Monday 15 April 2024, 13.00-16:30 CEST
Central European University, Vienna, Austria and online
followed by TIAS Annual General Meeting for members 17.00 – 18.00
(Hybrid event – registration requested)
This event is co-hosted by:
The Integrated Assessment Society
Central European University
University of Twente, and
Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)
Collage by Manuela Rosso-Brugnach ©
To mark the occasion of the two decades of our network, The Integrated Assessment Society will hold a half day symposium in Vienna. This TIAS symposium will highlight several applications of integrated assessment from a ‘water’ perspective as well as new dissemination formats for Integrated Assessments with a panel of experts reflecting on both themes.
Moderator: Jan Bakkes, TIAS Vice-president (Retired from PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency)
Programme
13:00 Welcome and Opening
- László Pintér, Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Central European University, and International Institute for Sustainable Development, and TIAS Advisory Board
13:15 Water-related issues as the starting point for integrated assessment
- Lessons from the Geography of Future Water Challenges
Flip Wester, Water, Climate and Adaptation, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (online) - A new assessment framework for adaptation to climate change, from a water perspective
Frans van de Ven, Urban Land & Water Management Team, Deltares, and Associate Professor, Urban Water Management, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Delft University of Technology (online)
14:00 Applying IA for Adaptation to Drought
- Behavioural simulation for more effective water management under uncertainty in water-scarce Spain
Marcela Brugnach, Professor, Basque Centre for Climate Change, and TIAS Vice-president - Backcasting for effective drought management
Tom van der Voorn, Dutch Research Institute for Transitions, Erasmus University Rotterdam
(Author of Backcasting for transformative water management)
14:45 Break
15.15 New dissemination formats of Integrated Assessments for policy makers and practitioners
- Standing out in a Sea of Stories
Karin Schwandt and Roel Stavorinus, Schwandt Information Design and John Venn Agency
15:45 Panel session reflecting on the presentations
Jill Jäger, Independent Scholar and former TIAS board member
Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Professor, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück University, TIAS Advisory Board and former president (online)
Joseph Alcamo, Professor, Environmental Systems Science and Director, Sussex Sustainability Research Programme, University of Sussex
16:30 Closing words
Caroline van Bers, Resilience Programme, University of Twente, and TIAS president
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17.00 – 18.00 CET, TIAS Annual General Meeting – for members (hybrid event)
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Registration closed – a summary and presentations will be made available
If interested in receiving this please contact us at info[at]tias-web[dot]info
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The Integrated Assessment Society
info[at]tias-web[dot]info www.tias-web.info
Marcela Brugnach * Jan Bakkes * László Pintér * Christelle Rocoffort de Vinnière * Caroline van Bers
View our 20th anniversary retrospective
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