SAVE THE DATE: VIULectures | Transboundary Water Management

Monday 22^nd March, 2021 @ 4pm (CET)

Online Zoom event. Registration required.

The theme for World Water Day 2021 is valuing water. As water means different things to different people, it creates conflict among stakeholders. In this context, Prof. Susskind will deliver a lecture on public engagement in transboundary water management and the Water Diplomacy Framework.

Dr. Gain will speak about enabling transboundary cooperation through water diplomacy. He will summarize the empirical investigation in the Ganges-Brahmaputra river basin.

Prof. Giupponi will then introduce the MCGF project Social-ECological Interdependencies in TransboundarY water resources systems (SECurITY) and moderate the meeting.

Programme:

• Welcome and Introduction – Carlo Giupponi, Professor of Economics at Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Dean at VIU
• Public engagement in transboundary water management – Lawrence Susskind, Director of the MIT Science Impact Collaborative and Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Negotiations Program
• Transboundary water management: Brahmaputra river basin – Animesh Gain, Marie Curie Global Fellow at MIT & Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
• Conclusion – Carlo Giupponi & Animesh Gain

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Date: 18 March 2021