[CORE RESEARCH AREAS]

Climate and Energy
Freshwater
Land Use and Conservation
Oceans and Estuaries
Sustainable Built Environment
The Impact of Global Change on Water Resource Vulnerability

January 26 - 27, 2009
Yang and Yamazaki Energy and Environment Building, Stanford
Red Atrium, Conference Room 299
Hosted by the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Workshop Agenda

Day 1 will consist of a series of discussions with experts engaged in cutting edge integrative research at both regional and global scales designed to analyze the value of an adaptive platform for open-source integrated global-regional models, the key elements of any such models, and what relevant information is and is not available.. Day 2 will be aimed at eliciting structured feedback on a proposed collaboration to produce such a platform .

We will circulate an outline of a framework for the initiative a few weeks before the workshop to ensure that discussions are focused and useful. We may additionally request each expert to make a brief presentation on his or her area of expertise in the context of the proposed framework

Directions and map to the Woods Institute, Yang & Yamazaki Environment & Energy Building (Y2E2 Building)
Map and Directions

Day 0: Sunday, January 25
Dinner Reception
6:30 pm - 08:30 pm
Reception and dinner at home of Prof. Steven Gorelick. Significant others are welcome.
Venue: 80 Pine Ridge Way, Portola Valley, CA

Bus will leave from Woods Institute at 6 pm, pick up guests from the SLAC Guest House at 6:15 pm and head to Portola Valley.

Click for map and directions

Day 1: Monday, January 26
8:15 am Bagels and Coffee

Bus will leave SLAC guest house at 8:00 am
('The Marguerite' buses leave SLAC every 20 mins starting 7:50 am and stop outside Y2E2. The bus is a free service.)

9:00 am - 9:30 am Brief introduction to Woods Institute, logistics and workshop goals
Session 1
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Defining Water Resources Vulnerability

Moderator: Barton (Buzz) Thompson (Stanford University)
Panelists: Isha Ray (UC Berkeley)
Richard Howitt (UC Davis)

Goal: Gaining consensus on definitions, usefulness, metrics, scales, and challenges in evaluating "vulnerability" in the context of water resources.

COFFEE BREAK

Session 2
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Drivers of water resources vulnerability

Moderator: Steven Gorelick (Stanford University)
Panelists: John Briscoe (Harvard University)
Claudia Ringler (IFPRI)
Eric Lambin (University of Louvain)

Goal: Understanding what is known (and unknown) about key drivers (e.g. population, income, climate, land use/cover, technology, institutions) of water resource vulnerability.

LUNCH

Session 3
02:00 pm - 03:00 pm
Integrated models of water resources vulnerability

Moderator: Scott Rozelle (Stanford University)
Panelists: Claudia Pahl-Wostl (University of Osnabruck )
Jinxia Wang (Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy)

Goal: Summarizing advances and limitations of existing integrated (coupled human-natural system) models of water resources

COFFEE BREAK

Session 4
04:00 pm - 05:00 pm
The sum of the parts

Discussion led by: Eric Lambin (University of Louvain)

Subject: How does one develop a environment/natural resource (e.g. land or water or food etc.) research initiative that is global in scope but regionally-based

05:30 pm - 08:30 pm Cocktails and dinner at Spaltis Restaurant
Bus will leave Y2E2 and drop guests back to Y2E2/ Guest House

Day 2: Tuesday, January 27
8:15 am Bagels and Coffee

Bus will leave SLAC guest house at 8:00 am
('The Marguerite' buses leave SLAC every 20 mins starting 7:50 am and stop outside Y2E2. The bus is a free service.)
Session 5
09:00 am - 10:30 am
Proposed Freshwater Initiative

Presenters:Steven Gorelick, Scott Rozelle (Stanford University)

COFFEE BREAK

Session 6
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Lessons learned and what we are missing

Panelists: Kenneth Arrow (Stanford University)
Perry McCarty (Stanford University)
Michael Hanemann (UC Berkeley)

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Thanks and Next Steps: Buzz Thompson

LUNCH

02:00 pm Marguerite shuttle back to SLAC Guest House
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