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SUMMARY:IES Training - Making a splash: Learn how to engage with water policy
DESCRIPTION:This training session will give participants the skills they need to become more aware about policy and to engage effectively in the complex environmental policy landscape. Focusing on water policy\, this session will give participants a grounding in policy and techniques to influence decision-making\, as well as the context to understand how policy decisions shape their work and the wider water sector. \nThis training will be suitable for environmental professionals working (or seeking to engage) in the water sector who are interested in policy and becoming more aware or more influential. All levels of experience and familiarity with policy are welcome. \nIf you have not worked with policy before\, this training will give you a solid background in how policy works and how it affects the sector. For those who are more experienced\, you will gain new ways to influence policy and measure your success. All participants will also have the opportunity to engage in peer-to-peer learning to troubleshoot challenges and opportunities in water policy. \nCost\n£45 for members\n£90 for non members \nView full agenda \n\nJoseph Lewis\, Policy Lead\, Institution of Environmental Sciences\nThe training will be delivered by Joseph Lewis\, Policy Lead for the Institution of Environmental Sciences. Joseph is responsible for policy engagement for the IES and working to promote the use of the environmental sciences in decision making. \nHe has an MSc in Public Policy from the University in Bristol\, where he specialised in environmental policy\, as well as a Law Degree from Durham University. Joseph is an experienced public speaker; he is a regular event speaker and has appeared on national broadcast media. Joseph has years of voluntary experience as a debating and public speaking coach. \nJoseph is an advocate for transformative change and using social systems to bring together communities with science-led solutions to the interconnected climate\, biodiversity\, and social crises facing humanity.
URL:https://fwr.org/event/ieswaterpolicytraining/
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SUMMARY:FWR Webinar - Ecosystem Assessment using the Ramsar Convention’s adopted RAWES approach: wetlands and beyond
DESCRIPTION:Despite commitments by global signatories of the Ramsar Convention to undertake systemic assessment of designated wetlands\, research had revealed that virtually none had been done globally and that the lack of practical tools for rapid assessment was a principal obstacle. The Rapid Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Services (RAWES) approach was developed to address this gap. \nRAWES was adopted by a Ramsar Resolution in October 2018\, and has since been widely used around the world. The RAWES approach is based on methods used by its originators over many years across multiple habitat types and settings. RAWES has subsequently been applied to diverse situations ranging from the Himalayas\, deserts\, the built environment and more. Systemic assessment of wetlands shines a light on prevalent narrow understandings of how wetlands function\, and the consequent suboptimal realisation of their benefits including\, for example\, when advanced as ‘nature-based solutions’. Systemic vision can support the optimisation of beneficial outcomes from design and management of natural and constructed wetlands\, built infrastructure and wider habitat management. \n\nProfessor Mark Everard\, Visiting Professor\, Bournemouth University and Associate Professor of Ecosystem Services\, UWE Bristol\nProfessor Mark Everard is Visiting Professor at Bournemouth University\, and Associate Professor of Ecosystem Services at the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol). He also works as a consultant\, broadcaster and author working in the fields of sustainable development\, systems thinking and natural resource management and security for over forty years across multiple developing and developed countries. \nMark is Vice-President of the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES)\, a Fellow of the Linnean Society\, and is an advisor or associate with many professional\, NGO and intergovernmental bodies. Mark has published 42 books and over 140 peer-reviewed scientific papers to date and makes frequent magazine\, TV and radio contributions.
URL:https://fwr.org/event/rawes/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:FWR Webinar: Integrated water management and economic growth
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Dr Jonathan Fisher will explore the impacts of integrated water management on the following main drivers of economic growth: \n\nEnhancing Capital Assets and infrastructure including environmental infrastructure (water and flood risk management) on which he provides supporting evidence.\nReducing burdens on business. He demonstrates that sound and well-resourced integrated water management (and in particular the Water Framework Directive regulations) are well in line with the Department for Business and Trade’s proposed seven behaviours of smarter regulation.\n\nHe concludes with an overall assessment that recommends key requirements to enhance the impacts of integrated water management on sustainable economic growth. This aims to input supporting evidence on this for the forthcoming spending review. \nSpeakers\nDr Jonathan Fisher\nDr Jonathan Fisher is a freelance environmental economist with more than 45 years’ experience of delivering practical applied economic analyses of environmental matters\, including 24 years on water and flood risk management. He has a sound understanding of these matters based on experience in the practical application of economic appraisal processes to determine improvements efficiently and within constraints. \nUp until 2014\, he was economics manager at the Environment Agency where he was responsible for economic analysis and advice on water and flood risk management in England. In this\, he provided economic analyses for a Long Term Investment Strategy that set out the risks of flooding in England from 2010 up to 2035 in the face of climate change. Given the resulting large expenditures needed that could not be funded centrally\, he helped Defra (Environment Ministry) develop new Partnership policies for funding flood risk management with contributory payments by beneficiaries. Before then\, he was the Department of the Environment’s economic adviser on climate change and participated in the early work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. After that\, he was an economic adviser at the UK Treasury. Before that\, he worked as an economist in the Environment Directorate of the OECD. He has a PhD in environmental economics and a degree in economics and accounting.
URL:https://fwr.org/event/fwr-webinar-integrated-water-management-and-economic-growth/
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SUMMARY:FWR Water Climate Discussion - Radical Change: Reverse Water Cycles
DESCRIPTION:Is climate change and the resulting loss in biodiversity irreversible? Will our current efforts to slow climate change be enough or do we need to consider radical change in our water systems? \nIES/FWR would like your input as we decide whether abstracting water downstream of cities\, treating it and pumping it upstream for human consumption might reverse the damage done to our rivers and natural environment. Traditionally we have abstracted upstream\, where water is easier to treat and gravity can do the pumping for us. This seemed like the most sustainable solution\, but our rivers are now struggling to cope with climate change and the increased demands of population growth. Given that we now have the technology to treat any water to potable standards and unlimited supplies of renewable energy\, should we reverse this water cycle? \nJoin our discussion meeting to explore how the radical change idea of reversing water cycles could support improved climate mitigation\, resilience and improved biodiversity. \nSimon Spooner\, FWR Chair\, will provide an introductory presentation on the topic: \nIn the last few centuries we have built a comfortable industrial society with combustion energy released from fossilised carbon. We feed ourselves by clearing land for our simplified farm ecosystems and pollute the world with chemicals\, biological waste and plastics. Our water comes from reaching ever further upstream for fresh water and dumping our waste as close to our doorstep and with as little treatment as we can get away with. \nWe have now learned how to get the energy we need from renewable sources and to utilise it with electrical systems that cause little pollution; we are beginning to learn how to better manage land\, giving space to other living things and to work with more diverse and complex ecosystems to provide both food and a wider range of ecosystem services. There is a great deal still to learn about how we must change our energy and food systems and then the vast challenge of building whole new infrastructure and land management systems. Our water systems have to undergo a radical rethink and change too – how do we transition from consuming and despoiling the water and the aquatic ecosystems to living as part of that system with infrastructure and behaviour that replenishes and enhances? \nThis event is being held as part of a series of Water Climate Discussions\, exploring the questions: is unacceptable climate change now inevitable? Do we need to consider radical change to avert disaster\, or (possibly more radically) do we need to slow down and take the public with us? You can join this year’s Water Climate Discussions as we contemplate a number of ideas for radical change. Head to waterclimatediscussion.com where you can learn how to propose your own ideas for radical change or join in a number of different discussions like IES/FWR’s on Reverse Water Cycles. \nOur speakers\nMartin Currie\, Aqueum \nDr Martin Currie is an independent potable water quality and treatment specialist with Aqueum. He has been hosting the Water Climate Discussion since the run up to Glasgow’s COP26 when the water sector got together to bring their voice to the climate discussion. Martin will be Chairing this event. \nSimon Spooner\, AtkinsRéalis \nSimon Spooner is an Associate Director at AtkinsRéalis\, a technical consultancy with about 36\,000 professional staff worldwide. He has been elected AtkinsRéalis Fellow for Water Quality and Carbon\, one of around 40 top technical experts in the company. \nHe works in river basin water quality and water resources management\, specialising in the development and application of computer modelling systems and how these support and also drive how policy\, legislation and regulation are developed and applied to achieve better outcomes. He works mostly in the UK water industry but has also spent more than a decade in China\, seconded into River Basin Management organisations and supporting urban development and planning. \nSimon is a Fellow of the Institution of Environmental Sciences\, Chair of the Foundation for Water Research and an Honorary Professor of Nottingham University\, UK and Ningbo campuses. He has developed the Combustion Transition Framework which is an innovative approach to understanding and addressing the climate\, biodiversity loss and pollution crisis. \nAna Mijic\, Imperial College London \nDr Ana Mijic is a Reader in Water Systems Integration in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London. Her research is at the forefront of advancing systems approaches to water management. She works on developing the methods and tools to tackle the intricate complexity of water systems. The work is underpinned by the concept of Water Systems Integration (WSI)\, defined as a process of coordinating human water needs and protection from water-related impacts while minimising pollution and environmental degradation. Her research group has developed WSIMOD – Water Systems Integration Modelling Framework – open source software to generate comprehensive evidence for key stakeholders such as government departments (e.g.\, Defra and Environment Agency)\, water companies\, and regional and local planning authorities regarding the performance of water systems. This evidence is intended to inform strategies for integrated water management and planning at the systems level\, which\, in turn\, supports collaborative decision-making.
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