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Global Water System Project (GWSP) Support Mechanism(s) Janos J. Bogardi

„Connecting GEOSS and ist Stakeholders in Science and Technology“ 1st GEO/EGIDA Workshop Bonn, 9-11 May 2011. Global Water System Project (GWSP) Support Mechanism(s) Janos J. Bogardi Executive Officer GWSP IPO. Global Environmental Change Programs. ESSP Structure and Activities.

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Global Water System Project (GWSP) Support Mechanism(s) Janos J. Bogardi

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  1. „Connecting GEOSS and ist Stakeholders in Science and Technology“1st GEO/EGIDA Workshop Bonn, 9-11 May 2011 Global Water System Project (GWSP) Support Mechanism(s) Janos J. Bogardi Executive Officer GWSP IPO

  2. Global Environmental Change Programs

  3. ESSP Structure and Activities

  4. Complicated structures prove that scientists are not great organizers • Donors (IGFA,NSF, BMBF, WMO, etc) • Sponsors (ICSU, ISSC, UNESCO, UNU, WMO, etc) • ESSP (Earth System Science Partnership) of the 4 Programs (IHDP, IGBP, DIVERSITAS, WCRP) /SC/ • 4 joint projects (GWSP, GCP, GECHH, GECAFS) /SSC/ • 4 Programs have several, sometimes shared projects /SSC/

  5. Nature of Networking Projects • Very complex funding structure, multiple obligations and potentially contradictory rules and donor expectations • Usually interdisciplinary and international • Maturity (life cycle) of participating projects can differ • Mixture of paid and voluntary contributors • Governance and project cultures and administartions may differ considerably

  6. Which glue keeps it together? • Trust and personal affinity • Common objectives and scientific values • Mutual respect • Mutual benefits (win-win) • Complementarity • Donor dictate

  7. „Lethal“ ingredients • Turf mentality • Budget discrepancies • Too much competition • Lack of data and information exchange • Donor jealousy

  8. Science Framework and Implementation Activities (GWSP Report No.1.) • Theme 1: Magnitudes and Mechanisms of Change (What are the magnitudes of anthropogenic and environmental changes in the global water system and what are the key mechanisms by which they are induced?) • Theme 2: Linkages and Feedbacks (What are the main linkages and feedbacks within the earth system arising from changes in the global water system?) • Theme 3: Resilience and Adaptation (How resilient and adaptable is the global water system to change, and what are sustainable water management strategies?)

  9. Medium-term Strategy:Integrated Study Areas • Global Scale Initiative: • Ranking of threats to the GWS, States • and Trajectories of Change Simulation modelling & scenarios Observations Governance & adaptation Strategies Climate change 2. Global Catchment Initiative: Bringing the global perspective to river basin research & management METHODS & TOOLS SPECIAL INTERESTS 3. Global Water Needs Initiative: Humans and Nature Policy Outreach & Capacity Building

  10. New initiatives launched at the 7th GWSP-SSC meeting in 2009 • The Water and Climate Change Mitigation Link • Water and Migration • Water and Health (with GECHH) • National Water Stress/Susceptibility Report Cards (potentially with GEWEX and UN Water)

  11. How to build the GWSP Community The concept of endorsed projects Projects of high scientific quality, addressing themes matching the GWSP Scientific Framework, science driven, global perspective, scientifically integrative, freshwater focussed, fostering the goals of ESSP and the GEC programs, multi party, international, scale medium watersheds and above, interdisciplinary, considering human dimensions Submitted request of association is judged by the SSC which invites the projects for a certain duration

  12. Endorsed (associated) projects Set of actually active endorsed projects: • Twin2Go (EU funded), Univ. Osnabrück • WATCH – Water MIP (EU funded), Wallingford &Wageningen UR • Consistent assessment of global green, blue and virtual water flows in food production (DFG funded), PIK Potsdam

  13. GWSP Products • Peer reviewed papers • Reports • Workshops – special issues • Conferences • Lectures and presentations • Newsletter • Digital Water Atlas • Data bases (GranD, etc) IS GWSP a STAKEHOLDER?

  14. GWSP-DIVERSITAS-ESSP paper in Nature Sept. 2010 Prevailing Patterns of Threat to Human Water Security and Biodiversity

  15. Digital Water Atlas

  16. Unexpected feedback after a public lecture

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