WETwin News - 4th Twinning Workshop
“Wetland management options and adaptive governance”, Loskopdam, South Africa
(30/11/09) The fourth and last twinning workshop held so far took place on April 14th and 15th 2010 in Loskopdam, South Africa. Through collaboration with the Twin2Go project (EC FP7), the double-themed workshop included both the aspects of “Evaluation of Wetland Management Options” as well as “Adaptive Water Governance”.
Through this linkage with Twin2Go, it has been possible to obtain an important synergy between both projects (e.g.: information from the analysis of the institutional and legal framework at the different WETwin case study sites proved useful for the analyses on adaptive governance conducted under the Twin2Go project, whereas the inclusion of a specific indicator on the “status of integration of wetlands in Integrated River Basin Management” in the Twin2Go case study sites analyses will enable WETwin to obtain a basic indicator on the current status of this integration in a much broader international set of case study river basins).
Keynote presentations;
Eiman Karar, Director Water Resources management, Water Research Commission, South Africa - “Water policy and climate change”
Chris Dickens, Institute of Natural Resources, University of KwaZulu Natal - “Guideline for the incorporation of wetlands into catchment management strategies”
Eustathia Bofilatos. Director, Water Management: Institutional Governance. Department of Water Affairs, South Africa - “Establishment of coherent institutional arrangement to ensure improved governance of water”
Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Professor for Resource Management, University of Osnabrück, Germany - “Adaptive water governance; context, regime, performance”
Uri Shamir, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Stephen and Nancy Grand Water Research Institute, - Israel Institute of Technology, - “DSS, management options”
Eugen Nowak - “Water governance and renaturation measures within the Spreewald Biosphere Reserve – Participation of Stakeholders”
Hagen Koch – Upstream-downstream conflicts in the Spree catchment from the wetlands' perspective; How the GLOWA-Elbe-Expert-Toolbox tackle the identified upstream-downstream conflict?
