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Professor Wouters attends Tigris-Euphrates meeting
14 May 2012
Professor Patricia Wouters attended the meeting organised by the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law (Director Professor Rudiger Wolfrum) and the University of Okan (Aysegul) in Istanbul on International Conference ‘Advancing Cooperation in the Euphrates Tigris Region: Institutional Development and Multidisciplinary Perspectives’ with invitees from the region, including Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Our own PhD graduate Yadgar Ahmad presented a very good work on Iraqi national water law (and interface with international law).
The programme was solid, with contributions on the difficult law/policy/science issues facing the region with respect to the Tigris-Euphrates. Professor Wouters was invited to comment on the comparative case studies given on transboundary waters with the focus on legal/governance frameworks.
She enjoyed the group meeting very much and came away from the meeting with new insights on the current and hard challenges facing the Tigris-Euphrates.
Researcher in the global governance of international watercourses
14 May 2012
Applications are invited for a new Research post within the IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science (under the auspices of UNESCO), University of Dundee, Scotland, UK.
The researcher will be highly motivated and capable of conducting research as part of a project incollaboration with WWF and funded by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Norway related to the Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses. The aim of the project is to raise awareness and deepen knowledge and understanding ofthis global framework instrument for the governance of international watercourses.
The researcher will primarily be requested to assist UNESCO Centre staff in fulfilling a number of specific tasks under the project, namely (i) assist in the development of an online interactive guide to the Convention; (ii) conduct an analysis of theexisting and potential role of the global institutional architecture in supporting the implementation of the Convention; and (iii) support the editing of a special issue related to the Convention that will appear in a peer-review journal.
More details can be found here
UNESCO Future Forum - Global Water Futures
2 May 2012
The event was attended by some 250 delegates from across UNESCO and focused on the importance of water as part of the strategic forward planning for UNESCO. Professor Wouters delivered a talk entitled Facing Future Challenges - The integral role of international law advancing regional hydro-integration. Other presenters included the current and former directors of IHP and Olcay Unver, head of World Water Assessment Programme. The objective of the Forum in to enable leading experts to share their views with representatives of Member States of UNESCO, the Secretariat, decision makers, intellectual and scientific communities, civil society, media and general public so as to raise awareness about global water issues and to advocate for a coordinated global approach to managing and allocating water in the lead up to Rio+20.IUCN Academy of Environmental Law
25 April 2012
Article based on LiveDiverse research published in 2012 Issue of the IUCNAEL eJournal
Armelle Guignier and Alistair Rieu-Clarke's article on the law relating to payment for environmental services in Vietnam and based on our LiveDiverse research has been published in the 2012 Issue of the IUCNAEL eJournal.
The 2012 Issue of the IUCNAEL eJournal has been formally published on the IUCNAEL website.
Dundee researchers to take part in poverty alleviation schemes around the world
1 May 2012
University of Dundee researchers are to play a key role in two major international projects seeking to improve the lives of more than one billion people living in poverty around the world.
Andrew Allan, of the University's UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, and Professor Terry Dawson, from the School of the Environment, are members of two international consortia carrying out research projects funded by the £40.5million Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme.
The ESPA aims to deliver an improved understanding of how ecosystem services - the benefits people obtain from the natural environment - can be better managed to reduce poverty.
The full story can be read here
Researcher Vacancy in Governance and Delta Ecosystem Services
2 May 2012
The University of Dundee is currently recruiting a researcher interested in working in a major inter-disciplinary research project. The project focuses primarily on the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna delta, but aims to produce results that are more broadly applicable to larger deltas.
Job details can be viewed here
Professor Patricia Wouters to participate in 'Advancing Cooperation in the Euphr
2 May 2012
Professor Patricia Wouters has been invited to participate in the international conference, 'Advancing Cooperation in the Euphrates Tigris Region: Institutional Development and Multidisciplinary Perspectives' taking place in Istanbul, Turkey between 2nd and 4th May 2012.
Organised jointly between the Max Plank Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Okan University and the Euphrates Tigris Initiative for Co-operation (ETIC), the objective of the conference is to gather outstanding scholars and practitioners to explore the prospects for cooperation in the Euphrates Tigris Region and to discuss all relevant water related issues. This will include topics such as inter alia, the riparian relations in the Euphrates and Tigris Region, institutional developments, comparative experiences from other river basins as well as a study of the water laws in Iraq, Syria and Turkey.
Our alumnus, Dr Kamal Ahmmad has also been invited to speak.
The programme for the conference can be viewed here
Dundee Team at the LAGOONS Consortium Meeting in Gdansk
2 May 2012
The University of Dundee Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science is playing a central role in the EU FP7 funded LAGOONS Project, which analyses environmental and socio-economic problems in four European coastal lagoons. The project uses a combination of river and lagoon modelling, identification of ecological indicators, socio-economic analysis and interdisciplinary, participatory scenarios.
The Dundee team, with Professor Geoffrey Gooch as PI, leads the work in the project on public and stakeholder participation, legal and institutional analysis, qualitative scenarios and policy recommendations. The team, which includes Professor Gooch, Dr. Sarah Hendry and Dr. Sue Baggett, recently attended the second consortium meeting in Gdansk, Poland on April 24-26 and took part in the scientific excursion around the Vistula Lagoon (see photo). The Vistula Lagoon, which borders the Baltic Sea, is transboundary and stretches over both Polish and Russian territory. The other Lagoon case areas are in Spain, Portugal and Ukraine. Besides the University of Dundee team, there are eight other scientific partners from Norway, Germany, Poland, Kaliningrad (Russia), Spain and Portugal in this 3-year project. The budget for the Dundee team is 589289 Euros.
Successes for staff and PhD Researchers
2 May 2012
We are pleased to announce a number of successes achieved by our team. Armelle Guignier's PhD defence went very well and she is now 'docteur en droit' with honours and the congratulations of the panel. Armelle said the defence lasted two and a half hours but went very fast indeed!
PhD researcher, Jing Lee has received a full scholarship, sponsored by the US National Science Foundation to attend the Water Diplomacy Workshop 2012. The Workshop is organised by Tufts University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Program on Negotiation. It will be held in Boston between 25th and 29th June, 2012. In addition, the Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI), National University of Malaysia (UKM) has agreed to allocate funds to cover my travel.
Finally, we wish Bjørn-Oliver Magsig and Ruby Moynihan every success in their new careers. Ruby will take up a new position from the beginning of June, as a Legal expert in International, European and comparative water law’, at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – Department for Environmental and Planning Law. Bjørn-Oliver will take up a new position from mid-May as a Lawyer/Legal Expert in International Environmental Law at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – Department for Environmental and Planning Law.
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