(Track 1: Landscape Approaches for Resilient River Basins)
The purpose of this session is to present and discuss the planned analytical framework and explore how long-term modelling of water balance, crop production, and climate risks can inform basin planning, investment roadmaps, and financing strategies. By linking hydrological signals to economic consequences and policy choices, RRBI aims to support earlier, better-informed decisions that translate risk awareness into structured, finance-ready pathways for resilient river basin management.
Opening Framing: Why Long-term Basin Signals Matter for Investment Decisions
Lance Gore, OIC-Director, SD2-AFNR, ADB
Technical Presentation: From Hydro-Climate Change to Basin Signals
Speakers:
- Hester Biemans, Professor, Wageningen University
- Arthur Lutz, Hydrologist, FutureWater
Technical Presentation: Organizing Basin Signals for Decision Making
Speaker:
- Pete Loucks, Professor, Cornell University
Economic Framing 1: From Signals to Public Finance Decisions
Speaker:
- Dale Whittington, Professor, University of North Carolina
Economic Framing 2: Water Systems, Markets, and Spatial Economic Resilience
Speaker:
- Alex Money, Principal Investigator and the Founder-in-Residence, University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
Interactive Panel: From Analysis to Investable Pathways
Panel:
- Hester Biemans, Professor, Wageningen University
- Arthur Lutz, Hydrologist, FutureWater
- Pete Loucks, Professor, Cornell University
- Dale Whittington, University of North Carolina
- Alex Money, Principal Investigator and the Founder-in-Residence, University of Oxford's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment
- Lifeng Li, Director FAO
