Workshop, Peking University (Saturday-Thursday, 10-15 July)

Senior researchers will give presentations and facilitate workshops on the themes of:

• Integrated river basin management: the current legislative setting and river basin management in UK, Europe and China.
• The critical issues and the science behind them – pollution, hydromorphological, urban and rural pressures on the system.
• The critical issues and how to address them – management challenges; existing and new science; understanding and valuing ecosystem goods and services; a risk-based approach to catchment management; monitoring and modeling- the available and developing toolkit.
• Socio-Economic relationships and working with stakeholders.

There will be a social programme of events and activities within Beijing city and its environs, which will be educational and entertaining, including ice-breaker evening, sight-seeing, visits to popular attractions and personal free-time.

Field visit to the North China Plain (Friday-Saturday, 16-17 July)

North China Plain is a common name for the large alluvial plains of three major river basins in northern China, the Huang (Yellow), Huai and Heihe river basins, and is an area of great water stress. A field trip to NCP will be led by researchers from both CWR and the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR).

Field visit to the Heihe River basin in northwest China (Sunday-Tuesday, 18-20 July)

The Heihe River basin is an inland river basin in the arid zone of northwest China. It has been one of the desertification training sites of UNDP, where water and has major ecological issues at basin scale. Integrated catchment management in the Heihe River basin is the focus of a new major research initiative from the Natural Science Foundation of China, in which CWR and the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAREERI, CAS) are collaborating. Scientists from the CAREERI will provide logistical support for the field trip.