RIHN/UNESCO-IHP/UNU-IAS International Symposium
Water, Cultural Diversity and Global Environmental Change:
Emerging Trends, Sustainable Futures?
| Date & time: |
1-3 October, 2009 |
| Venue: |
RIHN Lecture Hall (  access)
Room D, Kyoto international Conference Center ( access) |
| Organiser: |
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)
UNESCO International Hydrological Programme (UNESCO-IHP)
Institute of Advanced Studies, United Nations University (UNU-IAS) |
| Language: |
English |
The Objective of the Symposium:
The objective of this international symposium is to encourage global recognition of, and respect for, cultural diversity in water resources management, in order to facilitate collaborative actions for sustainability of water and cultures. The symposium is part of a series of activities that have been implemented on the topic, most notably public sessions held in the past four World Water Forums. The symposium will bring together an international and interdisciplinary community of scholars, scientists, advocates and policy makers to explore various issues, such as: "water cultures" and the culture of water; how traditional ways of life are threatened due to the loss of water resources, and, how traditional knowledge might contribute towards future water security; how water resource development and management has undermined the viability of culturally diverse groups, and, how water resource management can strengthen biodiversity and cultural diversity; and, alternative futures: strategic recommendations for incorporating socio-cultural perspectives into water resource management systems, addressing rights and entitlements to water, and stewardship principles and responsibilities.
- Program:
Tursday 1, Oct 2009 |
| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Opening Addresses
Sato Yo-Ichiro, Deputy Director-General, RIHN, Japan
András SZÖLLÖSI-NAGY, Rector, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
Govindan PARAYIL, Director UNU-IAS, Australia |
| Session 1 : Diverse water cultures and ecologies |
| Chair: AKIMICHI Tomoya, RIHN |
| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Diversity of Indigenous people’s cultural meanings, values and perceptions of water
Monica MORGAN,
Murray Lower Darling Rivers Indigenous Nations, Australia
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| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Indigenous water management in Africa
Rodah ROTINO,
Kenyan Maasai, the Indigenous World Forum on Water and Peace (IWFWP)
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| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee/tea |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Diverting water: Cultural plurality and public water features in an urban environment
Veronica STRANG, University of Auckland, New Zealand
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| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Water Culture: A common means for water environment protection?
ZHENG, Xiao Yun, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, China |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Discussant: David Groenfeldt, Santa Fe Watershed Association/Indigenous Water Initiative, USA |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
| Session 2 : Development and/or diversity? Water as a managed resource |
| Chair: Daniel NILES, RIHN |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
The paradigm shift in India’s river policies: From sacred to transferable waters
Kelly ALLEY, Auburn University, USA
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| 14:30 - 15:00 |
Legacies and challenges to integrating cultural diversity in the Sierra Leone Water Sector
Fenda AKIWUMI,University of South Florida, USA
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| 15:00 - 15:30 |
Living with dams: Japanese experience of dam development and people's lives
TAKESADA Naruhiko, Meikai University, Japan
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| 15:30 - 15:50 |
Coffee/tea |
| 15:50 - 16:20 |
Drowning under progress: Water, culture and development in the Greater Mekong Subregion
Nathanial MATTHEWS, International WaterCentre, Australia
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| 16:20 - 16:50 |
Climate change and agro-pastoralist ecologies in the Three Parallel Rivers region, Yunnan, China
Lun YIN, Yunnan Academy of Social Sciences, China
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| 16:50 - 17:30 |
Discussant: Marcus BARBER, James Cook University, Australia |
| 18:30 |
Welcome Reception at Royal Hotel & Spa |
Friday 2, Oct 2009 |
Session 3 :
Future ecologies: Water, environmental change and cultural adaptation |
| Chair: NAKAYAMA Mikiyasu, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo |
| 9:00 - 9:25 |
Water, Culture, Power: Emerging trends and implications for sustainable futures
Barbara JOHNSTON, Centre for Political Ecology USA |
| 9:25 - 9:50 |
The downstream implications of retreating glaciers: The sociocultural consequences of the Bhagirathi River's decline
Georgina DREW, University of North Carolina, USA
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| 9:50 - 10:15 |
Reimagining the river: Contest over multifunctional river flood plannning in Western Europe
Jeroen WARNER, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
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| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Coffee/tea |
| 10:30 - 10:55 |
Urban river cultures
Irene KLAVER, University of North Texas, USA |
| 10:55 - 11:20 |
The Water Culture Atlas project: Strategies and technological alternatives for water in Latin America and the Caribbean
Ana BUTI, Republic of Uruguay University, Urguay
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| 11:20 - 11:50 |
Discussion
Discussant: Marcela BRUGNACH, University of Osnabrück, Germany |
| 11:50 - 12:35 |
Lunch |
| 12:35 |
Shuttle bus for public event |
Public Forum
Water, Cultural Diversity & Global Environmental Change
This event is held at Kyoto International Conference Center, Room D
Chair: KUBOTA Jumpei, RIHN |
| 13:00 - 13:05 |
Opening Addresses
TACHIMOTO Narifumi, Director-General, RIHN |
| 13:05 - 13:10 |
Symposium objectives
ABE Ken-ichi, RIHN |
| 13:10 - 13:40 |
Indigenous perspectives in water management
Esther CAMAC, Association for Indigenous Development and Information, Costa Rica |
| 13:40 - 14:10 |
Operationalizing IWRM: Cultural diversity as the missing link
Richard A. MEGANCK, UNESCO-IHE |
| 14:10 - 14:40 |
Water and Japanese civilization
TAKEMURA Kotaro, Japan Water Forum, Japan |
| 14:40 - 15:00 |
Coffee/tea |
| 15:00 - 15:40 |
Water and culture in Japan
KADA Yukiko, Governor of Shiga Prefecture, Japan |
| 15:40 - 17:00 |
Panel Discussion
Moderator: ABE Ken-ichi, RIHN |
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Poster Session / Youth Artwork exhibition |
Saturday 3, Oct 2009 |
Roundtable Discussion:
Mainstreaming cultural diversity in water resource management
Chair: Lisa HIWASAKI, UNESCO-IHP, France |
| 9:00 - 9:20 |
Aboriginal perspectives in water resource management: The way forward
Live-video comments from Henrietta MARRIE, The Christensen Fund, Australia
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| 9:20 - 9:40 |
The power of diversity: Water, culture, and the challenge of shared difference in water resource management
Marcus BARBER, James Cook University, Australia |
| 9:40 - 10:00 |
Droplets of Hope: Searching for Sustainability and Common Ground through Traditional Water Attitudes and Knowledge in the Arab/Israeli Conflict
Rosina HASSOUN, Michigan State University, USA |
| 10:00 - 10:20 |
Applying indigenous values to water management
David GROENFELDT,
Santa Fe Watershed Association/Indigenous Water Initiative, USA |
| 10:20 - 10:35 |
Integrating indigenous knowledge into water policies
Ameyali RAMOS-CASTILLO, UNU-IAS Traditional Knowledge Initiative, Australia |
| 10:35 - 10:55 |
Coffee/tea break
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| 10:55 - 12:00 |
Discussion |
| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch break |
Working Groups:
Strategic Recommendations for Incorporating Sociocultural Perspectives
into Water Resource Management |
| 13:00 - 15:30 |
<Participants break into working groups> |
| 15:30 - 15:45 |
Coffee/tea break |
Presentation of Working Groups
Chair: WATANABE Tsugihiro, RIHN, Japan
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| 15:45 - 16:00 |
Presentation by working group 1: |
| 16:00 - 16:15 |
Presentation by working group 2: |
| 16:15 - 16:30 |
Presentation by working group 3: |
| 16:30 - 17:30 |
Discussion |
Closing Session |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Closing addresses endnote speaker(s):
András SZÖLLÖSI-NAGY, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education
AKIMICHI Tomoya, Deputy Director-General, RIHN, Japan |
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