10:00 - 10:20 |
Opening Address TACHIMOTO, Narifumi (Director-General, RIHN)
Introduction of RIHN Water Studies TANIGUCHI, Makoto (Professor, RIHN)
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Session 1: Adaptive Water Management in Arid Environments
Chair: WATANABE, Tsugihiro (Professor, RIHN) |
10:20 - 10:40 |
Ahmed Tawfik Moustafa (Regional Coordinator, Dubai Office, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA))
“Water and Food Security in the Arabian Peninsula: Struggling for More Actions”
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10:40 - 11:00 |
FUKUHARA, Ryuichi (Program Officer, International Environmental Technology Centre (IETC), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)) “Environmental Crisis of the Iraqi Marshlands of Mesopotamia as Cumulative Water Problems in the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Basin”
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11:00 - 11:20 |
Waleed H. M. Abou El Hassan (Visiting Associate Professor, Arid Land Research Center Tottori University) “Water Availability and Management for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Egypt” |
11:20 - 11:50 |
Discussion |
11:50 - 13:10 |
Lunch and Tea Ceremony (produced by Dr. HORIE Kyoko, Director, The Institute of Traditional Arts of Japan) |
Session 2: Adaptive Water Management in Subsurface Environments
Chair: NAWATA, Hiroshi (Associate Professor, RIHN) |
13:10 - 13:30 |
KOBORI, Iwao (Senior Program Officer, United Nations University) “Comparative Study of QANAT in the Islamic World”
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13:30 - 13:50 |
LAUREANO, Pietro (Director, Research Center on Local and Traditional Knowledge (IPOGEA), Director) “The Uses of Traditional Knowledge for Water Management in the Oases and City-oases of Sahara and Yemen to Cope with Global Crises” |
13:50 - 14:10 |
Ali Asghar Semsar Yazdi (Director, International Center on Qanats & Historic Hydraulic Structures (ICQHS)) “Traditional Water Management Systems in the Middle East and West Asia with Emphasis on Qanat and Karez” |
14:10 - 14:30 |
Zohreh Cheraghi Chaleshtari (Yazd University) “Role of Water Management in Political History of Iran”
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14:30 - 14:50 |
ENDO Takahiro (Assistant Professor, RIHN) “Sinking Cities and Groundwater Management: Institutional Responses to the Problem of Land Subsidence in Asian Megacities” |
14:50 - 15:30 |
Discussion |
15:30 - 15:40 |
Coffee Break |
Session 3: Hydrological Cycle as Medium of Human and Nature
Chair: WUSHIKI, Hisao (Former Senior Adviser, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)) |
15:40 - 16:00 |
NAWATA, Hiroshi (Associate Professor, RIHN) “Camels as Natural Desalination Device: A Case Study of Traditional Water Management in the Coastal Zone of the Arid Tropics” |
16:00 - 16:20 |
Mohamed Abd Elbasit (Project Researcher, Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University) “Modeling of Interrill Sediment Generation and Soil Microtopography Dynamics under Variable Simulated Rainfall Erosivity” (Tentative)
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16:20 - 16:40 |
Discussion |
16:40 - 17:40 |
General Discussion
Chair: TANIGUCHI, Makoto (Professor, RIHN) & ENDO, Takahiro (Assistant Professor, RIHN)
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