The Journal of International Affairs
Cordially invites you to the launch of its
newest issue:
TO
THE LAST DROP:
WATER
AND SECURITY IN THE 21st CENTURY
Monday, May 5th
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Kellogg Conference Center - 15th
Floor
School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University
420 West 118th Street
To celebrate the launch of its Spring/Summer 2008 issue,
"Water: A Global Challenge", the Journal
cordially invites you to attend a panel discussion on
an issue that impacts us all.
Understanding the compounding global
challenges of climate change, population growth and the
increasing demand for water has never been more urgent.
Please join us!
**Catered reception to follow the discussion**
Aaron T. Wolf is a professor of geography
in the department of geosciences at Oregon State University.
He has an M.S.
in water resources management and a Ph.D. in environmental
policy analysis from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
His research focuses on issues relating transboundary water
resources to political conflict and cooperation. Wolf has
acted as consultant to the U.S. Department of State, the
U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Bank
and several governments on various aspects of international
water resources and dispute resolution. He has been involved
in developing strategies for resolving water aspects of
the Arab Israeli conflict, including coauthoring a State
Department reference text, and participating in both official
and Track II meetings between co-riparians. He is author
of Hydropolitics Along the Jordan River: The Impact
of Scarce Water Resources on the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1995);
co-author of Core and Periphery: A Comprehensive Approach
to Middle
Eastern Water (1997), and Transboundary Freshwater
Dispute Resolution: Theory, Practice and Annotated References (2000);
and editor of Conflict Prevention and Resolution in
Water Systems (2002). Wolf also serves as associate
editor of World Water Policy and the Journal
of the American Water
Resources Association, and is on the editorial board of
Water International.
Geoffrey D. Dabelko is director of the Environmental Change
and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson International
Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He is an adjunct
professor at the Monterey Institute of International Studies,
co-vice
chair of the Scientific Committee of the International
Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change
and a member of the editorial board of Global Environmental
Change. He is also coeditor with Ken Conca of Green
Planet Blues: Environmental Politics from Stockholm to
Johannesburgand
Environmental Peacemaking. Dabelko received a Ph.D. in
government and politics from the University of Maryland
and an A.B.
in political science from Duke University.
Upmanu Lall is the Alan and Carol Silberstein Professor
of Engineering at Columbia University and a senior research
scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and
Society. Lall's principal areas of expertise are statistical
and numerical modeling of hydrologic and climatic systems
and water resource systems planning and management. He
has over twenty years of experience as a hydrologist. He
has consulted projects on water quantity and quality and
energy resource management, flood analysis, groundwater
modeling and subsurface characterization, climate modeling
and the development of statistical and mathematical modeling
methods. He has been involved as a consultant with specialization
in groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling
covering mining operations, stream-flow modeling and water
balance, risk and environmental impact assessment, site
hydrologic evaluation and as a reviewer and as an expert
on a number of other hydrologic problems. Lall received
an M.S. and Ph.D. in civil engineering from the University
of Texas, Austin.
Tanya Heikkila is an assistant professor at the School of International
and Public Affairs at Columbia University, teaching primarily
in the M.P.A. in environmental science and policy program.
Her research interests are in the fields of policy analysis
and institutional theory, renewable and natural resource
management, and policy and water governance issues. Heikkila
has recently published articles in Natural Resources Journal,
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Water Policy and American
Review of Public Administration. In 2004, she published Common
Waters, Diverging Streams: Linking Institutions and Water Management
in Arizona, California, and Colorado with William Blomquist
and Edella Schlager. Most recently, Heikkila was awarded
a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation
to study interstate river basin compacts in the Western
United States. Heikkila holds a B.A. from the University
of Oregon, Robert D. ClarkHonors College and an M.P.A.
and a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona School of Public
Administration and Policy.
"Water: A Global Challenge" will go on sale in bookstores nationwide
in May. Copies will be on sale at the launch event.
CONTACT:
Veenita Kaushik, Marketing Director (vk2176@columbia.edu)
or (212) 854-4775.
