Our work in Can tho with collaboration with the Climate Change Coordination Office (CCCO), Vietnam National University, HCMC and its WACC center (Center for Water and Climate Change Management), gave us some insights into how the adaptation process works (and should work?) in rapidly developing cities like Can Tho. We coined the name Secondary Cities [...]
UNESCO-IHE, Vietnam National University of HCMC and Asian Institute of Technology conducted a three day training workshop on 'Leadership for city-to-city learning on Adaptation' on 27-29 March 2017. This is the first step of a training programme on water-leadership funded by DUPC2: Global Partnership for Water and Development (a grant from Ministry of Foriegn Affairs, Kingdom of Netherlands). [...]
Day 1 Context setting By Dr. Assela Pathriana - Context Key note speech by Dr. Assela Pathirana - Keynote Dutch Room for the River project , Lessons Learned Prof. Chris Zevenbergen - Room for River Greens Design - SuDS in Malaysia - Prof. Zakaria - Green Design - SuDS Climate adaptation of HCMC water supply system - Mr. Dierk [...]
Prof. Chris Zevenbergen engaged in an interesting discussion with the presenters and participants at the end of the day in order to get valuable insights of their understanding of the day's proceedings. Excerpt from the discussions are presented below : Ground water recession is a major issue and is not being addressed as the attention is [...]
“There is no dearth for climate related research in Can Tho, but what glaring is the gap between the knowledge and practice” said Dr. Assela Pathirana, the convener of the workshop that set the context for the workshop. This has been the motivation behind organising the workshop which aims at bridging the adaptation knowledge gap [...]
Summary_of_day 1 (download) A set of slides with headlines of each presentation Green designs for Integrated Urban Water Cycle Management "solutions for secondary cities in Global south to cope with climate change”, Can Tho City, Vietnam, 8-10th December, 2015
Workshop Name OPERATIONAL WATER SENSITIVE URBAN DESIGN: Developing small scale design proposal incorporating flood resilience and multiple benefits The workshop was conducted as a part of the international workshop “Green designs for Integrated Urban Water Cycle Management – solutions for secondary cities in Global south to cope with climate change”, Can Tho City, Vietnam, 8 – 10 [...]
Workshop Name URBAN WATER DISTRIBUTION NETWORK MODELLING AND ANALYSIS - As a part of the international workshop "Green designs for Integrated Urban Water Cycle Management – solutions for secondary cities in Global south to cope with climate change”, Can Tho City, Vietnam, 8 – 10 December, 2015. Target Group Mid-career professionals dealing with technical aspects [...]
The final programme of the workshop is out! read it here. Green designs for Integrated Urban Water Cycle Management –" solutions for secondary cities in Global south to cope with climate change”, Can Tho City, Vietnam, 8 – 10 December, 2015.
