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New paradigms for water management in the context of climate change
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Lecture

New paradigms for water management in the context of climate change

Climate and hydrology research indicates that extreme climate events are becoming more frequent and more severe. In the Mediterranean region, water resources are expected to become scarcer and more variable. To address these challenges, it is crucial to strengthen regulations, improve water basin and drought management plans, and regulate water demand as both water quality and water bodies face increasing anthropogenic pressures. However, there are opportunities to enhance resources, restore ecosystems and improve water use efficiency. Irrigated agriculture in the region is highly productive, supplying essential healthy food products such as legumes, fruits and vegetables. This agriculture is compatible with effective resource scarcity management. Advances in water technology, agronomy, and improvements in the agri-food sector’s operations are essential factors for consolidating the sector and ensuring its sustainability. This conference is included in the Inaugural Ceremony of the 2024-2025 academic year at CIHEAM Zaragoza, and will highlight some of the most successful innovations aligned with these new paradigms.

Speaker

Alberto Garrido is Professor of Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics and vice-rector for Quality and Efficiency at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM). He graduated as an agricultural engineer in 1989 at the UPM; holds a Master of Science in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics from the University of California, Davis (1992) and a doctorate in Agricultural Economics from the UPM (1996). He was a visiting lecturer at the University of California in Berkeley from 2005 to 2006.

He has been the principal investigator of more than 75 research projects, including several international competitive projects, having acquired more than €3.5 mill. in research grants. He has supervised 17 undergraduates for their end of degree projects, 14 Master students and 25 doctoral students. He has published 21 monographs and 92 peer-reviewed journal articles. His h-index is 28 (Scopus), 1324 citations, 4460 Google Scholar citations; (2159 since 2014), h-index 32; (20 since 2015). He has 4 research tranches and 1 transfer tranche.

Garrido has worked professionally in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Panama, Portugal, Suriname, UK, US and Vietnam. His consulting experience ranges from legislative bodies (Regional, National and European Parliaments), international organisations (OECD, BID, World Bank, FAO, IFAD and the European Commission), large private international companies (BASF, Pepsico), private foundations (Botín, Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno) and public foundations (Fundación Canal). He has been an evaluator for research agencies in Spain, France, the Netherlands, Israel, UK, Denmark, Chile, Mexico and Switzerland.

His academic career includes several appointments on boards and in academic and administrative positions of increasing relevance and responsibility. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the prestigious Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy (since 1996), on the Board of Directors of IMDEA-Food and on the Board of the Fundación General de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is a member of the scientific committees of several organisations. He was a member of the Working Group of the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council and co-authored the report “Opportunities and Challenges for Research on Food and Nutrition Security and Agriculture in Europe” (2018).

In 2008, he was appointed deputy director of the Water Observatory of the Botín Foundation and has been director since 2016. Between 2007 and 2008 he assisted in creating the Research Centre of Agricultural and Environmental Risks (CEIGRAM), a research centre of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), where he was secretary and then director between 2010 and 2014. In 2015, he was appointed subdirector of the School of Agricultural Engineering of the UPM.

His mother tongue is Spanish. He is fluent in English and has a reading knowledge of French, Portuguese and Catalan.

  • Date: Monday 28 October 2024, 11:30h
  • Venue: CIHEAM Zaragoza auditorium (Av. Montañana 1005, Zaragoza)
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  • Language: Spanish (English interpretation provided)

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