Priority global water-research questions for the looming climate crisis

Category: Seminar; Water Governance Group
Date: Monday 14 November 2022

Date: Monday 14 November 2022, 13:00
Location: Online (Zoom)
Category: Seminar; Water Governance Group

water@leeds recently published an article in the One Earth Journal showcasing a list of six priority global water research themes for the coming decade, outputs from a global scoping exercise.

These six thematic domains include water and sanitation for human settlements; water and sanitation safety risk management; water security and scarcity; hydroclimate-ecosystem-Anthropocene dynamics; multi-level governance; and knowledge production.

The thematic areas spanning across scales and levels of water governance offer a multi-scalar framework for guiding the nature of water research in the coming decades. Most importantly, they indicate across all levels how global water security presents a complex problem for human societies and will become more acute as the impacts of climate change escalate.

This Water Day COP27 webinar organised in collaboration with the Water Security Hub and the Priestley International Centre for Climate will bring together experts from multiple disciplines and geographical locations working on various scales to identify how water security at these different scales is impacted by climate change and how the six priority water research themes are at the core of adaptation to climate change. Speakers include:

Name	Position and Institution	Focus Area (s)	Some additional notes
Mubiana Muyangwa	Head of Programmes- WaterAid Zambia	Environmental Engineering
Isabel Medem	CEO/Co-Founder SANIMA	Sanitation & Gender	“Forbes 30 Under 30” Social Innovator
Prof. Joyeeta Gupta	Professor of Environment and Development in Global South-University of Amsterdam and IHE Delft Institute of Water Education	Water, Energy and Development including changing governance patterns and multi-level governance	“co-chair of the Earth Commission (2019-2021), set up by Future Earth and supported by the Global Challenges Foundation, together with Johan Rockström and Dahe Qin.”
Dr Mark Trigg	Associate Professor of Water Risk – University of Leeds	Water-related risk, floodplains, global floods, modelling and remote sensing	“professional scientist and chartered engineer with experience in hydrology, hydrogeology and hydraulics, with particular interests in integrated catchment management, flood risk and water resource issues and have experience working in many climates and countries”
Dr Radhika Borde	Lecturer in Sustainability Transitions and Social Justice – University of Leeds	WASH development, gender and social movements	“My research in sanitation explores issues of gender, inequality and distributive justice, biopolitics and circular economies of sanitation.”
Dr Yolanda Lopez Maldonado	Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Affairs Officer - Commission for Environmental Cooperation	Environmental and social justice for indigenous peoples	“Indigenous thinker committed to support Indigenous Peoples in their struggles for rights, environmental and social justices”

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