Forefront and challenges of water resources management in Southeast Asia

Organizer(s) Asian Institute of Technology - Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management Program University of Tokyo International Center for Urban Safety Engineering Institute of Industrial Science Chulalongkorn University Regional Network office for Urban Safety, Asian Institute of Technology

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Venue

Novotel Ploenchit (Room Ruam Rudee Ballroom 9th Floor), 566 Ploenchit Road, Lumpimi, Patumwan

Date

29 January 2011

In this seminar, both local and foreign experts would deliver speeches on water resources management for environmental and disaster management in South-east Asia. This seminar is intended to contribute to promoting information exchange and research collaboration among universities and institutes in Thailand and Japan.

Presentations include:
- Mekong subregional framework: opportunities and challenges
- Vulnerability assessment of freshwater resources to environmental change in a case of the Mekong River basin
- Integrating provincial/community water planning with provincial development plan by area based information system
- Water resources management in MRC & Thailand's perspectives
- Who's river is it anyhow? Some issues regarding transboundary development on the Mekong River basin
- Benefit sharing in the Mekong River basin

Source

http://www.set.ait.ac.th/rnus/News/News.html

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Themes Environment and ecosystems Risk identification and assessment Water Disaster risk management

Country and region Thailand Asia

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