11: Wassersicherheit für Mensch und Natur – von jetzt bis 2050 (Teil der Alpbach Learning Missions)
Kuratiert mit WasserCluster Lunz; unterstützt von Stiftung Mercator und Stiftung Mercator Schweiz
Auf der ganzen Welt gibt es zahlreiche Probleme rund ums Wasser. Flüsse versiegen, Seen schrumpfen und Grundwasserspiegel sinken. Die Klimakrise verändert den globalen Wasserkreislauf und führt zu extremen Dürren und Überschwemmungen. Wie können wir den Nahrungsmittel-, Energie-, Gesundheits-, Sicherheits- und Trinkwasserbedarf der wachsenden Bevölkerung decken und gleichzeitig die Ökosysteme erhalten, die ja sowohl unsere Wirtschaft als auch das Leben auf diesem Planeten ermöglichen? Wie lassen sich (regionaler) Frieden und Stabilität aufrechterhalten, wenn die Wasservorräte schrumpfen? Wie stark wird Wasserknappheit die Migration von Menschen befeuern? Dieses Seminar untersucht mittels Vorträgen, Diskussionen, Fallstudien und Arbeitsgruppen, auf welche Weise die Endlichkeit des Wassers eine Veränderung in der Art und Weise erfordert, wie wir Süßwasser nutzen, verwalten und wertschätzen.
Dieses Seminar wird nach der Seminarwoche als Alpbach Learning Mission (ALM) fortgeführt.
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Dr. Mathias CZAIKA
Professor; Head, Department for Migration and Globalization, Danube University Krems
| Mathias Czaika is a Professor in Migration and Integration and Head of the Department for Migration and Globalization at Danube University Krems, Austria. He is also Research Associate at the Department for International Development and former Director of the International Migration Institute, both at University of Oxford. He has a PhD in Political Economy from the University of Freiburg. His research interests include; drivers and dynamics of international migration processes; globalization, development, inequality, and conflict; heuristics and decision-making; migration policy formation and policy impact; migration of high-skilled workers, asylum seekers and refugees. He has published widely in journals such as Demography, Population Development Review, International Migration Review, or the Journal of Peace Research. |
Dr. Wolfgang SCHÖNER
Professor Geography, Institute of Geography and Space Science, University of Graz
Dr. Martin KAINZ
Research Scientist for Aquatic Ecology, WasserCluster Lunz, Danube University Krems, Lunz
| 2002 | PhD, Sciences de l’environnement, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada |
| 2002-2005 | Post-doctoral fellow, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada |
| 2006 | Post-doctoral fellow, National Water Research Institute, Environment Canada, Burlington, Ontario, Canada |
| Since 2006 Research Scientist, Inter-university Centre for Aquatic Ecosystem Research, WasserCluster Lunz, Austria | |
| Since 2008 Affiliate Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Environmental Engineering, Seattle, USA | |
| 2010 | Guest Professor, Laboratoire Microorganismes: génome et environnement, réseaux trophiques aquatiques. Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France |
| Venia docendi (Aquatic ecology), University of Vienna | |
| 2007-2012 | Secretary of the Austrian Limnological Society |
| Since 2012 President of the Austrian Limnological Society | |
| 2018 | Vice-president, International Society of Limnology |
Sandra POSTEL
Founding Director, Global Water Policy Project, USA; Former Freshwater Fellow, National Geographic Society; Author of Four Books on Global Freshwater Issues
| Sandra Postel is founding director of the Global Water Policy Project and author of Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity. From 2009-2015, she served as Freshwater Fellow of the National Geographic Society. She is co-creator of Change the Course, the water stewardship initiative awarded the 2017 US Water Prize for restoration of depleted rivers and wetlands. Sandra works to bridge science, policy and practice to build a more water-secure world for people and nature. She has authored four books and numerous articles for scholarly and popular publications, including Science, Natural History, and Scientific American. She has appeared in the BBC’s Planet Earth, Leonardo DiCaprio’s The 11th Hour, and the National Geographic Channel’s Breakthrough series. Sandra has taught at Mt. Holyoke College and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Previously she served as vice president for research at the Worldwatch Institute. The recipient of several honorary degrees, Sandra has been named a Pew Scholar in Conservation and the Environment and one of the Scientific American 50, an award recognizing contributions to science and technology. |
