As
part
of
the
Water
Institute's WaterTalks
lecture
series Maria
Carmen
Lemos,
Professor
and
Associate
Dean
for
Research
and
Engagement
at
the
School
for
Environment
and
Sustainability and
Co-Director
of
the
Great
Lakes
Sciences
and
Assessments
Center at
the
University
of
Michigan,
will
present,
"Building
adaptive
capacity
for
water
management--the
role
of
knowledge
and
power."
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This
talk
focuses
on
the
role
of
scientific
knowledge
in
informing
water
management,
with
particular
attention
to
how
knowledge
intersects
with
democracy
and
governance
in
shaping
adaptive
capacity
for
integrated
water
management
models.
I
will
talk
about
my
empirical
research
in
this
area,
especially
exploring
case
studies
and
broader
comparative
analysis
in
Brazil
and
the
Great
Lakes
region
of
North
America.
Speaker
Bio
Maria
Carmen
Lemos
is
Professor
and
Associate
Dean
for
Research
and
Engagement
at
the
School
for
Environment
and
Sustainability
(SEAS)
and
co-Director
of
the
Great
Lakes
Sciences
and
Assessments
Center
(GLISA)
at
the
University
of
Michigan,
Ann
Arbor.
Her
research
focuses
on
the
use
of
scientific
knowledge
in
environmental
public
policymaking
in
Latin
America
and
the
U.S.,
especially
related
to
climate
change
(adaptation
and
adaptive
capacity
building)
and
the
co-production
of
science
and
policy
(the
different
means
to
narrow
the
gap
between
useful
and
usable
knowledge).
She
was
a
lead
author
of
the
Intergovernmental
Panel
on
Climate
Change
(IPCC-AR5)
and
has
served
in
a
number
of
the
US
National
Research
Council
of
the
National
Academies
of
Sciences
committees
including Restructuring
Federal
Climate
Research
to
Meet
the
Challenges
of
Climate
Change
(2009), America
Climate
Choice
Science
Panel
(2010)
and
the
Board
on
Environmental
Change
and
Society
(2008-2014).
She
has
MSc.
and
PhD
degrees
in
Political
Science
from
the
Massachusetts
Institute
of
Technology,
MIT.
