Events
World Water Day 2012 – Vancouver Events
The Program on Water Governance is collaborating with a number of organizations to organize public events in Vancouver to celebrate UN World Water Day 2012. Click on the links below. More details will be added shortly:
March 5th – 14th: “ (Gallery Concourse, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Granville Island)
An art exhibition and event [...]
Water Security at AAAS
The finale to our four-year Water Security project was a series of events connected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, February 16-20, 2012.
For more information click here.
Water Security Event (17 Feb)
On the 17th February 2012, the University of British Columbia’s Program on Water Governance held a panel event exploring Water Security in Canada.
Water is arguably our most critical resource. But how secure is Canada’s water? What are the greatest threats we face? And what should be our priorities for management and conservation? Invited experts [...]
Call for Submissions
Downstream: Reimagining Water – Call for Submissions
March 5-14: Concourse Galley Exhibition
March 21-24: World Water Day events
Emily Carr University of Art and Design invites artist to hare their work investigating how perceptions of water shape our experiences with it. It’s been said that wars of the future will be fought over water. Alternatively, however, water could [...]
Collaborative Watershed Governance 26-27 Jan 2012
Spaces (and bursaries) are still available for the cutting-edge “unconference” on collaborative watershed governance!
The event, “A Water Gathering: Collaborative Watershed Governance in BC and Beyond – Solutions Forum,” will take place January 26 to 27, 2012 at UBC Robson Square, Vancouver.
The goal of this gathering is to provide participants with practical knowledge [...]
AAG Conference Sessions (April 2011)
UBC’s Program on Water Governance hosted 3 sessions at the AAG annual meeting on Thursday April 14th 2011 in Seattle, WA, on the topic of Water governance and the politics of scale: A critical examination of water governance in a multi-scalar environment.
Over the past two decades, geographers have made advancements in addressing issues relating to [...]
MP Breakfast Connections
On January 28th 2011 Dr. Karen Bakker was the guest speaker at “MP Breakfast Connections: the Most Important Meal of the Month” with Joyce Murray (MP for Vancouver Quadra).
Five Myths About Canada’s Water
Date: Friday, January 28th 2011
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 am
Location: Enigma Restuarant (4397 West 10 Avenue, Vancouver BC)
Cost: $20
World Water Day: March 22, 2010
UN World Water Day (March 22nd), aims to draw attention to global water issues. In response, the Program on Water Governance collaborated with a number of local and international organizations, to host an evening event in Vancouver. The focus of the panel event was Water: Challenges and Opportunities in Western Canada and abroad.
The opening guest [...]
Water Security Workshop
This one day workshop, brought together the water security project partners, water professionals, policy makers and end users to engage in knowledge translation; a two-way flow of knowledge between participants and the research team. We solicited input on project deliverables such as the Water Security Primer, the Indicator Inventory and our Water Security Framework.
Where: Liu [...]
