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Endorsed Projects
Twin2Go - Coordinating twinning partnerships towards more adaptive water governance in river basins
Twin2Go reviewed, consolidated, and synthesised research on integrated water resources management (IWRM) in basins around the world. Building on a selection of case studies from past and ongoing IWRM research projects, Twin2Go drew policy relevant research results on issues around ?adaptive water governance in the context of climate change? that are transferable to other basins. To ensure up-take of the research results in water resources management practice and political decision making, all synthesis activities involved stakeholders from the projects and basins and outcomes were effectively disseminated to all relevant levels of target groups including high level decision makers in water policy.
Twin2Go s overall goal is to increase the output and benefit of research by consolidating results and using synergies. This will help to build up the critical mass that will reach audiences at the policy making level and promote implementing research results.
Read more here http://www.twin2go.uos.de/
Coordination:
Prof. Dr. Pahl-Wostl, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Christian Knieper, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osanbrueck, Germany
Consistent assessment of global green, blue and virtual water flows in food production
The project provides a model-based, global yet geographically explicit quantification of green, blue and virtual water flows, for the present and under scenarios of climate change. Diverse adaptation options (particularly in rainfed management) will be considered, and a model intercomparison performed in association with the WaterMIP/WATCH project (http://www.eu-watch.org/). Hence, this project it contributes to the GWSP's Scientific Framework in terms of a thorough quantification of interactions between physical and biological/biogeochemical components of the global water system, and the role of humans within this.
List of publications:
Gerten, D., Heinke, J., Hoff, H., Biemans, H., Fader, M., Waha, K. 2011: Global water availability and requirements for future food production. Journal of Hydrometeorology 12, 885-899.
Fader, M., Gerten, D., Thammer, M., Heinke, J., Lotze-Campen, H., Lucht, W., Cramer, W. 2011: Internal and external green-blue agricultural water footprints of nations, and related water and land savings through trade. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 15, 1641-1660.
Fader, M., Rost, S., Müller, C., Bondeau, A., Gerten, D. 2010. Virtual water content of temperate cereals and maize: Present and potential future patterns. Journal of Hydrology 384, 218-231.
Hoff, H., Falkenmark, M., Gerten, D., Gordon, L., Karlberg, L., Rockström, J. 2010. Greening the global water system. Journal of Hydrology 384, 177-184.
Rost, S., Gerten, D., Hoff, H., Lucht, W., Falkenmark, M., Rockström, J. 2009. Global potential to increase crop production through water management in rainfed agriculture. Environmental Research Letters 4, 044002.
Gerten, D. 2010: Adapting to climatic and hydrologic change: Variegated functions of religion. In: Bergmann, S., Gerten, D. (Eds.), Religion and Dangerous Environmental Change, 39-56. LIT-Verlag.
Gerten, D. 2010: Hydrolatry in early European religions and Christian syncretism: How water transcends religions and epochs. In: Tvedt, T. & Oestigaard, T. (Eds.), Ideas of Water from Ancient Societies to the Modern World (A History of Water Series II, Vol. 1), 323-342. I.B. Tauris.
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Dieter Gerten, Potsdam-Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Germany. Contact: Email Dr. Gerten
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