NeWater Project

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Outputs

• 2.1 Poverty and Gender
• 2.2 Guadiana Basin
• 2.3 Lesotho in the Orange Basin
• 2.4 Tisza Basin

Introduction

The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions and services, in a context where human beliefs, actions and values play a central role. Furthermore, the growing uncertainties of global climate change and the long term implications of management actions make the problems even more difficult. NeWater addresses some of the present and future challenges of water management. The project recognizes the value of highly integrated solutions and advocates integrated water resource management (IWRM) concepts. However, NeWater is based on the hypothesis that IWRM cannot be realized unless current water management regimes undergo a transition towards more adaptive water management.

Outputs

Our work has focussed on vulnerability to shocks and stresses (or slow and rapid onset events) and the iterative development of model applications with case study teams.

• NeWater Working Paper 2 – Ionescu, C., R.J.T. Klein, J. Hinkel, K.S. Kavi Kumar and R.Klein, 2005: Towards a Formal Framework of Vulnerability to Climate Change. NeWater Working Paper 2 and FAVAIA Working Paper 1, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, ii+20 pp.
• Choose your own story: describing multiple pathways for analysing dynamic vulnerability and adaptive capacity in coupled socio-ecological systems

Poverty and Gender

• Specification of mechanisms and tools for multi-stakeholder dialogue processes on poverty and gender in river basin planning - Nilufar Matin

Guadiana Basin

• Public Participation and Adaptive Water Management - Assessing the role of System Dynamic Models in the Upper Guadiana Basin in Spain - Chiara Sorisi, Stockholm Environment Institute, UK.
• Introducing Agency into Water Resource Simulation Models
• Agent-based modelling based on a stylised model - Takeshi Takama Stockholm Environment Institute, UK.
• Documentation of Groundwater Agent-based Model – Richard Taylor
• Public policies for groundwater conservation: a vulnerability analysis in irrigation agriculture - Consuelo Varela Ortega, Thomas E. Downing, Paloma Esteve, Sukaina Bharwani

Lesotho in the Orange Basin

• Climate adaptation in the mountains of Lesotho
• Case based description of Dynamic vulnerability and report
• Resilience
• Integrating social vulnerability into water management in the Lesotho Highlands: The case of Ha Tsiu - Sukaina Bharwani, Moliehe Shale, Anna Taylor, Nilufar Matin, Thomas Downing

Tisza Basin

--Sukaina Bharwani 14:54, 27 March 2009 (CET)