ESF Research Conferences

18:00 onwards

Registration at the ESF Desk

20.00

Welcome Drink

20.30

Dinner

Welcome and Introduction

09.30 - 10.00

Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück, DE
Opening speech: The importance of the overall field and the session themes from a scientific perspective

10.00 - 10.10

Aslihan Kerç, Marmara University, TR
ESF Rapporteur - Welcome and Introduction

10.10 - 10.50

William Cosgrove, Ecoconsult Inc. Montreal, CA
A complementary keynote speech from a policy/practitioner’s perspective

11.50 - 11.10

Coffee Break

Session One - Global governance of water – current developments and future prospects

• Critical analysis of the current state
• Current and future challenges for global water governance
• Scenarios and prospects for development

Chaired by: Theo Toonen

11.10 - 11.50

Janos Bogardi, GWSP and University of Bonn Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung, DE
The global water challenge

11.50 - 12.30

Joyeeta Gupta, IVM VU University Amsterdam and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, NL and Frank Biermann, VU Amsterdam, NL
Earth system governance: Environment and water related issues

12.30 - 14.00

Lunch

Session Two - Continuation of morning session: Global governance of water – current developments and future prospects

Chaired by: Theo Toonen

14.00 - 14.40

Joseph Dellapenna, Villanova University, US
The evolution of water law

14.40 - 15.20

Lyla Mehta, University of Sussex, UK and Noragric: Norwegian University of Life Sciences, NO
Water as a human right, environmental justice and the right to water for nature

15.20 - 15.30

10 minute break

Panel Discussion
Presentations - 10 minutes each

15.30 - 17.00

Marianne Kjellén, WGF – UNDP Water Governance Facility at Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), SE
Multilevel governance for responding to needs, rights and demands of vulnerable communities

Owen McIntyre, University College Cork, IE
The human right to water and global administrative law: mutually supporting concepts?

Panel moderator and rapporteur team:

Everisto Mapedza
Tran Tran

17.00 - 17.30

Coffee Break

Participants' contributions to the various themes of the conference
Short Talks - 8 minutes each

17.30 - 18.15

Emeline Hassenforder, Oxyo Water, FR
Complex projects modelling as a tool to establish a cooperation framework within transboundary basins

Atoho Jakhalu, Humboldt University, DE
Governance of inter-sectoral water re-allocation within the context of urbanization in hyderabad. Employing the institutions of sustainability (IoS) framework

Jan Kwakkel, Delft University of Technology, NL
Blue limits of the Blue Planet: an exploratory analysis of safe operating spaces for human water use under deep uncertainty

Everisto Mapedza, International Water Management Institute, ZA
Benefit Sharing as a mechanism for improving Transboundary Water Governance: the case of the Eastern Nile Sub-basin

Richard Meissner, Council for Scienctific and Industrial Research, ZA
Constructing complex water governance: transboundary river basins as complex adaptive systems

18.15 - 18.30

Questions (for all talks combined)

19.00

Dinner

Session Three - Water governance addressing (global and) climate change

• Challenges for water governance arising from climate change
• Adaptive water governance and climate change
• Dealing with extremes
• Characterization of hazards from a governance perspective

Chaired by: Keith Richards

08.30 - 09.10

Declan Conway, University of East Anglia, UK  
Climate change adaptation, vulnerability

09.10 - 09.50

Roland Schulze, University of KwaZulu Natal, Scotsville, ZA  
Climate change impacts on water, hydrological regimes

09.50 - 10.30

Joyeeta Gupta, IVM VU University Amsterdam and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, NL
Climate change and water law: The regimes compared

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee Break

Panel Discussion
Presentations - 10 minutes each

Insa Theesfeld, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), DE
Polycentricity and climate change adaptation in agricultural water agencies

Shlomi Dinar, Florida International University, US
Climate change, conflict, and cooperation: Global analysis of the resilience of International river treaties to increased water variability

Sam Wong, University of Liverpool, UK
Understanding the polycentric approach in Trans-boundary water governance

Panel moderator and rapporteur team:

Hao Li
Eloise Biggs

12.30 - 14.00

Lunch

Session Four - Participants' contributions to the various themes of the conference
Short Talks - 8 minutes each

14.00 - 14.45

Davinder Grover, Agro-Economic Research Centre, IN
Dwindling underground water reserves: Emergent need for effectual water governance through dogmatic strategies in Indian Punjab

Hans Jørgen Henriksen, GEUS, DK
Groundwater management in Denmark - a farewell to the precautionary principle?

Olive Sarah Hood, Cotton Catchment Communities Cooperative Research Centre and Condamine Alliance, AU
The pathology of governmental and institutional traps: A Foucauldian interrogation of water governance discourse within a reorganizing ‘Glocalized’ social-ecological system

Hao Li, Changjiang River Scientific Research Institute, CN
Coping with drought in Rural in the Upper Mekong: China's strategy

Mysore Chandrakanth, University of Agricultural Sciences, IN
Governance of surface water and groundwater for irrigation

14.45 - 15.00

Questions (for all talks combined)

15.00 - 15.10

10 minute break

Short Talks - 8 minutes each

15.10 - 16.00

Bei Wen, Delft University of Technology, NL
Cross-boundary collaboration: behaviour, motivation, and knowledge transfer - professional network in the Dutch water sector

Carolin Butler Manning, University of Osnabrück, DE
The role of knowledge brokering in water governance

Carel Dieperink, Utrecht University, NL
Ecological ambitions and complications in the regional implementation of the Water Framework Directive in the Netherlands

Katherine Daniell, The Australian National University, AU
Co-engineering regional multi-level governance processes for water management and climate change adaptation

Nadine Methner, University of Cape Town, ZA
Analyzing collaborative network formations around issues of degrading water quality in the Berg River catchment, South Africa

16.00 - 16.15

Questions (for all talks combined)

16.15 - 16.45

Coffee Break

Short Talks - 8 minutes each

16.45 - 17.30

Francesc Bellaubi, Transparency International, DE
Enhancing integrity to improve service delivery in water supply service provision

Itay Fishhendler, Hebrew University, IL
Who is securitizing the water governance discourse and why

Ignatius Gutsa, University of Zimbabwe, ZW
Examining the gendered dimensions in using open access water for production among rural market gardeners

Farhad Mukhtarov, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Lost in translation? The framework to study the travel of ideas in public policy with examples from integrated water resources management in England, Turkey and Kazakhstan

17.30 - 17.45

Questions (for all talks combined)

17.45 - 17.55

10 minute break

17.55 - 18.30

Introduction to posters and opening of poster session

19.00

Dinner

20.30 - 22.00

Poster Session

Session Five - Conceptual foundations to understand properties and dynamics of multi-level water governance regimes

• Requirements for sustainable water governance
• Determinants of good water governance
• Links between the different governance modes -  bureaucratic hierarchies, markets and networks
• Barriers and drivers for change - potential and limitations of ‘governing’ fundamental change

Chaired by: Joyeeta Gupta

08.30 - 09.10

Louis Lebel, USER - Unit for Social and Environmental Research, Chiang Mai University, TH 
Transitions in water governance in developing Asia

09.10 - 09.50

Helen Ingram, University of California, Irvine, US
Beyond universal remedies for good water governance

09.50 - 10.30

Matthias Finger, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne, CH and Theo Toonen, TU Delft, NL
From multi-governance to multi-level governance: Institutional dynamics and water management

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee Break and Group Photograph

Panel Discussion
Presentations - 10 minutes each

11.00 - 12.30

Andre Silveira, University of Cambridge, UK
Reflections on institutional dynamics and performance of River Basin institutional systems: a preliminary analysis of China's Pearl River (Zhujiang) Basin

Jitske Verkerk, Erasmus University Rotterdam, NL
Multi-level water governance from a complexity perspective

Panel moderator and rapporteur team:

Richard Meissner
Nadine Methner

12.30 - 14.15

Lunch

Session Six - Methods for comparative analyses of multi-level water governance regimes

• Methodological challenges and advances
• Requirements for transferability of insights
• Frameworks (ontologies) for representation of the water system in water governance analyses

Chaired by: Louis Lebel

14.15 - 14.30

Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück, DE
Introduction to the session

14.30 - 15.10

Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Bloomington, US 
Via Video Conference - Shared ontologies for the representation of social-ecological systems from local to global levels

15.10 - 15.50

Benoit Rihoux, Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), BE
Systematically comparing ‘thick’ multi-level cases of water governance regimes: the potential of Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)

15.50 - 16.20

Coffee Break

Panel Discussion
Presentations - 10 minutes each

16.20 - 18.00

S.H.M Fahkruddin, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), TH
Analytical framework for effective water governance and integrated water resources management plan

Aziza Akhmouch, OECD - Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, FR
Multilevel governance of water policy in OECD countries

Panel moderator and rapporteur team:

Farhad Mukhtarov
Katherine Daniell

19.00

Dinner

20.30 - 22.00

Social Event

Session Seven - Water governance addressing the environmental dimension

• Addressing the environment in legal frameworks
• Water as a human right - right to water for nature?
• Requirements for governing use and preservation of ecosystem services
• Threshold effects in socio-ecological systems

Chaired by: Josefina Maestu

08.30 - 09.10

Claudia Pahl-Wostl, University of Osnabrück, DE
How to overcome the trade-off between human and environmental water needs

09.10 - 09.50

Keith Richards, The University of Cambridge, UK
Water management and ecosystem services, ecosystem restoration and conflicts

09.50 - 10.20

Coffee Break

Panel Discussion
Presentations - 10 Minutes each

10.20 - 11.50

Kathrin Knüppe, University of Osnabrück, DE
The management of groundwater associated ecosystem services in different geo-climatic regions - A comparative case study analysis of different governance regime characteristics

Gemma Car, Vienna University of Technology, AT
Local level involvement in water governance in Europe: Moving from information exchange to concerted action

Panel moderator and rapporteur team:

Christian Stein
Jing Lee

12.00 - 13.30

Lunch

Session Eight - Legitimacy and multi-level governance: lessons for the water column

• Reflect on strategies to enhance the legitimacy and effectiveness of international multi-level water governance
• Discuss the effectiveness of international multi-level water governance and how to improve it
• Taking into account lessons from other sectors
  

Chaired by: Claudia Pahl-Wostl

13.30 - 16.00

Roundtable participants in addition to the panel rapporteurs: 5 minutes report back with highlights - challenges from each session as discussion input.

Josefina Maestu - Director, UN-Water Decade Programme of Advocacy and Communication, ES
10-15 minute presentation / discussion input

Pavel Kabat, Wageningen University and Research Centre, NL
10-15 minute presentation / discussion input

Roland Schulze, University of KwaZulu Natal, Scotsville, ZA

Louis Lebel, USER - Unit for Social and Environmental Research and Chiang Mai University, TH 

Joyeeta Gupta, IVM VU University Amsterdam and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, NL 

16.00 - 16.15

Claudia Pahl-Wostl - Concluding remarks and closing of the conference

16.15

Free Time

19.00

Conference Dinner