ESF Conference in Partnership with LFUI
Water Governance: Meeting the Challenges of Global Change
5-10 June 2011
Final Programme |
Final Programme
Invited speakers are marked in bold characters. Invited talks are 40-minute long.
| Sunday 5 June | |
| 18:00 onwards | Registration at the ESF Desk |
| 20.00 | Welcome Drink |
| 20.30 | Dinner |
| Monday 6 June | |
| Welcome and Introduction | |
| 09.30 - 10.00 | Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück, DE |
| 10.00 - 10.10 | Aslihan Kerç, Marmara University, TR ESF Rapporteur - Welcome and Introduction |
| 10.10 - 10.50 | William Cosgrove, Ecoconsult Inc. Montreal, CA A complementary keynote speech from a policy/practitioner’s perspective |
| 11.50 - 11.10 | Coffee Break |
Session One - Global governance of water – current developments and future prospects
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| 11.10 - 11.50 | Janos Bogardi, GWSP and University of Bonn Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, DE The global water challenge |
| 11.50 - 12.30 | Joyeeta Gupta, IVM VU University Amsterdam and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, NL and Frank Biermann, VU Amsterdam, NL Earth system governance: Environment and water related issues |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch |
Session Two - Continuation of morning session: Global governance of water – current developments and future prospects Chaired by: Theo Toonen | |
| 14.00 - 14.40 | Joseph Dellapenna, Villanova University, US |
| 14.40 - 15.20 | Lyla Mehta, University of Sussex, UK and Noragric: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NO Water as a human right, environmental justice and the right to water for nature |
| 15.20 - 15.30 | 10 minute break |
| Panel Discussion Presentations - 10 minutes each | |
| 15.30 - 17.00 | Marianne Kjellén, WGF – UNDP Water Governance Facility at Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), SE |
| Owen McIntyre, University College Cork, IE The human right to water and global administrative law: mutually supporting concepts? | |
Panel moderator and rapporteur team: Everisto Mapedza | |
| 17.00 - 17.30 | Coffee Break |
| Participants' contributions to the various themes of the conference Short Talks - 8 minutes each | |
| 17.30 - 18.15 | |
| Emeline Hassenforder, Oxyo Water, FR Complex projects modelling as a tool to establish a cooperation framework within transboundary basins | |
| Atoho Jakhalu, Humboldt University, DE Governance of inter-sectoral water re-allocation within the context of urbanization in hyderabad. Employing the institutions of sustainability (IoS) framework | |
| Jan Kwakkel, Delft University of Technology, NL Blue limits of the Blue Planet: an exploratory analysis of safe operating spaces for human water use under deep uncertainty | |
| Everisto Mapedza, International Water Management Institute, ZA Benefit Sharing as a mechanism for improving Transboundary Water Governance: the case of the Eastern Nile Sub-basin | |
| Richard Meissner, Council for Scienctific and Industrial Research, ZA Constructing complex water governance: transboundary river basins as complex adaptive systems | |
| 18.15 - 18.30 | Questions (for all talks combined) |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 7 June | |
Session Three - Water governance addressing (global and) climate change
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| 08.30 - 09.10 | Declan Conway, University of East Anglia, UK Climate change adaptation, vulnerability |
| 09.10 - 09.50 | Roland Schulze, University of KwaZulu Natal, Scotsville, ZA Climate change impacts on water, hydrological regimes |
| 09.50 - 10.30 | Joyeeta Gupta, IVM VU University Amsterdam and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, NL Climate change and water law: The regimes compared |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break |
| Panel Discussion Presentations - 10 minutes each | |
11.00 - 12.30 | Insa Theesfeld, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), DE |
| Shlomi Dinar, Florida International University, US Climate change, conflict, and cooperation: Global analysis of the resilience of International river treaties to increased water variability | |
| Sam Wong, University of Liverpool, UK Understanding the polycentric approach in Trans-boundary water governance | |
Panel moderator and rapporteur team: Hao Li | |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | Lunch |
| Session Four - Participants' contributions to the various themes of the conference Short Talks - 8 minutes each | |
| 14.00 - 14.45 | Davinder Grover, Agro-Economic Research Centre, IN Dwindling underground water reserves: Emergent need for effectual water governance through dogmatic strategies in Indian Punjab |
| Hans Jørgen Henriksen, GEUS, DK Groundwater management in Denmark - a farewell to the precautionary principle? | |
| Olive Sarah Hood, Cotton Catchment Communities Cooperative Research Centre and Condamine Alliance, AU The pathology of governmental and institutional traps: A Foucauldian interrogation of water governance discourse within a reorganizing ‘Glocalized’ social-ecological system | |
| Hao Li, Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute, CN Coping with drought in Rural in the Upper Mekong: China's strategy | |
| Mysore Chandrakanth, University of Agricultural Sciences, IN Governance of surface water and groundwater for irrigation | |
| 14.45 - 15.00 | Questions (for all talks combined) |
| 15.00 - 15.10 | 10 minute break |
| Short Talks - 8 minutes each | |
| 15.10 - 16.00 | Bei Wen, Delft University of Technology, NL Cross-boundary collaboration: behaviour, motivation, and knowledge transfer - professional network in the Dutch water sector |
| Carolin Butler Manning, University of Osnabrück, DE The role of knowledge brokering in water governance | |
| Carel Dieperink, Utrecht University, NL Ecological ambitions and complications in the regional implementation of the Water Framework Directive in the Netherlands | |
| Katherine Daniell, The Australian National University, AU Co-engineering regional multi-level governance processes for water management and climate change adaptation | |
| Nadine Methner, University of Cape Town, ZA Analyzing collaborative network formations around issues of degrading water quality in the Berg River catchment, South Africa | |
| 16.00 - 16.15 | Questions (for all talks combined) |
| 16.15 - 16.45 | Coffee Break |
| Short Talks - 8 minutes each | |
16.45 - 17.30 | Francesc Bellaubi, Transparency International, DE Enhancing integrity to improve service delivery in water supply service provision |
| Itay Fishhendler, Hebrew University, IL Who is securitizing the water governance discourse and why | |
| Ignatius Gutsa, University of Zimbabwe, ZW Examining the gendered dimensions in using open access water for production among rural market gardeners | |
| Farhad Mukhtarov, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL Lost in translation? The framework to study the travel of ideas in public policy with examples from integrated water resources management in England, Turkey and Kazakhstan | |
| 17.30 - 17.45 | Questions (for all talks combined) |
| 17.45 - 17.55 | 10 minute break |
| 17.55 - 18.30 | Introduction to posters and opening of poster session |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
| 20.30 - 22.00 | Poster Session |
| Wednesday 8 June | |
Session Five - Conceptual foundations to understand properties and dynamics of multi-level water governance regimes
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| 08.30 - 09.10 | Louis Lebel, USER - Unit for Social and Environmental Research, Chiang Mai University, TH Transitions in water governance in developing Asia |
| 09.10 - 09.50 | Helen Ingram, University of California, Irvine, US Beyond universal remedies for good water governance |
| 09.50 - 10.30 | Matthias Finger, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, CH and Theo Toonen, TU Delft, NL From multi-governance to multi-level governance: Institutional dynamics and water management |
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee Break and Group Photograph |
| Panel Discussion Presentations - 10 minutes each | |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Andre Silveira, University of Cambridge, UK |
| Jitske Verkerk, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL Multi-level water governance from a complexity perspective | |
Panel moderator and rapporteur team: Richard Meissner | |
| 12.30 - 14.15 | Lunch |
Session Six - Methods for comparative analyses of multi-level water governance regimes
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| 14.15 - 14.30 | Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück, DE Introduction to the session |
| 14.30 - 15.10 | Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Bloomington, US Via Video Conference - Shared ontologies for the representation of social-ecological systems from local to global levels |
| 15.10 - 15.50 | Benoit Rihoux, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), BE Systematically comparing ‘thick’ multi-level cases of water governance regimes: the potential of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) |
| 15.50 - 16.20 | Coffee Break |
| Panel Discussion Presentations - 10 minutes each | |
| 16.20 - 18.00 | S.H.M Fahkruddin, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), TH |
| Aziza Akhmouch, OECD - Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, FR Multilevel governance of water policy in OECD countries | |
Panel moderator and rapporteur team: Farhad Mukhtarov | |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
| 20.30 - 22.00 | Social Event |
| Thursday 9 June | ||
Session Seven - Water governance addressing the environmental dimension
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| 08.30 - 09.10 | Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück, DE How to overcome the trade-off between human and environmental water needs | |
| 09.10 - 09.50 | Keith Richards, The University of Cambridge, UK Water management and ecosystem services, ecosystem restoration and conflicts | |
| 09.50 - 10.20 | Coffee Break | |
| Panel Discussion Presentations - 10 Minutes each | ||
| 10.20 - 11.50 | Kathrin Knüppe, University of Osnabrück, DE | |
| Gemma Car, Vienna University of Technology, AT Local level involvement in water governance in Europe: Moving from information exchange to concerted action | ||
Panel moderator and rapporteur team: Christian Stein | ||
| 12.00 - 13.30 | Lunch | |
Session Eight - Legitimacy and multi-level governance: lessons for the water column
Chaired by: Claudia Pahl-Wostl | ||
| 13.30 - 16.00 | Roundtable participants in addition to the panel rapporteurs: 5 minutes report back with highlights - challenges from each session as discussion input. Josefina Maestu - Director, UN-Water Decade Programme of Advocacy and Communication, ES Pavel Kabat, Wageningen University and Research Centre, NL Roland Schulze, University of KwaZulu Natal, Scotsville, ZA Louis Lebel, USER - Unit for Social and Environmental Research and Chiang Mai University, TH Joyeeta Gupta, IVM VU University Amsterdam and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, NL | |
| 16.00 - 16.15 | Claudia Pahl-Wostl - Concluding remarks and closing of the conference | |
| 16.15 | Free Time | |
| 19.00 | Conference Dinner | |
| Friday 10 June |
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Breakfast and Departure |
