During July 8-10th, the 2017 Socio-ecological Resilience of Freshwater Systems in the Anthropocene International Workshop was inaugurated at No.9 Banshanyuan Hotel, Nanjing. This workshop was hosted by Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Science (NIGLAS). The workshop is also the first event of the new established research center “Resilience and transformation center in China (RTCC)” within NIGLAS. The workshop invited more than 20 foreign researchers coming from several universities all over the world, such as University of Southampton, Nottingham University, University of Mariyland, Princeton University and Aarhus University. More than domestic 90 professors and students coming from Nanjing University, Xiamen University, East China Normal University, Yunnan Normal University and NIGLAS, etc. attended the workshop and joined in the discussion.

On the 1st day of the workshop, Shen Ji, the head of NIGLAS made the welcome speech, John Dearing, professor of University of Southampton and Yang Xiangdong, the director of research room at NIGLAS made the welcome speech, respectively. During the symposium (July 8-9th), about 20 significant talks were made based on the two overarching themes: Resilience and regime shift of freshwater social and ecological systems and Resilience-based management in freshwater ecosystems. The symposium achieved several remarkable outcomes: (1) Establishment of a research hub of SES resilience for Asia by bringing the wider scientific communities working in the region. (2) Devolving approaches/framework to better understanding freshwater SES resilience. (3) Preparation of a synthesis paper about long term trends of freshwater social-ecological resilience.

On the last day (July 10th), participants joined in field trip to Taihu Lake Station, visited the infrastructure condition, laboratory equipment, and investigated the ecological status of Taihu Lake by ship. Numbers of constructive suggestions for future ecological restoration were put forward after the field discussion.

Group Picture (Image by ZHANG Ke)

 Conference Discussion (Image by ZHANG Ke)