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Ideas to shape the future: Fighting climate change

Join us for an evening hosted by the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute and Interdisciplinary Centre on Climate Change (IC^₃). One hour, seven topics, seven speakers, with seven minutes each. Leading experts from both institutes will share their knowledge and ideas on how climate change can be addressed at the individual, community, and global levels.

Part of The ALARM Dialogues.

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As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Professor Edson Wendland, will present “Hydrology of the 2014 São Paulo, Brazil Water Crisis”.

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Professor Jun Xia, will present "Addressing Urban Hydrological Issues: An Integrated Water Systems Approach."

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series and co-sponsored by the Department of Applied Mathematics, Professor Hilmar Hofmann, will present "Importance and Effects of Physical Processes in Lake Ecosystems."

As part of the Water Institute's WaterTalks lecture series Dr. Kaveh Madani, Visiting Professor at the Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP), Imperial College London, and currently a Henry Hart Rice Senior Fellow at the Department of Political Science and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies of Yale University, will present "Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: Deceiving Assumptions and Misleading Policies in Modelling and Managing Water”

As part of the Water Institute's seminar series Richard Marinos, postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, will present "Ecosystem Recovery from Acid Rain: Biogeochemical Consequences in the Soil-Stream Continuum."

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The Water Institute will be hosting an international summer school for international and domestic graduate students on climate change and water security in urbanized watersheds. With over 20 Water Institute members – from all six University of Waterloo faculties – participating as instructors, this program will offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective to students.