This event is part of the Sustainability Week 2023

Climate change is increasing the difficulties of water management globally. The time for finding sustainable solutions is now. Therefore we invite you to a symposium with different speakers highlighting the difficulties of water management in Southeast Asia and Sweden, with perspectives from researchers and development workers.

During this event Director of SASNET, Ted Svensson, executive director of Svalorna Alexandra Klang and the partner organisation Keystone Foundation will present their knowledge about the complex problems around water management, water supply and water safety in Southeast Asia.

Sweden is also experiencing water shortages in summer times and floodings in winter as a result of the progressing climate change. More rain on less days leaves us with new difficulties we need to tackle. Expert Peder Hjorth shares his insights from more than 50 years of research within the field of water management. We round up with a panel discussion with all speakers where we will get to hear their combined knowledge about this pressing issue.

PROGRAM

15:00-16:00

• Introduction: Control over Natural Resources with Focus on Water
  Alexandra Klang, Svalorna Indien Bangladesh
   
• Development Project: Sanitation and Urban Water Management in India
  Keystone Foundation (digital)
   
• Research: Divine Ganges, Profane Development: Sacred Geographies and the Governing of Pollution
  Ted Svensson, Director SASNET
   
• Expert: Water Supply - Struggles in Sweden
  Peder Hjorth, Division of Water Resources Engineering

16:00-16:15

• Fika and Mingle

16:15-17:00

• Panel discussion: Challenges and Tensions in the Field of Water Management

PRACTICALITIES

No sign to sign up in advance. The event will be held in English, questions can be asked in Swedish and be translated by the moderator.

Vegetarian fika, coffee, tea and water will be available.

ABOUT THE HOSTS

Svalorna Indien Bangladesh

Svalorna Indien Bangladesh was founded in 1959 and since its inception has worked together with those affected by poverty and injustice. Our vision is a just world, free from poverty, where people with the power to influence their own lives live in solidarity with each other and in a long-term, sustainable interaction with nature. We work from a rights perspective which means that people themselves are involved and drive the change in their lives. That is why we work together with local organizations that work with those who are poor or affected by injustice.
www.svalorna.org

Keystone Foundation

Our research and action are driven by the goal to achieve livelihood security for indigenous communities, agriculture and food security, land and community rights, community health and development, and conservation of biodiversity.
Recognising the interdependence of earth’s natural systems, our work focuses on the socio-ecological growth of all life in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve (NBR). Over time, our scope has transcended the boundaries of these hills to include tribal populations in other parts of the country and collaborations with allied organisations, both national and international, that share our ethos and vision.
www.keystone-foundation.org

Swedish South Asian Studies Network (SASNET)

SASNET is an organisation for cooperation between faculties, departments and individual researchers that are engaged in research on South Asia. The overarching purpose of the organisation is to promote research on South Asia.
Within this framework, SASNET is also to pursue information and development activities, support faculty and department-wide cooperation at Lund University and work to establish and maintain contact between Lund University and other stakeholders within and outside Sweden that are engaged in the field.
Information about Ted Svensson: https://www.svet.lu.se/ted-svensson

Divison of Water Resources Engineering

In Water Resources Engineering, research is pursued on how water resides and is transported in nature and in urban systems.

Studies are carried out on the movement of rainwater through land and foundations, how rain and melted snow reach rivers, flooding and the design of systems to reduce the consequences of flooding, as well as on how water flows, the spread of pollutants, and erosion along open coasts, rivers and lakes.

We also work with Integrated Management and Planning, that is how different sectors of society must work together to find optimal solutions to various water-related challenges. The research is of strong international character and takes place in collaboration with many researchers and projects around the world.

Peder Hjorth has been part of the Division of Water Resources Engineering for a long time and has conducted research in several areas of the world, mostly on sustainability and water management.
https://www.tvrl.lth.se/english/