Our COP26 events
Water and Sustainable Development: Critical Water Infrastructure and Climate Change Impacts
Water and Sustainable Development: Critical Water Infrastructure and Climate Change Impacts
Social Sciences Hub
Date: Monday 04 November 2024
Time: 10:00 - 11:00
Venue: https://youtube.com/live/jTHAnY8_fAE?feature=share
Category: Public lectures, Academic events, Student events, Staff workshops and seminars
Website: www.glasgow.ac.uk/waterwebinars
Water and Sustainable Development: Critical Water Infrastructure and Climate Change Impacts
Our next webinar will be Monday 4 November 2024, at 10.00am (UK Time).
In the pursuit for sustainable development, infrastructure has emerged as an indispensable element due to its pivotal role in fostering socio-economic development and improving quality of life and social inclusion. As climate change induced flood and drought events have increased, water infrastructure vulnerabilities have exacerbated as well as impacts in societies, the environment and cascade failures in all economic sectors.
This webinar will discuss risks, vulnerabilities and failures of water infrastructure and how they are addressed, or should be addressed, in different countries and regions. It will be moderated by Professor Cecilia Tortajada of the School of Social & Environmental Sustainability, University of Glasgow. The panel members will be Joost Buurman, Project director, Resilience Economics, Royal HaskoningDHV, and Adjunct Associate Professor, National University of Singapore, Singapore; Debra Tan, Director and Head, of China Water Risk, Hong Kong; Teodor Popa, Financial Manager, Compania Apa Brasov SA, Romania; and J. Carl Ganter is co-Founder and Director, Circle of Blue.