This event, run as part of the 3rd Gobeshona Global Conference will focus on how we develop and use tools to enhance adaptive capacity within delta environments. We’ll hear about how numerical models can be used to understand the links between the physical and social worlds, and how policymakers and stakeholders can take up the insights gained from these models to ensure we increase the adaptive capacity of delta communities. Our speakers will each present their work, followed by a panel discussion.
Participants will then be invited to contribute questions for our panel members.
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Our Panel
Prof. Craig Hutton
Prof. Craig Hutton is a Professor of Sustainability Science at the University of Southampton, UK.
He has worked in sustainable development for 25 years, the majority of these at the University of Southampton with a focus on sustainable management of deltaic and large river environments, community level adaptation and development in the light of environmental change, Food, Poverty, Water nexus, decision support tools development, systems dynamics and integrated assessment modelling (IAM) and scenario development and stakeholder engagement.
Dr. Hue Le
Dr. Hue Le is a senior researcher and lecturer from the VNU - Central Institute for Natural Resources and Environmental Studies (CRES), Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
Her research focuses on natural resource management, land tenure, and gender. Her scholarship examines the differentiating effects of the macro policy and investigates how social differentiation and power relations affect the way in which different classes of people use the resources and the income that each class earns from forest-related resources.
Dr. Le received her MA in Urban and Environmental Policy at Tufts University and her PhD in Agriculture and Rural Development at the Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands. From February to August 2012, she was a Fulbright visiting scholar at the Earth Institute at Columbia University. From October to November 2016, she was a visiting scholar at York Centre for Asian Research, York University.
Mr Haoyang Qin
Mr Haoyang Qin is a PhD candidate at Loughborough University and member of the Living Deltas Hub.
Haoyang’s research concerns human activities during hazardous events. He develops simulation tools to predict individual and organisational behaviours using agent-based modelling (ABM) and AI technologies.
Professor Mashfiqus Salehin
Dr Mashfiqus Salehin is a professor of hydrology and water resources management at the Institute of Water and Flood Management, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology.
During his 29 years of research and academic career, Prof Salehin has researched a variety of technical and interdisciplinary issues, including large basin (GBM) scale hydrology, coastal hydrogeology and saline water intrusion, disaster vulnerability, and risk analysis, simulations for climatic and socio-economic scenarios, climate change adaptation, socio-eco-technical approaches to water management, integrated analysis and modeling of physical and human systems, physical process-water security-livelihood dynamics, water security and poverty risk characterization, and transboundary water management.
He has led and co-led several Bangladeshi research consortiums in large international collaborative projects (e.g., UKRI Living Deltas Hub; REACH: Improving Water Security for the Poor; Assessing Health, Livelihoods, Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation in Populous Deltas – ESPA Deltas; Deltas, vulnerabilities, and climate change: Migration and Adaptation – DECCMA; Academic Alliance on Anticipatory Actions – 4As; and Transnational Policy Dialogue for Improved Water Governance of Brahmaputra River – Brahmaputra Dialogue). He has served in several government expert committees and institutional governing boards, linked to the Bangladesh Water Development Board, Joint Rivers Commission- Bangladesh, the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, Support to the Implementation of the BDP (SIBDP), Sustainable Development Goal 6, and Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN). He has been the key resource person/ speaker in numerous training programmes, workshops, and webinars on IWRM, Water Diplomacy/ Transboundary issues, Climate Vulnerability and Biophysical Challenges, Climate Change Adaptation, and Adaptive Delta Management, organized by different government and non-government agencies and international forums.
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About the Delta Dialogue Series
The series, organised by Living Deltas Research Hub, aims to build knowledge and networks by bringing speakers from different sectors and contexts to share their expertise and reflect upon the complex socio-ecological challenges facing deltas today.
Our aim is to strengthen partnerships in delta research, governance, and policy at a regional and global scale.