4 February 2022, 13:00:00 – 14:30:00 (Europe/Zurich)
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
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