Executive Summary (300 Kb)

Agenda (18 Kb)

Brief Biographies of Resource Persons and Staff (36 Kb)

Speakers Presentations

● Yugo Ono, Professor, Graduate School of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University:

NGOs and the conservation and restoration of wetlands, biodiversity and water in Japan

outline (126 Kb) / presentation (1.29 Mb) / JICA materials (65 Kb)

●  Jobaid Kabir, Manager, Environmental Compliance, Lower Colorado River Authority:

Introduction to water management – key stakeholders and institutional arrangements

outline (61 Kb) / presentation (8.5 Mb)

●  David Coates, Programme Officer - Inland Waters, UNEP- Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity:

The Convention on Biological Diversity – Overview and objectives

background paper (271 Kb) / presentation (1.3 Mb)

●  Guangchun Lei, Senior Advisor for Asia/Pacific, The Ramsar Convention Secretariat:

The Ramsar Convention and Water - its implementation in Asia

outline (107 Kb) / presentation (7.0 Mb)

●  Sibylle Vermont, Senior Scientific Officer, Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape:

Ecosystem approach and integrated water resource management

outline (133 Kb) / presentation (74 Kb)

●  Jobaid Kabir,

Lower Colorado River Basin Management

outline (656 Kb) / presentation (2.46 Mb)

●  Hisashi Shinsho, Manager, Director, Kushiro International Wetland Centre (KIWC):

Water source in the Kushiro Wetland

presentation (1.93 Mb)

●  Yasuyuki Hirai, Director, River Affairs Div., Kushiro Development and Construction Dept, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport:

River Administrator’s Activities in the Nature Restoration of Kushiro Wetland

presentation (894 Kb)

●  Kazuaki Hoshino, Director, East Hokkaido Regional Office for Nature Conservation, Nature Conservation Bureau, Ministry of the Environment: Ecosystem Conservation & Restoration in the Kushiro Wetland - The Kushiro Initiative

presentation (3.4 Mb)

●  Libor Jansky, Senior Academic Programme Officer, United Nations University:

Environmental monitoring along the rivers – Case study: Danube River

outline (136 Kb) / presentation (1.7 Mb)

●  Bishnu Bhandari, Principal Research Fellow, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies:

National policy making for ecosystem management requirements and lessons

outline (150 Kb) / presentation (87 Kb)

Selected Country Presentations

●  Adnan Kaplan, Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture, Ege University, Turkey:

Gediz Delta as a coastal wetlands system and the cultural pressures on it

presentation (1.33 Mb)

●  Davaa Basandorj, Assistant professor, Mongolian University of Science and Technology:

Water, wetland and biodiversity of Mongolia

presentation (1.3 Mb)

Team Presentations

●  List of Team Members and Assigned Interactive Case Study (16 Kb)

● Team I: Mekong river

outline (118 Kb) / presentation (200 Kb)

● Team II: Yangtze River Basin

summary (122 Kb) / presentation (285 Kb)

● Team III: Colorado River Basin

summary (119 Kb) / presentation (106 Kb)

● Team IV: Indus River Basin

summary (112 Kb) / presentation (808 Kb)

Supplementary Materials

●  Guangchun Lei

IRBM: Lessons from Yangtze (826 Kb) / Managing Rivers Wisely – lessons learnt in integrated river basin management (9.99 Mb)

●  Jobaid Kabir

Colorado River Case Study:

summary (592 Kb) / presentation (959 Kb)

● Text of the Convention on Biological diversity (54 Kb)

● Text of the Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses (36 Kb)

● Text of the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar convention) (171 Kb)

● Background Pamphlet on the Kushiro International Wetland Centre (2.95 Mb)

Photo Album

● Monday, 29 November 2004

● Tuesday, 30 November 2004

● Wednesday, 1 December 2004

● Thursday, 2 December 2004

● Friday, 3 December 2004

List of Participants and Resource Persons (65 Kb)