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We are very pleased to announce that “the Joint BNU-Princeton Workshop on Water, Food and Climate Change in China” will be held in BeiJing Normal University, BeiJing, from 15 to 17 May, 2012.

Much of the vulnerability of agriculturalists within China is driven by surface hydrological

dynamics; both directly through rainfall variability and indirectly through additional human- or climate-induced land and water degradation. This tight coupling between social-ecological and

hydrological systems in the region make it an ideal setting to conduct fully integrated research

between social and physical sciences, where transformative research in either domain necessarily

depends on fundamental contributions in the other. Vulnerability to variations in precipitation is

controlled by the manner by which meteorological drought propagates into agricultural and

ecological drought in many dryland regions. Therefore, the frequency and severity of a

“drought year” depends heavily on both social and agricultural factors, which are themselves

strongly coupled to spatial expressions of hydrological dynamics, land-cover patterns, and local

coping behaviors. The decisions and options to choose different coping mechanisms depend on a

complex set of social and ecological conditions, such as the spatial distribution of land holdings,

social norms within a community, the spatial distribution of land cover and the availability of

drought aid. Successfully addressing interactions requires the existence of fully-integrated multidisciplinary science teams. However, although sufficient expertise exists, such groups have not formed due to the high activation energy required to initiate novel and complex international collaborations that includes both key international researchers and local policy experts.

Given current concerns with the increasing frequency and magnitude of droughts in many regions of the world, especially in the light of expected climate change, drought monitoring and

dissemination of early warning information in a timely fashion is a critical concern. The

European Union experienced intense drought and heat waves in 2003, Argentina in 2008/2009,

southeast Australia in 2009, and the Russia Federation in 2010, while, at the same time, the

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate projections for the 21st century

suggest an increased frequency of severe droughts globally, and in particular in continental USA

and Mexico, Mediterranean Basin, parts of northern China, Southern Africa, the Sahel region of

Africa, Australia, and parts of South America.

We seek to develop a global collaborative network that contains the wide range of disciplinary expertise needed to address the above issues, while maintaining a small size commensurate with our vision of substantive scientific collaboration and accelerated professional development.

The workshop will develop a network for research collaboration in the areas of water, food and climate change in China.

Topic:
(1) Water Problems, Climate Change and Food Security in China

(2) Study and Perspective on Climate Change Impact and Water Security in the East Monsoon Area of China
(3) Climate Change, Water Security and Agricultural Development in China: Impacts and Adaptation Assessment

(4) Predictable Signals of Seasonal Precipitation in the Yangtze-Huaihe River Valley (5) Quantifying water and energy fluxes and the implications to food productivity in NCP: from field to regional scales

(6) Evaluation of agricultural water consumption, crop yield, and climate change in time and space over Northern China

(7) Simulated Effects of Climate Change on Food Security in China toward 2050
(8) Climate Change and Water Resources: Observation, Simulation and Projection
(9) Application of an Economy–Climate Model to Assess the Impact of Climate Change
(10) An Overview of BNU Center in Hydrometeorology and Optimization of Water Resources (CHOW)
(11) China’s drought threats, and challenges in sustainable agricultural water use:An overview
(12) Long-term variability of the ecohydrologic processes in a large irrigated area of the North China Plain: observation and simulation
(13) Prediction of Irrigation Requirement under Climate Changes in China
(14) A New Tool for Agricultural Drought Risk Analysis
(15) Study of vegetation-climate interaction by using Dynamic Global Vegetation Model
(16) Land- Hydrological Model System and its Applications over Huai River Basin

Co-Hosts:

Beijing Normal University

Princeton University

Sponsors:

Beijing Normal University (BNU)

Princeton University (PU)

CMOST 973 Project (#2010CB428400)

Institutional Participants:

Beijing Normal University – College of Global Change and Earth System Science (BNU-GCESS)

Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences - Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning (CAAS-IARRP)

Chinese Academy of Sciences – Center for Agricultural Resources Research (CAS/CARR)

Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Atmospheric Physics (CAS/IAP)

Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research (CAS/IGSNRR)

Chinese Meteorological Administration - National Climate Centre (CMA/NCC)

Princeton University – Princeton China Research Network

Tsinghua University – Department of Hydraulic Engineering and Earth System Center (TU/DHE & TU/ESC)

Location
The conference is being held in the Third Lecture Hall of Ying Dong Building of BNU.

Contacts
Qingyun Duan E-mail: qyduan@bnu.edu.cn

Chiyuan Miao E-mail: miaocy@vip.sina.com

Hongmei Pan E-mail:panhongmei@mail.bnu.edu.cn

Tel: (010) 58804191

 

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