Keynote Presentations from the 2nd AVEC International Summer School, Peyresq, 18-30 September 2005


Speaker: Roland Schulze
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School of Bioresources Engineering & Environmental Hydrology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, 3209 South Africa

Title of the talk: Problems and challenges with climate change and the water sector in developing countries: Experiences from South Africa (pdf: 25MB)


Biosketch

Roland Schulze is a Professor of Hydrology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, where he leads a research team of hydrologists, engineers and graduate students involved in process hydrology, design hydrology, agrohydrological mapping, hydrological model development and the application of models to assess impacts of land use and climate change on hydrological responses. His personal interests are in hydrological model development (e.g. ACRU Agrohydrological Modelling System), integrated water resources management and climate change impacts. He has wide international experience through his associations with the IGBP, Dialogue on Water & Climate and the UNESCO-HELP Initiative. He has authored of over 300 papers and reports, of which important recent ones include
• the South African Atlas of Agrohydrology and -Climatology (pp 276)
• numerous chapters in the IGBP Synthesis book on Vegetation, Water, Humans and the Climate
• Modelling as a Tool in Integrated Water Resources Management (pp 258)
• Climate Change and Water Resources in Southern Africa: Studies on Scenarios, Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation (pp 428)

On a more personal note, he is married, has two adult children currently working in the UK and is an ardent sports fan (in the more British mould of cricket, rugby and tennis).


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