TIAS 20th Anniversary Symposium: Water issues as the starting point of Integrated Assessment, and new dissemination formats

 

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

14:45   Break

15.15  New dissemination formats of Integrated Assessments for policy makers and practitioners

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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For more information contact us:

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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