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School of Geography and the Environment
Series associated with School of Geography and the Environment
Drought and Water Scarcity
Smith School Seminars
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Creative Commons | The impact of drought and water scarcity on ecosystems and their ecology | Dr Pam Berry gives a talk on water scarcity, drought and their impact on the environment. | Pam Berry | 23 Jun 2016 |
| 2 | Algal Modelling | Dr Gianbattista Bussi talks about some of the water quality research being undertaken in the MaRIUS project, focusing on algal modelling. | Gianbattista Bussi | 02 Feb 2016 | |
| 3 | Sociocultural perceptions and knowledge controversies | Dr Eric Sarmiento talks about the human geography research taking place in the MaRIUS project, which is looking at drought and water scarcity | Eric Sarmiento | 02 Feb 2016 | |
| 4 | Impact of drought on water quality | Professor Paul Whitehead talks about the Impact of drought on water quality | Paul Whitehead | 02 Feb 2016 | |
| 5 | UK Drought governance arrangements | Dr Christina Cook talks about the governance research taking place in the MaRIUS project. | Christina Cook | 29 Jan 2016 | |
| 6 | Designing social learning systems for improving drought monitoring and early warning | DrIVER – Designing social learning systems for improving drought monitoring and early warning | Kevin Collins | 29 Jan 2016 | |
| 7 | Impact of drought and water scarcity on agriculture | Evidence of increasing resilience in the irrigated agricultural sector to water scarcity and drought | Dolores Rey | 29 Jan 2016 | |
| 8 | Western US drought, and the generation of drought datasets for risk-based impact studies | An exploration of the climatic factors influencing drought, with a focus on the current western US drought and the research being undertaken in the MaRIUS project. | Benoit Guillod | 29 Jan 2016 | |
| 9 | Prof Jim Hall: An Introduction to the MaRIUS project | An Introduction to the MaRIUS project: Managing the Risks, Impacts and Uncertainties of drought and water Scarcity | Jim Hall | 26 Jan 2016 | |
| 10 | Effective Climate Policy is Not Expensive | Part of the “Environmental and Ecological Economics” seminar series, organised jointly with the Environmental Change Institute. | Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh | 08 Dec 2008 |