21 Jul 2014
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25 Jul 2014
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FEWS2014 // 2nd International Symposium on Food-Energy-Water Security Challenge: A Multi-dimensional Perspective, Khon Kaen/Thailand
The Symposium offers a platform for researchers, postgraduate students, policy-makers, funders, implementers, and members of Food-Energy-Water Security consortium. It aims at giving an opportunity for sharing insights and exchanging views about key drivers and barriers to achieving food-energy-water security; gaps in exiting research and practice, along with the associated uncertainties.
The Food-Energy-Water Security consortium includes Asian Institute of Technology (Bangkok), Australian National University, Civic Exchange (Hong Kong), ForschungszentrumJuelich (Germany), KTH (Sweden), KhonKaen University (Thailand), InstituteTeknologi Bandung (Indonesia), International Atomic Energy Agency (United Nations), ETH Zurich, TERI University (India), Tsinghua University (China), University of Cape Town (South Africa), university of Kyoto, University of Madison-Wisconsin, and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS)
The Second International Symposium will be a four-day event, preceded by a full day of sessions and a round table discussion of core and associate consortium members. In the following four days, the program will include keynote addresses, reviewed full papers presentation sessions around the main themes:
~Energy, food and water security
~Policies on energy, food and water
~Management of energy, food and water
~Solutions to energy, food and water problems