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During the IHDP Scientific Committee meeeting that was held in Norwich, UK, from 27 to 30 March 2006, senior representatives of the UK Global Change Committees agreed to increase collaboration with the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP).
At the World Water Forum in Mexico City last month, three out of five framework themes are major research themes in IHDP projects: implementing water resources management; water management for food and the environment; and risk management.
British global change researchers and social scientists hook up with IHDP
Senior representatives of the UK Global Change Committees agreed to increase collaboration with the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). This decision was taken at a UK-IHDP get-together during the IHDP Scientific Committee Meeting in Norwich, UK, from 27 to 30 March 2006. As a first step, a national committee on human dimensions research will be established to actively develop, coordinate and support IHDP research activities within the UK, and to represent IHDP within various Global Change Councils of the Royal Academic Society.
The British Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC) will support regular events such as seminars and workshops, with one concrete follow-up step being a capacity building workshop and forum for young African and British scientists. While UK scientists are already active within IHDP research projects, such as Industrial Transformation, Urbanization, or Food Systems, it was agreed that more remains to be done in order to link UK global change research to an international agenda.
As IHDP is entering its second decade and has successfully consolidated its work of the first 10 years, the Scientific Committee decided on developing a long-term strategic plan. With the main foci science, policy relevance, capacity building, and outreach, the strategic plan will be presented at the next Scientific Committee Meeting in 2007.
World Water Forum: Water and the environment an important research theme
With almost 20,000 participants and more than 200 thematic sessions, the World Water Forum, which convened for its fourth time in Mexico City from 16 to 22 March 2006, is the largest international event on freshwater. The forum seeks to find a new form of governance, enabling multi-stakeholder participation and dialogue to influence water policy-making at a global level towards sustainable development. At the same time, 140 ministers gathered from 21 to 22 March to adopt a Ministerial Declaration which calls for international action on water and sanitation issues. Besides these general governance aspects, IHDP research was also reflected in the main theme of the forum, "Local actions for a global challenge" which highlights the importance of the issue of scales (local - regional - global).
The World Water Forum addressed five framework themes: water for growth and development; water supply and sanitation for all; implementing integrated water resources management; water management for food and the environment; and risk management. The last three items in particular are major research themes in various IHDP projects. The Global Water Systems Project (GWSP), an Earth System Science joint project of IHDP* held its Scientific Steering Committee meeting back-to-back to the Forum. One of the major outcomes of this meeting was a framework consisting of global scale studies and regional case studies within a Global Catchment Initiative.
*in partnership with the three global change programmes Diversitas, International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, and World Climate Research Programme
For further questions please contact:
Ula Löw, Communications Manager
IHDP - International Human Dimensions Programme
on Global Environmental Change -
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Email: loew.ihdp@uni-bonn.de
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