Topics：1. Governance, Climate Change and Farmer’s Response in Rural China: Case Study on the Lancang (Upper Mekong) River Basin

　　　　 2. Ecocities, comparing Beijing and Rotterdam

Speaker：Prof. Meine Pieter van Dijk

Time：10:00am July 20 ,2011

Venue：Room2209, IGSNRR

Introduction to the speaker：

Meine Pieter van Dijk (PhD Economics Free University Amsterdam) is an economist and professor of Water Services Management at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, professor of entrepreneurship at MSM and professor of Urban management at the Institute of Social Studies and at the Institute of Housing and Urban Development (IHS) of the Erasmus University in Rotterdam (EUR), all in the Netherlands. He is member of the research schools CERES and SENSE. He worked on and in developing countries since 1973 and as a consultant for NGOs, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, different bilateral donors and UN agencies. He recently edited a volume of the International Journal of Water on the role of the private sector in water and sanitation. His recent books are on the managing cities in Ethiopia (eds, with J. Fransen, Delft: Eburon, 2008), Managing cities in developing countries, the theory and practice of urban management (2006, Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar) and with C. Sijbesma (eds., 2006): Water in India (New Delhi: Manohar).

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