Ms. Rim Hazimeh presents at the EAERE 28th Annual Conference in Limassol
TALANOA-WATER for informing and catalyzing the adoption of robust transformational adaptation strategies to water scarcity under climate change.
The conference is organized by The Cyprus Institute, the Cyprus University of Technology, and the Department of Economics of the University of Cyprus.
Ms. Rim Hazimeh, research assistant and project coordinator at AgHive and a graduate student in the MS in Irrigation program at FAFS Department of Agriculture (AGRI), co-organized and presented a policy session as part of the PRIMA funded project, “TALANOA-WATER” – Talanoa Water Dialogue for Transformational Adaptation to Water Scarcity Under Climate Change, led by Dr. Hadi Jaafar, AGRI Chairperson. The session took place at the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) 28th Annual Conference in Limassol, Cyprus, held from June 27 till 30.
TALANOA-WATER is a 4-year project, coordinated by the University of Salamanca, Spain, that brings together an international scientific consortium of 7 partners from 6 countries: Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Italy, France, and Spain. TALANOA-WATER is funded by Horizon 2020 European Union Funding for Research & lnnovation, and Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA Foundation).
Ms. Hazimeh presented the policy session on “Water Dialogues for Sustainability” with colleagues Dr. Francesco Sapino from Universidad de Salamanca, Spain, Ms. Juliette Le Gallo from INRAE, France, and the session chairperson Dr. Carlos Mario Gómez from the University of Alcalá and IMDEAWater. The objective of the policy session was to highlight the challenges and opportunities of actionable science that allow for more effective integration of state-of-the-art economics research into the day-to-day operations of decision makers in the Mediterranean area.
During the conference, Ms. Hazimeh explained the role of Earth Observation in designing transformative water policies, with a major focus on developing countries where data availability is often a critical constraint. Ms. Hazimeh presented transferable remote sensing-based frameworks and tools for improving agricultural water management, that are used at the Remote Sensing and Geospatial lab at the Department of Agriculture under the supervision of Dr. Hadi Jaafar. These included the coupling of remote sensing with microeconomic modeling, Water Accounting, and Economic Irrigation Water Productivity.
EAERE Conference is an international event with approximately 700 individual participants attending from all over the world. Researchers, scholars, economists, and students convene to the EAERE Annual Conferences in the spirit of economic discovery, research, analysis, and collaboration. The participation of Ms. Hazimeh and her colleagues was made feasible through funding from the TALANOA-WATER project, which is regionally coordinated by the University of Salamanca.