６９３：ユージンの活躍

UNESCOと連携する形でアメリカに設立された国際IWRMセンターという機関がある。07年設立から3年いよいよ活動が活発化されてきた。技術部門の総責任者は、工兵隊の水資源研究所のユージンである。彼のことは以前書いたと思う。

彼はUNESCOのIWRMガイドライン作成にもちょっと係っていたが、最近もっと積極的に係ったガイドが発行され、下記にも紹介されている。既にガイドは入手した。13メガバイトもある思いファイルだった。まだ中身は見ていない。

アメリカが本気になるとすごいものが出てきそうなので、同センターの動向は見逃せないと思っている。2012年の第6回世界水フォーラムではそれなりの成果が発表されることになろう。マルセイユで会えるかもしれない。今から楽しみでもある。

Eugene Stakhiv Speaks at United Nations Water and Climate Change Workshop

WASHINGTON, DC – June 1, 2010. Dr. Eugene Stakhiv spoke at the Workshop on Water and Climate Change in Transboundary Basins at the invitation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). Dr. Stakhiv presented the results of climate adaptation studies and how decisions were being implemented by the International Joint Commission (IJC) in their management of the Great Lakes. Held May 10-12, 2010, the three-day workshop was a multinational event with over 40 nations in attendance. Nearly 30 other international agencies and nongovernment organizations (NGOs), as well as several international river basin management agencies, presented information on their approaches to and plans for implementing climate change analysis and adaptation.

Dr. Stakhiv has been involved as an expert in the development of the recent UNECE Guidance (2010), which will be tested in several pilot studies by the member states. With a focus on transboundary contexts, the Guidance explains step-by-step how to jointly develop an adaptation strategy. The Guidance is rooted in the concept of integrated water resources management. It provides advice to decision makers and water managers on how to assess impacts of climate change on water quantity and quality, how to perform risk assessment (including health risk assessment), how to gauge vulnerability, and how to design and implement appropriate adaptation strategies jointly.

Dr. Stakhiv is co-director of the current five-year IJC Upper Great lakes Study, and was co-director of the predecessor Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence River Study. Both studies have developed path-breaking methods for analytically dealing with considerable climate change uncertainty and practical approaches to adaptive management in response to short- and long-term climate change and variability.