This conference engages with the transformations needed to deal with \u2013 adapt to, learn to live with, help solve, remedy or prevent \u2013 problems caused by climate change, environmental degradation and resource pressure as they become manifest in\/through water. It hinges on the insight generated by critical social scientists (prominently including but not limited to political ecologists) that growing pressures on the environment \u2013 and the resulting pollutions, scarcities, and depletions \u2013 are not natural processes but the outcome of specific histories and practices of \u2018development\u2019. This is a \u2018development\u2019 that is highly uneven, and premised on systematically undervaluing both nature and labour. Bringing about or supporting sustainable and just water futures entails critically questioning such forms of development, as well as the science and technologies that underpin them or help make them possible. It is equally important to devise ways \u2013 methods, tools, institutions, technologies \u2013 to think and do water in better, perhaps more caring, ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two UNESCO centres, the IHE Delft Institute for Water education and the International Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Water Systems Dynamics (ICIREWARD) in Montpellier, are unique in bringing together scholars and students from a range of disciplines and from many parts of the world around contemporary sustainability challenges in water, often in relation to processes of development in the so-called majority world. The event will help create stronger links between these two UNESCO centres, building channels for mutual intellectual inspiration and cross-fertilization and helping create the inter- or transdisciplinary research and action alliances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Programme and speakers<\/em><\/strong>[en rouge \u2013 menu d\u00e9roulant ?]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Moderation:Jeltsje Kemerink-Seyoum<\/strong><\/a>, IHE DelftInstitute for Water Education<\/em>, The Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14:00 \u2013 14:05 Opening and welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Marcel Kuper<\/strong><\/a>, Director, Joint Research Unit \u2018Water Management, Actors, Territories\u2019 (UMR G-EAU)<\/a>, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14:05 \u2013 14:30 Making the case for water transformations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Seema Kulkarni<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Researcher, Society for Participative Ecosystem Management (SOPPECOM), India<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nila Ardhiani<\/strong><\/a>, Director,AMRTA Institute for Water Literacy<\/a>, Indonesia<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amalinda Savirani<\/strong><\/a>,<\/strong>Head of S3 political science program, Department of Politics and Government, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta, Indonesia<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14:30 \u2013 14:50 Why caring matters in water<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Margreet Zwarteveen<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Water Governance, IHE DelftInstitute for Water Education<\/em>and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands & MAK\u2019IT FIAS Fellow 2021-2022 (JRU \u2018G-EAU\u2019), France<\/p>\n\n\n\n 14:50 \u2013 15:10 Transforming water, transforming society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Lyla Mehta<\/strong><\/a>, Professorial Fellow,Institute of Development Studies<\/a>(IDS), UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n 15:10 \u2013 15:30 Coffee break<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 15:30 \u2013 16:30 Transforming Waters<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Three short provocations by PhD scholars<\/strong>from the WEGO (Wellbeing, Ecology, Gender and cOmmunity<\/a>) andNEWAVE<\/a>ITN networks, theIHE-Delft<\/a>Institute for Water Education<\/em>& The University of Sheffield<\/p>\n\n\n\n Panel discussion:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Frances Cleaver<\/strong><\/a>, Professor ofPolitical Ecology, Lancaster University<\/a>, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marcel Kuper<\/strong><\/a>, Director, Joint Research Unit \u2018Water Management, Actors, Territories\u2019 (UMR G-EAU)<\/a>, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lyla Mehta<\/strong><\/a>, Professorial Fellow,Institute of Development Studies<\/a>(IDS), UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pieter van der Zaag<\/strong><\/a>, Professor Water Resources Management, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education & Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16:30 \u2013 16:50 Joint declaration by the two UNESCO Centers<\/strong>(tbc)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Eric Servat<\/strong><\/a>, Director, UNESCO International Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Water Systems Dynamics (ICIREWARD), Montpellier, France(video)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Eddy Moors<\/strong><\/a>, Rector, UNESCO-IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, The Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n