Workshop Participants

Chris Alford is currently assistant director of California Chris Alford Conservation, American Rivers. She concluded a Masters in the California Conservation, Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department American Rivers at the University of California, Berkeley. Her thesis investigates 432 Broad Street basin-scale water managment strategies in the context of Nevada City, CA 95959 Californian water laws and the impacts of water diversions on [email protected] streamflow and aquatic habitat.

Paulo is Professor of European Union and International Law at Paulo the University of Coimbra, and holds a Jean Monnet Chair at the Canelas de Castro University of Macau, China. A consultant to UNESCO on the Jean Monnet Chair, “Human Right to Water”, he has been Legal Advisor to Portugal Department of Law, and Mozambique on International Water Law issues, and has University of Macau appeared before the International Court of Justice and the [email protected] European Court of Justice, also on water issues. He authored Recent Developments in Water Law; Principles and Comparative Cases (2005), and many chapters and articles on water law. Prof. Chen Xiaohong heads the Department of Water Resource & Chen Xiaohong Environment, School of Geography, Sun Yat-Sen University. His Dept of Water Resources first degrees were in Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources and Environment, Sun and Hydrology; his PhD is in Water Environmental Modelling. He Yat-Sen University, has published over 100 papers in national and international 510275, P.R. journals, and has led many research programmes funded by China provincial and central government. His research is on human- [email protected] induced changes in rivers, land use change, optimal allocation of water resources, and institutional aspects of basin management.

Lina Chun Lina Chun finshed her Master Studies in Oxford and her interests Oxford University Centre are in environmental issues in China, particularly water pollution for the Environment, and scarcity. She is working on the South-to-North Water University of Oxford Transfer Project using an ethnographic approach. She has South Parks Road worked on dam development on the Nu River, Yunnan for her Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK Masters thesis. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong [email protected] in Geography and Chinese Literature.

Dr. Deng Jiaquan is Deputy Director of the Pearl River Hydraulic Deng Jiaquan Research Institute, Ministry of Water Resources. His PhD (2000) Pearl River Hydraulic is from the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. Since Research Institute, 1982, he has led >80 projects funded by the State, the Ministry, Ministry of Water and the water industry. He has received several national and Resources, China provincial awards, and has published two books and >60 papers in journals or in international conference proceedings. He is also [email protected] part-time professor of the Southern-China Technology University and the Northern-China Hydro-Electrical Institute.

Du Qun is Professor of Law and Deputy Director, Wuhan Du Qun University Institute of Environmental Law. Her research is on Research Institute of Chinese and international environmental law and natural Environmental Law, Law resource policy and law; she has published widely in these areas. School Building, Wuhan She participates in national and international research projects, is University, Wuhan, Hubei a board member of the China Law Society's Environmental and Province 430072, China Resource Law Association, Vice-Chair of the Environmental Law [email protected] Committee of the China Environmental Science Association, and a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law.

Fan Qunfang Dr. Fan Qunfang obtained her PhD degree from Hohai University Pearl River Hydraulic in 2009. She is now working in the Pearl River Hydraulic Research Institute, Research Institute, Ministry of Water Resources. Her research Ministry of Water interests are in the areas of water resources planning and Resources, PR China management, water saving and water supply safety. [email protected]

Dustin Garrick Dr Dustin Garrick is a postdoctoral researcher in water security at University of Oxford, Oxford University. Prior to joining Oxford in June 2011, Dr School of Geography and Garrick was a Fulbright Scholar (Australia) examining water the Environment, South trading and basin governance in the Murray-Darling Basin. His Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 research examines the institutional economics of water security 3QY, United Kingdom and climate adaptation in transboundary rivers. [email protected]

Dabo is a Senior Lecturer in the Sustainability Research Institute Dabo Guan in Leeds and Fellow of St Edmund’s College, University of School of Earth and Cambridge. He is specialized in international climate change Environment, mitigation policies, climate change adaption modeling, scenario University of Leeds, analysis on environmental impacts, water accounting and water Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK resources management, input-output techniques and their [email protected] applications in both developed and developing countries. He has been principle investigator of a number of projects, including a research fellowship funded by AXA Group. Hao Li holds a Ph.D. in water resources management and a Hao Li M.Sc. in Regional Economics. He has been a consultant for World Changjiang River Bank and has published extensively on the impacts of climate Scientific Research change on water resources and integrated water resources Institute, of the management at basin level. He is a research fellow in the Changjiang Water Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute and holds a post- Resources Commission doc position at the UNESCO-IHE. His current research project is [email protected] focused on institutional adaptation strategies to climate risk in the Lancang (Upper Mekong) River Basin. Luo Jing Luo Jing is a researcher at the Centre for China’s Borderland Inst. Urban Development History and Geography, at the Chinese Academy of Social & Environment Research, Sciences (CASS). She has just concluded a post-doctorate project Chinese Academy of in the Department of Urban Research (CASS), after completing a Social Sciences, PhD in Sociology from the Graduate School of CASS. Her Jianguomennei Dajie, n.5, research interests concern development sociology, market , 100732, China sociology, urban development, climate change and justice. [email protected] Johannes Halbe is a research associate at the Institute of Johannes Halbe Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück. He Institute of Environmental has an interdisciplinary background with a Masters in Civil Systems Research, Univ Engineering and a BA in Economics. His research is on methods of Osnabrück, 49069 and tools for adaptive and integrated water resources Osnabrück, Germany management, and barriers to and drivers of social learning. He [email protected] has recently applied these methods to assess governance and osnabrueck.de management of water stress in Cyprus.

He Siyuan is a PhD student in Cambridge researching eco- He Siyuan hydrological (soil-plant-atmosphere) processes in Kobresia Department of pygmaea meadow in northern Tibet, using stable isotopes and GeographyUniversity of soil hydrological modelling. She has a double Bachelors in CambridgeCambridge CB2 Physical Geography and Economics, and a Masters in Plant 3EN, UK Ecology from , and also completed a university [email protected] project on environmental archaeology in Henan Province.

Stefan Hill Friedrich Stefan Hill took up the position of President of the State State Environment Environment Agency (SEA) of the Federal State Rhineland- Agency Rhineland- Palatinate in June 2007. Dr. Hill is a civil engineer (Diplom- Palatinate Ingenieur), and reached his Doctoral graduation (Doctor of Member of the German Engineering) on filtration techniques in waste water treatment in Commission for the 1983. Over the past 30 years, he worked for several state Protection of the Rhine institutions in the federal states of Hesse and Rhineland- [email protected] Palatinate.

Frank Hüesker Frank Hüesker works in the Department for “Institutional Change Leibniz Institute for and Regional Public Goods” at the IRS as a Research Associate. Regional Development His work focuses on the governance of water infrastructure and Structural Planning, systems. He is currently finishing his PhD at the Free University Flakenstrasse 28-31, of Berlin (Germany) where he also received his Diploma in 15537 Erkner Germany Political Sciences. His PhD focuses on the challenges to the [email protected] state's capacity to secure societal goods in the wake of the privatisation of water supply and sanitation companies. Sandra Junier Water Resources Group, After working for a Water Board in the Netherlands for a decade, Dept of Civil Engineering Sandra is now doing a PhD on the role of expertise in decision- and Geosciences, Delft making processes in water management. To begin with, she is University of Technology looking into a decision support tool that was developed for the PO Box 5048, 2600 GA implementation of the European Water Framework Directive. Delft, The Netherlands [email protected] Kathrin Knüppe is a PhD Student at the Institute of Kathrin Knüppe Environmental Systems Research at the University of Osnabrück, Institute of Environmental Germany. Since October 2008 she is working on her research Systems Research, Univ about groundwater governance and the management of of Osnabrück, 49069 ecosystem services. Alongside her PhD Kathrin is working in the Osnabrück, Germany Twin2Go Project (Coordinating twinning partnerships towards [email protected] more adaptive governance in river basins), synthesizing research on adaptive and integrated water resources management in basins around the world. Matt Kondolf Matt Kondolf is a fluvial geomorphologist specializing in Dept Landscape Arch & environmental river management, impacts of human activities Environmental such as dams on flow and sediment yield, and restoration of Planning202 Wurster rivers and streams. As Professor of Environmental Planning, he HallUniversity of teaches courses in hydrology, river restoration, environmental CalifórniaBerkeley CA planning, including short courses in California, France, Portugal, 94720-2000, USA and Taiwan. He works on water management in California, [email protected] Europe, and Southeast Asia, and supervises Chris Alford. Jing Lee is a PhD student at the UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Jing Lee Policy and Science, University of Dundee. Her research is in Dundee UNESCO Centre international water law, especially the protection and for Water Law, Policy and preservation of freshwater ecosystems. She helped draft Kedah Science, The Peters State’s Water Resources Enactment 2007 as a Federal Counsel in Building, University of Malaysia (2007-2008). She is a Research Fellow at the National Dundee, Dundee, DD1 University of Malaysia, focussing on governance and integrated 4HN, Scotland, UK water resources management in Malaysia. She had an LLB from [email protected] the Faculty of Law, NUM; and a Cambridge LL.M.

Li Dan Li Dan, Bachelor of Law (Wuhan), LLM (Wuhan), is a PhD Research Institute of student in the Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan Environmental Law, Law University, supervised by Professor Du Qun. Her major fields are School Building, Wuhan Chinese environmental law and comparative study of University, Wuhan, Hubei environmental law. She has participated in several national Province 430072, China research projects on soil pollution, energy law, climate change, and water resources protection. She has published several [email protected] papers on green consumption in China.

Liu Xiaojie Liu Xiaojie gained her PhD degree in the Institute of Geographic Centre of Water Sciences and Natural Resources Research, at CAS, where she is a Resources Research, research fellow in the Centre for Water Resources Research. She Chinese Academy of has conducted research in projects supported by the Ministry of Sciences, A11, Datun Science and Technology and by the UK Department for Road, Anwai, Chaoyang International Development, on subjects related to climate change District, Beijing, adaptation and water resource security. Her research interests 100101,China include water and food security in China, impacts of climate [email protected] change on water resources, and regional development.

Carlos Lo is Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Carlos Wing-Hung Lo has a PhD from Flinders University, LLD from Renmin University, Dept of Management and and has been Visiting Fellow at several USA Universities. His Marketing, Hong Kong research is in law and government, environmental and public Polytechnic University, sector management, and corporate social and environmental Hung Hom Kowloon,Hong responsibility in China and Hong Kong. He has authored China’s Kong Legal Awakening, co-edited Remaking China’s Public [email protected] Management, and publishes widely in international journals. Luo Jing Luo Jing is a researcher at the Centre for China’s Borderland Inst. Urban Development History and Geography, at the Chinese Academy of Social & Environment Research, Sciences (CASS). She has just concluded a post-doctorate project Chinese Academy of in the Department of Urban Research (CASS), after completing a Social Sciences, PhD in Sociology from the Graduate School of CASS. Her Jianguomennei Dajie, n.5, research interests concern development sociology, market Beijing, 100732, China sociology, urban development, climate change and justice. [email protected] Mao Feng is a PhD student in Cambridge researching the EU Mao Feng Water Framework Directive’s approach to assessing interactions Department of of ecological quality elements, and the application of similar Geography, University of principles to river basin governance in China. He has a BSc in Cambridge, Cambridge Biological Sciences from Zhejiang University, and two Masters CB2 3EN, UK degrees in Biodiversity and Conservation (Leeds University) and [email protected] Politics (Cambridge University).

Timothy Moss Timothy Moss is deputy director of the IRS and head of the Leibniz Institute for research department "Institutional Change and Regional Public Regional Development Goods". With a background in European Studies and history he and Structural Planning has coordinated and conducted several research projects on (IRS), Flakenstrasse 28- institutional aspects of river basin management and urban 31, 15537 Erkner, infrastructure systems for the EU, German Research Coucil and Germany Federal Research Ministry. On the Co-Reach project RiBaGo he is [email protected] responsible for the contributions from Germany.

Jens Newig is Assistant Professor at the University of Osnabrück Jens Newig and Research and Teaching Associate at Leuphana University of Leuphana University, Lüneburg. A geo-ecologist by training, he holds a PhD in Law Lüneburg, from Dresden Technical University. Research has been on [email protected] governance and participation in environmental management with a focus on the implementation of the WFD. He has attracted and co-ordinated a number of research projects funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research, the Volkswagen- Foundation and the German Research Foundation

Pan Jiahua Professor Pan Jiahua is Director General of the Institute of Urban Chinese Academy of & Environment Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His Social Sciences, research includes global climate regimes, climate change and Jianguomennei Dajie No. sustainable development, energy and environmental policy. A 5, Beijng 100732, China member of the National Expert Panel on Climate Change, [email protected] Professor Pan works on policy consultancy for several key Ministries in China, including the National Development & Reform Commission and the Ministry of Environmental Protection. László Perger Head of Department Dr.Perger has been Head of Department for River Basin River Basin Management Management, Central Water Directorate for Water and Central Water Directorate Environment, since 2003. He had previously worked for the Ministry of Rural Trans-Tisza Water Directorate since 1979 and concluded his PhD Development, studies on “Optimization of Water Related Network”. In the Tél utca 4/b, Szentendre context of the EU-China River Basin Management Programme, 2000 Hungary Dr.Perger participated in the EU China study mission to the [email protected] Yangtze River in December 2010.

Keith Richards is Professor of Geography in the Department of Keith Richards Geography at the University of Cambridge. His research has been Department of on hydrology and river processes; he has co-ordinated EU Geography, University of research on floodplain restoration, and has practical experience Cambridge, Cambridge of the physical monitoring requirements of the WFD. He is PI for CB2 3EN, UK the Co-Reach and ERSC projects, on which he is working with [email protected] André Silveira, for whom he is PhD supervisor.

Dajun Shen is Professor at Renmin University. He has been the Shen Dajun team leader of about 10 international and domestic water Renmin University projects and has published more than 60 books and papers on [email protected] water resource management. In addition, he has a long experience of providing technical support to the Ministry of Water Resources, China, in water resource management.

André Silveira is a PhD student in the Department of Geography, André Silveira University of Cambridge. He holds a diploma in Political Science Department of and International Relations (Technical University of Lisbon) and Geography, University of MA in European Studies (University of Macau), in which he first Cambridge, Cambridge investigated EU-China cooperation on environmental issues. His CB2 3EN, UK PhD project is concerned with the EU-China cooperation on river [email protected] basin management and processes of institutional change in river basin management and governance.

Frank Sondershaus Frank Sondershaus studied geography, political science and Leibniz Institute for sociology at Erlangen University, Germany. His thesis explored Regional Development obstacles to sustainable development in administratively divided and Structural Planning areas. He now works on a project linking precautionary flood (IRS), Flakenstrasse 28- protection to regional cultural landscapes, taking into account 31, 15537 Erkner, climate change and declining water levels. He also investigates Germany adaptive water management, conflicts between water users, and [email protected] climate change in small river basins - a project of the Innovation Network on Climate Adaptation, Brandenburg Berlin. Simon Spooner Simon Spooner has wide experience of river basin planning. He Water Quality & Pollution has a BSc in Geochemistry (Manchester, 1991), and has worked Control Specialist, on modelling river and drainage systems, wastewater treatment EU-China River Basin systems, and asset management (for the UK regulator, OFWAT). Management Programme, He has a Cambridge Master’s Degree (2003). He has worked on Yellow River Conservancy World Bank projects in China, the Water Chapters of the OECD Commission, Zhengzhou, Environmental Performance Review, and the OECD Regulatory P.R.China Reform Review of China. He is the EU-China RBMP’s key expert [email protected] in water quality, at the Yellow River Conservancy Commission.

Wolfgang has been appointed President of the International Wolfgang Stalzer Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) for Dr. Wolfgang Stalzer 2012, a post he occupied also in 1999. He was EU – Water Weimarerstrasse 78 D irector of Austria and Head of the Austrian Delegation of the A-1180 Wien, Austria ICPDR. Wolfgang was awarded Doctor degree in the field of [email protected] Wastewater Treatment and Water Protection by the Technical University Vienna in 1977 and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences since 1982. Reinhard is the manager of the Cologne Flood Control Office and Reinhard Vogt managing director of the Centre of Competence for Floods Cologne Flood [registered association]. His duties encompass preventative flood Management Centre protection with the creation of retention areas and initialisation Willy-Brandt-Platz 2 of discharge reducing procedures as well as optimisation of risk 50679 Köln management and flood management, at municipal and [email protected] international levels. He is also engaged in public awareness activities in cooperation with citizens. He has been involved in projects for practical flood protection throughout Europe, in Central America, in Thailand and Indonesia

Gareth Walker Gareth Walker has just begun his PhD investigating climate School of Geography and change impacts on mid- to high-elevation communities in Nepal the Environment, South at the Oxford School of Geography and the Environment. He Parks Road, Oxford OX1 holds a BSc in Physics and an Msc in Water Science, Policy and 3QY, UK Management. For the past two years he has worked for a not- [email protected] for-profit organisation promoting water efficiency in the U.K.

Steven Visser Steven was process manager for implementation of Water Visser Waterbeheer Framework Directive in the Rhine-West river basin district, de Beeringen 22 employed by Province of Gelderland. He was previously technical 6681 JH Bemmel consultant in water management and project manager, for Royal +31 (0)6 212 06 760 Haskoning. In regard to research, Steven is also a researcher [email protected] attached to Faculty of Civil Engineering, Delft University of Technology (TUD), where he graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering, with a specialization in rural water management, irrigation and drainage.

Georg Wulf Wupperverband Georg Wulf studied law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Untere Lichtenplatzer Str. Muenster/Germany (2nd state exam). He works for the German 100 water board Wupperverband (sub-catchment of the Rhine close 42289 Wuppertal to Cologne) since 1991. Mr. Wulf is managing division director [email protected] responsible for administration and human resources and permanent deputy director of Wupperverband.

Xia Jun Xia Jun (China) is President of the International Water Resources Chinese Academy of Association. He is Professor of Hydrology & Water Resources, Sciences, Centre for and Director, Centre for Water Resources Research, Chinese Water Resources Academy of Sciences (CAS). He has wide experience in water Research, Datun Road research, management and consultancy. He was Vice President 11A, Anwai, Beijing, of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (2003- 100101, China 2007), and is now Co - Chair, Inter-Academy of Council for [email protected] Water Programme (IAC-WP) & Director, Asia Scientific Network Office for Global Water System Project (GWSP-ANSO). Yumiko Yasuda Yumiko Yasuda is a researcher for the EU-funded LiveDiverse Dundee UNESCO Centre project (www.livediverse.eu), based at the Dundee Centre for for Water Law, Policy and Water Law, Policy and Science. Her research is in environmental Science, The Peters and water governance, and in integrating environmental concern Building, University of in development policy. She has an MA in Environmental Policy Dundee, Dundee, DD1 (Tufts University) and an MSc in Environmental Science (Tsukuba 4HN, Scotland, UK University). She has worked on environmental projects in South [email protected] East Asia for WWF, UNDP, and Cambodian NGOs.

Zheng Yan Research Centre for Sustainable Development, Dr Zheng Yan is working for the Research Centre for Sustainable Chinese Academy of Development in CASS (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences). She Social Sciences, has focused on economics of adaptation for climate change, low Jianguomennei Dajie No. carbon development, environmental economics, amongst other 5, Beijng 100732, China related topics. [email protected]

Participants in the Network who were unable to attend the Third Workshop

Chun Xia Chun Xia is a PhD student at the Institute of Environmental Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabruck, Germany. Her Systems Research, Bachelors was in Environmental Engineering (ECUST, China), and University of Osnabrück, her MSc was in Integrated Assessment (Osnabruck). She has Artilleriestr. 34, D-49069 studied decentralization in the irrigation sector, and social Osnabrück, Germany learning approach and participatory methods. Current research is [email protected] in transition in water resource management in China, flood

management in the Yangtze and water scarcity in North China. Ding Jie Ding Jie has a PhD from the Department of Geography, Department of University of Cambridge; she was supervised by Professor Keith Geography, University of Richards. She also holds a Diploma in Geology (Sun Yat-sen Cambridge, Cambridge University). Her PhD research focused on the spatial distribution CB2 3EN, UK of sediment production, delivery and yield in the Xihanshui River [email protected] Basin, South Gansu, China.

Dr Sarah Hendry Sarah Hendry is a lecturer in comparative national water law at IHP-HELP Centre for the IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science at the Water Law, Policy and University of Dundee. She has special expertise in EU water law Science, Peters Building, and teaches and researches on regulatory frameworks in both University of Dundee, water services and water resources. She is programmes director Perth Road, DD1 4HN, for the Centre’s masters programmes and advisor of studies to Scotland, UK. the research students. Her research interests lie in comparative [email protected] frameworks for law reform and ithe science–policy–law interface. Hongthai Tan has a BA in Economics and Politics and an MSc in Hongthai Tan Environmental Science and Management from the University of Department of Geography York (UK). He is a PhD student in hydrology and water University of Cambridge management in Cambridge on “Sustainable Water Resource Cambridge CB2 3EN Management and Globalization: the Case of Phuket, Thailand”. UK He has worked for the National Economics and Social Development Board, Thailand, and the Bank of Thailand, and has [email protected] researched on the Effect of Climate Change on Coffee Growing.

Patrick Huntjens Patrick Huntjens is Senior Advisor on water governance at the Inst for Environmental Water Partner Foundation (www.waterpartner.org), working on Systems Research, water governance issues in more than 25 countries. He has just University of Osnabruck completed a PhD-thesis on water governance and climate Barbarastraße 12, Geb. change in Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia (www.newater.info). 66, 49069 Osnabruck, Since 2006 he has been Coordinator of Water Governance in the Germany EU-funded ASEM multi-stakeholder Waternet Platform for [email protected] European and Asian countries (www.asemwaternet.org). Yok-Shiu Frederick Lee Dr. Y.S.F. Lee is Associate Professor of Geography at the Department of University of Hong Kong; he has degrees from Hawaii and MIT Geography, University of (PhD in Urban Planning). He has consulted for the UN Economic Hong Kong, Pokfulam and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, the UN Road, Hong Kong Development Program, the World Resources Institute. His current research projects include water resources management [email protected] in the Pearl River Delta region, and cultural heritage management in Guangzhou and Shanghai. Li Zhiping is Professor and vice-Dean at the Law School, Sun Yat- Li Zhiping Sen University, where she also directs the Environmental Law Law School Clinic. Her research is in the theory of environmental law, Sun Yat-sen University environmental litigation, and the law of pollution prevention and Guangzhou, China, 51027 control. She is vice-President of the Environmental Law Association of the China Environmental Science Society, and a [email protected] member of Standing Council of the Environmental and Natural Resource Law Association of the China Law Society.

Liu Dedi is a Post-Doctoral fellow from the Institute of Hydrology Liu Dedi and Water Resources, Zhejiang University, China. He holds a Institute of Hydrology and PhD from Sun Yat-sen University. His research interests include Water Resources, hydrological modelling, predicting, and planning in rivers, lakes Zhejiang University and reservoirs; water environmental impact assessment; regional water resources evaluation and planning, and recognition of [email protected] changes in hydrological and environmental elements.

Rachael McDonnell Rachael McDonnell is a Senior Research Scientist at the Oxford Senior Research Scientist, University Centre for Water Research and Visiting Scientist at the Oxford University Centre International Centre for Biosaline Agriculture in Dubai. Her for Water Research, research focuses on implications of water resources governance South Parks Road, for policy development, particularly on the role of change in Oxford, OX1 3QY, UK structures and agents on knowledge use. She has supervised rachael.mcdonnell@ouce. several PhD students working on changes in water governance in ox.ac.uk countries such as Thailand, South Africa, and the Gulf States. Bjørn-Oliver Magsig Bjørn-Oliver Magsig is currently doing his PhD in International Dundee UNESCO Centre Water Law and Water Security at the UNESCO Centre for Water for Water Law, Policy and Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee (Scotland). He Science, The Peters holds a diploma in Business and Environmental Law (University Building, University of of Applied Sciences Trier, UC Birkenfeld, Germany), and an LLM Dundee, Dundee, DD1 in Environmental Law and Policy 4HN, Scotland, UK (CEPMLP, University of Dundee). [email protected]

Erik Mostert joined the Delft University of Technology in 1990 Erik Mostert and is presently managing director of the RBA Centre (Centre for Faculty of Civil Research on River Basin Administration, Analysis and Engineering and Management). He studied law and public administration and Geosciences, Technical worked for two municipalities before joining the University. His University of Delft, present research includes water law, transboundary water Building 23, Stevinweg 1, management, public participation and social learning. He is an 2628 CN Delft editor of the International Journal of River Basin Management [email protected] and was a member of the EU drafting group "Guidance on Public Participation" for implementing the Water Framework Directive. Edwin Ongley took a PhD at Sydney University, returning to Canadian academia at Queen's. He researched into sediment- Ed Ongley contaminant flux in river systems, leading to patents and an ISO 4951 Connaught Ave., standard. He then joined the Canadian civil service as Director at Montreal, Quebec, the Canada Centre for Inland Waters, and was also Director of Canada H4V 1X4 the UN's global water quality program, GEMS/Water. Since 1998 [email protected] he has worked in China in the water/environment sectors, and in IWRM/IRBM projects in many countries for international agencies and governments. He has published more than 200 papers. Claudia Pahl-Wostl is Professor of Resource Management at the Claudia Pahl-Wostl Institute for Environmental Systems Research, Osnabrück. This Institute of Environmental Institute promotes research in interdisciplinary systems science, Systems Research, Univ and her Chair focuses on innovative studies of transformation of Osnabrück, 49069 processes towards sustainability. Claudia's expertise includes Osnabrück, Germany integrated assessment and social issues in water management. [email protected] She has coordinated several European projects; NEWATER, notably, focuses on the transition to more integrated, adaptive water management with strong stakeholder participation. K Vishnu Mohan Rao K Vishnu Mohan Rao is a Researcher at the UNESCO Centre for Dundee UNESCO Centre Water Law Policy and Science, University of Dundee: for Water Law, Policy and http://www.dundee.ac.uk/water/index.php. Since 2005 he has Science, The Peters also been working for a PhD in Comparative Analysis in Building, University of Institutions, Economics and Law at the University of Turin, Italy: Dundee, Dundee, DD1 http://iel.carloalberto.org/Overview/IEL-PhD.aspx. He specializes 4HN, Scotland, UK in regulatory law and economics with an emphasis on new [email protected] institutional economics.

Ameyali Ramos Castillo Ameyali Ramos Castillo is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the UNU-Traditional United Nations University -Traditional Knowledge Initiative and is Knowledge Initiative in charge of the TK Water Programme. Her work focuses on Red 1, Level 3, Casuarina exploring interlinkages between global environmental issues and Campus, Charles Darwin Indigenous Knowledge systems. Ameyali is part of the UNESCO- University, Darwin NT IHP Expert Advisory Group on Water and Cultural Diversity and is 0909, Australia completing a doctoral degree at Oxford University on “Cultural [email protected] Rehydration of Water Governance in Mexico". Andreas Rondorf is in charge of spatial planning projects and Andreas Rondorf FluGGS, a webbased and public Water Resource Management Wupperverband, Regional portal at the Wupper Association. The Wupper Association is projects coordination - responsible for water resources management in the catchment GISPostfach 202063, area of the River Wupper. He holds a diploma in spatial planning 42220 Wuppertal, (TU Dortmund University). He is an expert on the spatial impacts Germany of river basin management, and on implementing the WFD. [email protected]

Elisabete A. Silva is a Lecturer in the Department of Land Elisabete A. Silva Economy at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses Department of Land on urban and regional planning, with projects and publications Economy, University of on urban growth and the inclusion of environmental concerns, to Cambridge, Cambridge regeneration of neighbourhoods or vast rundown areas/regions. CB3 9EP, UK The inclusion of stakeholders during the development of [email protected] policies/programs/projects and the creation of strategies to achieve consensus permeate many of her projects and papers.

Shi Guoqing Professor Shi Guoqing is Dean of the Public Administration National Research Center School, Hohai University, Director of the Social Development for Resettlement (NRCR), Institute and the NRCR. His Bachelor’s and Masters are in water Hohai University, Xikang resources and hydrology. He has worked at TU Delft, and his Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, research is on IWRM, and sociology and economics applied to 210098, CHINA water resource development and conservation. He has many [email protected] publications, is a Committee Chair for IWRA (International Water [email protected] Resource Association), and is an editor of Water International, Water Science and Engineering and other journals.

Tran Tran Tran Tran is a PhD student at the UNESCO Centre for Water Law Dundee UNESCO Centre Policy and Science at the University of Dundee. She has a law for Water Law, Policy and and an arts/communications degree and professional experience Science, The Peters in legal and social research. She has worked with Australian Building, University of indigenous groups on native title rights and interests; building Dundee, Dundee, DD1 capacity to manage their land and water, and gaining autonomy 4HN, Scotland, UK in directing their futures. Her thesis is focused on the translation of indigenous cultural aspirations into law. [email protected]

Ye Tao Ye Tao is a Masters student in the Centre for Sustainable Centre for Sustainable Development, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge. Development, Her first degree was in Civil Engineering at the University of Engineering Department, Bath, where she focused on modelling interaction between flood University of Cambridge, waves and bridge piers. In her Masters thesis she is analysing Trumpington Street, water resource management in the Taihu Basin, emphasising Cambridge CB2 1PZ stakeholder involvement through a source pathway receptor model and examining the water resource governance structure. [email protected]

Zeng Yunmin Zeng Yunmin has a PhD in Industry Economics from Nankai Centre for Environmental University and a Masters in political economy from South China Economics and Policy Normal University. His research includes institutional economics, Research, Guangdong evolutionary economics, economics of technology innovation and Academy of Social development, and economic transition in China. He has extensive Sciences, 369-371, research experience in the Centre for Environmental Economics Tianhebei Lu, 510610 and Policy Research in projects on production-oriented Guangzhou, P.R.China institutional theory, path dependence and evolutionary [email protected] economics, and technological paradigm change theory.

Dinara Ziganshina Dinara Ziganshina is from Uzbekistan, and is currently a PhD Dundee UNESCO Centre Student at the UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee. Her PhD thesis on the Science, The Peters effectiveness of international water law is expected to be Building, University of completed in 2011. Ms. Ziganshina serves as a legal adviser for Dundee, Dundee, DD1 Scientific Information Centre of Interstate Commission for Water 4HN, Scotland, UK Coordination in Central Asia. [email protected] Zhang Xuehua Dr Zhang Xuehau is Director of Environmental Economics, Tianjin School of Environmental Polytechnic University; she is currently working with the Institute Science and Technology, for Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabruck. Tianjin University, Her research is in complex system simulation and analysis of Tianjin 300072, China socio-economic/environmental systems; environmental management and planning, and environmental [email protected] economics and environmental policy.

Other members of the RiBaGo Network

Chen Huimin, Yellow River Conservancy Commission, China

Cheng, Xiaotao, Professor, Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, MWR, China

Dong Wu, Yellow River Conservancy Commission, China

Huang Jinhui, Yellow River Conservancy Commission, China

Zhang Shaofen, Yellow River Water Resources Protection Bureau

Chen Ping, Yellow River Water Resources Protection Bureau

Diana Liverman, Professor, Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, South Parks Road, Oxford

Li Xueling, Pearl River Water Resources Protection Bureau, MWR, China

Li Wenjing, Faculty of Law, University of Macau

Mao Ge, Director,Department of Planning, Pearl River Water Resources Commission, Ministry of Water Resources, China

Mizanur Rahaman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge

Mark New, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford

Alistair Rieu-Clarke, Dundee UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, The Peters Building, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK

Tom van der Voorn, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück, Barbarastraße 12, Geb. 66, 49069 Osnabruck, Germany

Patricia Wouters, Professor, Dundee UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, The Peters Building, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK