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DRAFT PROGRAM AS @ 06 JUNE 2012 | PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE Program Theme Key River Ecology: beneath the surface A river runs through it: designing river cities River Partnerships: integrating people, governance and policy River Health: healthy rivers, healthy economies, healthy people River Knowledge: tools and techniques for action River Pressures: pathways to sustainability Page 1 Monday 8 October 2012 0700 – 1800 Registration Open 0900 - 1030 Opening Ceremony Dr Klement Tockner: Director of the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany Dr Priyanie Amerasinghe: Senior Researcher and Head, IWMI Hyderabad Office, India 1030 - 1100 Morning tea 1100 - 1230 RIVER ECOLOGY: BENEATH THE SURFACE Chair: Stuart Bunn Dougal Currie, Australia - Mapping the groundwater dependence of riparian vegetation using SEBAL Matthew Currell, Australia - Conceptual models of ground-surface water interaction in the Connewarre Complex Michael Finger, Australia - Ecological Risk of Groundwater Extraction in the Upper Goulburn-Broken Penny Winbanks, Australia - South West Victoria Groundwater Atlas NATURE'S GIFTS: ENHANCING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES Chair: TBA Julie Dean, Australia - Urban Waterway Restoration: An Intervention for Improving Mental Health? Hari Katuwal, USA - Knowledge, Attitude and Behavior towards Bagmati River in Kathmandu, Nepal Helen Smith, Australia - Enhancing river management by understanding landholders attitudes towards ecosystem services CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - AFRICAN AND AUSTRALIAN COLLABORATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RIVER MANAGEMENT Presented by UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance Chair: Jamie Pittock A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: DESIGNING RIVER CITIES Chair: TBA Naba Raj Neupane, Nepal - Water Induced Hazard Mapping & Management: Saving Lives & Properties Matthew Davis, New Zealand - Catchment management in the Auckland region (New Zealand): scale and programme intervention issues Kieron Beardmore, Australia - How do you create a ˜Water Smart Liveable City”? CONVENING PARTNER PRESENTATION - GEOMORPHOLOGY IN ANALYSIS AND RESTORATION OF FLUVIAL SYSTEMS: APPROACHES AND TOOLS Presented by Cardno ENTRIX Chair: TBA Andrew Simon Andrew Brooks Jon Olley Tom Hubble Ian Rutherfurd Mike Rudd 1230 - 1330 Lunch 1330 - 1500 RIVER PRESSURES: PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY Chair: TBA Shahriar Rahman, Bangladesh - Development of an Eco-Hydrological Framework for the Brahmaputra River ASSESSING RIVER HEALTH Chair: TBA Michael Attard, Australia - Tamar Estuary and Esk Rivers Ecosystem Health Assessment Program Patty Chier, Australia - MST: New RIVER PARTNERSHIPS: INTEGRATING PEOPLE, GOVERNANCE AND POLICY Chair: TBA Jamie Pittock, Australia - Inflow interception: Lessons for Australia from South Africa CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - TRANSITIONING TOWARDS WATER SENSITIVE CITIES Presented by the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities Chair: TBA CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - COLLABORATION AS A GOVERNANCE STRATEGY: LINKING POLICY, SCIENCE AND PEOPLE Presented by The University of Queensland Chair: TBA DRAFT PROGRAM AS @ 06 JUNE 2012 | PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE Program Theme Key River Ecology: beneath the surface A river runs through it: designing river cities River Partnerships: integrating people, governance and policy River Health: healthy rivers, healthy economies, healthy people River Knowledge: tools and techniques for action River Pressures: pathways to sustainability Page 2 Carolina Casaril, Australia - Designing and managing wetlands holistically for multiple functions Greg Bain, Australia - Reflections on managing the Yarra River: context, achievements, challenges and future opportunities Tools to Differentiate Contamination Sources in Urban Rivers Naomi Soustal, Australia - An integrated monitoring and evaluation framework for SEQ Waterways Astria Nugrahany, Indonesia - Water Quality Monitoring - Upstream to Downstram - Brantas River Basin Helen Gordon, South Africa - Healthy catchments the true water providers Hodson Makurira, Food security challenges in the Limpopo Basin Emmanuel Kasimbazi, Uganda - Options for the Governance of the Nile River: The Case for Application of International Law 1500 - 1530 Afternoon tea 1530 - 1700 RIVER MANAGEMENT YOUNG ACHIEVERS AWARD WORKSHOP Sponsored by Thiess Services Managed by International WaterCentre Alumni Network Entries for the 2012 RMYAA close 13 July 2012 RIVER HEALTH: HEALTHY RIVERS, HEALTHY ECONOMIES, HEALTHY PEOPLE Chair: TBA Anthony Paull, Australia - Restoring flows and fish passage to the Hawkesbury-Nepean River Penny Rogers, Australia - Determination of the Cultural E-Flows at Kulcurna Conservation Reserve Luke Johnston, Australia - Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems within Altered Flow Regimes from Hydro-Electicity Plant STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION, EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS Chair: TBA Caroline Rowe, New Zealand - Manawatu River Leaders' Accord Simon Warner, Australia - Healthy Country: a successful model to reduce sediment entering waterways Simon Gartenstein, Australia - Mersey-Forth Water Management Review - process, learnings and outcomes Akira Wada, Japan - Success factor analysis of river restoration projects in Japan CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - RIVER CITIES/ADVANCING IRBM WITHIN THE URBAN CONTEXT Presented by the International RiverFoundation Chair: TBA USING TECHNOLOGY AND MODELLING Chair: TBA Magnus Asgeirsson, Iceland - Riverwatcher - an automatic reliable river stock management Vladimir Sizonenko, Ukraine - Management of pollution on the examples of the region of Krivoy Rog and Loire River Abu Saleh Khan, Bangledesh - Augmentation of the Buriganda River dry season flows Nima Zorriasateyn, Australia - Modelling the impact of urbanisation on sediment transport and changes to depth of bedload 1715 - 1900 Welcome Function, Trade Exhibition, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre DRAFT PROGRAM AS @ 06 JUNE 2012 | PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE Program Theme Key River Ecology: beneath the surface A river runs through it: designing river cities River Partnerships: integrating people, governance and policy River Health: healthy rivers, healthy economies, healthy people River Knowledge: tools and techniques for action River Pressures: pathways to sustainability Page 3 Tuesday 9 October 2012 0800 - 1800 Registration Open 0900 - 1000 Dr David Molden: Director General, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Nepal Celeste Cantu: General Manager of the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority, USA 1000 - 1030 Morning tea 1030 - 1200 RIVERPRIZE FINALISTS Presented by International RiverFoundation CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - RIVER HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW MANAGEMENT IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC: CASE STUDIES Presented by the International WaterCentre Chair: TBA CONVENING PARTNER PRESENTATION - ENHANCING INTEGRITY TO REDUCE CORRUPTION IN MANAGING RIVERS Presented by the Water Integrity Network Chair: TBA Binayak Das Teun Bastemeijer Donal O’Leary CREATING WATER SENSITIVE CITIES Chair: TBA Rachel Brown, Australia - A GIS based decision support tool for quantifying and managing stormwater runoff in Greater Melbourne linked to modelling in eWater Source Catchments Robert Zimmerman, USA - Strategy, Tactics, and Insights: Restoring the Urban Charles River David Lembcke, Canada - Towards Water Sensitive Urban Design in an Ontario (Canada) Catchment Schiemer Fritz, Austria - Loosening the strict corset: scope for remediation of urban wetlands LINKING RESEARCH TO DECISIONS AND POLICIES Chair: TBA Dongjin Lee, Republic of Korea - Characterization of natural organic matter in the Yeongsan River, Korea Kath Lynch, Australia - Improving water quality through science in a National Coastal Hotspot Cameron Wearing, Australia - Seqwater Optimising Multi-barrier treatment John Conallin, Australia - Using Strategic Adaptive Management to meet the needs of social-ecological thinking. 1200 - 1300 Lunch 1300 - 1430 RIVER PRESSURES: PATHWAYS TO SUSTAINABILITY Chair: TBA Darren Bos, Australia - Balancing cost with community: are market-based incentives the best approach for stormwater retrofits? CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - RIVER HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW MANAGEMENT IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC: LESSONS LEARNT Presented by the International WaterCentre Chair: TBA CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - HOW TO INSPIRE PEOPLE TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY - A PRACTICAL THEORY FOR POWERFUL PARTNERSHIPS Presented by the Australian River Restoration Centre Chair: TBA CREATING WATER SENSITIVE CITIES Chair: TBA Sal Gray, Australia - Urban ABCD Management Framework - new tools for urban water management Ana Lucia Britto, Brazil - Discussing challenges for the revitalization of LINKING RESEARCH TO DECISIONS AND POLICIES Chair: TBA Matthew Davis, New Zealand - Urban stream characterisation and improvement opportunities in central Auckland (New Zealand) DRAFT PROGRAM AS @ 06 JUNE 2012 | PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE Program Theme Key River Ecology: beneath the surface A river runs through it: designing river cities River Partnerships: integrating people, governance and policy River Health: healthy rivers, healthy economies, healthy people River Knowledge: tools and techniques for action River Pressures: pathways to sustainability Page 4 Rachel Gilmore, Australia - Water market values in the Hawkesbury-Nepean catchment: an environmental perspective Joachim Ezeji, Nigeria - Increasing the resilience of Nigeria’s urban Rivers to climate and demographic pressures Siwan Lovett Peter Rennie Dona Eugenia River in Mesquita, Rio de Janeiro Joshua Hale, Australia - Predicting the impact of urbanisation induced changes in hydrology on environmental values. Jackie Myers, Australia - Water Sensitive Cities: implications for the reuse of urban stormwater. Krey Price, USA - Cutting to the Core: Conservation in the Panama Canal Watershed Dominic Blackham, Australia - Managing hydromodification to protect the geomorphic form of waterways Tapas Biswas, Australia - Recent Floods and Salinity of the Murray River 1430 - 1500 Afternoon tea 1500 - 1630 RIVER ECOLOGY: BENEATH THE SURFACE Chair: TBA Yuk Kam Choi, Hong Kong - Wetland habitat change in the Shenzhen River cross-boundary catchment, China Rick Stoffels, Australia - Restoring river-floodplain connectivity; better biodiversity outcomes from longer reconnection events Cheree Fenton, Australia - Great Barrier Reef catchment: wetlands risk assessment Anna Lucas, Australia - Challenges and success from delivering environmental flows to the Yarra CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - TWINNING – GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE SHARING PARTNERSHIPS FOR IMPROVED RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT Presented by the International RiverFoundation Chair: TBA Matt Reddy Gayle Wood Robert Oates Phillip Weller STAKEHOLDER COLLABORATION, EFFECTIVE PARTNERSHIPS Chair: Rod Hughes Chris McCulloch, Australia - NSW Central West Council's Salinity and Water Quality Alliance Ana Terrazas, Australia - Integrating community and government in a rapidly urbanizing Perth: SERCUL Louise Duff, Australia - Case studies in collaborative wetland monitoring, evaluation and reporting Marnie Giroud, Australia - Dolphin Watch: Government, scientists and the Perth community working together CREATING WATER SENSITIVE CITIES Chair: TBA Wade Fitzgerald, Australia - Rejuvenating an entire inner-city catchment - Norman Creek, Brisbane Rob Catchlove, Australia - Politics and the media: are they holding our urban waterways back from taking the next big leap? Andrew O'Neill, Australia - Wave of Discontent Phil Edwards, Australia - What do you get when you cross a city and a water cycle? RIVER KNOWLEDGE: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES FOR ACTION Chair: TBA Keirnan Fowler, Australia - Decision support for licensing and planning in self-supply irrigation areas Alistair Korn, Australia - Investigating Hattah Lakes Environmental Watering Options using Source IMS Catherine Thompson, Australia - Estuary health: Stuck between a drying catchment and a rising ocean. Sue Campbell, Australia - Communicating river health: a holistic approach for Report Cards 1830 - 2330 Riverprize Gala Dinner, Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre DRAFT PROGRAM AS @ 06 JUNE 2012 | PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE Program Theme Key River Ecology: beneath the surface A river runs through it: designing river cities River Partnerships: integrating people, governance and policy River Health: healthy rivers, healthy economies, healthy people River Knowledge: tools and techniques for action River Pressures: pathways to sustainability Page 5 Wednesday 10 October 2012 0800 - 1800 Registration Open 0900 - 1030 Prof John Thwaites: Chair, Monash Sustainability Institute & ClimateWorks, Australia Riverprize Winners - National and International 1030 - 1100 Morning tea 1100 - 1230 RIVER GOVERNANCE LAW AND POLICY FRAMEWORKS Chair: TBA He Xiangbai, Australia - Mainstreaming Adaptation in IWRM in China: From Challenge to Change Rebecca Nelson, Australia - Legal and policy mechanisms for linking groundwater and environmental flows Joanna Linehan, Australia - Engaging our customers in a volatile environment’ CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - INTEGRATED WATER MANAGEMENT - CURRENT APPROACHES IN MELBOURNE'S RAPIDLY URBANISING ENVIRONMENT Presented by Melbourne Water Chair: TBA Gavan O'Neill Jamie Ewert Joanne Andrews Deb Riley Peter Morison Nino Polon Kate Kearns CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - HEALTHY WATER, HEALTHY 'STANDARDS' - WHAT WATER QUALITY STANDARDS ARE BEST? Presented by EPA Victoria Chair: TBA Kate Simpson Steve Lansdell A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: DESIGNING RIVER CITIES Chair: TBA Sanjaykumar Yadav, India - Performance evaluation of water supply services of Indian city Edith Pat Mbano, Nigeria - Compromising Environmental Sustainability for Urbanization and Riverbank Activities in Nigeria Ashley Roberts, Australia - Implication of Climate Change on costs to Waterway Management actions Maria Endarwati, Indonesia - One River One Plan One Management ‘How difficult to adopt it’ CONVENING PARTNER SESSION – CLOSING THE LOOP: ADVANCES IN WATER MANAGEMENT Presented by National Water Commission Chair: TBA Stuart Bunn Fran Sheldon Nick Marsh Satish Choy Jon Fawcett 1230-1330 Lunch 1330 - 1500 SURFACE WATER, GROUNDWATER RELATIONSHIPS Chair: Angela Arthington Susanta Chakraborty, India - Sustainable water management in water scarcity zones of southwest bengal CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - A DECADE OF WATERWAY HEALTH MANAGEMENT IN VICTORIA: HARD LESSONS LEARNT. Presented by the Department of Sustainability and Environment Chair: TBA RIVER PARTNERSHIPS: INTEGRATING PEOPLE, GOVERNANCE AND POLICY Chair: Jamie Pittock Bulent Acma, Turkey - Transboundary waters and its security in the middle east: As a case study the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: DESIGNING RIVER CITIES Chair: Rod Hughes Rukmini Mukherjee, India - A Dying River and its City - the Hooghly in Kolkata Ian Rutherfurd, Australia - CONVENING PARTNER SESSION - DESIGNING FLOOD RESILIENT CITIES AND COMMUNITIES Presented by: Queensland Government and Netherlands Water Partnership Chair: TBA DRAFT PROGRAM AS @ 06 JUNE 2012 | PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE Program Theme Key River Ecology: beneath the surface A river runs through it: designing river cities River Partnerships: integrating people, governance and policy River Health: healthy rivers, healthy economies, healthy people River Knowledge: tools and techniques for action River Pressures: pathways to sustainability Page 6 Daryl Nielsen, Australia - Promoting connectivity fuels food-webs downstream of floodplain forests Ting Fong May Chui, Singapore - Restoring Baseflow in Singapore Canals for Natural Habitats Amber Clarke Paulo Lay Beth Ashworth Adam Bester Trent Wallis Ian Penrose, Australia - Passion, Persistence and People-Power - The 'Go Yarra Flow' story David Lindley, South Africa - Beyond Compliance to Self Control: Change Orientated learning for Wetland Sustainability Practices Vjeko Matic, Australia - Developing a 'Best practice' planning overlay to protect streams against infill development Managing vegetation to protect small towns from floods Romney Lynch - Protecting Western Australian rivers through foreshore buffers in land planning 1500 - 1530 Afternoon tea 1530 - 1700 Closing Plenary River Management Young Achiever Award Winner The Great River Debate Thursday 11 October 2012 0830 - 1700 Study Tour: Yarra River – Exploring one of Australia’s most iconic waterways * The study tour is included in the registration fee of all fulltime registered delegates however there are limited spaces available so spots will be filled on a first in, first served basis. 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