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XIV World Water Congress
The XIV World Water Congress continues a tradition of meetings designed specifically for water resources professionals - practitioners, researchers, decision-makers, and others. A triennial event of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA), the recent Congresses have been held in Montpellier (2008), New Delhi (2005) and Madrid (2002).
IWRA, the Congress International Scientific Committee (ISC), and the Secretariat of Water and Energy Resources of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil (SRHE), are pleased to invite interested participants to the XIVth Congress in Porto de Galinhas, near the city of Recife, during the period September 25-29, 2011. Core support for the Congress is provided by IDRC, Canada’s International Development Research Centre, which supports research in developing countries to promote growth and development. The result is innovative, lasting local solutions that aim to bring choice and change to those who need it most.
The XIV Congress will address Adaptive Water Management: Looking to the Future. The ISC, composed of members from regional and international bodies, universities and research organizations, has planned four central themes:
1) adaptive water management
2) water resources and global change
3) governance and water law
4) knowledge systems.
Plenary sessions and keynote speakers will set the broader context to frame individual, more detailed sessions.
We look forward to your participation and encourage you to continue checking the Congress website for updates over the coming months leading up to the Congress.
GOALS
The World Water Congress will highlight emerging drivers of water resources management including climate change; population growth, urban expansion and demographic changes; economic development; water quality degradation, and ecosystem water requirements including to mantain biodiversity. Each of these will alter the way water is managed; together, they will require fundamentally new priorities for technology and infrastructure, management and policy, allocation and pricing, laws and institutions, and above all a new future outlook for water resources professionals.
OBJECTIVES
What is "adaptive management"? As we enter an era of drastically heightened pressure on water resources combined with greater exposure to extremes (drought and floods), managers and decision makers (from users to agencies, to global water initiatives) must reconfigure conventional approaches that have assumed bounded variability in hydrologic, water demand, and institutional terms. This new conception of water management seeks to better integrate scientific, engineering, social, and institutional perspectives. It requires new understanding of multiple factors that influence how water is used and managed and of what we must do to innovate. For example, what are the tradeoffs of new treatment systems for water supply or wastewater that are increasingly energy-intensive when climate change mitigation will require reduced energy inputs? How do decision processes at local to national to global scales incorporate new perspectives? Are agencies, professionals, and the public able to change their thinking ("learn") quickly enough to keep pace with growing uncertainty in conditions? How do water systems build adaptive capacity to face multiple stressors, some of which are potentially catastrophic or yet unknown such as climate change impacts? These and other questions will challenge Congress participants.
THEMES
Four themes will provide the overall structure for the Congress:
- Adaptive water management
- Water resources and global change
- Governance and water law (co-convened by IWRA and AIDA)
- Knowledge systems
Each theme will be comprised of a set of sessions as indicated below. Sessions may be combined, or expanded, depending on Congress participants’ interest.
Participants submitting abstracts will indicate which session(s) would be the most appropriate for their paper. The ISC will attempt to accommodate these requests, but cannot assure participants that they will be in the session of their first choice.
| Adaptive water management | Water resources and global change | Governance and water law | Knowledge systems |
| AM1. TRANSITION TO AWM: MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE OF TRANSFORMATION Info | GC1. DRIVERS OF CHANGE: CONTEXTUALIZATION Info | GL1. EMERGING CHALLENGES IN WATER LAW AND ADMINISTRATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE Info | KS1. DISCURSIVE SCIENCE, INNOVATIVE POLICIES AND STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION Info |
| AM2. AWM, IWRM, AND CO-MANAGEMENT Info | GC2. AWM AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES Info | GL2. WATER GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONS Info | KS2. BUILDING SCIENCE-POLICY-STAKEHOLDER INTERFACES Info |
| AM3. CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS IN AWM: HOW TO SHARE LESSONS LEARNED Info | GC3. AWM AND FOOD SECURITY Info | GL3. BALANCING EQUITY, EFFICIENCY AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN WATER ALLOCATION AND RE-ALLOCATION, IN THE CONTEXT OF ADAPTIVE WATER MANAGEMENT (AWM) Info | KS3. ROLE & INTERACTION OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE IN AWM Info |
| AM4. HOW TO DEAL WITH UNCERTAINTY IN AWM Info | GC4. AWM AND ENERGY SECURITY Info | GL4. WATER POLLUTION CONTROL Info | KS4. IMPACT PATHWAYS AND THE ADOPTION OF INNOVATION Info |
| AM5. AWM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Info | GC5. AWM AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Info | GL5. THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER: GOVERNANCE DIMENSIONS Info | KS5. KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS, SOCIAL LEARNING AND LEARNING ALLIANCES IN AWM Info |
| AM6. AWM IN OVERCOMING TRADE-OFF BETWEEN HUMAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL WATER NEEDS Info | GC6. AWM AND CLIMATE CHANGE Info | GL6. THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER: LEGAL DIMENSIONS Info | KS6.WATER MANAGEMENT IMPACTS FROM OUTSIDE THE WATER SECTOR Info |
| AM7. THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES CONCEPT IN AWM Info | GC7. AWM AND ALTERED HYDROLOGIC SYSTEMS Info | GL7. LAW AS LEADER IN COMMUNITY ATTITUDES AND SUSTAINABILITY Info | KS7. ROLE OF MODELS IN ADAPTIVE WATER MANAGEMENT Info |
| AM8. AWM AND FLOODS Info | GC8. AWM AND MANAGING UNCERTAINTY AND EXTREMES Info | GL8. GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATERS Info | KS8. SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENTS AND THE SCIENCE-POLICY INTERFACE Info |
| AM9. AWM, WATER SCARCITY AND DROUGHTS Info | GC9. EMERGING TECHNOLOGYAND INFRASTRUCTURE Info | GL9. THE LEGAL DIMENSIONS OF TRANSBOUNDARY WATERS IN THE FACE OF THE CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE Info | KS9. FUTURE OUTLOOK PLENARY Info |
TIMELINE
October 15, 2010: Deadline for special session proposals
November 15, 2010: Deadline for submission of abstracts
December 2010: Inform authors of accepted presentations/ posters
May 2011: deadline for submission of the final version of presentations
September 25-28, 2011: Congress
September 29 - October 1, 2011: Optional trips
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