ICARUS IIConference

School of Natural Resources and Environment

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

May 5-8, 2011

Conference Schedule and Agenda

THURSDAY MAY 5

12:00pm – Registration OpensFord Commons (First Floor Dana Building)

2:00 - 3:15pm: Opening Address: Rosina Bierbaum, Dean, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Room 1040

3:15-3:30pm Break – Ford Commons

3:30 - 5:00pm Paper Panel Session 1

Panel Theme 1a. Climate, Vulnerability, and Adaptation Among Indigenous Populations

Room 1024

Panel Chair: James D. Ford

  • Marine Conservation, Society and Environmental Change in Raja Ampat, Indonesia (Coral Triangle).Ian Parker. University of California, San Diego.
  • Vulnerability and Adaptation of Indigenous Health Systems in Canada to Climate Change.James D. Ford. McGill University, Canada.
  • Dollars and Sense: Knowledge Flows, Participation, Carbon Markets. Janet M. Chernela. University of Maryland, Maryland.

Panel Theme 2a. Forests, Livelihoods, and Adaptation

Room 1028

Panel Chair: Sonwa Denis Jean

  • Experience in Mobilizing Different Stakeholders Around Forest and Adaptation in the Arena Dominated by Biodiversity Conservation and Mitigation Efforts to Climate Change in the Congo Basin.Sonwa Denis Jean, Youssoufa M. Bele, Olufunso A. Somorin and Johnson Nkem. Center for International Forestry Research, Cameroon.
  • Adapting to Emerging Institutions: REDD+ Projects in the Territories of the Suruí and Cinta-Larga Indigenous Peoples.Fabiano Toni, Isadora A.R. Ferreira and Igor A.R. Ferreira. Campus Universitario, Brazil.
  • Participatory Forest Management: Supporting Adaptation and Reducing Vulnerability.Irmeli Mustalahti. University of Helsinki, Finland.

Panel Theme 4a. Adaptation and Local Institutions

Room 2024

Panel Chair: Anne Kuriakose

  • Pro-Poor Planning for Climate Adaptation: Lessons from Six Country Cases.Anne Kuriakose, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.
  • Property Rights and Climate Change Vulnerability in Turkish Forest Communities: A Case Study from Seyhan River Basin, Turkey. Charlotta Chan. Yale University, Connecticut.
  • Changing Environments, Challenging Markets: Pitfalls of Local Adaptation to Environmental Change in Northern Ghana. Wolfram Laub. Centre for Development Research, University of Bonn, Germany.
  • ‘Reconstructing Risk’ The Role of Deliberative Institutions in Enabling Locally Inclusive Adaptation Policy Making in Nepal. Jessica Ayers. Climate Change Group. International Institute of Environment and Development, United Kingdom.

Panel Theme 14. Adaptation and Water Allocation

Room 1046

Panel Chair: Alexander Pfaff

  • Assessing Adaptation Outcomes under Asymmetric Climate Information. Alexander Pfaff, Maria Alejandra Velez, Kenneth Broad and Renzo Taddei. Duke University, North Carolina.
  • Vertical Collective Action: Addressing Vertical Asymmetries In Watershed Management. Juan Camilo Cardenas and Luz Angela Rodriguez.
  • Contracts vs. Trust In Water Adaptation: Incentives to Share for Growth from Sharing of Growth.Maria Alejandra Velez and Alex Pfaff. University de Los Andes, Colombia.
  • Does Water Scarcity Lead to Overuse? Evidence from Field Experiments. Maria Claudia Lopez, Ester Blanco and Sergio Villamayor Thomas. University of Javeriana, Bogota.

6:00- 6:30pm Reception ~Palmer Commons

6:30 - 8:15pm Dinner ~ Palmer Commons

FRIDAY, MAY 6

9:00 – 10:15am: Plenary Keynote Presentation: Maria Blair, National Vice President American Cancer Society,Room 1040

10:15 – 10:30am Coffee Break Dana Commons

10:30 – 12:00pm Paper Panel Session 2

Panel Theme 4c. Building Social Infrastructure to Enable Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries

Room 2560

Panel Chair: Eric Sarriot

  • Building Infrastructure to Enable Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries.Eric Sarriot. ICF International, Virginia.
  • Disaster Risk Reduction in a Peri-Urban Informal Settlement: The Importance of Links Across Scales. Julianne Baker-Gallegos. Yale University, Connecticut.
  • Social Participation and the Politics of Climate in Northeast Brazil. Renzo Taddei.Center for Research on Environmental Decisions (CRED) & Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Topical Climatic Impacts in Australia and Bangladesh: Adaptation of Business Strategy for Insurance Sector. Paul McShane. RMIT University, Australia.

Panel Theme 1c. Adaptation and Vulnerability in Urban Environment

Room 1024

Panel Chair: Natalia Andronova

  • Gender, Assets, and Urban Water Insecurity: A Qualitative Study from Baguio City, the Philippines. Lisa Reyes Mason. Washington University, Missouri.
  • Sustainable City Index for Detroit. Natalia Andronova, Jessica Parker and Larissa Larsen. University of Michigan, Michigan.
  • Urbanization, Vulnerability and Adaptation: The São Paulo Coastal Zone, Brazil.Roberto Luiz Do Carmo. University of Campinas, Brazil.
  • Stratégies de Vie des Immigrants Tchadiens et Centrafricains dans l'Adversité Urbaine de Yaoundé au Cameroun.Zoa Zoa Joseph Yves.Centre National d'Éducation, Cameroon.

Panel Theme 2a.Forests, Livelihoods, and Adaptation

Room 1028

Panel Chair: Ritwajit Das

  • Linkages Between Community Forest Management Practices and Forest Ecosystem Goods and Services to Address Climate Change Adaptation Strategies with Implication on Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction. Ritwajit Das and Shabnam Lama Tamang. India.
  • A Story of Conservation Refugees: Vulnerability and Coping Strategies.Rucha Ghate. SHODH, The Institute for Research and Development, Nagpur, India.
  • Agroforestry and Gender Sensitive Agribusiness as Tools to Climate Change Adaptation. Teija Reyes. American University, Washington D.C.
  • Climate-Induced Vulnerability and Risk Assessment: Adaptive Framework and its Economic Appraisal. Mohammad Aatish Khan and Sunpreet Kaur. Winrock International, India.

Panel Theme 2c. Community-Based Adaptation

Room 1046

Panel Chair: NetraChhetri

  • Building Local Adaptive Capacity of Mountain Villages to Cope with Glacier Loss Due to Climate Change: Case Study in Tajikistan. Stefanie Christmann and Aden A. Aw-Hassan.
  • Livelihood Strategies under Climate Change Vulnerability in Quang Nam province, Vietnam. Thorkil Casse. Roskilde University, Denmark.
  • Interests, Perceptions and Ideas: Institutional Framework for Combating Climate Change. Samuel Munyua Kimani and Jephine Mogoi Ajwala. Kenya Forestry Research Institute, Kenya.
  • Local Institutions and Adaptive Capacity: Evidence from Northern Ghana. Wolfram Laube. University of Bonn, Germany.

Panel Theme 4b. Developing More Climate-Adaptive Institutions

Room 2024

Panel Chair: Jonathan Cook

  • Climate-Adaptive Institutions: The Case of the Murray-Darling River Basin. Eliot Levine, Jonathan Cook and Sarah Freeman. World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C.
  • Adaptation Planning: Lessons from the Application of the National Adaptive Capacity Framework. Aarjan Dixit and Heather McGray. World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.
  • From International to Local: The Role of Coordinating Institutions Working on Adaptation to Climate Change. Laura Vallejo. Instituto Mora.
  • Governance of Climate Change Adaptation in Indonesian Provinces: Identifying Current State and Key Challenges. Saut Sagala. Institute of Technology Bandung, Indonesia.
  • Moving from Technologization to Techno-Negotiation: Undoing the Anti-politics of Climate Change Adaptation. Meaghan Daly. University of Colorado – Boulder, Colorado.

Panel Theme 1a. Climate Vulnerability Adaptation Among Indigenous Populations

Room 3556

Panel Chair: Shannon McNeeley

  • Case Studies: Democracy at the Root of Sustainability: India and Africa. Jennifer Gajewski.Preservation Studios, Buffalo, NY.
  • Human Rights and the Warming World: The Role of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge in the Climate Debate. Jessica Koski. Northwestern University, Illinois.
  • Pygmy Organizations without Pygmies: Challenges of Pygmy Representation in Participatory Projects. Anne-Gaelle Javelle and Marine Robillard. World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C.
  • Climate Adaptation and Cultural Theory of Risk: Indigenous Understandings and Responses in Tuvalu and Alaska. Shannon McNeeley and Heather Lazarus. The National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado.
  • Existing Local Adaptation Practices of Biodiversity Dependent Indigenous Communities to Fight against Climate Change Impact in Nepal.Shambhu Charmakar. Asia Network for Sustainable Agriculture and Bioresources, Nepal.

Panel Theme 16. Vulnerability, Adaptation and Sustainability

Room 3038

Panel Chair: Nathan Engle

  • Knowledge, Innovation and Adaptation to Climate Change in a Smallholder Livelihood System in China--Experience in Semi-Arid Northwest China through 1980 to 2010. Li Chen.College of Humanities and Development, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China; visiting at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
  • Sustainability, Livelihoods and Adaptation: Agricultural Communities in and around Protected Areas in Central America. Claudia Rodriguez. University of Michigan, Michigan.
  • Adaptation Policies: Implications for Forest People’s Rights in Semi-Arid India. Purabi Bose. Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
  • Making Sustainable Adaptation Decisions: Insight from the Past, Present, and Future. Nathan Engle, Richard Moss and Elizabeth Malone. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Washington, D.C.

12:00 – 1:30pm Lunch

1:30 – 3:00pm Paper Panel Session 3

Panel Theme 1e. Climate, Health Vulnerabilities, and Adaptation

Room 3038

Panel Chair: Ashlee Cunsolo Willox

  • Climate Change, Mental and Emotional Health, and Adaptation: What We Can Learn from Nunatsiavut Inuit in Canada. Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, Sherilee Harper, Victoria Edge and the Rigolet Inuit Community Government. University of Guelph, Ontario.
  • Resilience in Environmental and Public Health:Is it Time For a Social-Ecological Resilience Approach?Lindsay Galway and Dr. Tim Takaro. University of San Francisco, California.
  • Health Vulnerability in a Changing Climate? Assessing Health Vulnerability at the National Level (US).Arie Manangan. Center for Disease Control, Georgia.
  • Using Actions to Inform Policy on Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa.Johnson Nkem. United Nations Development Programme, Kenya.

Panel Theme 2c. Community-Based Adaptation

Room 1024

Panel Chair: William Collier

  • Climate Change Adaptation Planning in Rural Coastal Areas.Kathryn I. Frank,Dawn Jourdan and Esther Obonyo. University of Florida, Florida.
  • Homegardens as Adaptation to Climate Change in Uasin Gishu, Kenya. William M. Collier, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C.
  • Vulnerable or Adaptable? Social-Ecological Dynamics in the Estero Real, Nicaragua. Karina Benessaiah. Arizona State University and University of British Columbia.
  • Organizational Mapping and Institutional Actors in Water Management Systems in Bolivia. Vijay Ramprasad and Maria Lemos. University of Michigan, Michigan.

Panel Theme 6. Mapping, Analyzing, Modeling Institutional Actors and Policy Formation Network Dynamics

Room 3325

Panel Chair: Darla Lindberg

  • Institutional Analysis of Chicago’s Climate Action Plan. Zahra Golshani and Dr. Ashwini Chhatre. University of Illinois, Illinois.
  • Mapping Climate Variability and Geographical Distribution of Meningitis Epidemic in Nigeria. Oluwatoyin 'Seun Ayanlade, D.O. Baloye and A. Ayanlade. Obafemi Aqolowo University, Nigeria.
  • Measuring and Mapping Indices of Biodiversity Conservation Effectiveness. Benjamin E. Wright. Clark University, Massachusetts.
  • Biodiversity Conservation in the Circumpolar North: Engaging the Network in the World Wildlife Fund's Global Arctic Program. Edward Maclin. University of Georgia, Georgia.
  • Global Forces + Local Factors: Advancing Policy Formation as a Function of Feedbacks Between Behavioral and Environmental Indeterminate Systems. Darla Lindberg, Timothy Reluga, Rachel Smith, Mary Poss, Jill Findeis and Jing Li. Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania.

Panel Theme 8. Vulnerability, Local Adaptive Capacities and Public Policies

Room 1040 (Please Note Room Change)

Panel Chair: Alejandro León

  • Climate Change, Collective Action and Individual Responses: Flood Events in the Uplands of Thailand and Vietnam. Andreas Neef, Iven Schad and Peter Elstner. Kyoto University, Japan.
  • Vulnerability to Drought in Communal Lands in Semi-Arid Chile.Alejandro León. University of Chile, Chile.
  • Institutional Transformation and Vulnerability to Climate-Change Induced Hazards in Rural Mongolia.Daniel J. Murphy. University of Kentucky, Kentucky.
  • Women’s Vulnerability and Adaptation Endeavour to Climate Change: A Case Study of Bangladesh.Mohammed Abdul Baten, Niaz Ahmed Khan and Aisha Siddika. Unnayan Onneshan, Bangladesh.
  • Israeli Drip Irrigation in the African Context: Has Technology Transfer Occurred and Failed or Failed to Occur? Lonia Friedlander and Yaakov Garb. Stony Brook University, New York.

Panel Theme 12. Adaptation: What's in a Name?

Room 2024

Panel Chair: Elizabeth Malone

  • Migration as a Sustainable Adaptation Strategy. Benoit Mayer. McGill University, Quebec.
  • The Role of Decentralized Community-Based Renewable Energy Systems for Climate Change Adaptation. Debora Ley. Jesus College, United Kingdom.
  • Adaptation: Is a Single Definition Necessary? Lisa Schipper. Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
  • Climate Realism and Moral Limit in International Climate Change Politics. Mark Purdon. University of Toronto, Ontario.

3:00 – 3:30pm Coffee Break – Ford Commons

3:30am – 5:00pm Plenary Discussion Rm. 1040

5:00 – 6:30 PM, Room 1024: Training session for TerraViva! SEDAC Viewer: Spatial Data Integration and Data Gaps for Climate Impacts, Vulnerability, and Adaptation. Organized by Alex de Sherbinin

5:00 – 6:00 PM, Room 2024: Video screening by Kim Nong. Title: Clear as Mud: Mangrove Conservation and Community Participation in Cambodia: 1997 to 2009

6:30 – 8:30pm Dinner~ The Michigan Union

Saturday, May 7

9:00 – 10:30am, Room 1040: Plenary discussion session: Methods

10:30 – 11:00am Coffee break – Ford Commons

11:00 – 12:30pm Paper panel session 4

Panel Theme 1c. Adaptation and Vulnerability in Urban Environment

Room 1024

Panel Chair: Ram Karan Singh

  • CDM And Landfilling (MSW): Study of the Integrated Municipal Waste Processing Complex at Ghazipur, Delhi. Ram Karan Singh and Sakshi Gupta. ITM University, India.
  • Islanders’ Perceptions, Distress and Resilience to Changing Climate an Andaman Islands of India. Parul Rishi and Ruchi Mudaliar. Indian Institute of Forest Management, India.
  • Collective Action, The State, And Peri-Urban Flood Vulnerability: Evolving A Political-Ecological Research Agenda Through Insights From Bangalore. Malini Ranganathan. University of Illinois, Illinois.

Panel Theme 1e. Climate, Health Vulnerabilities, and Adaptation

Room 1028

Panel Chair: Vladimir Kendrovski

  • Adaptation in Health Sector in the Republic of Macedonia Due to Climate Change. Vladimir Kendrovski. Department for Environmental Health, Macedonia.
  • Linking Population, Health and Environment with Climate Change Adaptation. Kathleen Mogelgaard, Jason Bremner, Karen Hardee and Heather D’Agnes. Population Action International, Washington, D.C.
  • Assessing Climate Change and Health Vulnerability at the Local Level: The Case Study of Travis County, Texas. Natasha Prudent, Adele Houghton and George Luber. U.S. Centre for Disease Control and Prevention,Georgia.
  • The Climate Compensation Fund for Climate Impacts. Detlef Sprinz. Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany.

Panel Theme 1f. Social Networks, Vulnerability, and Adaptive Capacity

Room 1046

Panel Chair:Camille Washington-Ottombre

  • Case Study in Northeast Thailand: Using Social Network Analysis to Understand Innovation and Diffusion of Sustainable Agricultural Water Resource Management in a Changing Climate. Amanda Fencl, M. Mikhail, S. Naruchaikusol and E. Kemp-Benedict. U.S. Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, Sweden.
  • Role of Translated Literature in Dissemination of Knowledge and Creating Awareness on Global Change. Ghazala Nasim. University of Punjab, Pakistan.
  • United We Stand: Coastal Communities and The Rise of the Community Federation in Peam Krasaop Wildlife Sanctuary, Koh Kong Province, Cambodia.Kim Nong and Tithout Vathna. Ministry of Environment, Cambodia.
  • Livestock Exchanges and Risk Management: Fulbe Pastoralists in the Far North Region of Cameroon. Mark Moritz. The Ohio State University, Ohio.
  • A Multi-Layered Approach to Adaptive Capacity Across Social Networks: a Case Study in Rural Kenya. Camille Washington-Ottombre. Oberlin College, Ohio.

Panel Theme 2c. Community-Based Adaptation

Room 2024

Panel Chair: Judy Oglethorpe

  • Examining External Interventions in a Context of High Vulnerability and Unequal Power Relations: A Case from the Highlands of Peru.Luz Maria Vazquez Garcia and Gina E. Castillo. York University, Ontario.
  • Integrated Ecosystem and Livelihood Climate Adaptation in Nepal. Shubash Lohani, Moon Shrestha and Judy Oglethorpe. World Wildlife Fund, Washington, D.C.
  • Local Perceptions of and Community-based Adaptation to Climate Change in the Western and Central Himalayas. Mirjam Macchi, Dr. Brigette Hoermann and Dr. Dhrupad Choudhury. International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, Nepal.
  • Climate Change, Adaptation and Water in the Central Andes. Armando Lamadrid. Center for International Climate and Environmental Research, Norway.
  • Local Institutions for Water Management and Forest Conservation in Western Honduras.Catherine Tucker,University of Indiana, Indiana.

Panel Theme 3a. From Coping to Adapting

Room 3556

Panel Chair: Olufunso A. Somorin

  • Engendering Local Coping Strategies to Climate Variability: The Case of Southern Cameroon. Olufunso A. Somorin.Center for International Forestry Research. Yaounde, Cameroon
  • Institutional Adaptive Capacity and Climate Change Response in the Congo Basin Forests of Central Africa. H. Carolyn Peach Brown, Denis Sonwa, Olufunso Somorin and Johnson Ndi Nkem. University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.
  • From Coping to Adapting: Lessons from Forest and Livestock Dependent Communities in Northern Mali.Houria Djoudi and Maria Brockhaus. Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research. Indonesia.
  • From Vulnerability to Coping Strategies under Variable Climate. Humaira Daniel. United Nations University, Germany.

Panel Theme 7. Methodological Challenges for Vulnerability Reduction: Research and Practice

Room 3038

Panel Chair: Sarah E. Vaughn

  • Assessing Stakeholder Impacts and Adaptations to Low Water Levels in the Trent-Severn Waterway. Fabiola Sosa-Rodriguez, Jennifer M.A. Coleman, Dr. Peter Deadman, Dr. Linda Mortsch and Dr. Jean Andrey. University of Waterloo, Canada.
  • Preventive Urban Planning Tools for Emergency and Crisis Management in La Paz (Bolivia).Sébastien Hardy, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Bolivia.
  • Species Matter: An Ethics of Vulnerability for Adaptation. Sarah E. Vaughn. Columbia University, New York.

Panel Theme 8. Vulnerability, Local Adaptive Capacities and Public Policies

Room 1040

Panel Chair: Leticia Merino

  • Forest Protection, Rights, and Carbon. Alejandra Navarrete. Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Mexico.
  • The Permanent Re-Definition of Property Rights and Forest Management in the Context of the REDD Initiative and Global Climate Change.Leticia Merino. Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la UNAM, Mexico.
  • The Federal Program of Payment for Hydrological Environmental Services in the Context of Climate Change: Case of Mexico City.Maria Perevochtchikova and Adrian Vazquez Beltran. El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico.
  • Assessing Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptive Capacity of Small Island Tourisms: Why Non-Climatic Factors and Climate Change Need an Equal Platform. Zainab Moghal. University of Waterloo, Ontario.

12:30 – 2:00pm Lunch