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World Water Development Report 2018 Nature-based solutions for water
In August 2012 UN-Water approved a new periodicity and structure for future World Water Development Reports (WWDR). The WWDR is now an annual thematic report with a focus on a different strategic water issues each year, produced by the UN World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) in collaboration with UN-Water members and partners and possible other contributors. At the UN-Water SPM meeting in August 2014, it was decided that the 2018 World Water Development Report would be on the theme of Nature based solutions for water.
WWAP prepared a background document describing the theme and its scope and a draft ‘storyline’ as well as a list of potential ‘main messages’ for the report. These were discussed at a workshop on 13-14 September 2016 at the WWAP’s offices near Perugia in Italy attended by some 40 participants from key organisations including FAO, UNDP, INWEH, UNIDO, IISA, IHE, IWMI, UNW, WaterLEX, Ramsar and UNESCO. IAHS was represented by Professor Mike Acreman (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology), who is co-Editor of Hydrological Sciences Journal and Secretary IAHS Ltd. He suggested that IAHS could provide technical advice our understanding of hydrological processes that underpin nature-based solutions for water (including floods and droughts, improving water quality, managing sediments, conserving river ecosystems); this was welcomed by WWAP. He also proposed the use of natural capital as concept to help explain nature-based solutions to politicians and business leaders. All participants recognized that future stage of report development would need wider input particularly from water and environmental management practitioners from around the world.
2 days left early bird registration - STAHY 2016
Dear colleagues and friends,
We send this email as a reminder to register for the STAHY 2016 Workshop that will be held on September 26-27, 2016 in Quebec (Canada).
To register, please visit http://stahy2016.ca/inscription/
Please remember that the deadline for the early bird registration is on Friday, August 26.
We are looking forward to meeting you in Quebec!
The STAHY 2016 Organizing Committee
Call for abstracts for AGU session "Hydrology, society and environmental change: Coupled human-water dynamics across scales"
Dear Panta Rhei scientists,
The deadline for AGU abstracts is fast approaching on 3 August. Together with my co-conveners Siva Sivapalan, Taikan Oki and Alfonso Mejia, I am organizing a session on "Hydrology, society and environmental change: Coupled human-water dynamics across scales". Please see the details below. This session is supported by Panta Rhei and AGU-JpGU joint sessions on socio-hydrology. Our invited speakers are confirmed as Sally Thompson (UC Berkeley) and Nandita Basu (U. Waterloo).
Please consider submitting your research to this Panta Rhei session, we are looking forward to exciting presentations and lively debate.
Kind regards, and hope to see many of you in San Francisco,
Hilary McMillan
Hydrology, society and environmental change: Coupled human-water dynamics across scales
Session ID#: 14127
This session welcomes abstracts that consider how to observe, understand, model, and manage the effects of human and environmental changes on hydrological systems. The interactions of coupled human-water processes across multiple time and spatial scales can give rise to the emergence of complex dynamics, including critical transitions, and will pose major challenges for sustainable water management. This session is organised as part of the IAHS Panta Rhei hydrological decade 2013-2022 and is a part of the series of AGU-JpGU joint sessions on socio-hydrology. Examples of relevant areas include:
- Hydrological models that include anthropogenic effects
- Measurements of human impacts on hydrological processes
- Interactions of communities with local water resources
- Creation of databases describing hydrology in human-impacted systems
- Data analysis and comparisons of hydrological systems around the globe and especially in developing and emerging countries
- Human interactions with hydrological extremes (floods and droughts) and water scarcity
Primary Convener: Hilary K McMillan, San Diego State University, San Diego, USA
Conveners: Taikan Oki, University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, Murugesu Sivapalan, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Alfonso Mejia, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
World's Large Rivers - New Delhi 2017
Status and Future of the World’s Large Rivers
18-21 April 2017 New Delhi, India
In 2014 a new UNESCO / IHP Programme (WLRI - World’s Large Rivers Initiative) has been called to life which aims in fostering a global network of programmes and partners related to the work and research at large rivers.
One of the main tasks of this Initiative is to continue the successful series of World’s Large Rivers Conferences. India, New Delhi will be the next venue for the World’s Large Rivers Conference. The themes are as follows:
TOPIC 1 Hydrology, Hydraulics & Water Quality
TOPIC 2 Sediment Transport & River Morphology
TOPIC 3 Ecology & Restoration
TOPIC 4 Integrated River Management
TOPIC 5 Indian Rivers
ABSTRACTS
June 2016 Call for abstracts
31 August 2016 Deadline for online abstract submission
15 October 2016 Notification of abstract acceptance
REGISTRATION
30 November 2016 End of early registration
15 April 2017 End of online registration
18 April 2017 Conference opening
Website: http://worldslargerivers.boku.ac.at/wlr/
Prof. Des Walling retires from Chair of IAHS Ltd. Board
Prof. Des Walling retired in February 2016 as chair of the Board of IAHS Ltd. IAHS President Hubert Savenije and Secretary-General Christophe Cudennec thanked Des for his outstanding contribution to IAHS over more than 20 years. Des remains Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Exeter from where he received his PhD. Des has had a highly distinguished career as a hydrologist, specialising in erosion and sediment yields and catchment sediment budgets. Amongst his many awards, in 2007 he was the recipient of the International Hydrology Prize awarded jointly by IAHS, UNESCO and WMO. He is a past President of the IAHS International Commission on Continental Erosion (ICCE). Des has authored more than 460 scientific papers, including many in HSJ, and edited 30 books amongst which are several Red Books dating back to 1982. Mike Acreman, secretary to IAHS and co-Editor HSJ, presented Des with a book on British rivers and a card to mark the occasion.
The 8th EGU Leonardo Conference
“From Evaporation to Precipitation: the atmospheric moisture transport”
October 25-27, 2016 Ourense, Spain
2016 Tison Award Ceremony
The 2016 Tison Award was presented to Guillaume Thirel, Jean-Nicolas Audouy, Lionel Berthet, Carina Furusho, Anna Kuentz, Julien Lerat, Thibault Mathevet, & Denis Ruelland.
For the paper:
G. Thirel, V. Andréassian, C. Perrin, J.-N. Audouy, L. Berthet, P. Edwards, N. Folton, C. Furusho, A. Kuentz, J. Lerat, G. Lindström, E. Martin, T. Mathevet, R. Merz, J. Parajka, D. Ruelland & J. Vaze (2015) Hydrology under change: an evaluation protocol to investigate how hydrological models deal with changing catchments, Hydrological Sciences Journal, 60:7-8, 1184-1199, DOI:10.1080/02626667.2014.967248
Left to Right: Hubert Savenije (President, IAHS), Christophe Cudennec (Secretary General, IAHS), Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros (UNESCO), Mike Acreman (Co-editor HSJ), Guillaume Thirel (Irstea, Tison Award Recipient), Thibault Mathevet (EDF-DTG, Tison Award Recipient), Lionel Berthet (DREAL Centre-Val de Loire, Tison Award Recipient), Tommaso Abrate (WMO).
The paper is available open access: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02626667.2014.967248
The IAHS Tison Award, established in 1982, aims to promote excellence in research by young hydrologists. The Award is granted for an outstanding paper published by IAHS in a period of two years previous to the deadline for nominations.
http://iahs.info/About-IAHS/Competition--Events/Tison-Award.do
2016 International Hydrology Prize medalists
Congratulations to the recipients of the International Hydrology Prize (Dooge medal and Volker medal) for 2016!
THE 2016 INTERNATIONAL HYDROLOGY PRIZE MEDALISTS
Dooge medal: Jeffrey McDonnell (Canada)
Left to Right: Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros (UNESCO), Jeffrey McDonnell (Dooge Medal Recipient), Hubert Savenije (President, IAHS), Tommaso Abrate (WMO), Christophe Cudennec (Secretary General, IAHS).
Volker medal: Denis Hughes (South Africa)
Left to Right: Blanca Jiménez-Cisneros (UNESCO), Denis Hughes (Volker Medal Recipient), Hubert Savenije (President, IAHS), Tommaso Abrate (WMO), Christophe Cudennec (Secretary General, IAHS).
Awarded during the 12th Kovacs meeting at UNESCO in Paris, France (15th June 2016).
The International Hydrology Prize is awarded annually by IAHS, with UNESCO and WMO, to two people who have made an outstanding contribution to hydrological science.
Nominations for the Prize are made by National Committees to IAHS, National Committees to the UNESCO-IHP or National Hydrological Advisors to the WMO, and forwarded to the Secretary General of IAHS for consideration by the Nomination Committee. The Committee consists of the President and a Vice-President of IAHS and representatives of UNESCO and WMO.
Two medals are awarded under the International Hydrology Prize: the Dooge medal and the Volker medal. Both medals are intended to distinguish outstanding achievements by hydrological scientists but with a different focus. The Dooge medal is aimed at fundamental contributions to the science of hydrology, whereas the Volker medal is aimed at outstanding applications of hydrological science for the benefit of society at large.
http://iahs.info/About-IAHS/Competition--Events/International-Hydrology-Prize.do
12th KOVACS Colloquium: Programme and Registration
HYDROLOGICAL INPUTS FOR WATER-RELATED SDGS IMPLEMENTATION: KNOWLEDGE, DATA, INDICATORS, TOOLS & INNOVATIONS
This year, the Kovacs Colloquium will take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, during the 22nd Session of the Intergovernmental Council of the IHP on 15 June 2016. It will comprise several invited lectures, a panel and a poster session on the role of hydrology and water resources, particularly on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the Paris Agreement of the COP-21. Programme
The Colloquium will focus on the inputs for water-related SDGs implementation adopted by the 193 Member States of the United Nations in September 2015. It will address methodological issues and challenges for SDGs implementation and monitoring using a set of global indicators, in particular, SDG 6 addressing water issues, and transversal and related SDGs such as end of poverty (SDG 1), food security (SGD 2), well-being (SDG 3), energy (SDG 7), disasters (SDG 11), climate change (SDG 13) and international cooperation (SDG 17).
All interested hydrologists, water resources professionals, scientists, policymakers and students are invited to participate in the 12th Kovacs Colloquium.
To register, please complete the registration form before 31 May 2016.
ICWRS - Registration deadline approaching
7th International Water Resources Management Conference of ICWRS. Bochum IAHS - 18-20 May 2016
The spatial dimensions of water management - Redistribution of benefits and risks
Registration Deadline 11 May 2016
Further details on the programme and registration are available from http://iahs-rub.hydrology.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/node/8 Conference flyer
The spatial aspects, which will be discussed during this meeting are extensive. The main topics of presentations are:
Spatial aspects of water supply and the redistribution of benefits from water
Floods and spatial aspects of flood risks
Spatial dimensions of water scarcity
Scale problems of water management ? when the summation of individual measures becomes a problem
Hydrological regionalization issues
The spatial dimension in socio-hydrology