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Highlands to Oceans (H2O): Anticipatory Governance of Hydroclimatic Regime Shifts in the Transbou...



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This roundtable was part of the Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding (February 1-4, 2022).

This hybrid roundtable will bring together scientists collaborating on a global initiative entitled "Highlands to Oceans (H2O)". Under this initiative, an interdisciplinary team of scientists is working on developing a novel Highlands to Oceans (H2O) Integrated Regime Shift Assessment Model (H2O-IRSAM) for anticipating vulnerabilities from climate change induced extreme events in the focal transboundary river basins and informing anticipatory governance processes through foresight to vulnerable communities and policy makers. Water shared across H2O political boundaries can be a powerful avenue for peace-building and transboundary cooperation. The power of anticipatory governance creates a holistic positive feedback effect at multiple scales of basin wide watershed management. In an effort to build adaptive capacity and resilience of actors across focal water basins, transboundary governance may be steered from conflictive to cooperative regimes. Our hypothesis and theory of change is that evidence based participatory simulation models and anticipatory governance mechanisms can leverage change by capitalizing upon shared goals to conserve natural resources in conflict-ridden social ecological systems.

Chair: Asim Zia, University of Vermont

Discussants:
Ghulam Rasul, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development
Qian Ye, Beijing Normal University
Ashutosh Mohanty, Madhyanchal Professional University
Nisar Memon, Water Environment Forum
Peter May, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro
Michael Glantz, University of Colorado
Yanyong Inmoung, Mahasarakham University
Mak Sithirith, University of Phnom Penh
Asif Khan, University of Peshawar
Sandra Megens Santos, Wageningen University
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