Waters connecting, Waters Dividing: Fresh and Salt Water Natural Resource Management in Times of Climate Change; Cases from SEA
Speakers
Aisa Manlosa
Assistant Professor Faculty Governance and Global Affairs - Leiden University College
Ade Kurniawan
Lecturer at the Faculty of Fisheries and Marine Sciences, YapisUniversity
Thong Anh Tran
School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne
Discussant
Diana Suhardiman
Director of KITLV and appointed professor by special appointment of Natural Resource Governance, Climate and Equity at Leiden University
Chair Session
Sikko Visscher
Part of the pilot programme “Governance of Climate change adaptation” at KITLV and is Programme Manager of the Scientific Programme Indonesia.
Event Details
In social-ecological system research, these units are often organized along ecosystems. This means that land and sea (as well as the coast as their interfaces) are often regarded as separate units. The same applies for fresh water systems and seascapes even though they eventually merge into unity and are exposed to similar physical as well as governance challenges.
In this session we seek to foster conservation across the dividing lines separating rivers, lakes and delta systems from seas and oceans. Exploring shared challenges and learnings, we dive into aquaculture systems in the Philippines, to rivers carrying stories from the land to the sea in Indonesia and about sea walls across SEA, trying to put up with the consequences of climate change in general and sea level rise in particular. Can research and practice benefit from connecting waters or are we better able to respond to current challenges, including climate change, if we keep up the lines dividing waters?
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