FRIDAY, 24 JANUARY 2014, ROOM T101-T102 (21-22 RUSSELL SQUARE)
Registration [9.00-9.30 AM]
Welcome and tea/coffee
Introduction [9.30-9.45 AM]
Nirmala Rao, Pro-Director (Learning and Teaching), SOAS
I. Groundwater Law and Climate Change Law [9.45-10.50 AM]
Chair: Shaminder Puri
1. Groundwater law and climate change law: international and India context
Philippe Cullet, SOAS
[powerpoint presentation]
2. Climate change and the obsolescence of most groundwater legal regimes
Joseph Dellapenna, Villanova University
[powerpoint presentation]
Tea/coffee 10.50-11.00 AM
II. Climate Change and Implications for Groundwater: Science, Policy and Law [11.00-12.45 PM]
Chair: Tony Allan
1. Groundwater and climate change: opportunities and challenges for water science and adaptation policy
Richard Taylor, University College London
[powerpoint presentation]
2. International climate change regime and groundwater
MJ Mace, SOAS
[powerpoint presentation]
3. Groundwater governance and development
Jenny Gronwall, SIWI
[powerpoint presentation]
Lunch 12.45-2.00 PM
III. Case Studies – North Sahara and Israel [2.00–3.05 PM]
Chair: Joseph Dellapenna
1. Northwestern Sahara Aquifer System (SASS)
Kerstin Mechlem, University of Ulster
[powerpoint presentation]
2. Getting groundwater water back into the environment is a very political process: farmers have been key agents in achieving groundwater stewardship in Israel
Tony Allan, King’s College London & SOAS
[powerpoint presentation]
Tea/coffee 3.05-3.20 PM
IV. Transboundary Aquifer Regulation in Climate Change Context: International Law Perspective [3.20-5.30 PM]
Chair: Kerstin Mechlem
1. International water law and transboundary aquifers
Stefano Burchi, International Association for Water Law
[powerpoint presentation]
2. Aquifer agreements: The case of the Guarani Aquifer
Gabriel Eckstein, Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
3. International environmental law and transboundary aquifers
Owen McIntyre, University College Cork
4. The UNECE Contribution to groundwater regulation and conservation
Annukka Lipponen, UNECE
[powerpoint presentation]
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