EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP ESSP

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EARTH SYSTEMS SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP
(ESS-P) ________________ Joint Water Project of
the GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
PROGRAMMES ____________________________ IGBP
IHDP WCRP - Diversitas
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Joint Water Project IGBP IHDP WCRP -
Diversitas

• NEW PHASE OF GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH
• - Move toward Synthesis
• - Amsterdam Declaration
• Earth System Surprises
• Thresholds
• Hot-spots
• Teleconnections
• Increasing Human Role
• JOINT PROJECTS via EARTH SYSTEMS
• SCIENCE PARTNERSHIP(ESS-P) to
• ANSWER COMPLEX QUESTIONS

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Joint Water Project IGBP IHDP WCRP -
Diversitas

• Global Water System
• Physics of Water
• Constituent Fluxes
• Biogeochemistry
• Terrestrial/Aquatic Ecosystems
• Biodiversity
• Human/Social
• Components

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Joint Water Project IGBP IHDP WCRP -
Diversitas
CENTRAL THESIS Humans Have Begun to Affect
the GWS w/o Adequate Understanding of How that
System Works
OVERARCHING QUESTION How are humans
changing the GWS and what are the social
feedbacks arising from these changes?
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Joint Projects of IGBP, IHDP, WCRP, Diversitas

• Policy Relevance
• Valuable Contributions
• (e.g. IAHS-PUB,UNESCO-IHP, HELP, FRIEND,
  Dialogues, WWAP, MEA)

• Integrative, Peer-reviewed Science
• Biogeophysics/Social
• Global Perspective
• Sustainability Science

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Joint Water Project IGBP IHDP WCRP -
Diversitas
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90 Reliable Monthly Discharge km3/month,
Climate 1961-90
Döll et al. 2002
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Joint Water Project IGBP IHDP WCRP -
Diversitas
Human Modification of Hydrological Systems
Vörösmarty and Sahagian 2000
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Joint Water Project IGBP IHDP WCRP -
Diversitas
Water Quality, Pollution, and Human Health
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Joint Water Project IGBP IHDP WCRP -
Diversitas
Global Assessments of Water Scarcity
Crisis in Global Water Resources Year 2025
Climate or Population Growth?
Vörösmarty et al., 2000
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Joint Water Project IGBP IHDP WCRP -
Diversitas
Use of Emerging Operational Monitoring
Capabilities Linking to Issues of Vulnerability
Sustainable Development Dialogue between
Biogeophysical and Socioeconomic Sciences
Policy Relevance
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Joint Water Project IGBP IHDP WCRP -
Diversitas
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Joint Water Project IGBP IHDP WCRP -
Diversitas
OVERARCHING QUESTION How are humans
changing the GWS and what are the social
feedbacks arising from these changes? FOCUS
Science that is interdisciplinary,
policy-relevant, and integrative up to
continental/global scales
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________________ Joint Water Project of the
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE PROGRAMMES __________
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