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 Guangzhou 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 Beijing, 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 Peking University, 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