Final Programme Beyond the River - World Water Week

Wednesday 23 August
Workshop 8
Large Lakes as Drivers for Regional Development
Convenor: Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI)
Co-Convenors: East African Community (EAC), International Lake
Environment Committee (ILEC) and The International Joint Commission (IJC)
Workshop Discussion Entry Points
Large lakes, as illustrated by the very geography of economic
activities typical for lake regions, are strategic to regional
development. They are key to a variety of dynamic processes
where water resource and water-related risk factors interact
with other components in societal development. The
lake may, for instance, constrain the expansion of physical
infrastructure while serving urban planning with valuable
coastal zones. Globally, pressure on lake resources and surrounding
lands can be seen. This affects the water quality
of the lakes and thereby also the socio-economic conditions
and environmental status of the region. Visionary planning
is needed to integrate experience and knowledge into collaborative
and sustainable lake management.
Sustainable resource and risk management of lake basins
What kind of planning is required to realise and sustain the
considerable resource values of large lakes in expansive regions?
What risks in terms of pollution and degradation of the resources
in and around large lakes should be considered? What
regulations of human activities need to be considered?
Integrated, multi-objective water regulation systems
How can large lakes be most effectively managed through
water regulation systems, considering also water quality
aspects that provide strategic information and knowledge,
for regional development planning? How can broad – but
functional – participatory involvement be assured?
Transboundary lakes
How can the environmental and socio-economic benefits
from regional integration of transboundary lake basin
management be gained most effectively? How can the
principles for sustainable development and multi-objective
requirements for balancing resource and risk factors
be achieved in a transboundary setting?
Programme Wednesday 23 August, 09:00–17:00 Folkets Hus, Congress Hall B
Chair: Dr. Tom Okurut, EAC
Co-Chair: Prof. Boniface Egboka, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria
Rapporteur: Prof. Saburo Matsui, Kyoto University, Japan
Co-Rapporteur: Prof. Klas Cederwall, The Royal Institute of Technology,
Sweden
Commentator: Prof. Sven Erik Jørgensen, Danish University of Pharmaceutical
Sciences
09:00 Introduction
First Block – Management
09:10 Managing Lakes and their Basins for Sustainable Use: the Basin
Governance Challenge. Dr. Masahisa Nakamura, Shiga University
Center for Sustainability and Environment, Japan (Invited Speaker)
09:30 A Survey of Institutional Features of International Lakes. Ms.
Catherine Ashcraft, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
09:45 Allocation of Reservoir Water as Group Decision-making Problem
with Complete and Incomplete Information: Djerdap Dam
at the Serbia-Romania Frontier. Dr. Bojan Srdjevic, University
of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro
10:00 Regional Participation on the Development of Transboundary Water
Resources: Civil Societies Engagement as Tool for Development in Nile
Basin. Dr. Amos E. Majule, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
10:15 Discussion
10:30 Coffee Break
Second Block – Sustainable Development and Research Aspects
11:00 Looking in the Mirror: How Societies Learn from their Dependence
on Large Lakes. Prof. Dr. Richard A. Meganck, UNESCO-IHE
Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands (Invited Speaker)
11:20 Lombardy Lakes – The Present and the Future. Mr. Daniele
Magni, Research Institute for the Economy and Ecology Applied
to Alpine Areas, Italy
11:30 The World’s 10th Largest Lake under Threat: Lake Winnipeg,
the Economic Mainstay of Manitoba, Canada. Mr. Alex Salki,
Freshwater Institute Fisheries and Oceans, Canada
11:40 The Influence of Drainage Area on the Anthropogenic Transformation
of Vozhe Lake. Prof. Natalya Bolotova, Vologda
Pedagogical University, Russia
11:50 Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia: Nature’s Affluence Meets Human Poverty.
Mr. Marko Keskinen, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
12:00 Discussion
12:15 Lunch
Third Block – Overaching Issues
13:30 Dr. Nick V. Aladin, Russian Academy of Sciences Zoological
Institute (Invited Speaker)
Panel Discussion with Short Presentations:
13:50 Lakes as Repositories for Women’s Sustained Livelihood at Kodaikanal
Hills. Dr. D. Janaki, Mother Teresa Women’s University, India
13:55 Africa’s Lakes: An Analysis of Environmental Change.
Dr. Ashbindu Singh, UNEP/GRID – EROS Data Center, USA
14:05 Rejuvenation of Lake – Economic Engine: A Case Study of Kolleru
Lake in India. Dr. Trinadha Raju Rudraraju, GeoRIST, India
14:10 Networking between Networks: Baltic Cities Co-operate with
Lake Victoria Local Authorities. Dr. Sulev Nömmann, Union of
the Baltic Cities, Finland
14:15 Panel Discussion
14:30 Coffee Break
Fourth Block – Final Discussion
15:00 Discussion
Introduction by Dr. Erik Odada, University of Nairobi, Kenya
(Invited Speaker)
15:30 Final Discussion and Conclusions
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