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Right to Water (right-to-water@iatp.org)    Posted: 10/25/2001  By  gingram@iatp.org	
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*Apologies for cross-posting*

Dear friends and colleagues:
This is an announcement of 2 excellent panels focusing on:

-PANEL 1:  ESTABLISHING THE NEEDS AND THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS FOR A "HUMAN
RIGHT TO WATER" &
-PANEL 2:  APPLYING A HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER:  ALTERNATIVE AND INDIGENOUS
APPROACHES TO WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Please find an overview below.  Full abstracts and overview are available in
a
downloadable and easy to read format in a word document at:
http://www.philippinefamily.net/CEEPresearch.html    These panels represent
a
unique opportunity to introduce the geographic community to the "right to
water"
movement and its guiding principles, as well as applications! The AAG annual
meetings (www.aag.org) include members of academia, public and private
sectors.
Attendance during the week is typically over 4,000, an entire hotel or
conference center is used to run many concurrent sessions of great diversity
each day. Scope ranges from the physical, human, theoretical, concrete, and
everything in-between.  Water and natural resource management is always well
represented. There will be work presented by an international body of
researchers, last year Kofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations
was
the keynote.  It is open to the public.  If you would like to attend, or
have
questions or comments, please contact me directly.
Best wishes,
BILL
WILLIAM JAMES SMITH, JR. , CENTER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, U OF
DE,
USA
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AAG PANELS
Association of American Geographers' 98th AAG Annual Meeting
March 19 - March 23, 2002  Los Angeles, California
Panel Organizer and Contact:  WILLIAM JAMES SMITH, JR. , CENTER FOR ENERGY
AND
ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, U OF DE
billsmith@philippinefamily.net

COSPONSORED BY THE:
ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT SPECIALTY GROUP,
HUMAN DIMENSIONS OF GLOBAL CHANGE SPECIALTY GROUP,
HUMAN RIGHTS, VALUES, ETHICS, AND JUSTICE SPECIALTY GROUP,
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES SPECIALTY GROUP,
SOCIALIST GEOGRAPHY SPECIALTY GROUP, &
WATER RESOURCE SPECIALTY GROUP

These two back-to-back sessions jointly explore the movement towards a
establishing a "human right" to water.   Both the needs, and the theoretical
underpinnings for, adopting a "human rights" lens in water resource
analysis and
development are underscored by both theoretical constructions and "real
world"
examples.  Interdisciplinary approaches by the panelists reveal the
potential of
applying this lens through policy making at multiple scales of governance,
conservation, and indigenous approaches in the name of equity regardless of
class, gender, race, or other socio-political factors.

* PANEL 1:  ESTABLISHING THE NEEDS AND THEORETICAL UNDERPINNINGS FOR A
"HUMAN
RIGHT TO WATER"
* INTRODUCTION: WILLIAM JAMES SMITH, JR. , CENTER FOR ENERGY AND
ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICY
* MODERATOR:  REX HONEY (DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL STUDIES AT U. OF IOWA AND CHAIR
OF
HUMAN RIGHTS, VALUES, ETHICS AAG SPECIALTY GROUP)

- WILLIAM JAMES SMITH, JR. (CENTER FOR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY,
UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE) billsmith@philippinefamily.net:  A HUMAN RIGHT TO
SAFE
DRINKING WATER:  A PLEA FOR CHANGING FRAMES

- ERIK SWYNGEDOUW (OXFORD) : WATER RESOURCES AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF
EXCLUSION

- STEVEN SHRYBMAN (SACK, GOLDBLAT, MITCHELL, LAW FIRM IN CANADA) :  THE
INFLUENCE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS ON THE
MANAGEMENT OF
THE GLOBAL COMMONS OF WATER

- LORI POTTINGER (INTERNATIONAL RIVERS NETWORK) :  BIG DAMS, BIG PROBLEMS:
AN
ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACTS OF LARGE DAMS AND PRIVATIZATION OF THE WORLD'S
RIVERS ON
WATER EQUITY AROUND THE GLOBE

- CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RIGHTS (NY HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP) :  A
GENDER-BASED ANALYSIS OF INEQUITY IN WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

=========PANELS BACK-TO-BACK===========

* PANEL 2:  APPLYING A HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER:  ALTERNATIVE AND INDIGENOUS
APPROACHES TO WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
* INTRODUCTION:  WILLIAM JAMES SMITH, JR. , CENTER FOR ENERGY AND
ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICY
* MODERATOR:  CHRISTOPHER LANT (CHAIR, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
GEOGRAPHY
DEPARTMENT AND FORMER WATER RESOURCE SPECIALTY GROUP OFFICER, JOURNAL OF
AMERICAN WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION)

- DAVID BRUBAKER (JOHNS HOPKINS University):  THE GLOBAL WATER CONTRACT AND
HUMAN RIGHTS

- WILLIAM JAMES SMITH, JR. & YOUNG-DOO WANG (CENTER FOR ENERGY AND
ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICY, UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE) billsmith@philippinefamily.net:  WATER FOR
PEOPLE AND NATURE: MODELING UTILIZATION OF WATER CONSERVATION ORIENTED
RATES IN
DRINKING WATER MANAGEMENT TO PROMOTE EQUITY FOR LOW INCOME CONSUMERS AND
MINIMUM
FLOWS FOR ECOSYSTEMS

-SHINEY VARGHESE (THE INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURE AND TRADE POLICY) :
REVIVING
INDIGENOUS APPROACHES TO WATER MANAGEMENT IN INDIA FROM THE GRASSROOTS







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