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Annual Tony Allan Memorial Lecture

The annual lecture was set up in memory of Professor Tony Allan, a Professor in the Department of Geography. He was a distinguished scholar, most noted for his ground-breaking work on virtual water. Tony’s work reshaped thinking on water management and policy, with global impact.

The Tony Allan Memorial Lecture Series honours his legacy and aims to bring about thought-provoking, critical debate around key questions on the water-food issues, regenerative farming and broader aspects on the political economy of water.

Tony was a great contributor to the department, students, scientific and policy colleagues. Through the lectures we continue to bring together diverse research, professional and practitioner communities.

The series is organised by King’s Water Centre and the Department of Geography.

 

Join us for the 2024 Tony Allan Memorial Lecture by Kusum Athukorala

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In this lecture, we will critically consider the role of women and girls in water management in a changing climate context and alternate food practices, with a particular focus on Asia with our speaker Kusum Athukorala (International Water Management Institute).

Kusum has pioneered in gender and water studies in Sri Lanka and continues to promote a gendered approach in water programmes. As a multidisciplinary and multiskilled professional, she has been recognised for her work for several times. She received the International Women in Water Award in 2012 awarded by International Water Association and the Zonta Woman of Achievement for Environment in 2014.

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2023 Tony Allan Memorial Lecture by Lilia Smelkova

In this lecture, Lilia Smelkova explores the relationship between food and water stewardship. She discusses grassroots movements and campaigns to improve the food system, ranging from the experience of small scale farming communities to a major national campaign to improve the US food system.

Lilia considers questions of how to best include water accounting in these challenging efforts.

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2022 Tony Allan Memorial Lecture by Dr Anders Jägerskog

Water in the MENA region – victim and casualty rather than source of conflict?

At the inaugural Tony Allan Memorial Lecture in 2022, Dr Anders Jägerskog (Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, World Bank) unpacked the discourse around water and conflict in the Middle East in North Africa. Drawing on some of Professor Tony Allan’s work, it highlights the silent role of virtual waters effect on the propensity for conflict and war.

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