Agenda

Update: 20.10.2010

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Monday, 8 November

Time/ Location	Evans Auditorium	Tent	Old Administration Building (Hall "A")	Hydrology Seminar room (Hall "B")	Classroom 1 (Hall "C")	Classroom 2 (Hall "D")
08:00-09:00	Registration & Reception
09:00-09:30	Greetings
09:30-10:30	Plenary I: Prof. Michael Rosenzweig, Univ. of Arizona: Ecological Restoration in the Drylands: Is there room for hope in this Year of Biological Diversity?		Screening of plenary lecture	Screening of plenary lecture
10:30-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:45 PS1	Agriculture (1): Sustainable Desert Agriculture	Public Health and Desertification (1): Public health, climate change and desertification	Afforestation (1): Afforestation Efforts for Preventing Land Degradation	Italian Roundtable: Drylands Ecosystems and Climate Change - Monitoring, Assessment and Responses	Restoration of Ecological Systems (1): Models & concepts	Restoration of Water Sources (1): Water Management Policies
12:45-15:00	Tour of UNESCO World Heritage site of Avdat Special on-site lecture by Prof. Pedro Berliner, Head of BIDR, on Ancient Agriculture picnic Lunch
15:15-17:15 PS2	Agriculture (2): Advances in semi-arid and arid region agricultural management	Public Health and Desertification (2): public health and drylands	Afforestation (2): Forest Management, Natural regeneration and Long Term Monitoring	Remote Sensing (1): Land-use land-cover change	Nomadic Subjects and the State	Long Term Monitoring
17:15-17:30	Coffee Break
17:30-19:00 PS3	Economic development strategies & Public Policy (1)	Gender & Desertification	Remote Sensing (2) : Ecosystem	Middle East Cooperation to Combat Desertification	Restoration of Ecological Systems (2) : Practical approaches	Restoration of Water Sources (2) : Advances in Hydrology
19:00-20:30	Poster Session over buffet dinner: wine & beer included…
20:30-21:20	Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Announcement on Poster contest winners
21:20-22:30	Film re. Wangarai Maathai

Tuesday, 9 November

Time/ Location	Evans Auditorium	Tent	Old Administration Building (Hall "A")	Hydrology Seminar room (Hall "B")	Classroom 1 (Hall "C")	Classroom 2 (Hall "D")
08:00-09:00	Registration & Reception
09:00-10:30	Plenary: Stream Restoration in the Drylands: Success Stories from Around the World		Screening of plenary lecture	Screening of plenary lecture
10:30-10:40	Cook Architecture Prize in Desert Architecture		Screening of plenary lecture	Screening of plenary lecture
10:45-12:15 PS4	UNESCO Roundtable	Agriculture (3): Water and Energy		Environmental Education (1): Approaches and pedagogies for environmental education in context of desert-related challenges	Cook Architecture Workshop I - Sustainable Architecture	Public Health and Desertification (3): social dimensions of public health and desertification
12:15-12:25	Interventions by Mr. Giancarlo Galan, Italian Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policies and Mr. Shalom Simchon, Israeli Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, followed by signing of a Scientific Cooperation Agreement by the Italian and Israeli Ministers.
12:25-15:00	Picnic Lunch & Open Campus
14:00-16:00 PS5	UNESCO Roundtable Environmental Education group continues the Open Educational campus session/tour hosted by Midreshet Sde Boker	Agriculture (4): Abiotic Stresses	Remote Sensing (3): Land degradation	Grazing (1): Dryland pasture, climate change and biodiversity conservation	Public Health Workshop- Using ecological metaphors to map routes to restoration for communities suffering from water shortages caused by human intervention
16:00-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-18:30 PS6	Carbon Sequestration - Contribution of Drylands in light of Recent Research	Grazing (2): Reconciling traditional grazing regimes with restoration strategies in degraded dryland environments	Remote Sensing (4): Agriculture	Environmental Education (2): Cultural identity, community knowledge and environmental education	Cook Architecture Workshop III - Sustainable, Community Based Development in Arid Environments	Public Health Workshop (continued)
19:00	Departure for Dinner by "Women's Cooking Cooperative", Neve Midbar Spa: ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN IN DESERT DRYLANDS Free time at thermal pools and/or Local arts & souvenir market
21:30	Buses return home OR Performance by women's rock band
23:00	Final Buses return

Thursday, 11 November

Time/ Location	Evans Auditorium	Tent	Old Administration Building (Hall "A")	Hydrology Seminar room (Hall "B")	Classroom 1 (Hall "C")	Classroom 2 (Hall "D")
08:30-09:00	Registration & Reception
09:00-10:30 PS7	Roundtable: Man of Environment: Climate Change Adaptation in the Drylands		Restoring Soil in the Drylands (1)	Dead Sea Workshop (1): Scientific session: Policy and management	Desertification and Bedouins in the Middle East: Social Dimensions (1)	Environmental Education (3): Innovative socio-ecological systems and school-community relationships
10:30-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:15 PS8	Economic development strategies & Public Policy (2)		Restoring Soil in the Drylands (2)	Dead Sea Workshop (2): Scientific session: Dead Sea/saline lakes environmental and restoration problems	Desertification and Bedouins in the Middle East: Social Dimensions (2)	Environmental Education: Israeli Environmental Education Research Forum roundtable with Dr Ian Robottom
12:15-13:30	Final Plenary - Restoration - Strategies for Success: Dov Pasternak - Agriculture; Carolyn Cook, U.S. Forest Service; Rattan Lal, Soil Conservation		Screening of plenary lecture	Screening of plenary lecture
13:30-14:30	Lunch - Closing Comments at main Dining Room Conference Ends
15:00	Departure of Buses
14:30-16:30		GNDRI biennial meeting (closed meeting)		Dead Sea Workshop (3): Dead Sea/Saline Lakes Environmental and Restoration Problems
16:30-17:00	Coffee Break
17:00-18:30		GNDRI biennial meeting (closed meeting, continued)		Dead Sea Workshop (4): A final panel and concluding remarks
18:30-19:30	Dinner for participants of Dead Sea Workshop & GNDRI
20:00	Departure of Buses

Wednesday, 10 November - Field Trip Day (plans are subject to changes)