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Posters from two research projects looking at Flood Recovery and Resilience working with adults and children in the city of Kingston-upon-Hull are to be included in the Economic and Social Research Council’s Exhibition 21st Century Lives: Local and Global Stories  hosted by the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust at the at , East Riding of Yorkshire  on 24th/25th November 2012 from 10.00am to 3.00pm.

If you would like to know more about the Hull Flood Projects please go to their respective websites where you can download both the Summary and Full Report for each project:
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The report includes sections on

• Flooding
• Bathing water
• Managing water resources
• Customer focus
• Employability
• Retail competition

There are also case studies bringing to life details about the new training centre in Leigh and financial advice for customers including tailored support for vulnerable customers.

There’s also the chance to find out what the two giant green bubbles are at the Davyhulme wastewater treatment works and why black-headed gulls are flocking to Lancashire!

Download the , the or for more details go to the  website.

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The British Hydrological Society Pennines Group will host  A really extreme event: Cumbria November 2009 with speakers Alex Cornish and Peter Spencer (Environment Agency) and John Sanders (Cascade Consulting) in Warrington on 14th November 2012. The meeting is free of charge and open to non members.

For more details please contact Peter Spencer or refer to this poster.

There is a vacancy for a post-doctoral  Research Fellow position for 36 months (0.5 FTE) for a new ESRC project on Chinese hydropower dams in Asia and Africa. This inter-disciplinary project will be the first comparative study of the social, economic, environmental and political impacts of Chinese hydropower dam projects in low and middle income countries. 

The post-doctoral Research Fellow will be based at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and will conduct primary research in Cambodia, <a href=”http://service-custom-essay.com/”>dfdf</a> Ghana, Malaysia, Nigeria and China. For please visit the SOAS website.

Abstract deadline  20 October 2012

Objectives 

This conference aims to discuss the entire policy cycle for water quality improvement. This cycle includes problem recognition, formulation of technical options, the process of policy development, interaction with policy makers, stakeholders and pressure groups, policy implementation, monitoring and research. This conference also aims to intensify contacts, on the one hand, between scientists with a background in natural sciences and scientists with a background in social and economic sciences and, on the other hand, between scientists, water managers and policy makers. In short, the objectives are:
–  to provide forum for exchange of scientific knowledge, research on system knowledge, modelling and uncertainty;
–  to discuss the entire policy cycle for water quality improvement;
–  to intensify contacts (a) between soil/water related scientists, agro related scientists, social scientists, ecological scientists and economists, and (b) between scientists, water managers and policy makers.

Target groups and keywords
Target groups are scientists, managers and policy makers involved in the policy cycle for water quality improvement. It includes activities characterised by the following keywords: agronomy, agro-economics, agro-sociology, water management, water policy, hydrology, aquatic ecosystems, terrestrial ecosystems, unsaturated zone, groundwater, surface waters, drinking water, monitoring, modelling, water quality, nutrients, agro-chemicals.

THEMES 
Contributions are solicited according to the following themes, themes A through F.

A.. Increasing system knowledge: research to increase understanding and improving modelling of the hydro(geo)logical, geochemical and biochemical reality
B.. Impact of climate change and weather variability: assessment of effect on groundwater and surface water quality and distinguishing from effect of human behaviour
C.. Assessment of national policy: assessment of effects of programmes of measures on water quality on a regional and national scale
D.. Field research and data interpretation: research (monitoring and modelling) at plot and field scale for quantifying effects of farming practices and changes in land use
E.. Managing protected areas: use of monitoring and modelling to improve water quality for drinking water supply areas and habitat and species protection areas
F.. Decision-making and implementation: role of policy, stakeholder and science in decision-making, and social and economic incentives and constraints for implementation (carrots and sticks)

For topics relevant to these themes.

FURTHER INFORMATION or please feel free to contact the Organising Committee:
– Dico Fraters, dico.fraters@rivm.nl
– Karel Kovar, karel.kovar@pbl.nl