The role of water in history and development
10 August 2001 - 10 August 2001
A conference on the role of water in history and development will be held from 10 to 12 August 2001 at the University of Bergen, Norway.
The conference will bring together researchers from different disciplines who study the character and role of freshwater in history and development. It is organised in co-operation with UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme and CROP, the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty.
Abstracts from 80 countries have been already been reviewed and about 200 papers accepted for the event.
The conference has three main aims:
- to present different empirical research findings and to create a forum for theoretical discussions on how the relationship between man and water can be analysed and understood in the most fruitful ways.
- to produce relevant input into present day debates about issues including the control and ownership of water, water conflicts and water pollution.
- to discuss content and profile of a multi-volume World Water History planned by UNESCO in cooperation with IWHA. The conference will offer opportunities for researchers to present perspectives on water history useful for the book series.
Proceedings will be divided into different themes:
- A: The political economy of water ownership and control;
- B: Images of water (in religion, myths, literature and art);
- C: History of hydrology and water control;
- D: Narratives on the river and the dam;
- E: The engineering of water systems engineers, entrepreneurs and bureaucrats;
- F: Institutional frameworks for solving the disputes in conflict waters;
- G: History of water, sanitation and health;
- H: Water, poverty and social development;
- I: Freshwater and the coastal zone - integrated and ecological management;
- J: Regional waters in a historical perspective;
- K: Water and civilization. Why history is vital to reframing current water policy debates.
Further information is available from:
Alv Terje Fotland
IWHA conference coordinator
Centre for development studies
University of Bergen
Stromgaten 54
5007 BERGEN
Alv.Fotland@sfu.uib.no
URL: http://www.iwha.net(opens in new window)
The conference will bring together researchers from different disciplines who study the character and role of freshwater in history and development. It is organised in co-operation with UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme and CROP, the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty.
Abstracts from 80 countries have been already been reviewed and about 200 papers accepted for the event.
The conference has three main aims:
- to present different empirical research findings and to create a forum for theoretical discussions on how the relationship between man and water can be analysed and understood in the most fruitful ways.
- to produce relevant input into present day debates about issues including the control and ownership of water, water conflicts and water pollution.
- to discuss content and profile of a multi-volume World Water History planned by UNESCO in cooperation with IWHA. The conference will offer opportunities for researchers to present perspectives on water history useful for the book series.
Proceedings will be divided into different themes:
- A: The political economy of water ownership and control;
- B: Images of water (in religion, myths, literature and art);
- C: History of hydrology and water control;
- D: Narratives on the river and the dam;
- E: The engineering of water systems engineers, entrepreneurs and bureaucrats;
- F: Institutional frameworks for solving the disputes in conflict waters;
- G: History of water, sanitation and health;
- H: Water, poverty and social development;
- I: Freshwater and the coastal zone - integrated and ecological management;
- J: Regional waters in a historical perspective;
- K: Water and civilization. Why history is vital to reframing current water policy debates.
Further information is available from:
Alv Terje Fotland
IWHA conference coordinator
Centre for development studies
University of Bergen
Stromgaten 54
5007 BERGEN
Alv.Fotland@sfu.uib.no
URL: http://www.iwha.net(opens in new window)