Monday 10 December 2012

Turning Tides? The Dhaka workshop

Sunday 2 december the Institute of Water and Flood Management of the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in Dhaka, hosted the first Delta Lessons seminar of our research programme. This turned out to be a very interesting day. After a warm welcome by our host dr. Munsur Rahman  project leaders Shah Alam Khan and Flip Wester started the day with an introduction titled: "Turning Tides".


After this intruduction the 4 Phd's presented very briefly their research proposals and first results of their studies:

Farhana Ahmed: "Learning from our futures"


Martijn van Staveren: "Feeling Blue? Get Green"


Mahmuda Mutahara: "Towards preaching what is practiced?"



Arjen Zegwaard: "Can we know a delta?"


In the afternoon two presentation where done on water management practices in the South West Delta of Bangladesh, one by the programme's external advisor Hamidul Huq and on by two MSc student from Wageningen.

Hamidul Huq Ïnto the Beel"



Leendert de Die en Jan van Minnen on Tidal River Management:


After the series of presentation the group was divided over 4 sub-group to discuss the concent and ideas with the four individual PhD students.

2 comments:

  1. Very interesting, guys. Great idea to have a blog with an informal tone. Slightly unrelated to your study, but you might find this presentation interesting: http://goo.gl/JvEH0

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    1. Hi Abraham,

      Thanks for the suggestion. I knew about the moving coastlines book, but this is really a nice introduction. Glad to hear you like the blog-thing!

      best,
      Arjen

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