Session

A Global Responsibility

A4.1 Integrated Water Resources Management - Sustainable Development with Education

got to Session Results

Date: 10/09/2009
Time: 11:00 - 12:30
Location: 4. OG

Language: German / translation into English

IWRM is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources, in order to maximize the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems. (Global Water Partnership 2000)

A sustainable behaviour with water resources requires the development of appropriate strategies, concepts, measures and site-specific technologies. For the successful implementation at the end of the R&D-project also locally education and training courses are needed. The IWRM-Session FONA-Forum Hamburg 2009 will introduce relevant aspects of education for the IWRM process, current and futures needs will be discussed with experts.

Session Moderation

Höckele, Verena
Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Projektträger Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Session Discussion

Cullmann, Johannes
IHP/HWRP-Sekretariat - International Hydrological Programme (IHP) der UNESCO , Hydrology and Water Resources Programme (HWRP), Bundesanstalt für Gewässerkunde,, Germany


Heidebrecht, Rüdiger
DWA Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall e.V., Germany


Hötzl, Heinz
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany


Parisius, Cornelia
Internationales Büro des BMBF, Germany

Presentations

Vom Schulcurriculum zum Doktorandenprogramm: Bildung als Instrument zur nachhaltigen Implementierung von IWRM-Komponenten in Jordanien, Palästina und Israel (SMART-Projekt)
van Afferden, Manfred
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany
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Forschung zur nachhaltigen Nutzung der Land- und Wasserresourcen in der Region Khorezm, Usbekistan: Die Ausbildungskomponente
Manschadi, Ahmad M.
Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany
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Capacity-Building als Grundlage nachhaltiger IWRM-Konzepte am Beispiel IWRM-Indonesien
Nestmann, Franz
Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Institut für Wasser und Gewässerentwicklung, Germany
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Session Results

Research priority areas for the foreseeable future

• Transfer of approaches and results of ongoing projects to other regions is a tremedous challenge. The local conditions (economic, ecologic, stakeholders) always need to be considered carefully.
• More transdisciplinarity: different stakeholders have to be increasingly integrated into a research community network.      

Necessary framework conditions to foster sustainable innovation

• The integration of young researchers into international research projects.
• Technology transfer and support to implement project result at the regional level.   
  

Other important issues or topics discussed during the session

• Vocational training and education as an additional part of the educational chain including advanced education and qualification, universities and schools.
• Due to the improvement of the water management the situation of the women was discussed as an important part of the chain in water supply in the regions of the Middle East, Central Asia and Indonesia.
  

Organisation

Dr. Verena Höckele ( Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, PTKA)
Postfach 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Tel.: 07247 / 82 4932
Fax: 07247 / 82 7932
E-Mail: Verena.Hoeckele@ptka.fzk.de