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On April 27, the Earth and Life Institute is pleased to welcome Dr. Jeff Hamerlinck for a new ELI-Sustainability Talk. 

Abstract

Scenario planning methods have grown in use as rural communities consider the value of 'futures thinking' and extending the timescales for long-range comprehensive planning. 

This talk presents an overview of how scenario planning is being used in Wyoming's Upper Snake River watershed to develop new adaptive capacity in response to climate change and related impacts on water availability. 

Part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the study area centers on Teton County (colloquially known as Jackson Hole), the richest county in the United States and the one with the most extreme wealth gap, resulting in serious inequalities in livability between various sectors of its population. 

Our framework couples two complementary scenario planning approaches – the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s XSP exploratory scenario planning method (Stapleton 2020), and Multiscale Iterative Scenario Building (MISB; Murphy et al. 2016). 

The work is being undertaken as part of the University of Wyoming’s Wyoming Anticipating the Climate-Water Transition, an interdisciplinary five-year U.S. National Science Foundation-funded project focused on understanding the interactions of social and ecological systems to make better predictions about potential futures in the headwaters of western Wyoming’s interstate river basins. 

The guest

Dr. Jeff Hamerlinck is the founding Director of the Center for Rural Community Resilience and Innovation at the University of Wyoming, where he also leads the Wyoming Geographic Information Science Center as Associate Director of School of Computing and is an AI Presidential Fellow in the Office of the President. 

Trained in geography and community planning, Dr. Hamerlinck holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Colorado-Boulder, is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners and maintains the credential of GIS Professional through the Geographic Information Systems Certification Institute. 

Dr. Hamerlinck is immediate past president of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, currently serves on the advisory board of the Consortium for Scenario Planning, and is an appointee to the U.S. National Geospatial Advisory Council. 

A senior member of the science team on UWYO’s Wyoming Anticipating the Climate-Water Transition (WyACT) project, Jeff’s current research interests include scenario planning and geodesign in multifunctional rural landscapes, and digital twin design for smart rural places.

Practical

This seminar will be held on April 27 from 13:00 to 14:00 in Ocean room (de Serres building, Place Croix du Sud 2, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

A lunch with the guest speaker will be held next to there, in the cafeteria of the de Serres building, between 12:15 and 13:00, only for participants at the ELI-T seminar.

If you would like to attend the lunch, please register here. 
Please note that registration is mandatory for the lunch and essential for us to plan the right amount of food. Registration for the talk only is appreciated but not required.

The seminar and lunch are free and open to everyone, whether or not you are an ELI member or a UCLouvain member, as long as you are registered.

The seminar can also be attended online. Follow online here: TEAMS link.