1. Centers for Natural Resources Management and Development Lars Ribbe, Executive Director of ITT UNESCO-IHP / MWAR-LAC Workshop „Water Security“ Brussels, February 25, 2016

2. CNRD Addresses challenges regarding water, energy and food security Contribution to certain SDGs Develop joint research, joint curricula International exchange of researchers, lecturers and students (also South-South)

5. Challenge: „Meeting current and future demands“ Water, Energy and Food Security: Tomorrow2030: 8.5 bn? Compensate for current deficit + account for additional demand:  Supply of around 40 % water, energy, food additionally! Today2016: 7.4 bn No access to… safe water: 0.9 bn, electricity: 1.5 bn, sufficient food: 1 bn pillars of sustainable development + social and political stability

6. 6 The Global Water Stress Trend – why focus on water scarce regions?

7. Water Security UN Water 2013 Water security as guiding objective

8. Water security - growth Sadoff et al 2015 „Securing Water, Sustaining Growth: Report of the GWP/OECD Task Force on Water Security and Sustainable Growth”

9. CNRD-exceed Centers for Natural Resources and Development Advisors: UNEP IUCN SWFP

10. Current case studies of ITT partner network adressing solutions together with local research parterns and stakeholders

11. Region (Case study) Science / Society Interfaces Assessment Knowledge Demand of Society Knowledge Inquiry Knowledge Synthesis Knowledge Communication Decision Making Policy Action Planning How to relate to societal challenges? Knowledge to Action Cycle Implementation monitoring SoECNRD Research linesH2020SDGs Theses Projects Case Studies Knowledge aggregation/translation Science Policy Workshops Science-Society Fora Publications RDI

12. Case Studies Research projects Joint Student Projects CD activities Learning Units PhD projects MSc projects Scenarios / Solutions Action (Development) RDI Assessment/ Knowledge Natural labs (case study regions) – foundation to apply system science and to develop system solutions

13. Role of Networks Academia B Academia C Academia (national /regional coordination ) Government Industry Public Authorities Civil Society INGOs Country A Country BCountry C Governm ent Industry Public Authorit ies Civil Society INGOs Research and Education demands Science-Policy; Science Society Dialogue Adoption of research results Governm ent Industry Public Authorit ies Civil Society INGOs Exchange of State of Art, experience and experts Joint education and research Regional case study

14. Other International University networks / cooperations of ITT (DAAD funded) EBL Nexus: Enquiry Based Learning related to the Land-Water Nexus EDUNEXUS: case study centered cooperation on education + research on the Water-Energy Food Security Nexus (Catholic University of Chile) CapWater: developing learning units for water resources assessment (Vietnam, Brazil, Bangladesh + private companies) PARTNAR: transformation partnership on Participatory Planning and Natural Resources Management – Curriculum Development (Ain Shams University, Egypt) PAUWES Pan African University – Institute of Water and Energy Sciences (at Tlemcen University, Algeria) WEF-IND Modeling and Assessing the Water Energy Food Security Nexus in the Indus River Basin (National University of Science and Technology + Centre for Global Change Impact Studies Center, Pakistan) TropiSeca Management of Droughts in tropical catchments / establish MSc IWRM in Costa Rica (UCR, Costa Rica + U Cuenca, Ecuador + U Javeriana, Columbia)

15. 15 EBL-Nexus Concept: The Case Studies Collection of basic data (opens source data) – develop online data bases Joint student projects – dialogue with stakeholders Educational movies Research (PhD students)

16. Stakeholder Dialogues

17. Example „Salt Water Intrusion in Vietnam“ Forest map (2010) Vu Gia Thu Bon River Basin Reservoirs Rice Irrigation Droughts CC: Sea level rise

18. A structured way of information management Data River Basin Information Center RBIC - VGTB Structured storage Improved Natural Resources Management Quality check Analysis Interpretation Procedures Products Reports, Maps Scenarios Forecasts Educ. Material Reservoir Management Irrigation Management Floods and Droughts Capacity Development Local+Region. Centers National Centers Stations Global DBs Data Base RBIS Research Community

19. Establish data infrastructures for research and management

20. Website to summarize case studies and projects

21. Suggestions Planned activities: „Nexus“ in Chile (October), Ecuador (6-9 June), Water Security in Asia (November) 11-16 July: workshop in Cologne Join in proposals: Use case studies to connect global products and BMPs with local stakeholders

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