Italiano
International Workshop
November 24th, 2022
“Water Extremes: Building Sustainable and Resilient Communities
A comparative look at Colorado and Italy”
CBLN Fiumicino Venue – Rome (Italy)
Viale delle Idrovore di Fiumicino n. 304 – Focene Fiumicino
The workshop “Water Extremes: Building Sustainable and Resilient Communities. A comparative look at Colorado and Italy” aims to place local communities at the center of the climate change debate. Local communities are recognized to be custodians of world change and at the same time represent a key asset for increased sustainability and resilience to manage water and climate crises. Starting from a inter-continental debate on shared drought and flood events that impacted at global scale, a delegation from Colorado USA and Italian major water governance actors will discuss on the international outlook and the peculiar regional settings by sharing experiences, problems and possible solutions. The discussion will focus on water extremes and hydrogeological risks impacting such climatically and socially diverse territories in order to benefit from each other’s experiences in water management and natural hazard mitigation.
ORGANIZED BY:
Università per Stranieri di Perugia (WARREDOC)
Associazione Nazionale Bonifiche e Irrigazioni Lazio (ANBI Lazio)
Consorzio per il Canale Emiliano Romagnolo (CER)
Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l’analisi dell’Economia Agraria (CREA)
Fondazione Earth and Water Agenda (Fondazione EWA)
One World One Water Center (OWOW) (Metropolitan State Univ. of Denver & Denver Botanic Gardens)
AGENDA:
08:30 Opening of registration for participants and welcome session
The event is moderated by Stefano Bini, RAI Author and Presenter
09:00 Institutional Welcome Remarks
Massimo Gargano, ANBI
Sonia Ricci, ANBI Lazio
Niccolò Sacchetti, CBLN
Alessandra Pesce, CREA-PB
Nicola Dalmonte, CER
Mauro Grassi, EWA
Jennifer Riley-Chetwynd, OWOW
09:30 Presentation of the Workshop
Fernando Nardi, WARREDOC
Raffaella Zucaro, CER
09:45 High-level Panel Debate, “Sustainable Communities Resilient to Droughts and Floods
in a Changing Society and Climate: a comparative look at Experiences and Solutions
from Colorado and Italy”
Experience, problems and solutions from Colorado (USA) presented by the OWOW Center:
Colorado Governor Jared Polis (pre-recorded opening remarks)
The Colorado River: A short film from American Rivers
Nona Shipman, MSU Denver OWOW
Larry Vickerman, Denver Botanic Gardens
Jim Lochhead, CEO Denver Water (pre-recorded remarks)
Russ Sands, Colorado Water Conservation Board (pre-recorded remarks)
The Italian experience, problems and solutions presented by:
Raffaella Zucaro, CER
Andrea Renna, ANBI Lazio
Myriam Ruberto, CREA-PB
Fernando Nardi, WARREDOC
Claudio Destro, MACCARESE SpA
A global look for international West-East and North-South cooperation programs:
Marcello Scalisi, UNIMED
Filippo Tessari, FEEM
Francisco Febronio Peña, ASFPM International Committee & Galt Group Inc
11:30 Signing of the agreement CER/ANBI with MSU Denver OWOW
and launch of the 2023 #WaterManifesto
12:00 Technical visit to CBLN: from historical land/water reclamation systems to date
13:00 Lunch break
14:00 Including Award Ceremony: Conferring prizes to participants of the course “Digital Mapping for Sustainable and Resilient Communities Facing Water Extremes” Competition
15:00 Visit to the farm MACCARESE SpA
Workshop working languages are English and Italian.
A translator will allow participants to speak their mother tongue
