Monday, September 03, 2012
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Water in the Anthropocene Conference
The Global Water System Project and its International Project Office based in Bonn, Germany, is organizing an international conference on ‘Water in the Anthropocene: Challenges for Science and Governance. Indicators, Thresholds and Uncertainties of the Global Water System’ to be held at MARITIM Hotel, Bonn, Germany on 21- 24 May 2013.
Contributions are invited on the following themes:
Theme 1: Global Water System: Current State and Future Challenges
- Assessing Global Water Resource Availability
- Data Integration and Precision of Indicators
- Links between Global Carbon, Water and Nutrient Cycles
- Risks, Extremes and Variability: Challenges for Science and Practice
- Virtual Water and the Global Water System
Theme 2: Global Dimensions of Change in River Basins
- Rivers and the Nexus: Water, Energy and Food Security in Large Basins
- Adaptive Water Governance in Large Basins
- Basins and Aquifers: IWRM at Large Scale
- Hydropolitics in River Basins, Water Rights and Institutions
- Dynamics and Vulnerability of Delta Systems
Theme 3: Balancing Water Needs for Humans and Nature
- Trade Offs: Ecosystem Services - Challenges for Science and Practice
- Environmental Flows: Accounting Water Quantity and Quality
- Challenges and Solutions for Global Water Governance
- `Blue Gold`? The Value and Price of Water
- Integrated Land and Water Management for Sustainability
Deadline: October 31, 2012