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RESCUE seeking to develop vision and recommendations
RESCUE is seeking to develop a vision and recommendations on how to improve the methodological and knowledge base for global change research
New global water cycle atlas published
Based on the IPCC AR4 Climate Models an atlas of the global water cycle was published recently in Canberra, Australia. It is based on IPCC models and complements the GWSP atlas.
Special Issue on "Global Governance of Water: Trends, Processes, and Ideas for the Future" now available!
This special issue is a product of a workshop organized by the GWSP in June 2006.
GWSP SSC member gives his Inaugural Address
Jay O’Keeffe, member of the GWSP SSC, gives his Inaugural Address as a Professor of Freshwater Ecosystems at UNESCO-IHE on October 10th, 2008. The address is part of a full-day symposium on Integrating Knowledge for Sustaining Rivers to be held at IHE’s auditorium in Delft, the Netherlands.
Flow the Film - Documentary on Global Water Crisis in Theaters
Flow the Film documents the global water crisis, from how a few corporations took control of global water supplies, to how we are quickly running out of water, ultimately asking the question "Can Anyone Really Own Water?". The documentary contains interviews with scientists and community activists, as well as beautifully captures the role that water plays in each of our lives.
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Climate Change Science Program Issues Report on Climate Models
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) today announced the release of the report “Climate Models: An Assessment of Strengths and Limitations,” the 10th in a series of 21 Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAPs) managed by U.S. federal agencies. Developed under the leadership of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), this report, SAP203.1, describes computer models of the Earth’s climate and their ability to simulate current climate change.
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Climate Dynamics has published a special Issue on East Asian Climate Modelling.
The content of Climate Dynamics, Vol. 31, No. 4 of September 2008 is available online.
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IHDP and Capacity Building on Adaptive Water Management: Training of Trainers, October 11-16, 2008, New Delhi
IHDP recently announced the postponement of its Open Meeting planned to be held in October 2008 in New Delhi, India (see note below), to April 2009 in Bonn, Germany.
This does not regard the International Human Dimension Workshop,...
GWSP Digital Water Atlas launched on 21 February 2008
The GWSP Digital Water Atlas was launched on 21 February 2008 and is now available at atlas.gwsp.org. The Atlas currently contains 50 global maps and datasets on water-related topics and more than 100 links to other data and information sources. Comments and contributions are highly welcomed through the Atlas webite.
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IHDP Open Meeting has been postponed and relocated
Bonn, Germany, 4 July 2008. IHDP announces that the 7th International Science Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (Open Meeting), "Social Challenges of Global Change", originally scheduled for 15-19 October 2008, will take place from April 26-30 2009 in Bonn, Germany.
GWSP launched three Global Initiatives
In order to involve the broader natural and social science community interested in global change issues, GWSP defined three Global Initiatives....
Global Change Research Network Workshop Report available online
The Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) and the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Bern, Switzerland, have published the proceedings of the launching workshop of a "Global Change Research Network in African Mountains" which took place from 23-25 July 2007, in Kampala, Uganda.
Please download the report here.
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