Water governance conference: meeting the challenges of global change
Water Governance: Meeting the Challenges of Global Change
5-10 June 2011— Universitätszentrum Obergurgl, Austria
Chaired by: Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück, DE and Stockholm Resilience Centre, SE Co-chaired by: Joyeeta Gupta, IVM VU University Amsterdam and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, NL & Theo Toonen, TU Delft, NL
5-10 June 2011— Universitätszentrum Obergurgl, Austria
Chaired by: Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück, DE and Stockholm Resilience Centre, SE Co-chaired by: Joyeeta Gupta, IVM VU University Amsterdam and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, NL & Theo Toonen, TU Delft, NL
Conference objectives:
• establish state of the art on major recent insights and advances in concepts and methodology in analyses of water governance and policy
• bridge regional and global scales in multi-level analyses of water governance
• strengthen the emerging community of water governance scholars
The requirements for sustainable management of environmental resources in general, and of water in particular, have been a topic of continued concern. Critical voices have recognized that prevailing environmental resources management approaches have been mechanistic and technocratic largely neglecting complexity and the human dimension and have argued for a radical paradigm shift. In terms of policy approaches, there has been a tendency to focus on standard policy solutions (e.g. liberalisation of water services) for vastly different policy contexts and situations, many of which have had counter-productive results. This ongoing debate has been fuelled by prospects of climate and global change which render the conditions under which management has to perform increasingly unpredictable.
To learn more about the conference, please see the preliminary programme.
• establish state of the art on major recent insights and advances in concepts and methodology in analyses of water governance and policy
• bridge regional and global scales in multi-level analyses of water governance
• strengthen the emerging community of water governance scholars
The requirements for sustainable management of environmental resources in general, and of water in particular, have been a topic of continued concern. Critical voices have recognized that prevailing environmental resources management approaches have been mechanistic and technocratic largely neglecting complexity and the human dimension and have argued for a radical paradigm shift. In terms of policy approaches, there has been a tendency to focus on standard policy solutions (e.g. liberalisation of water services) for vastly different policy contexts and situations, many of which have had counter-productive results. This ongoing debate has been fuelled by prospects of climate and global change which render the conditions under which management has to perform increasingly unpredictable.
To learn more about the conference, please see the preliminary programme.
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