From 2005-09-06 to 2005-09-09

Venue: Brisbane, Australia

Summary:
Riversymposium 2005 will focus on some of the pressing issues in water and food security, such as transboundary catchment conflicts and resolutions, water scarcity and urban and rural tensions over sharing water resources. Institutional and legal arrangements for river management will be featured along with work on rivers as corridors. The symposium will continue discussions on living with floodplain rivers, maintaining and restoring native fish populations, polluted rivers and predicting and planning for climate change.

Session themes will include:
• Institutional and legal arrangements for river management
• Transboundary catchment conflicts and resolutions
• River economics – what water means for the economy, what the economy means for water and what instruments exist to bridge the two
• Rivers as corridors for wildlife
• Living with floodplain rivers
• Water scarcity and urban and rural tensions over sharing water resources
• Environmental flows for rivers and estuaries
• Community involvement in managing rivers
• Restoring polluted rivers
• Damming rivers – costs and benefits.

The state of rivers will continue to be of paramount importance in a future of climate change, increasing populations and uncertain water supplies. Riversymposium 2005 will focus on some of the pressing issues important to water and food security such as transboundary catchment conflicts and resolutions, water scarcity and urban and rural tensions over sharing water resources. Institutional and legal arrangements for river management will be featured along with work on rivers as corridors. We will continue discussions on living with floodplain rivers, maintaining and restoring native fish populations, polluted rivers and predicting and planning for climate change. Regular features of Riversymposium – sessions on community involvement, dams, waterfront celebrations and the Thiess Riverprize finalists will return.

Organizers:
Contact Name: Glenn MacRae
E-mail: riversymposium@riverfestival.com.au
URL: http://www.riverfestival.com.au/2004/content/standard.asp?name=RiverSymposium