VIDEO: Session 5: Wrap-Up: Themes, Cross-Cutting Issues, and Transferable Lessons

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Event Date

6-10-2016

Series

Martz Summer Conference (8th: 2016: Boulder, Colo.)

Description

SESSION FIVE: Wrap-Up: Themes, Cross-Cutting Issues, and Transferable Lessons

1:20 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Panelists (for a facilitated audience Q&A session)

Moderator: Doug Kenney, Getches-Wilkinson Center

Panelists:

John Fleck, University of New Mexico

Kathy Jacobs, University of Arizona

Kelsey Leonard, McMaster University

Rebecca Tharme, Riverfutures Ltd.

Tony McLeod, MDBA, Murray-Darling Basin Authority

Moderator

Doug Kenney

Streaming Media

Comments

Water scarcity is increasingly dominating headlines throughout the world. In the southwestern USA, the looming water shortages on the Colorado River system and the unprecedented drought in California are garnering the greatest attention. Similar stories of scarcity and crisis can be found across the globe, suggesting an opportunity for sharing lessons and innovations. For example, the Colorado River and Australia's Murray-Darling Basin likely can share many lessons, as both systems were over-allocated, feature multiple jurisdictions, face similar climatic risks and drought stresses, and struggle to balance human demands with environmental needs. In this conference we cast our net broadly, exploring several salient topics including: trans-boundary cooperation, water marketing, Indigenous water rights, environmental and social water needs, and drought coping.

This public event will be informed by three invitation-only meetings held immediately before the conference: an “Indigenous Water Justice” symposium; a “Social Dimensions of Environmental Water Management” workshop; and a “Drought Crises in Federations” symposium.

Session 5: Wrap-Up: Themes, Cross-Cutting Issues, and Transferable Lessons.

Alternate Title

Wrap-Up: Themes, Cross-Cutting Issues, and Transferable Lessons

Link to Full Text

Share

COinS