairs, Embassy of the Republic of South Africa, Washington, DC; Ashbindu Singh, Regional Coordinator, Early Warning and Assessment, UNEP Regional Office for North America (RONA)
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May, 2008
Troubled Waters: Anticipating, Preventing, and Resolving Conflict Around Fisheries
Thursday, May 15 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Richard Pollnac, Professor of Anthropology and Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island; Charles Barber, Environmental Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development
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Trans-Boundary Environmental Governance in Canada and the United States (Part Two)
Friday, May 09 2008, 8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Carolyn Johns, Ryerson University; William Lowry, Washington University; Marc Gaden , Great Lakes Fishery Commission; Deborah L. VanNijnatten, Wilfrid Laurier University; Donald K. Alper, Western Washington University; Philippe LePrestre, Université Laval; Ian Rowlands, University of Waterloo; Barry Rabe, University of Michigan; Michael Kraft, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
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Trans-Boundary Environmental Governance in Canada and the United States (Part One)
Thursday, May 08 2008, 2:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Stephen Brooks, University of Windsor; B. Timothy Heinmiller, Brock University; Mark Sproule-Jones, McMaster University; Michael Kraft, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
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April, 2008
POSTPONED Troubled Waters: Anticipating, Preventing, and Resolving Conflict Around Fisheries
Tuesday, April 01 2008, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Richard Pollnac, Professor of Anthropology and Marine Affairs, University of Rhode Island; Chip Barber, Environmental Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development
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March, 2008
Future Shock: How Environmental Change and Human Impact Are Changing the Global Map
Tuesday, March 04 2008, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Peter Liotta, Executive Director, Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy, Salve Regina University; Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Director, Environmental Change and Security Program; Coordinator, Global Health Initiative, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; David Smith, Team Leader, UNDP-UNEP Poverty and Environment Initiative, Division of Regional Co-operation, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya; Kent Butts, Director, National Security Issues Group, Center for Strategic Leadership, U.S. Army War College
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December, 2007
The Convergence of Science and Engineering for Sustaining Coastal Landscapes – Case Study: Louisiana’s Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast
Wednesday, December 05 2007, 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Dr. Donald Boesch, Professor, Marine Science & President, Center for Environmental Science, University of Maryland, Cambridge, MD; Sidney Coffee, Chair, Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority &
Executive Assistant to Governor for Coastal Activities, Baton Rouge, LA; R. King Milling, Vice Chairman, Whitney National Bank and Whitney Holding Corporation &
Chairman, America’s WETLAND Foundation, New Orleans, LA; Dr. Robert Twilley, Professor, Department of Oceanography and Coastal Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
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October, 2007
Photography Exhibit and Reception: "Water Stories: A Focus on Mexico"
Thursday, October 11 2007, 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
J. Carl Ganter, Director, Circle of Blue; Brent Stirton, Photographer, Getty Images
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September, 2007
Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor: Case Studies
The Orangi Pilot Project in Karachi, Pakistan;
Density & Urban Form in Dakar, Senegal
Friday, September 07 2007, 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Arif Hasan, Advisor, Orangi Pilot Project and founder chairman, Urban Resource Centre, Karachi;
Michael Cohen, Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Graduate Program in International Affairs, The New School University, New York; Richard Stren (Moderator), Emeritus Professor & Associate, Center for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto
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Special Briefing for the UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board
on Water Supply and Sanitation
Tuesday, May 08 2007, 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
HRH The Prince of Orange, Chairman, UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Water Supply and Sanitation; Judah Ariel, Senior Legislative Assistant, Office of U.S. Representative Earl Blumenauer; Gordon Binder, Senior Fellow, World Wildlife Fund; Geoff Dabelko, Director, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; David Douglas, President, Water Advocates; René van Hell, Minister (Economics), Royal Netherlands Embassy; Kenzo Hiroki, Interregional Adviser, Division for Sustainable Development, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs; Karl Hoffman, President, Population Services International; Laura Keating, Research Associate, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Karin Krchnak, Director, International Water Policy, The Nature Conservancy;
Koos Wieriks, Policy Adviser to the Prince of Orange
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April, 2007
Confronting Fishing Overcapacity and Other Long-Overdue Reforms
Thursday, April 26 2007, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Annie Jarrett, Executive Officer, Northern Prawn Fishery Management Advisory Committee (NORMAC) and Managing Director, Pro-Fish Pty Ltd.; James Sanchirico, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; Tundi Agardy, Executive Director, Sound Seas
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Implementation of the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005
Monday, April 23 2007, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Claudia McMurray, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Daniel A. Reifsnyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Panelists TBA
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Saltwater Neighbors: The Law and Politics of the Canada-U.S. Ocean Relationship
Tuesday, April 10 2007, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Ted L. McDorman, Professor of Law, University of Victoria and Fulbright-Woodrow Wilson Center Visiting Research Chair in Canada-United States Relations
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Creating the Enabling Environment for Effective Fisheries Enforcement
Tuesday, April 10 2007, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Tom Grasso, Director, International Fisheries Conservation Program, World Wildlife Fund; Kieran Kelleher, Senior Fisheries Specialist, World Bank; Rebecca Lent, Director of International Affairs, National Marine Fisheries Services, NOAA
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March, 2007
Maquilapolis: City of Factories--Environmental Film Festival Screening and Discussion
Tuesday, March 20 2007, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Gib Clarke, Program Associate, Environmental Change and Security Program, Woodrow Wilson Center; Andrew Selee, Director, Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center; Margrete Strand Rangnes, Senior Representative, Sierra Club Responsible Trade Program
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Climate-Security Connections: An Empirical Approach to Risk Assessment
Tuesday, March 06 2007, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Charles Vörösmarty, Professor, Water Systems Analysis Group, University of New Hampshire; Marc Levy, Associate Director, Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University; Nils Petter Gleditsch, Working Group Leader, Center for the Study of Civil War, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), and Editor, Journal of Peace Research
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February, 2007
High-Tech Tools for Water Resources
Friday, February 23 2007, 9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
One of the most promising areas to apply new sensing technology is in water resources. On February 23, 2007, the Foresight & Governance Project released a new report, Distributed Sensing Systems for Water Quality Assessment and Management, with three of the authors:
Deborah Estrin, Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) and Professor of Computer Science, UCLA; Thomas C. Harmon, Professor of Environmental Engineering, UC Merced; Jeffrey Goldman, Director of Program Development, CENS, UCLA; and moderator Robert Olson, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Alternative Futures.
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Globalized Trade and the Macroeconomics of Capture Fisheries
Thursday, February 22 2007, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Rashid Sumaila, Associate Professor and Director of the Fisheries Economics Research Unit, University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre; David Schorr, Senior Fellow, World Wildlife Fund, and Independent Consultant; Karen Sack, Oceans Policy Adviser, Greenpeace USA
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January, 2007
Growing Demand and Local Communities: The Socio-Economics of Capture Fisheries
Thursday, January 25 2007, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Kitty Courtney, Marine Environmental Scientist, Tetra Tech EM, Inc.; Marea Hatziolos, Senior Coastal and Marine Specialist, World Bank
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Water and Sanitation Services for the Urban Poor
Tuesday, January 23 2007, 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Gordon McGranahan, Head, Human Settlements Group, International Institute for Environment and Development; Allen Eisendrath, Senior Infrastructure Finance Specialist, Office of Infrastructure and Engineering, USAID
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December, 2006
Managing Freshwater Inflows to Estuaries
Thursday, December 07 2006, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Brian Richter, Director, Sustainable Waters Program, The Nature Conservancy; Stephen Olsen, Director, Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island; Richard Volk, Coastal and Aquatic Resources Adviser, Water Team, U.S. Agency for International Development
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November, 2006
Author Event--The World's Water 2006-2007
Thursday, November 16 2006, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Peter Gleick, author of The World's Water 2006-2007; President and Co-Founder, Pacific Institute
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September, 2006
Fishing for a Secure Future: Opportunities for Reforming Fisheries Governance
Wednesday, September 13 2006, 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Patrick Christie, Assistant Professor, School of Marine Affairs and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington; and Robert Pomeroy, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Connecticut
with an introduction by Jacqueline Schafer, Assistant Administrator, Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, USAID
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June, 2006
Documentary Film Screening of China's Sorrow - Earth's Hope
Tuesday, June 27 2006, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Featuring documentary’s director John Liu of the Environmental Education Media Project
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Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building
Thursday, June 15 2006, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Ken Conca, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland; and Ashok Swain, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, Sweden
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May, 2006
Understanding the Global Water Crisis: Insights from the GECHS Network
Wednesday, May 24 2006, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Ken Conca, Professor, University of Maryland; Patricia Kameri-Mbote, Chair, Department of Private Law, University of Nairobi; Lyla Mehta, Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, England
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Rehabilitating the Jordan River Valley Through Cross-Border Community Cooperation
Monday, May 08 2006, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Presentation by EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East and panel discussion with Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli mayors
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April, 2006
Strengthening Watershed Management in Southwest China
Friday, April 28 2006, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
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Briefing on the Humanitarian Impact of Drought in the Horn of Africa
Thursday, April 13 2006, 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
A special briefing on recent developments in the humanitarian crisis caused by the ongoing drought and famine in the Horn of Africa with Hany Abdel Gawad El Banna and Seyed Rizwan Mowlana of Islamic Relief.
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February, 2006
Water for the Next 100 Years (AUDIO)
Tuesday, February 28 2006, 1:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.
Presented by the Wilson Center, WSU-UW Policy Consensus Center, and Water Center at the University of Washington
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Next Steps for The Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act
Tuesday, February 14 2006, 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
The Honorable Earl Blumenauer, United States Representative, 3rd District of Oregon
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December, 2005
Live Webcast: Urbanization and Health in Developing World Cities
Friday, December 02 2005, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Video for this event is now available. Trudy Harpham, Professor of Urban Development and Policy at London South Bank University and Victor Barbiero, Chief, Implementation Support Division, USAID Office of HIV/AIDS.
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November, 2005
Conservation and Development: Lessons from Costa Rica
Thursday, November 17 2005, 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Carlos Manuel Rodriguez, Minister of Environment and Energy, Costa Rica
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October, 2005
Drought and Conflict in the West African Sahel: Developing Conflict Management Strategies
Tuesday, October 18 2005, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Anthony Nyong, Director, Centre for Environmental Resources and Hazards Research, University of Jos, Nigeria;
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Jos
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After the Storm: Environment and Population Issues in Gulf Coast Reconstruction and Global Implications for Coastal Development
Wednesday, October 05 2005, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Robert A. Thomas, Director, Center for Environmental Communication, Loyola University, New Orleans
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June, 2005
One Planet, Many People: Atlas of Our Changing Environment
Wednesday, June 15 2005, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
John Turner, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of State; Steve Lonergan, Director UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment; Brennan VanDyke, Director, UNEP Regional Office for North America; Ashbindu Singh, Regional Coordinator, UNEP Division of Early Warning and Assessment-North America; John R. Townshend, Professor and Chairman, Department of Geography, University of Maryland; James A. Sturdevant, Deputy Director, USGS National Center for Earth Resources Observation and Science; Jay W. Feuquay, Coordinator, Land Remote Sensing Program, USGS; Woody Turner, Program Scientist, NASA Headquarters, Office of Earth Science
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April, 2005
New Orleans: Successful Models of Consensus Building in Coastal Restoration
Thursday, April 14 2005, 8:30 a.m - 11:00 a.m.
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March, 2005
Film: Thirst
Tuesday, March 15 2005
This film documents community efforts in Bolivia, India, and the United States to confront government plans to privatize water services.
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Film: Thirsty Planet
Thursday, March 10 2005
The first two episodes of the six-part series, Thirsty Planet, examine the world's water crisis.
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From Environmental Security to Environmental Peacemaking
Wednesday, March 02 2005
Ken Conca, University of Maryland; Geoffrey Dabelko, Environmental Change and Security Project; Gregory Foster, National Defense University; and Hilary French, Worldwatch Institute
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February, 2005
Film Premiere: Running Dry
Thursday, February 24 2005
Introduced by James Thebaut, Writer, Producer and Director, Running Dry; Jeremy Pelczer, President & CEO, American Water; Jane Seymour, Narrator of Running Dry; Patricia Simon, Widow of U.S. Senator Paul Simon
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January, 2005
10th Anniversary Open House and ECSP Report Launch
Tuesday, January 25 2005, 4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
With Remarks by Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Director, Environmental Change and Security Project
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November, 2004
The World's Water: The Biennial Report on Freshwater Resources
Wednesday, November 17 2004
Featuring: Peter Gleick President, Pacific Institute for Studies in Development, Environment, and Security.
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September, 2004
Decision Time: Water Diversion Policy in the Great Lakes Basin
Tuesday, September 14 2004, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The Canada Institute launched the first publication in its new One Issue, Two Voices series, aimed at exploring important bilateral issues from the perspective of experts and practitioners on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border. The inaugural publication features essays by Ralph Pentland and Jim Olson on water diversion policy in the Great Lakes Basin. The authors discussed bilateral complexities of the Annex 2001 Agreement and took questions from audiences in Ann Arbor, Michigan and Toronto, Ontario via video link. To read the publication click here.
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June, 2004
International Waters Funding Dialogue
Wednesday, June 09 2004
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Water Conflict and Cooperation: Looking Over the Horizon
Thursday, June 03 2004
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May, 2004
Live Webcast/Book Launch:The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future
Tuesday, May 11 2004, 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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March, 2004
Film: The Yunnan Great Rivers Expedition
Friday, March 26 2004, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Kayakers tackle the spectacular Yunnan gorges, with filmmaker Ed Norton from The Nature Conservancy and Matthew J. Yost from Idaho Rivers United.
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Film: Drowned Out
Thursday, March 25 2004, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
A village in India fights the construction of a giant dam that threatens to flood it. Discussants: ECSP Director Geoffrey Dabelko and Professor Ken Conca from the University of Maryland.
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September, 2003
Book Launch Rivers of Life: Managing Water for People and Nature
Wednesday, September 03 2003, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
With authors Sandra Postel of Global Water Policy Project and
Brian Richter of The Nature Conservancy
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June, 2003
Harnessing the Waters: Nature Conquest in China's Past and Present
Friday, June 27 2003, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
with Deirdre Chetham, Harvard University Asia Center and Judith Shapiro, American University
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Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Freshwaters
Tuesday, June 10 2003, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Featuring Robert Glennon, Morris K. Udall Professor of Law and Public Policy, University of Arizona
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How to Move the Global Water Agenda Forward: A Look at Agriculture, Health and Economics
Monday, June 09 2003, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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March, 2003
Running Dry: Kyoto Premiere of a New Video on Middle East Water Cooperation and Conflict
Wednesday, March 19 2003
Featuring Aaron Wolf, Oregon State University; Fida Hajeer, Friends of the Earth Middle East (Amman); Anthony Turton, University of Pretoria; Jim Thebaut, director, writer and producer, Running Dry; Geoffrey D. Dabelko, Environmental Change and Security Project (moderator)
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The State of the Water Crisis in Israel and The Palestinian Authority: Integrating Science and Policy
Tuesday, March 04 2003
Featuring Avner Vengosh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and Erika Weinthal, Tel Aviv University
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February, 2003
Water from Johannesburg to Kyoto and Beyond: A Workshop on the Kyoto Third World Water Forum
Wednesday, February 12 2003
Featuring Mutsuyoshi Nishimura, Ambassador for Global Environment, Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Anthony F. "Bud" Rock, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State
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January, 2003
Good Water Makes Good Neighbors:
A Middle East Pilot Project in Conflict Resolution
Wednesday, January 22 2003
Featuring Gidon Bromberg, Israeli Director, Friends of the Earth Middle East,and Abdel-Rahman Sultan, Director, Washington Office, Friends of the Earth Middle East
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November, 2002
Water for Peace—Water for All
Monday, November 18 2002
His Excellency Mikhail S. Gorbachev, former President of the Soviet Union and current President of Green Cross International.
This event was co-sponsored by Global Green USA and Green Cross International.
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July, 2002
The World's Water: Crisis and Opportunity in the New Century
Tuesday, July 23 2002
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June, 2002
Hazardous Waste Challenges in Greater China
Wednesday, June 26 2002
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December, 2001
The Road to Johannesburg: Setting the Agenda for the World Summit on
Sustainable Development
Tuesday, December 04 2001
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March, 2000
Land, Water, People -- Conflict?
Wednesday, March 22 2000
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February, 2000
Water and Population Dynamics: Case Studies and Policy Implications
Thursday, February 17 2000, 1:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.
Alexander de Sherbinin, Research Associate, Columbia’s Center for International Earth Science Information Network CIESIN; Victoria Dompka Markham, Executive Director, Center for Environment and Population (CEP)
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