Training Institute on adaptive management of water resources under climate change in vulnerable river basins

Presentations

08/10
Climate Variability and Climate Change in the Arid Americas – Francisco Meza

Generating near-term climate change scenarios for an arid region: a case study – Koen Verbist

Instituto de Capacitación “Gestión Adaptativa de Recursos Hídricos bajo el Cambio Climático en Cuencas de Ríos Vulnerables” (8-17 de octubre de 2012 – La Serena, Chile) – Marcella Ohira – IAI

Approaches for deriving future climate information – Andrew W. Robertson

Global change and adaptive water management: Review of concepts – Christopher Scott

09/10
Perspectivas del Medio Ambiente Mundial – UNEP

Immersing ourselves in the Brazilian semiarid region – Luis Claudio Mattos

Human Dimensions Vulnerability and Water Governance in Andean Drylands – Elma Montaña

Administración del agua en Mexico – Ines Navarro

Predicción no lineal de caudales medios mensuales en America del Sur – Julián D. Rojo

Efectos del cambio climático en la administración hídrica del Río Mendoza – Mario Salomón

10/10
Innovar para una buena Gestión del Recurso Hídrico, visión de la Junta de Vigilancia del Rio Elqui – Manuel Dominguez

Gestión de los recursos hídricos – Dirección General de Aguas Región de Coquimbo – Gobierno de Chile

Presentación Cuenca Elqui – Damaris Orphanópoulos Stehr

11/11
El reuso del agua – Ines Navarro

Abastecimiento de agua: perspectivas y limitaciones – Ines Navarro

Land and water assessments: GIS and remote sensing tools – Willem van Leeuwen

12/10
Characterizing Water Demand: Ecosystems – Christopher Scott

Characterizing Water Demand: Energy – Christopher Scott

Water Requirements Agriculture – Francisco Meza

La valoración económica del agua y las tierras desertificadas/degradadas – Cesar Morales

Minería, Agua y Medio Ambiente – Ricardo Oyarzún

Characterizing Water Demands Case study: The Maipo basin – Sebastián Bonelli

13/10
Scenario Planning An Introductory Overview – Christopher Scott

Adaptive Water Management: Agriculture, Ecosystems, Urban Growth, Climate, and Energy Demand Drivers – Christopher Scott

Reallocation of Río San Juan Water by Monterrey City, Mexico – Christopher Scott

The Dilemma of Water Management “Regionalization” in Mexico under Centralized Resource Allocation – Christopher Scott

15/10
Elqui Case Study: Streamflow forecasts to guide water resources decisions and water rights – Paul Block and Koen Verbist

Innovative Approaches to Adaptive Water Management: A first look – Paul Block

Gestión de Riesgos Climáticos en la Región de Coquimbo – Koen Verbist

Science-Policy Dialogues – Elma Montaña

Program

The program explored 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.

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Participants

Speakers

Announcement

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) were pleased to organize this Training Institute.

The participant group consisted of 25 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 was funded by the IAI with resources from the US National Science Foundation (NSF). Co-sponsors were CAZALAC and the Flemish government.

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

Full Announcement – PDF
Full Announcement – PDF

Training Institute Seed Grant Program (TISG-II)

The IAI TISG program funded projects for training institute participants to join the AQUASEC network and continue engaging with colleagues, strengthen and foster multinational and multidisciplinary collaboration; and promote application of research ideas and knowledge imparted in the training.

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

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Suggested readings

Andrew Robertson
GreeneEtAl_WRR12

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

Elma Montaña
PDF de REVIBEC
IHDP Update_October 2008
Escenarios de cambio ambiental global escenarios de pobreza rural
Book – Vulnerabilidad al cambio climático

Francisco Meza
Allen_Operational_Estimates_Reference_ET_1989
Book_PHGSA

Jorge Nunez
Cuenca_Elqui
Cuenca_Limari

Willem Van Leeuwen
27495_Warner_Chapter_1
MODISevapotranspirationMcCabe etal, 2011
MODISVI_Huete etal2011book

Venue

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