Actions Panel
May 19, 2016 Woods Environmental Forum: Karen Bakker
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Stanford University Y2E2
473 Via Ortega Room 299 Stanford, CA 94305Description
Big Data, Ecoinformatics, and Environmental Governance Reform: Indigenous community-based water governance at the water-energy nexus
Karen Bakker, Visiting Fellow, CASBS and Cox Visiting Professor in Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences presents an exploratory analysis of emergent reforms to governance of multiple stressed freshwater ecosystems. Innovation in water monitoring and diagnostics technologies, as well as new approaches for ecosystem assessment, have created new opportunities for water governance reform. These innovations might enable new ways of regulating water through the interdisciplinary integration of ecoinformatics, models, big data, and community water monitoring. Empirical examples drawn from fieldwork on water-energy nexus issues, conducted via a research partnership with Indigenous communities in the Canadian Northern boreal region will be featured as well as reflections on conceptual insights and methodological innovations that may be relevant to environmental scientists more generally.
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The Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment is working toward a future in which societies meet people’s needs for water, food, health and other vital services while protecting and nurturing the planet. As the university's hub of interdisciplinary environment and sustainability research, the Stanford Woods Institute is the go-to place for Stanford faculty, researchers and students to collaborate on environmental research. Their interdisciplinary work crosses sectors and disciplines, advancing solutions to the most critical, complex environmental and sustainability challenges.