Training Institute on Adaptive Management of Water Resources under Climate Change in Vulnerable River Basins

8-17 October , 2012 - La Serena, Chile

The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), the Center of Excellence for Water Security (AQUASEC), and the Water Center for Arid and Semiarid Zones of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAZALAC) are pleased to organize the Training Institute on adaptive management of water resources under climate change in vulnerable river basins.

The Training Institute will be held from 8-17 October, 2012 in La Serena, Chile. The participant group has been finalized and consists of 22 professionals from hydrology, climate, land use, socioeconomic research and policy institutions, including stakeholders, particularly NGOs, community organizations, business and local practitioners in basin management, early career scientists and technicians.

The Training Institute is funded by the IAI with resources from the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Co-sponsors are CAZALAC and the Flemish government.

Course description

The 10 day course is designed to advance conceptual and practical training in adaptive water resources management (AWM). The Training Institute will involve lectures by international experts, exercises and final projects implementing lessons learned in their own locations. The training course will also address proposal preparation and the grant administration of international projects. Participants will be invited to develop multinational and multidisciplinary project proposals in the course. Successful proposals will be granted an IAI seed grant under the Training Institute Seed Grant Program (TISG-II).

Program

The program will explore the increasing pressure on water resources, especially in arid and semiarid regions, climate change, hydroclimatic variability, population growth, urbanization, rising demands for food societal vulnerability and ecosystem water needs.

The objectives are to assist participants to better evaluate the potential impacts of climate variability and climate change on water security, specifically to:

1. Integrate hydrological, climatic, social and economic development analyses;
2. Develop a network of researchers and decision-makers working on watershed and aquifer management in regions vulnerable to water shortages;
3. Develop flexible and applicable methodologies to enhance the governance of water in its multiple uses;
4. Assess economic valuation integrated with AWM principles;
5. Address uncertainty from climate change through application of scenario planning;
6. Promote the use of decision-making tools in the management of water resources under conditions of uncertainty;
7. Develop a regional knowledge network for the inclusion of AWM principles in the management of basins vulnerable to water scarcity.

Content

1. Climate variability and change with an emphasis on its impact on vulnerable basins in arid and semiarid environments of the Americas;
2. Basin resource exploitation and the challenges of multiple use options;
3. Water economic value concepts as an integrated view of basin management;
4. Integrated impact assessment looking at ecological and environmental flows, surface and groundwater hydrology, climate variability and climate change;
5. Water security incorporating multiple approaches;
6. Governance and institutions and the role of different actors (public, private and social sectors, basin residents, international organizations) to support decision making.

TISG Program

The IAI TISG program will fund projects for training institute participants to join the AQUASEC network (http://aquasec.org/) and continue engaging with colleagues, strengthen and foster multinational and multidisciplinary collaboration; and promote application of research ideas and knowledge imparted in the training.

The objectives are:

1. Further encourage network building;
2. Promote the application of the training provided on pressing real-world issues that have a significant global environmental change dimension;
3. Foster multinational and multidisciplinary collaboration;
4. Develop proposal writing skills;
5. Develop and strengthen management capacity for international grants;
6. Increase the participation of small countries in IAI research program.

1. TISG_ProgramDescription_Guidelines.pdf
2. TISG_Budget_Form.pdf
3. TISG_Evaluation_Criteria.pdf
4. TISG_Evaluation_Form.pdf
5. TISG_Conflict_of_Interests_Statement_Form.pdf

Organizers

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI)

Holm Tiessen, Director
Marcella Ohira, Assistant Director for Capacity Building
Mariana Toledo, Assistant Capacity Building Division
http://www.iai.int

AQUASEC - IAI Center of Excellence for Water Security

Christopher Scott, University of Arizona, USA
Francisco Meza, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Elma Montaña, Universidad Nacional Cuyo, CONICET, Argentina
http://aquasec.org/

CALAZAC - Water Center for Arid and Semiarid Zones of Latin America and the Caribbean

Guido Soto, Director
Jorge Nuñez
http://www.cazalac.org

UNESCO - Hydrological Systems & Global Change Section
Division of Water Sciences - Natural Sciences Sector

Koen Verbist

Facilitators/Speakers

Participants

Participants statement of interest

Argentina
Anahí Jael Miner Vega - Task Instituto Argentino de Nivologia, Glaciologia y Ciências Ambientales
Andrea Romina Díaz Gómez - Task Universidad Nacional de Tucuman
Juan Antonio Rivera - Task Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas
Patricia Irene Figuerola - Task University of Chilecito
Bolivia
Carlos Saavedra - Task HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation
Giovanna Amparo Egas Tapia - Task Unión Internacional para la Conservación de la Naturaleza
Brazil
Deivison Santos - Task Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária
Letícia Santos de Lima - Task Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Santiago Vianna Cuadra - Task Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica
Chile
Franco Calderón Maturana - Task Dirección General de Águas
Gladys Santis - Task Ministerio del Medio Ambiente
Maria Rafaela Retamal Diaz - Task Universidad de Concepción
Max Felipe Thomet Isla - Task CET Sur
Pedro Pablo Sanzana Cuevas CEAZA - Center for Advanced Studies in Arid Zones
Claudia Pilar Riquelme Cortés - Task Dirección General de Aguas de la región de Coquimbo
Manuel Domínguez Pereira Junta de Vigilancia del Rio Elqui
Colombia
Julián David Rojo Hernández - Task Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Ecuador
José Eduardo González Estrella - Task Ministerio del Medio Ambiente de Ecuador
Mexico
José Raul Romo Leon - Task Universidad de Sonora
Rafael Hernandez-Guzman - Task Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo
Paraguay
Victor Ariel Ayala Rojas - Task Dirección de Meteorología e Hidrología
Peru
Juan Carlos Huamaní Cayhualla - Task Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Perú
Lidia Enciso Condorcuya - Task Instituto Geofísico del Peru
USA
Anahi Ocampo-Melgar - Task University of Arizona
Susan Qashu - Task University of Arizona

Suggested readings

Andrew Robertson
GreeneEtAl_WRR12.pdf

Brown, C., K. M. Baroang, E. Conrad, B. Lyon, D. Watkins, F. Fiondella, Y.Kaheil, A. Robertson, J. Rodriguez, M. Sheremata, and M. N. Ward, 2010:
Managing Climate Risk in Water Supply Systems.
IRI Technical Report 10-15,
International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY,
133 pp. [Available online at http://iri.columbia.edu/publications/id=1048]

Christopher Scott
Science-policy_Water_security_ENV_April_2012.pdf

Elma Montaña
Escenarios_de_cambio_ambiental_global_escenarios_de_pobreza_rural.pdf
IHDP_Update_October_2008.pdf
PDF_de_REVIBEC.pdf
Book_-_Vulnerabilidad_al_cambio_climtico.pdf

Francisco Meza
Allen_Operational_Estimates_Reference_ET_1989.pdf
Book_PHGSA.pdf

Jorge Nuñez
Cuenca_Elqui.pdf
Cuenca_Limari.pdf

Koen Verbist
Verbist_et_al_2010_Seasonal_Predictability_of_Daily_Rainfall_Characteristics_in_Central_Northern.pdf

Ricardo Oyarzún
Sustainable_Development_Threats_Inter-Sector_Confl_icts_and_Environmental_Policy_Requirements_in_the_Arid_Mining_Rich_Northern_Chile_Territory.pdf
Geoquimica_del_drenaje_en_las_tres_cuencas_aridas_de_la_region_agricola-minera_de_Coquimbo.pdf

Willem Van Leeuwen
27495_Warner_Chapter_1.pdf
Integrating_Remote_Sensing_and_Geographic_Information_Systems_-_James_Merchant_and_Sunil_Narumalani.pdf
MODISevapotranspirationMcCabe_etal_2011.pdf
MODISVI_Huete_etal2011book.pdf

Presentations

October 8

KVerbist_Generating_near-term_climate_change_scenarios_8oct.pdf

Meza_Variabilidad_y_Cambio_Climatico_en_America_08oct.pdf

Ohira_TISGDirectrices_8oct.pdf

Robertson_Approaches_for_deriving_future_climate_information_08oct.pdf

Scott_GlobalChangeSymptoms_08Oct.pdf

October 9

GEO_5_La_Serena_ppt4_09.10.2012.pdf

Mattos_Water_situation_Progression_9oct.pdf

Montana_Vulnerability_and_Water_governance_09oct.pdf

Navarro_panel_politicas_-_CONAGUA__9O.pdf

Rojo_Prediccion_caudales_medios.pdf

Salomon_panel_politicas_cuenca_rio_Mendoza_09oct.pdf

October 10

Dominguez_Junta_de_Vigilancia_Rio_Elqui_Corminco_10oct.pdf

Galleguillos_Gestin_Recursos_Hdricos_10oct.pdf

Orphanopoulos_Cuenca_Elqui_10oct.pdf

October 11

Navarro_Reuso_del_agua_11oct.pdf

Navarro_Water_Supply_11oct.pdf

VanLeeuwen_LAND_and_WATER_ASSESSMENTS_RemoteSensing_11oct.pdf

October 12

CScott_Ecosystems_TI_LaSerena_12oct.pdf

CScott_Energy_TI_LaSerena_12oct.pdf

Meza_Water_Demand_Agriculture_12oct.pdf

Morales_evaluacion_economica_12oct.pdf

Oyarzun_mineria_agua__medio_ambiente_12oct.pdf

SBonelli_TI_LA_SERENA_Water_demand_12oct.pdf

October 13

CScott_13Oct_ScenarioPlanning_TI_LaSerena.pdf

CScott_13Oct_AdaptWaterMgmt_TI_LaSerena.pdf

CScott_13Oct_WaterAlloc_TI_LaSerena.pdf

CScott_13Oct_WaterMgmt_TI_LaSerena.pdf

October 15

Block_TI_LaSerena_2012_CaseStudy_15oct.pdf

Block_TI_LaSerena_2012_Overview_15oct.pdf

KVerbist_ManejoRiesgoClimatica_IAI_15oct.pdf

MontanaScott_Science_Policy_Interfase_intro_15oct.pdf

Venue

Facultad de Ingeniería de la Universidad de La Serena: en edificio CETECFI
Benavente 980, La Serena - Chile
(Edificio vecino a CAZALAC)

General logistical information for Speakers and Participants

Hotel: Centro Turístico Caja Los Andes
Av. Los Nísperos nº 0661 (Sector Av. Del Mar)
Teléfono: +56 51 225 251.
Website: http://www.cajalosandes.cl/Publico/serena/index.html

Logistics_TI_La_Serena_23.08.2012.pdf

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