[2016] Expert Group Meeting on Achieving the SDGs with Water-Food-Ecosystem Resilience in the Mid-Latitude Region

Day 1 (November 28, 2016)

Session 1

• “An overview of Mid-latitude Region - The importance of latitudinal approach” - Prof. Woo-Kyun Lee (Korea University)
• “Lessons learnt from the MDGs: figuring out trade-offs and synergies among different goals” - Dr. Gerson Isaac Nyadzi (Tanzania)
• “Understanding Water-Food-Ecosystem Resilience” - Dr. Florian Kraxner (Deputy Director, Ecosystem Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)
• “Effective Integration between Mitigation and Adaptation for Water-Food-Ecosystem Resilience” - Dr. Hyun Jung Park (Seoul Metropolitan Government)

Session 2

• “ERA-PLANET: a European Research Area network for observing our changing planet” - Prof. Kanaris Tsinganos (University of Athens)
• “Food Resilience Through Increase of Soil Fertility” - D.Sc. Nukeshev S., D.Sc. Kurishbayev A., PhD Yeskhozhin K. (Kazakh State Agrotechnical University)
• “Ecosystem – Ecological characteristics and carbon sequestration potential of forests and forestry under climate change strategies in Turkey” - Dr. Ender Makineci (Istanbul University)
• “New approaches to monitoring marine recreational water quality using microbial communities in Turkey” - Dr. Nüket SIVRI (Istanbul University)
• “Water-Food-Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change and Resilience” - Prof. Menas C. Kafatos (Chapman University)

Session 3

• “Forests of Mid-Latitude ecotone: vulnerability and transition to risk resilient forest management” - Dr. Anatoly Shvidenko (IIASA)
• “Viability of Moroccan agriculture in the context of climate change and the challenge of food security” - Prof. Abdellatif Khattabi (Ecole Nationale Forestière d’Ingénieurs, Salé, Morocco)
• “Biodiversity conservation: Best Insurance Scheme for securing Water, Energy and Food in Hindukush Himalayan Region (HKH)” - Dr. Sonam Wang (Bhutan Institute for Himalayan Studies)
• “Climatic and anthropogenic aspects of the water balance transformation of the Siberian Forests” - Dr. Alexander Onuchin (Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center)
• “Implications of deep decarbonization for other SDGs” - Dr. Sabine Fuss (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate)
• “GEO-cradle: Fostering regional cooperation and roadmap for GEO and Copernicus implementation in N. Africa, Middle East, and the Balkans” - Prof. Haris Kontoes (National Observatory of Athens)

Day 2 (November 29, 2016)

Session 4

• “Mediterranean forest ecosystems resilience” - Dr. Abdelhamid Khaldi (President, International Association for Mediterranean Forests)
• “Adaptation Strategies for Indochinese Peninsula under Climate Change through Multi-scale Crop Modeling” - Dr. Jong Ahn Chun (APEC Climate Center, Korea)
• “The managed land use of suburban areas of the Astana agglomeration” - Dr. Zhuldix Moldumarova (Land Use Planning Faculty, Kazakh State Agro Technical University)
• “Impacts of climate change and water induced disasters in high altitude on hydropower development in Nepal” - Prof. Rijan Bhakta Kayastha (Himalayan Cryosphere, Climate and Disaster Research Center)
• “Close-to-nature forest management as Nature based solution for water resilience in urbanized areas” - Dr. Robert Hostnik (Slovenia Forest Service)