1st SWAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DATA, INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE FOR WATER GOVERNANCE IN THE NETWORKED SOCIETY- June 9-11, 2014 - SEVILLA (SPAIN)

 

Consult the abstracts of the oral communications and the speakers bios here

INTRODUCTION – Leandro del Moral (watch video)
SESSION 1. Power, communication and the policy process  

Political and Technological Innovation. P2P Democracy and policy co-production – Joan Subirats (watch video)

Interrogating Post-Democracy: Reclaiming egalitarian political spaces – Erik Swyngedouw (watch video)
SESSION 2. Key debates on water management models/paradigms  

From panaceas towards a diagnostic approach in water governance and management – Claudia Pahl-Wostl (watch video)

Water management models and the formation of policy bubbles – François Molle (watch video)

The river basin organization, reflections on politics and performance  – Dave Huitema (watch video)

Learning to swim in the troubled waters of impure public goods –Bernard Barraque (watch video)

SESSION 3. Polycentric information for water governance: Generation, quality control and sustainability

   

Socially networked citizen science as a mechanism for supporting conservation and behavioral change– Janice Dickinson (watch video)

Processes of social participation in information: The experience of the Water Remunicipalization Tracker – Satoko kishimoto (watch video)

Public Data, ICT and Water Governance – The Need for an Information Policy to Achieve the Goal –  Arturo Fernández-Palacios Carmona (watch video)

Collaborative production and management of water information – Javier Ruza Rodríguez (watch video)
SESSION 4. Key issues in information dissemination, visualization, and translation to different audiences  

Sustainable Development Indicators: Dealing with complexity in governance  – Mario Giampietro (watch video)

Tools for collaborative management of information – J. Félix Ontañón (watch video)

The National Drought Mitigation Center:  Building a conduit to bring the science to citizens – Brian Fuchs (watch video)

Participatory knowledge generation for decision-making – Hoshin Gupta and Aleix Serrat-Capdevila (watch video)
CONFERENCE FINAL REMARKS (watch video)