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Proceedings Kickoffworkshopn Proceedings of the INTERNATIONAL KICK-OFF WORKSHOP ADVANCING A NEXUS APPROACH TO THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF WATER, SOIL AND WASTE Session Summaries and Case Sudies Stephan Hülsmann, Mari Ito and Reza Ardakanian (eds.) 11-12 NOVEMBER 2013 DÜLFERSAAL, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DRESDEN DRESDEN, GERMANY CONVENING ORGANIZATIONS About UNU-FLORES BACKGROUND The United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES) was established in Dresden, Germany in 2012. The institute is supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Ministry for Higher Education, Research and the Arts (SMWK) of the Free State of Saxony, Germany. As part of the United Nations University (UNU), the institute helps build a bridge between the academic world and the United Nations. The UNU was founded in 1973 as an autonomous organ of the UN General Assembly and today encompasses 13 research and training institutes and programmes in 12 countries around the world. UNU as a whole aims to develop sustainable solutions for pressing global problems of human survival and development. Through a problem-oriented and interdisciplinary approach, UNU targets policy relevant research, education and capacity development on a global scale. VISION The Dresden-based institute of UNU-FLORES acts at the forefront of initiatives promoting a nexus approach to the sustainable management of water, soil and waste. UNU-FLORES supports the overall mission of UNU by serving as a think tank for the United Nations and its member states, in particular addressing the needs of developing countries and emerging economies. As a think tank, UNU-FLORES will be an internationally recognized hub and intellectual focal point promoting integrated management strategies. Additionally, UNU-FLORES will attract high-calibre students for postgraduate study and research programmes in cooperation with other research institutions. The institute will build the capacity of future leaders in the area of environmental resources management and develop innovative concepts for target- and region-specific knowledge transfer. MISSION UNU-FLORES develops strategies to resolve pressing challenges in the area of the sustainable use and integrated management of environmental resources such as soil, water and waste. Focusing on the needs of the UN and its member states, particularly the developing countries and emerging economies, UNU-FLORES engages in research, capacity development, advanced teaching and training as well as dissemination of knowledge. In line with UNU’s general mission to promote sustainability, UNU-FLORES also considers impacts of global change on resources management. THE NEXUS APPROACH Advancing a nexus approach to the sustainable management of the environmental resources water, soil and waste is the main mission of UNU-FLORES. The nexus approach is based on the belief that vital environmental resources are strongly interconnected and require a integrated perspective to manage them sustainably. Such a nexus perspective must take into account different sectors and disciplines in both research and capacity development and strive for holistic management strategies. RESEARCH PROGRAMMES UNU-FLORES aims at a truly integrative and global perspective on resources management, considering interrelated resources in a comprehensive manner. This holds also true for impacts of global change and its nexus to green economy. In all of the following research programmes of UNU-FLORES, the institute will cooperate closely with other universities and research institutions in both research and teaching: • Systems and Flux Analysis considering Global Change Assessment Unit Integrated Resources Management under Conditions of Global Change • Capacity Development and Governance Unit Evidence-based Decision Making for Planning and Management of Environmental Resources • Water Resources Management Unit Water Resources Management within the Context of Inter-related Environmental Resources • Soil and Land-use Management Unit The Soil-Water-Waste Nexus • Waste Management Unit Sustainable Management of Waste as a Resource Interrelated with Water and Soil EDUCATION AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT UNU-FLORES engages in the following areas of postgraduate education, capacity development and trainings: • UNU-FLORES offers a joint Doctoral programme as well as other postgraduate programmes together with its partners, especially with the Technische Universität Dresden (TUD). The programmes will focus on each of the research areas of UNU-FLORES and will include course work according to a pre-defined scheme. • Additional capacity development and training programmes will focus on the further education of professionals who are working in the area of environmental resources management. A unique feature of all education activities will be the emphasis on the global dimension of the covered issues. One aspect of this global nature will be international exchange programmes for students and teachers as well as internships with other UNU and UN bodies. For more information, please visit: flores.unu.edu Foreword The international kick-off workshop on “Advancing a nexus approach to the sustainable management of water, soil and waste”, which took place on 11-12 November 2013 in Dresden, Germany, was one of the major activities of UNU-FLORES in 2013, less than one year after the official opening of the institute in December 2012. From the very beginning during the planning process and even more now, some months after the workshop, it was and is considered an important milestone during the establishment phase of UNU-FLORES. The workshop succeeded in achieving various goals, the most important one being to prepare the ground for a bi-annual Dresden Nexus Conference. The first one (DNC2015) will take place on 25-27 March 2015 (http://flores.unu.edu/ dresden-nexus-conference). With the workshop and further on with DNC, we aim at establishing a platform dealing with the nexus approach to resources management both from a scientific and an implementation points of view. Bringing together stakeholders and experts from universities (including several UNU institutes), research institutes, UN agencies, international organizations as well as organizations and ministries from Germany, NGOs and representatives of selected member states, helped shaping and advancing the nexus concept, identifying research needs and opportunities and challenges of implementation to be followed up in future DNCs. The international kick-off workshop also served to finalize the White Book (http://flores.unu.edu/white-book) on advancing a nexus approach to the sustainable management of water, soil and waste, which reflects the major topics of the workshop and which serves as reference material for DNC2015. A tangible outcome of collaborations initiated by the workshop is a forthcoming book on “Governing the Nexus” to which various participants contributed. We prepared summaries of all sessions and collected all presentations on our website immediately after the workshop (http://flores.unu.edu/nexus-kickoff-workshop). These proceedings not only contain detailed reports of all sessions (including the wrap-up), but also an analysis of questionnaires we collected from participants after each session. In addition, various case studies on integrated management of water, soil and waste, which we collected during and after the workshop, most of which were presented during the event (but not included in the summary on the website), are reported here. The case studies, mainly completed after the workshop, cover a wide range of topics and approaches and were conducted in (alphabetical order) China, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Iraq, Mauritius, Mexico, United Republic of Tanzania and contain examples from further countries in South Asia and Africa. Looking back at the event we are grateful for the support and input we received from our co-organizers, co-conveners, our donors and all other partners, colleagues and interns involved. Looking ahead, we are approaching DNC2015 and are looking forward to three days of exciting discussions and exchange of ideas and experiences on how the nexus approach can help in addressing challenges of global change and achieving the targets of the sustainable development goals. I warmly invite all readers of these proceedings to participate! Reza Ardakanian Director, UNU-FLORES Table of Contents 1. Introduction ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 15 2. Concept of the International Kick-off Workshop ........................................................................... 17 3. Goals and Key Questions ............................................................................................................................................... 19 4. Co-convening Organizations and Participants .................................................................................. 23 5. Kick-off Workshop Agenda ......................................................................................................................................... 27 6. Session Reports .......................................................................................................................................................................... 33 6.1 Opening Session ...........................................................................................................................................................
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