04: World Water Resources and Human Well-Being at Risk – Trends, Data and Governance
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Hauptschule
Seminar
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in englischer SpracheMillions of people have survived without love but no one has done so without water. The seminar will explore the unique qualities of water and underline its significance for life, health, food and the environment. Challenges increase in an era of where we encounter “new normals”. Climate change means water change bringing increasing uncertainties and risks to human health, to livelihoods, to food production, and to the environment. Significant changes in terms of demography and lifestyles amplify these challenges.
This seminar will present the scale and dynamics of the problems as well as explore scientific and governmental approaches for dealing with them.
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Dr. Rita Rossi COLWELL
Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, MA
| 1965-1973 | Associate Professor, Georgetown University, Washington DC |
| 1973-1998 | Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland |
| 1998-2004 | Director National Science Foundation Arlington, VA |
| since 2004 | Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland |
| Distinguished University Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland |
Jan LUNDQVIST
Professor, SIWI Stockholm International Water Institute, Stockholm
| 1973-1979 | Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, Univeristy of Bergen |
| 1980 | Professor, University of Oslo |
| 1980-2009 | Professor, University of Linköping |
| 2009 | Senior Scientific Advisor, Stockholm International Water Institute, Stockholm |
| since 1980 | A number of short term assignments as expert/consultant for national and international organizations and corporations |
