Day One – 6 December 2010
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09:00 – 11:00
Room 1: Wolfgang Paul Saal
Opening Plenary Session
Chair: Claudia Pahl-Wostl
09:00
Welcome and Opening (5 minutes)
Speaker: Claudia Pahl-Wostl: GWSP-SSC Co-chair, Osnabrück, Germany
Presentation: You Tube
09:05
Objectives and Expectations from the Conference – Introductory statements (15 minutes)
Speaker: Janos Bogardi: GWSP-IPO Executive Officer, Bonn, Germany
Presentation: You Tube
09:20
Objectives and Expectations from the Conference – Introductory statements (5 minutes)
Speaker: Claudia Pahl-Wostl: GWSP-SSC Co-chair, Osnabrück, Germany
Presentation: You Tube
09:25
Challenges of climate change impacts in Africa, exemplified by the case of the South African water sector – Where from? Where now? Where to in future? (invited presentation to topic: Climate change impact on river basins)
Speaker: R.E. Schulze (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa)
Presentation: You Tube 1 ; You Tube 2 ; You Tube 3 ; PowerPoint PDF KB
10:10
A global geography of rivers in crisis – Human and biodiversity perspectives (invited presentation to topic: Connectivities and linkages between river basins and the earth system) (50 minutes)
Speaker: B. Fekete (The Environmental Cross-Roads Initiative, The City College of New York, New York, USA)
Presentation: You Tube