ESF-LFUI Symposium
Water Governance: Meeting the Challenges of Global Change
5-10 June 2011
This conference is organised with support from: |
Global Water System Project (GWSP)
How are humans changing the global water cycle and what are appropriate governance systems for a sustainable management of the Earth's water resources?
A founding principle of the Global Water System Project (GWSP) is the notion that physical, biological, chemical, as well as economic, political and cultural factors all shape the character of the water cycle and hence the world`s global freshwater resource base.
The Global Water System Project coordinates and supports a broad research agenda to study the complex global water system with its interactions between natural and human components and their feedback processes.
The mission of the Global Water System Project is to understand the ways in which humans use the resources and influence the dynamics of the global water system and to advise decision makers on how environmental and social consequences of these impacts can be mitigated.
While dealing with global water challenges, GWSP makes contributions in the following four fields:
1. Promoting global water governance for a sustainable management of the Earth's water resources.
2. Evaluation of environmental and social drivers of change and their consequences for the global water system.
3. Monitoring of policy relevant indicators that characterise the state and change of the resource.
4. Assessment of the availability and distribution of fresh water in the light of rapid social and environmental change.
While science driven, the Global Water System will provide policy-informing results, specifically targeting issues pertaining to the global aspects of environmental and social change that are of high interest to water managers worldwide.
