Vienna Catchment Science Symposium 2013
Theme: Socio-hydrology – a new science of people and water
4th Symposium | 13th April, 2013
© Peter Haas
Socio-hydrology, a new science of people and water, is concerned with understanding the two-way coupling of dynamic human and water systems.
The aim of this symposium was to understand the nature of possible traces of the time evolution and the interactions between the system components.
Programme
Time | Sessions | Location |
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08:30 | Tea, coffee, pastries and greetings | Foyer 3rd floor |
08:45 | Welcome and Introduction Günter Blöschl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria | Kuppelsaal |
09:00 | Assessing Freshwater Vulnerability and Evaluating Policies for Sustainability: A Coupled Human-Water Systems Approach Steven M. Gorelick, Stanford University, United States | Kuppelsaal |
10:00 | Tea and coffee | Foyer 3rd floor |
10:30 | Man as a hydro-geomorphological agent: modelling pathways and shifts in evolving catchment response Rens van Beek, Utrecht University, Netherlands | Kuppelsaal |
11:30 | Short break | |
11:35 | Floodplain Systems: Putting Humans into the Equations Giuliano Di Baldassarre, UNESCO-IHE, Netherland | Kuppelsaal |
12:35 | Lunch | Foyer 3rd Floor |
13:30 | Dynamic interaction of renewable resources, economic growth and population Alexia Fürnkranz-Prskawetz, Vienna University of Technology, Austria | Kuppelsaal |
14:30 | Socio-hydrologic patterns, feedbacks and trajectories in coupled human-water systems Veena Srinivasan, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, India | Kuppelsaal |
Small Group Discussion Sessions Group 1: Water, ecology and human feedbacks Brainstorming interactions and feedbacks between water, ecology and humans Aim: to identify interactions, feedbacks and interplays Moderator: Veena Srinivasan | Kuppelsaal | |
Group 2: Tackling socio-hydrology Brainstorming how data collection and models need to be adapted and developed to address socio-hydrology Aim: to create a strategy for putting the socio into hydrology Moderator: Rens van Beek | Seminar room 222 | |
Group 3: Settings of socio-hydrology Brainstorming settings for comparative analysis of socio-hydrology Aim: to develop a conceptual framework for research in socio-hydrology Moderator: Giuliano Di Baldassarre | Seminar room Kuppelsaal | |
15:30 | Tea and coffee | Foyer 3rd floor |
17:00 | Plenary: Exchange of group findings | Kuppelsaal |
18:30 | Evening drinks reception followed by dinner | Foyer 3rd floor |