Managing Community Impacts of Climate Change
Workshop Program
Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 March, 2012
ITC Sonar, Kolkata
JBS Haldane Avenue
Kolkata, West Bengal, 700 046, India
Telephone: + 91 33 2345 4545
Facsimile: + 91 33 2345 4455
WORKSHOP COMMENCES
Day One: Monday 12 March, 2012
9:00 AM
Conference Room 4, ITC Sonar, Kolkata
West Bengal, India
Registration
Tea and Coffee
9:30 AM
- 9:45 AM
Welcome
9:45 AM
- 10:00 AM
Introduction
SESSION ONE
Professor Amiya K. Bagchi
Director, Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
West Bengal, India
Professor Ajit Banerjee
Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
West Bengal, India
Chair: Professor Ajit Banerjee
10:00 AM
- 10:30 AM
Knowledge management for improved community
Dr Paul McShane
outcomes in response to climate change
Monash Sustainability Institute
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
10:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
Morning Tea
11:00 AM
- 11:30 AM
Challenging sustainability: A case study on
climate change adaptation and food security
from the Sundarbans
11:30 AM
How sensitive polices and implementation
- 12:00 NOON are to ecosystem services
Dr Ashish Ghosh
Former Director
Zoological Survey of India
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Professor Joyashree Roy
Jadavpur University
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
12:00 NOON
- 12:30 PM
Ecosystems for life: studying the role of
Dr Jenia Mukherjee
ecosystem services in community
Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
adaptation in the Ganges “chars”
West Bengal, India
12:30 PM
- 1:30 PM
Lunch
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SESSION TWO
Chair: Professor Chowdhury Abrar
Professor Bob Pokrant
Curtin University, Perth, Australia
and Dr Mokhlesur Rahman
Centre for Natural Resource Studies
Dhaka, Bangladesh
1:30 PM
- 2:00 PM
India, Bangladesh and the governance of the
Ganga Brahmaputra Meghna Basin in an
age of climate change
2:00 PM
- 2:30 PM
Arsenic and its species in sediments and
biota of the Ganges River basin
Professor S.K. Sarkar
University of Calcutta
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
2:30 PM
- 3:00 PM
Groundwater quality problems in West Bengal
Dr Ajoy Kumar Misra
Former Senior Hydrologist
Central Groundwater Board
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
3:00 PM
- 3:30 PM
Afternoon Tea
3:30 PM
- 4:30 PM
Discussion: Resolving community development issues
in response to climate change
4:30 PM
- 5:00 PM
Concluding remarks
5:00 PM
Close
6:30 PM
- 9:30 PM
Welcome Dinner (aboard the ‘MV Ahalya’, River Hooghly). Departure point is
Millennium Park.
For guests staying at the ITC Sonar, Kolkata; please meet in the foyer of the
Hotel at 5:30 p.m., for transfer to Millennium Park.
Day Two: Tuesday 13 March, 2012
9:00 AM
Tea and Coffee
SESSION ONE
9:30 AM
- 10:00 AM
Delay in emergency measures to
moderate global warming in
the Indo-Gangetic region
Chair: Professor Bob Pokrant
Professor Ajit Banerjee
Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata
West Bengal, India
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10:00 AM
- 10:30 AM
Local coping and adaptation strategies to climate induced
Dr Partha J. Das
water hazards and their relevance for community
AARANYAK
resilience and development in riparian areas:
Guwahati, Assam, India
Perspectives from the Brahmaputra basin
10:30 AM
- 11:00 AM
Morning Tea
11:00 AM
- 11:30 AM
Migration as a coping strategy to climate
change impacts
11:30 AM
Addressing vulnerability of the rural poor in
- 12:00 NOON response to climate change
12:00 NOON
- 12:30 PM
Peri-urban water security:
Adapting to climate change
in South Asia
12:30 PM
- 1:30 PM
Lunch
SESSION TWO
Dr Tasneem Sidiqqui
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Professor Chowdhury Abrar
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ms Sreoshi Singh
Research Fellow, South Asia Consortium for
Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies, India
Chair: Dr Paul McShane
Dr Paul McShane
Monash Sustainability Institute
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia
1:30 PM
- 2:00 PM
Managing community impacts of climate
change in India and Bangladesh: Synopsis
2:00 PM
- 3:00 PM
Discussion and formulation: Developing a policy
framework and suggestions for further development
integrating social, economic and environmental
impacts of climate change in the Ganga Basin
3:00 PM
- 3:30 PM
Afternoon Tea
3:30 PM
- 4:30 PM
Discussion and formulation: Developing a policy
framework and suggestions for further development
integrating social, economic and environmental
impacts of climate change in the Ganga Basin
4:30 PM
Close
WORKSHOP CONCLUDES
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