Fwd: Invitation for the International Expert Workshop on “Towards Urban Water Security in Southeast Asia: Managing the Risk of Extreme Events” (19-20 Nov, 2015 @ Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

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From: Sangam Shrestha <sangams...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 5:04 PM
Subject: Fwd: Invitation for the International Expert Workshop on “Towards Urban Water Security in Southeast Asia: Managing the Risk of Extreme Events” (19-20 Nov, 2015 @ Phnom Penh, Cambodia)
To: Vishnu Pandey <vishnu...@gmail.com>

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Southeast Asia is steadily urbanizing. Growing urbanization brings number of challenges, which are all threatening urban and water security by imposing significant strains on urban and water systems and other resources. Ongoing variability and change in climate, corresponding increase in magnitude and frequency of extreme events, and associated governance challenges are contributing to urban water insecurity in many ways, and therefore have implications for urban sustainability. As water is at the heart of energy, food and ecosystem – the key resources to support urban habitants and their health – extreme events also threats to sustainable utilization of those resources. Under such pressures, adequate strategies and measures, including climate change and adaptation, are required to characterize and manage risks of extreme events on urban water, energy, food and ecosystem. 

Sustainable solutions to these challenges should maximize opportunities for optimizing water use efficiency, harnessing the knowledge of current and future state of water resources, generating resources from urban waste, and pooling available resources by working collaboratively and coordinately. To learn from current practices and prepare for the future urban centers, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in collaboration with Institute of Technology Cambodia (ITC), Cambodia, is organizing a two-day international expert workshop in Phnom Penh, Cambodia under the theme “Towards Urban Water Security in Southeast Asia: Managing the Risk of Extreme Events”. It provides a platform to share research and better practices for managing risks of extreme events to urban water security among academia, research scholars, professionals, practitioners and government authorities in Southeast Asia and beyond. 

With the announcement attached with this email and key information copied hereunder, we would like to request you to attend the workshop and circulate this announcement through your good network.

Thanking you very much.

Sincerely Yours,

Sangam

Organizing Committee

(Dr. Anil Kumar Anal, AIT; Dr. Sangam Shrestha, AIT; Dr. P Abdul Salam, AIT; Dr. Thavarith Chunhieng, ITC)

Key Information about the Workshop:

KEY DATES

• Submission of expression of interest and abstract: 7 July, 2015

• Notification of acceptance: 15 July, 2015

• Submission of full paper: 15 October, 2015

• Workshop: 19-20 November, 2015

THEMES

• Characterizing urban water security and complexities

• Urban water systems and services - risks and opportunities

• Interlink of urban water to energy, food, health and ecosystem

• Extreme events and urban vulnerability

• Responding to urban water insecurity

• Role of communities in risk management

SUBMISSION OF EXPRESSION OF INTEREST & ABSTRACT

• Please fill the online form available at: http://goo.gl/forms/MLFnqB5BMr

FUNDING SUPPORT

• Financial supports are available for limited number of outstanding papers and it covers travel cost, accommodation and registration.

CONTACT

• Dr. Vishnu Prasad Pandey (Email: vis...@ait.asia) 

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

The workshop is organized by AIT as one of the activities under the project SEA-EU-NET II. The project aims to strengthen bi-regional EU-ASEAN Science and Technology Cooperation through coordination and support actions targeted towards the three major societal challenges, namely; Water Management; Health; Food Security and Safety. AIT is leading a component of ‘Water Management’ with an objective to create network of different stakeholders in order to strengthen the research capacity and to build a platform towards the better system in managing water resources and to respond specifically towards different stakeholder.

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Dr. Sangam Shrestha
Associate Professor

Water Engineering and Management (WEM)
School of Engineering and Technology (SET)
Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)
P. O. Box 4 Klong Luang
Pathumthani 12120
Thailand

E-mail: san...@ait.ac.th  Home Page: http://www.ait.ac.th
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