Adaptive water management : looking to the future; final technical report re Research Awards for Young Researchers

Abstract

Among the range of crosscutting issues related to climate change and water, the Research Awards for Yong Scholars focused on the proposed topics for the International World Water Conference: i. Adaptive water management; ii. Water resources and global change; iii. Governance and water law; and iv. Knowledge systems. Within the scope of these themes the competition sought for innovative work addressing the “bottom-up” perspective in the following sense: what innovations that emerge from management; or in relations? The objective was to explore emerging drivers of water resources management related to climate change such as: local impacts and conflicts related to watershed management; challenges presented by transboundary aquifers underlying different countries or different states of the same country; economic analysis of water management and allocation and energy issues. The four awarded research papers presented in this publication, authored by young researchers from the Latin America and Caribbean Region, represent an important contribution to the body of knowledge on climate change, driven by researchers from developing countries.