Conference - Renewable Energy in the Public Sector: understanding opportunities
23 June 2011, The Barbican, London
The Public Accounts Committee has criticised the UK's 'unacceptably slow' progress towards meeting its renewable energy targets. Understanding the scale of change required, and the public sector's role in leading the way, is vitally important.
The Department for Energy and Climate Change recently announced the launch of the world's first Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), which aims to increase renewable heat generation from 1% to 12% by 2020. The £860m scheme aims to encourage the installation of equipment such as renewable heat pumps, biomass boilers and solar thermal panels to reduce emissions and support the existing 150,000 jobs in the heating industry.
With the Energy Bill currently making its way through Parliament, and details of the Green Investment Bank being revealed, there is a great deal to be discussed by the programme of excellent speakers at Renewable Energy in the Public Sector: understanding opportunities.
For more information and to register please visit: http://www.publicserviceevents.co.uk/183/renewable-energy-in-the-public-sector
Seminar & Workshop: Using Sorting Models to Evaluate Environmental Impacts & Policy Interventions
26 May 2011, Teaching Room, 25 Bute Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8RS
Afternoon Seminar and Workshop by Prof Chris Timmins (Duke University)
Sorting is a common theme in sociology, geography and economics. Households sort across neighbourhoods in line with preferences for racial, social and environmental composition. Workers sort into occupations. Consumers “sort” across differentiated products. Equilibrium sorting models use information in sorting decisions of households to infer welfare effects of a policy change or environmental impact. Sorting models have particular advantages over other environmental assessment methods when the impact or proposed change is large, when decisions are constrained, or when the sorting process itself affects decisions (for example, when people move, they change the attributes of the location choice, inducing further movements).
- Seminar: 2pm-3.15pm
The New Economics of Equilibrium Sorting and its Transformational Role for Policy Evaluation
In this seminar, Prof Chris Timmins from Duke University will provide a non-technical introduction to empirical sorting models, explaining the role and potential of this important new method. - Workshop: 3.30pm-5pm
Introduction to the Using and Applying Sorting Models (some knowledge of Micro-economics assumed)
The workshop will explore in more detail at how to implement sorting models.
If you would like to attend, please email gwilym.pryce@glasgow.ac.uk
Download: 110526 Sorting Models - further information
SDN Lecture: "Radioactive waste: the Achilles' heel of new nuclear build?"
Tuesday 10 May 2011, 17.30, Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre B (room 412 Level 4), University of Glasgow
Campus Map Location D1: http://www.gla.ac.uk/media/media_1887_en.pdf
Notwithstanding Fukushima, it now seems probable that at least four new nuclear reactors will be built (in England, and possibly Wales). The economics remain uncertain but that may not deter the keenest potential investor - EDF. However the radioactive waste issue remains unresolved, in Scotland as well as England - and everywhere else. How problematic might the waste issue become when consideration is given to detailed construction plans?
About the speaker: Gordon MacKerron has been Director of SPRU since December 2008. He was previously Director of the Sussex Energy Group at SPRU from April 2005 to November 2008. Prior to this, he spent four years as Associate Director, NERA Economic Consulting, London and had an earlier career for over 20 years at SPRU. He is an economist specialising in energy and environmental economics, with degrees in economics from the Universities of Cambridge and Sussex. His academic career has specialized in the economics and policy issues of electricity and especially nuclear power, in which he has published and broadcast widely.
He has frequently been Specialist Adviser or invited witness before House of Commons Select Committee inquiries on energy subjects. From June to December 2001 he was on secondment to the PIU, Cabinet Office, as Deputy leader of the UK Government's Energy Review team. He has subsequently assisted the UK Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) in its consultation process leading up to a major Energy White Paper released in February 2003 and subsequently advised DTI on security of supply and low carbon technology strategies. Professor MacKerron has also been the expert witness on economic issues for the Irish Government in its two international court cases on the subject of Sellafield before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague in 2002 and 2003. Professor MacKerron chaired the Energy Panel, DTI/OST Technology Foresight Programme (1995-98). Between 2003 and 2007 he was Chair of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, an independent body charged with recommending the best approach to long-term radioactive waste management to the UK Government.
This lecture will be followed by a reception.
All SDN lectures are free and open to the public. Should you wish to attend please email sustainadmin@glasgow.ac.uk or call Lauren Currie on 0141 330 1989
Download: 110510 G MacKerron SDN Lecture Flyer
Launch of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics report - Biofuels: ethical issues
Wednesday 13 April 2011, 13:00-17:00, Wellcome Collection Conference Centre, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK
Increasing concerns about climate change, energy security and economic development are driving the production of liquid biofuels for transport. Current biofuel production, which mainly uses food crops, has led to deforestation and disputes over rising food prices and land use. New approaches to biofuels, such as those using non-food crops and algae, are being developed with the aim of meeting our energy demands whilst avoiding the problems of the past.
Over the past 18 months, a Working Party chaired by Professor Joyce Tait of Edinburgh University has explored the ethical and social issues raised by current and new types of biofuels. The report will make recommendations for biofuels policy in areas including human rights, environmental sustainability and climate change.
At this seminar, members of the Working Party will present and discuss the Council’s findings in a series of talks and breakout sessions.
Chair: Julian Rush, Science and Environment journalist.
Speakers include:
- Professor Joyce Tait, Chair of the Working Party and Scientific Adviser to the Innogen Centre, Edinburgh University
- Dr Mike Adcock, Director, Master of Laws Programme, Durham University
- Dr Guy Barker, Director, Genomics Resource Centre, University of Warwick
- Professor Simon Caney, Professor in Political Theory, University of Oxford
- Professor Robin Gill, Professor of Applied Theology, University of Kent and Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics
- Professor Ottoline Leyser, Professor of Plant Development, University of Cambridge and Member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics
- Dr Nigel Mortimer, Director, North Energy Associates Ltd, Sheffield
- Professor Christine Raines, Professor of Plant Biology, University of Essex
- Ian Smale, Head of Strategy and Policy, BP
- Professor Jim Watson, Director, Sussex Energy Group, University of Sussex, and Research Fellow, The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Copies of the report will be available at the seminar. Admission is free but places must be booked in advance. To book your place, please contact Sarah Bougourd Email: sbougourd@nuffieldbioethics.org Tel: +44 (0)20 7681 9619.
For more information, please see: www.nuffieldbioethics.org/biofuels
If you are unable to attend the seminar, copies of the report will be available to download from the Council’s website from 13 April. Printed copies can also be ordered in advance using the same contact details as above. These are free if ordered before 20th April.
Evening Meeting: Carbon capture and storage - a Scottish and UK engineering and geology challenge
Tuesday 22nd March 2011, 18:00 for 18:30 start
CENTRAL SCOTAND REGIONAL GROUP OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND SCOTTISH CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE
By Professor R. Stuart Haszeldene Scottish Power Professor of Carbon Capture & Storage, Edinburgh University
At the Hutton Lecture Theatre (Room 201), Grant Institute, King's Buildings, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW
Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage website: www.sccs.org.uk
Plan showing venue location can be found at: http://www.scifun.ed.ac.uk/misc/Map_images/kb-map.pdf
Convenor contact details: Lucy Parker Email: ljparker@globalskm.com
Sustainable Development Network Dual Lectures
15 March 2011, 3.00pm, Sir Charles Wilson Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow
Speakers: Roger Owen (Head of Ecology, SEPA) and Professor Steve Albon (The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute)
Roger Owen: Ecosystem services in environmental risk assessment: opportunities and challenges for a regulatory agency
Roger Owen heads the Ecology Department at SEPA. This unit monitors, assesses and reports on the state of Scotland’s environment by using a wide range of ecological methods. The condition of biological communities, species and habitats is used to assess the ecological quality of surface waters, as well as land and air environments. Microbiological assessments are also made of coastal bathing waters, shellfish waters and rivers. The data are used in the identification of risk, in determining improvement priorities, and in formulating licence conditions.
Steve Albon: The UK National Ecosystem Assessment: recent trends, plausible futures and policy options.
Since March 2009, Steve has worked as Co-Chair, with Prof. Robert Watson, Chief Scientist Defra, on the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA) and co-ordinates the Environment - Land Use and Rural Stewardship research programme for the Scottish Government. The five year programme is contributing to the evidence base needed to achieve a balance between various land uses that shape and sustain multi-functional rural landscapes and communities.
Steve is also Deputy Director of the Centre of Excellence in Epidemiology, Population health and Infectious disease Control (EPIC). Funded by the Scottish Government, the EPIC initiative is intended to deliver an evidence base for shaping policy and decision-making, informing industry and business about animal infections, providing practical solutions, and enriching science at all levels.
This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served between the lectures in the Sir Charles Wilson foyer (approx 4.00 - 4.30pm).
To attend, please email sustainadmin@glasgow.ac.uk or call Lauren Currie on 0141 330 1989.
Download: 110315 SDN Dual Lecture flyer
Industry Day 10 March 2011: SDN theme "Water"
Both quantity and quality of water are of global, regional and local importance. The IPCC have stated that higher water temperatures and changes in extremes including floods and droughts are projected to affect water quality and exacerbate many forms of water pollution from sediments, DOC, pathogens, pesticides and salt as well as thermal pollution and possible negative impacts on ecosystems, human health and water system reliability and operating costs.
Within the Sustainability network at the University of Glasgow, there is a wealth of expertise on the many facets of the water cycle (both freshwater and marine). At the water stand, there will be staff, presentations and simulations to highlight just some of the work being undertaken in Glasgow University, including flood risk, sustainable fisheries, water quality, pollutants and human health, monitoring Carbon and nutrient export, Carbon footprinting of aquatic systems, smart monitoring: how, when, how often, for how long and using what?
SDN members interested in being involved in Industry Day should contact Lynne Brown (Lynne.Brown@glasgow.ac.uk) and Marian Scott (Marian.Scott@glasgow.ac.uk) as soon as possible to express interest and to provide some detail of the contribution.
Link to last year's event: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/researchandenterprise/newsandevents/industryday-23rdfebruary2010/
SDN Lecture - Trade and Climate Change: The EU’s New ‘Contingent Unilateralism’
Thursday 3 March 2011, 5.30pm, Lecture Theatre 203 Mathematics building, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Professor Joanne Scott, Professor of European Law, Co-Director Centre for Law and Governance in Europe, University College London
Joanne Scott is Professor of European Law at UCL and a Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. Her main areas of research are in EU Law, WTO Law, and the interface between the two. She is particularly interested in environmental governance.
The lecture will be preceded by tea/coffee in the Math building common room from 5pm. This event is free and open to the public.
To attend please email sustainadmin@glasgow.ac.uk or call Lauren Currie on 0141 330 1989.
Download: 110303 J. Scott - Trade & Climate Change flyer
Communicating Sustainability Course
Date: Wednesday 23 February 2011
Venue: Glasgow Caledonian University, Room: CPD 7 (first floor on east side of William Harley Building, CPD Centre)
Do you need to communicate about sustainability to others? Ever find there are challenges in that? Perhaps you feel you lack the skills you need to communicate persuasively, or you don’t know how to answer the objections people raise... if so, then this course is for you.
The need to communicate about sustainability is obvious, yet it can be hard to do so. As a subject, it can be hard for people to understand, it may seem distant from their everyday lives and many are resistant to it. Poor communication only further hinders the implementation of sustainable working practices and leads to missed opportunities, lack of commitment and wasted time and money.
A big part of presenting any message well comes from practise, so we’ll have you on your feet practising in small groups to get that muscle memory of success and getting feedback on how you’re doing. We’ll also look at the key skills of communication: asking good questions & listening, as well as body language & tone.
Workbooks, refreshments and lunch will be provided.
Visit the EAUC website and book your free place online: http://www.eauc.org.uk/shop/mms_single_event.php?event_id=1487
Registration opens at 9am with course start at 9.30am latest (9.15am if possible).
For more information download: 110223 1-day_Communicating_Sustainability_Course (Glasgow)
SDN Lecture: 'Understanding the full symphony' of the carbon cycle 'by hearing every note'
Tuesday 15 February 2011, 17.30, Senate Room, University of Glasgow
Speaker: Professor Susan Waldron (Professor of Biogeochemistry, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow)
One way that carbon is naturally lost from the land is through streams and rivers. Dissolved organic carbon which comes from the land (and colours water dark brown), has been observed to be increasing in concentration in many freshwaters globally since the 1990s. The fate of exported carbon in the catchment drainage system is important: once there, it can be converted to CO2 which degasses to the atmosphere or it can be delivered to the marine environment, where sequestration through burial in marine sediments may ultimately occur. Degassing of CO2 from freshwater bodies to the atmosphere thus links the terrestrial to the atmospheric carbon cycle, more rapidly than if the marine loop is involved and so the fate of carbon in a river can act as a feedback to a changing climate.
Over the past decade, advances in hydrochemical monitoring have allowed an understanding of how, when, and from where carbon is exported - detail that is needed to better define our models of the carbon cycle that underpin future climate projections. Capturing this detail supports ‘hearing every note’ of the full symphony of the carbon cycle, and in this inaugural lecture this increased understanding will be illustrated by drawing on Susan’s field research in carbon landscapes.
About the speaker:
In August 2010, Prof. Susan Waldron, of the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, was awarded a personal chair in Biogeochemistry. This lecture is her inaugural lecture. Her first degree was a B.Sc (Hons.) in Applied Geology, but deterred from a career in the extractives industry by apartheid and captivated by the application of stable isotope analysis to low temperature Earth surface processes, she embarked upon a research career. Her PhD used stable isotope analyses to better understand bacteriogenic methane production in the shallow Earth surface, and so her interest in the carbon cycle began. She subsequently managed for seven years a NERC Stable Isotope Facility, which developed considerable understanding in the application of C and macronutrient flow in terrestrial and aquatic ecological systems. From 2002-07 she held a NERC Advanced Fellowship Oct. 2002-2007, the focus of which was to consider, in a discharge-related context, cycling of major riverine carbon species exported from carbon-rich catchments. In 2004 she joined the School of Geographical and Earth Sciences and her interest in biogeochemical cycles within carbon landscapes continues to grow. Susan is voluntarily responsible for the School compost bin (she is a keen gardener) and occasionally wonders if an appropriate epitaph on her gravestone would be ‘Susan cycled carbon from beginning to end’.
The lecture will be followed by a reception hosted by the SDN.
To attend, please email sustainadmin@glasgow.ac.uk or call Lauren Currie on 0141 330 1989
Download: 110215 SDN Waldron Lecture Flyer
University Educators In Environmental Justice Campaigns
Date: Wednesday, February 2 2011
Time: 14:00 - 16:00
Venue: Learning and Teaching Centre, Southpark House
Speaker: Dr Eurig Scandrett, School of Social Sciences, Queen Margaret University
Social movement activists learn skills and knowledge through their participation in campaigning. Not only are activists highly motivated but the nature of the social conflict provides opportunities to understand wider contradictions in society. What can university educators learn from such social learning and how can academics contribute to these struggles for justice? This seminar will draw on research and pedagogical innovations in Scottish environmental justice campaigns and the Bhopal survivors' movement.
To book your place please visit: http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/learningteaching/events/?action=details&id=5462
Sustainable Construction Topic Support Network Workshop
Capital Projects – either entirely new buildings or refurbishment of existing buildings – pose special risks for Universities and Colleges
Date: Tuesday 1 February 2011
Time: 9:30 to 13:30
Venue: University of Edinburgh (Charteris Land in Moray House, School of Education)
This Topic Support Network meeting will be of special interest to senior managers / Directors of Estates and of Finance responsible for bring their estate into the 21st century. Hosted by the University of Edinburgh at their recently refurbishment Charteris Land in Moray House School of Education which has also seen a recent extension, it will include an update on the Scottish Government’s Zero Waste Scotland campaign to promote the Construction Commitment: Halving Waste to Landfill.
The morning will conclude with a special feedback session lead by the consultant who has undertaken fifteen Post Occupancy Evaluation reviews of recent capital projects supported by Scottish Funding Council.
Donald Canavan - project director on the award winning Great Glen House offices for Scottish Natural Heritage in Inverness - will share some of his recent experience in court as an expert witness where things went wrong between client, designer and contractor.
Fore more information download: 110201 Construction TSN event
To book your place visit: http://www.eauc.org.uk/shop/mms_single_event.php?event_id=1485
Note: If you do not have an EAUC user name and password please book using ‘create a shopper account’ option given. If you encounter any problems when booking please contact us on 01242 714 321 or at info@eauc.org.uk.
SDN Lecture: “Adapting UK Institutions to Climate Change”
Date: Wednesday 26 January 2011
Time: 17.30
Venue: Wolfson Medical School Building, Lecture Theatre 1 (Yudowitz), University of Glasgow
Speaker: Professor Sir John Lawton, CBE, FRS (Chairman Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution)
The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution’s recent report explores the challenges facing UK institutions as they respond to climate change. Adaptation is not an alternative to mitigation; even if CO2 emissions were to stop tomorrow, significant climate change is inevitable, and the less successful we are at mitigation, the bigger the challenges of adaption. These challenges include considerable uncertainty about the magnitude and rates of climate change in different parts of the UK; recognising that adaptation will need to be an ongoing process, not a single action; and a willingness to incorporate an adaptation test into all major decisions. The lecture will explore these and other issues that surround the adaption challenge.
The lecture will be followed by a reception in the Wolfson Atrium hosted by SDN.
About the speaker:
Sir John Lawton is Chairman of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, and formerly Chief Executive of the Natural Environment Research Council (1999-2005), and Director of the Centre for Population Biology at Imperial College (1989-1999). He trained as a zoologist at the University of Durham, and subsequently held posts at Oxford and York Universities.
This event is open to the public, but for catering purposes please email Lauren Currie at lauren.currie@glasgow.ac.uk or call 0141 330 1989 if you plan to attend.
Download: 110126 SDN Lecture Poster
Sandpit "Landscape, Environment, Sustainability"
date: 7 December 2010
time: 10 am - 12 noon
venue: Arts Lab, Room 420, Alexander Stone Building, 16 University Gardens
Climate crises... Landscape... Rivers... Ecology... Battlefields... Place... The built environment... Eco-criticism... Environmental ethics... Nature and the living world.
Across the University there is a huge range of work on going and in development that engages with issues around landscape, environment and sustainability. ArtsLab is hosting a 'sandpit' event' to bring together those with research interests in this area, to identify PGT and KT/E opportunities and to consider plans for an on going research culture/network/centre in leading on that theme.
If your work connects with any of these areas, you are warmly invited to come along to the 'sandpit' event to meet others with related research interests, to identify up coming opportunities - including the RCUK's major initiative on Living With Environmental Change - see http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/ccprog/lwec.htm and http://www.lwec.org.uk/ - and to coordinate actions.
Arts Lab's seminar room holds up to 14 people, places will be allotted on a 'first come, first served' basis.
Please contact Anna at
anna.rosenfeldt@glasgow.ac.uk
if you would like to attend.
5th International Conference on Higher Education: "Higher Education’s Commitment to Sustainability: from Understanding to Action"
date: 23-25 November 2010
venue: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona.
The goal of the conference is to discuss how higher education is transforming itself to contribute to the paradigm of sustainability. It includes the environmental, social, human, economic and cultural issues for living in the planetary era and identifying aspects of this transformation in order to discuss and propose specific ways of action to advance.
You are cordially invited to attend Conference. Please note that the early registration fee ends on 15 September, 2010.
More information about GUNI Conference is available at: http://www.guninetwork.org/conference2010
Download: 101123 GUNI 2010 Conference Flyer
Enhancing environmental sustainability through inter-disciplinary action!
date: 11 - 12 November 2010
venue: Aberdeen Arts Centre, 33 King Street, Aberdeen AB24 5AA
time: Day 1: 08:30-17:30 Day 2: 09:00-17:00
The Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability (ACES) brings together natural and social scientists to carry out inter-disciplinary research on environmental sustainability. Associated with ACES is a network of early career researchers from across the Aberdeen research community with an interest in interdisciplinary approaches to environmental sustainability. This workshop aims to expand this network by inviting applications from a diverse range of researchers whom are interested in the challenges and opportunities of increasing the impact of interdisciplinary research. Participants will take part in discussions and workshops on overcoming barriers to successful interdisciplinary research and contribute to workshop outputs including publications and the development of a collaborative research project on assessing the impacts of interdisciplinary research.
This workshop is aimed at PhD students and early career researchers who are either working in interdisciplinary research or who currently work in a single discipline but intend to move into interdisciplinary work in the future. To apply please fill in the attached application form.
Further information and registration forms can be found here: http://www.aces.ac.uk/news.php
For further information please contact: Dr. Anna Evely www.evely.webeden.co.uk
Infrastructure and Environment seminar: " Oxidation and Coagulation in Water and Wastewater Treatment "
date: 19 October at 1pm
venue: room 816 in the Rankine building.
Prof. JiaQian Jiang, from Glasgow Caledonian University will present his work on: " Oxidation and Coagulation in Water and Wastewater Treatment "
Coagulation and oxidation are two major unit processes widely used in drinking water treatment as well as in wastewater treatment (primary or tertiary treatment). This presentation briefs the principles of coagulation, discusses the effect of oxidation on coagulation performance, and introduces an advanced bi-functional water treatment chemical, Ferrate(VI), in the treatment of water and wastewater. Finally, future research needs in coagulation/oxidation are recommended.
About the speaker:
Dr JiaQian Jiang has been recently appointed as a Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering at Glasgow Caledonian University. Prior to the current post, he was a Reader at the University of Surrey and a Research Fellow at Imperial College London. He has been working in the following fields since 1982: the development and use of adsorbents, coagulants, disinfectants, oxidants and the electrochemical system, as well as in the modification of various unit processes for water and wastewater treatment and environmental remediation. As a principal investigator/PhD supervisor, he has led and managed his research team to carry out and complete successfully a number of projects, which were sponsored by the UK research council (EPSRC), industries (e.g., Thames Water, Southern Water, Borax Europe Ltd), the UK government (DTI and TSB), British Council and overseas funding organisations (Korea, China). He has published more than 120 papers in the peer reviewed journals and book chapters and conference proceedings and has edited one book. His achievements also include three granted international/national patents.
Environmental and Clean Technologies Conference
date: 26 October 2010
venue: Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh
This key event will take place on Tuesday 26th October at Our Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh focusing on the Scottish Government's Environmental and Clean Technologies (ECT) strategy. The ECT industry has the potential to create tens of thousands of jobs and bring millions of pounds worth of investment to the Scottish economy. In September 2009 the Scottish Government launched the new Environmental and Clean Technologies Action Plan. Later this year it will launch its three-year ECT strategy offering support and guidance for Scottish businesses.
For further updates and to register please visit the conference website: www.holyrood.com/greenrevolution
Download: 101026 Environmental and Clean Tech Conference
Europe-Japan Dialogue Public Lecture: ‘International Aid for a Water Project’
date: 6 October 2010
time: 18.00
venue: Seminar Room 1 (Yudowitz), Wolfson Medical School Building, University of Glasgow, University Avenue, Glasgow
Speakers:
- Mr Ken Okaniwa, Minister and Director, Japan Information and Cultural Centre, Embassy of Japan
- Dr Caetano Dorea, School of Engineering, University of Glasgow
This will be the first Europe-Japan Dialogue public lecture with two speakers. As Director for Development Planning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr Okaniwa was responsible for Japan’s “Water and Sanitation Broad Partnership Initiative” announced in March 2006.
Consequently, he was posted at The Embassy of Japan in Jakarta in charge of Japan’s aid programme from 2006 till 2008. Dr Dorea was also engaged in activities in Indonesia through a humanitarian water aid programme (with Oxfam GB) when the country was hit by tsunami in 2004 and more recently through his research activities (Bali, 2009). Both were engaged in international aid for water projects in the same country, but their angles were different. It is hoped that there would be interesting, open discussion not only between the speakers but also between the speakers and the audience.
This event is organised by the Innovation Network at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with MSc in Global Water Sustainability programme run by the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow. The event is support by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
Professor Steve Beaumont, Vice Principal for Research & Enterprise, University of Glasgow, will chair the seminar. Refreshments will be available after the lecture.
The event is free and open to the public. For further information and to register, please contact Yushin Toda on Yushin.Toda@glasgow.ac.uk or Kara Mackenzie on Kara.Mackenzie@glasgow.ac.uk