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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.

 

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