Regional Training on Transdisciplinary Approaches - Water Resources Management: Climate and Socioeconomic Change Adaptation in Trans-boundary Basins

The Economy & Environment Partnership for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA) from University of Economics Ho Chi Chi Minh City (UEH) is calling for your application for the regional training grants on trans-disciplinary approaches together with economics to be applied in environmental management.

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT: CLIMATE AND SOCIOECONOMIC CHANGE ADAPTATION IN TRANS-BOUNDARY BASINS

DESCRIPTION: This 3-day workshop will strengthen participants’ knowledge on development and use of models and systems analysis approaches, to better understand current and future issues surrounding water resource management under climate change involving climate, hydrological and economic modeling tools. The workshop also involved a mixture of presentations, practical ‘hands-on’ sessions with selected models, in order to place the work in the Southeast Asian region and its specific circumstances.

RESOURCE PERSONS: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

DATES: 12th, 14th, 19th October 2021, 4 hours each day. (Dates are subject to change)

VENUE: Virtual via Zoom

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Basics of hydrological modeling:
    • Understanding the model chain from representative concentration pathways (RCPs) to hydrological modeling to economic optimization
    • Basics (hands-on exercise) of CWatM https://cwatm.iiasa.ac.at
  • Basics of interdisciplinary research (proposal development/writing)
  • Basics of Global Agro-Ecological Zones https://gaez.fao.org/
  • Hydro-economic modeling, hands-on exercise with GAMS & ECHO https://iiasa.ac.at/echo

Software:

  • Applicants should be nationals of the following Southeast Asian countries: Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
  • Applicants must hold at least a master’s degree in economics, natural-science, physics or equivalent.
  • Applicants should have basics knowledge in economic modeling and/or hydrology.

Application requirements

Application submissions should include the following:

  1. Detailed CV;
  2. Letter of application indicating:
    • Expression of your academic career goals and planning.
    • Where/how applicant intends to use what is learned from the course.
    • Sharing your research idea (less than one page) related to the course topic

The above-mentioned requirements are requested to submit online through www.eepseapartners.org/regional-training-2021

Deadline of application requirements: 20 September 2021

Notification of acceptance: on or before 01 October 2021

Note: Only chosen applicants will be personally notified

Leaflet – Call for Application for the EEPSEA Regional Training Course on Transdisciplinary Approaches to Water Resources Management 2021