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Events
Forthcoming LEC events are listed here, from open days to seminars and conferences.
Developing guidelines for good practice in involving stakeholders when coping with uncertainty in managing catchment change
Wednesday 23rd May 2012, 1000-1600
LEC Training Room 2
This workshop will draw out some of the key learning points regarding the nature, significance and handling of uncertainty in catchment management decision-making drawing on experiences in Ryedale, Loweswater and the Demonstration Test Catchments (DTCs). We will attempt to translate these into clear and practical messages for the catchment management community to serve as guidance on 'coping with uncertainty in decision-making'.
(In)determinate Subjects: Indeterminacy & Justice
Speakers include: Myra Hird (Queens), Rebecca Ellis (Lancaster University), Claire Waterton
Friday 22nd June 2012, 1000-1800
FASS Meeting Room 2
Increasing attention has been given to exploring how to account for entities that are both between time and between natures, such as subject/objects, forms of biotic, technoscientific and inhuman life. This conversation will ask: In what ways can indeterminate entities be observed within (and in excess of) the material/practical conditions of their emergence? How do these conditions create different kinds of responsibility(and new vocabularies which trouble and expand the contours of 'responsibility') which we may not have yet anticipated? How can we imagine alternative forms of accounting that apprehend the ontological and temporal conditions of precarity and justice? By exploring these and further questions we
Catchment Change Network International Conference: Stakeholders, next generation models, and risk in managing catchment change
Monday 25th - Wednesday 27th June 2012
Lancaster University Management School
Over the last three years the Catchment Change Network (CCN) has organised a programme of workshops and meetings to discuss and develop guidelines for incorporating risk and uncertainty into the management of catchment change in the areas of flood risk, water scarcity and diffuse pollution. This final international conference will present the progress that has been made in that time in both the CCN and other projects. A particular focus will be on the research needs in both modelling the impacts of change at scales of implementation and on stakeholder involvement in the management process. Keynote speakers include Eric Wood (Princeton), Jay Famiglietti (UC Irvine), Thorsten Wagener (Penn State and Bristol), with others still to be confirmed.
GLUE: 20 years on
Professor Keith Beven and Professor Andy Binley, Lancaster Environment Centre
Wednesday 27th - Thursday 28th June 2012
Lancaster Environment Centre
2012 marks the 20th anniversary of the first GLUE paper by Beven and Binley in 1992 and has, in addition, just passed 1000 citations on the Web of Science. The GLUE methodology has been controversial; viewed by some as simply wrong, by others as an earlier version of Approximate Bayesian Computation, and by others as a useful way of trying to reflect the impacts of epistemic errors on complex error structures in environmental modelling. This workshop will have the aim of reviewing: the way in which the GLUE controversy has illuminated the debate about how to assess uncertainty in environmental models; the philosophy that underlies the GLUE methodology; and some examples of using GLUE in practice. The workshop will start at lunchtime on Wednesday 27th June and finish at lunchtime on Thursday 28th June and will include both oral and paper presentations. The first day will be completed by a celebratory dinner in the evening.
LEC Postgraduate Open Day
Saturday 14th July 2012, 1200-1600
Lancaster Environment Centre
Find out about the Lancaster Environment Centre's taught and research-based postgraduate courses.