Train the Trainers NeWater/ WP 4.3/ CS Elbe Integrated Assessment and Waterwise

1. Train the Trainers NeWater/ WP 4.3/ CS Elbe Integrated Assessment and Waterwise for Adaptive Management Potsdam 3 & 4 May 2007

2. IIntroductions Organisation of the training Valentina Krysanova Adaptive management & integrated assessment Catharien Terwisscha van Scheltinga NeWaterwise model its use (1) and the making of (2) Paul van Walsum

3. We are we good at

4. Evaluation

5. Learning objectives of the training The learning objectives of the training are: (after the training the particpants can) • recognize and understand the changes taking place in their water management system; • apply the adaptive management cycle for a given case; • make their organisation more adaptive; • teach this all to their stakeholders!

6. Increasing pressure on the traditional water management system

7. Challenges for water management • Global Change Climate change, Population growth, Economic growth They may influence (in)direct demand and supply of water • Uncertainty Uncertainty of events and responses, tools & observations, interpretations, new insights & effect of political measurements • Complexity Links with other sectors, with water users up- and down stream, with institutions, at various scales and time frames

8. Traditional Water Management Water Management was focused on the solution of local hydrological problems. • Dikes to protect towns against floods • More irrigation for more food/ cash crops • Reservoirs for more irrigation water • Drainage to evacuate saline water and sewerage • Legislation for eutrophication of lakes and coastal seas. • Are solutions sufficient sustainable?

9. Causes behind the problems PSIR helps to understand the issues: • Pressure (drivers like population pressure) • State (cultivation of slopes) • Impact (run off, floods) • Reaction (dikes to protect towns) Issues are complex and ask for an integrated approach

10. Share your experiences on AM • 1. List your experience on changes in command, demand and supply of water • 2. List the responses of the water system to these changes

11. Sustainable Water Management • Sustainable management of water resources cannot be realized unless current water management regimes undergo a transition towards more adaptive water management. • To cope with uncertainties, adaptive management is needed as a systematic process for improving management policies and practices by learning from the outcomes of implemented management strategies. • A key element is the active involvement of stakeholders in the process of developing, implementing and monitoring of river basin management plans.

12. IWRM IWRM is ‘a process which promotes the co-ordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximise the resultant economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems (GWP) Jonch-Clausen, 2004, Figure 1

13. Integrated Water Resources Management Cycle

14. NeWater works in Case Studies

15. NeWater develops Knowledge base Participatory process of analysis and assessment in cases Methodological development and integration • Analyse current regime and needs for change (vulnerability assessment, adaptive capacity, performance indicators to compare current and target states) • Identify barriers for change • Analyse process of transition • Identify and implement actions at different levels

16. Adaptive Management Adaptive Management • is a systematic process to improve management approaches by learning from the consequences from implemented management strategies, • acknowledges explicitly uncertainties and complexity of the systems to be managed, • has as one goal to increase the adaptive capacity of the management regime.

17. Adaptive Management characteristics “Adaptive management is learning to manage by managing to learn” (Bormann et al, 1993 ) Walters (1986): scientific understanding will come from the experience of management as an ongoing, adaptive, and experimental process, rather than through basic research or the development of ecological theory.

18. Uncertainties in AM The AM cycle also considers uncertainties like: • Ambiguity/ interpretation • Complexity of the system to be managed • New insights about system behaviour • Changes in environmental and/or in socio-economic conditions

19. Social Learning is needed both for implementing and sustaining integrated and adaptive water management regimes

20. What is Social Learning? • Social learning refers to the capacity of all stakeholders to deal with different interests and points of view (does not imply consensus) and to collectively manage the resources in a sustainable way. • Important are issues such as the development of a shared problem definition and shared understanding of the physical system at stake, perception issues and mental frames, negotiation processes and strategies, and the quality of communication.

21. Role of ICT Tools Problem Framing Boundary Management Ground rules Leadership Social Learning Concept

22. Integrated Water Resources Management Cycle Include Uncertainties & Social learning! Stakeholders understand and appreciate theirpositions Hypothesis Testing Learning GWP – Technical Report No10 Stakeholders realize own tasks they agreed upon Scenario Planning, Generation of Hypotheses Experimental Approaches Robust Action

23. Examples for Management which is not/well adaptive

24. 1 0 0 Supply Capacity 8 0 6 0 Peak Demand 4 0 Capacity and Demand (relative) Average Demand 2 0 0 1 9 0 0 1 9 2 0 1 9 4 0 1 9 6 0 1 9 8 0 2000 Year Urban Water Supply – Swiss Case Situation Supply capacity meet max. daily demand Drought condition 1976 -> increase capacity Demand dropped. Unflexible strategy Alternative integrated management strategies Negotiated social: Flexible regimes of coordinating supply management with demand management. Pricing -> average demand. Information campaigns -> peak demand.

25. Example Flood Management Change of Management paradigm:

26. Plans for Change

27. River Road Rhone – Switzerland Athabasca - Canada

28. Comparison current - potential future state

29. Comparison current - potential future state

30. Idealtypical Representation

31. Share your experiences on AM • 1. List your experience on changes in command, demand and supply of water • 2. List the responses of the water system to these changes

32. MTF Action Arena

33. Learning and experimentation processin parallelto “regular” management

34. How to stimulate ‘Transition to AM’ For discussion: • Can you create a shadow network within or outside your organisation? 2. Where would you put your ‘open windows’ on?

35. Themes and Tools Place and Function Integrated assessment and NeWaterwise in the adaptive management

36. Tools to support adaptive management and learning Two perspectives on policy development and implementation: Left – the different steps in an iterative cycle of policy development and implementation in adaptive management. Right – the different elements of processes of social learning and institutional change

37. Characteristics of different steps of policy cycle and requirements for tools to support these steps

38. Characteristics of different steps of policy cycle and requirements for tools to support these steps

39. Integrated assessment theme Integrated assessment supports: • the various aspects • The links between them • the uncertainty

40. Waterwise tool • Waterwise is an interface,…. • Waterwise links land use with water quality & quantity • Waterwise can be used for integrated assessment • Waterwise can be used for integrated planning • Waterwise is interactive and participatory?

41. THE END

42. Evaluation

43. Topics • Concepts of IWRM (Integrated Water Resources Management) and AM (Adaptive Management) • Water management regimes

44. NeWater New approaches to adaptive water management under uncertainty Transdisciplinary Research Project: FP6 EU January 2005 – December 2008 Funded with 12 Mio Euro from the EU 35 project partners www.newater.info

45. NeWater in the case study areas To develop a conceptual framework for research and adaptive management of river basins that integrates natural science, engineering and social science concepts and methodologies. To analyse and classify major sources of uncertainty in IWRM and their implications for management. To analyse past, present and future vulnerability and adaptive capacity of river basins and key factors of influence. To develop tools to analyse different management regimes and manage the transition to adaptive management tailored to the institutional, cultural, environmental, technological settings of river basins.

46. NeWater Products • Conceptual framework for understanding water systems and management regimes (components, dynamics) • Methodology to analyse and assess vulnerability, adaptive capacity, management strategies • Conceptual framework for understanding the transition to adaptive management regimes (interdependence of factors, trajectories) • Methodology for the participatory assessment and implementation of transformation processes and evaluation of progress

47. Steps in Policy Cycle • In problem definition take into account different perspectives in participatory process. • Scenario analysis in design of policies - strategies that perform well under different possible future developments • Decisions should be evaluated by the costs of reversing them. • Monitoring programmes should include different kinds of knowledge • Institutional settings needed where actors assess the performance of management strategies and implement change in transparent fashion

48. Requirements for Regime to be Adaptive • New information must be available and/or consciously collected (e.g. indicators of performance or for change) and monitored over appropriate time scales • The actors in management system must be able to process information and draw meaningful conclusions. This can be best achieved if the learning process unites actors in all phases of assessment, policy implementation and monitoring. • Change must be possible and must be implemented in ways that are open and understandable to all actors. It must be clear as to who decides how and when to change management practices, based on which evidence and why.

49. Hypotheses on characteristics of adaptive regimes

50. TRANSITION Pred&Cont REGIME Int & Adap REGIME Governance Elementsof Transition Sectoral Integration Scale of Analysis And Operation Information Management WHO?WHY? Infra- structure Finances And RIsk