REPORT OF GROUP THEME 1 GLOBAL CHANGES

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REPORT OF GROUP THEME 1 GLOBAL CHANGES RISK
MANAGEMENT
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Participants

• Huang Jinchi
• Ayhan Çiftçi-General Directorate of Disaster
  Affairs (ciftciayhan_at_gmail.com)
• Senay Özden-General Directorate of Disaster
  Affairs (senayozden_at_yahoo.com)
• Ibrahim Gürer-Gazi University (gurer_at_gazi.edu.tr)
• Henk van Schaik- Co-operative Program for Water
  and Climate(CPWC)
• h.vanschaik_at_unesco-ihe.org, hrs_at_ih.nl
• Youssef Nassef-UNFCCC (YNassef_at_unfccc.int)
• Mokhtar Bzioui-WWC (bziouimo_at_yahoo.fr)
• Yesim Erkan-TEMA
• Ali Ümran Kömüsçü-DMI (aukomuscu_at_yahoo.com)
• Harro Riedstra-European Water Partnership
  (h.riedstra_at_ewp.eu)
• Hande Özüt-REC Türkiye (hande.ozut_at_rec.org.tr)
• Shuichi Hirayama-Japan Water Forum
  (hirayama_at_waterforum.ip)

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. The potential issues to be adressed in Theme 1.

• Diminishing of water resources (wetlands,
  groundwater)
• Global Change due to economic development
• Rise of sea level at coastal zones and small
  islands
• Global change due to rate of population growth
• Crossboundary water laws / management and global
  change
• Environmental (Ecological) Refugees due to global
  change

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Basic Approach

• Causes Results (Implications)
• Climate Security
• Demography Migration
• Economic Development Poverty
• Poverty Social policy
• Some of the items can be classified in both
  groups.

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3. Strategy with global change concept and ending
with specific examples

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Cases
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Action Plan for January 2008

• 1. Collect new case studies and improve the
  current cases
• 2. Identify cases from other groups
• 3. Contact and invite stakeholders