Traditional Knowledge for water resource management

Traditional Knowledge for water resource management

UNESCO-IHP

Tue, 21/02/2012 / Thu, 23/02/2012

The following subjects will be treated

- Indicators for sustainability of historic hydraulic systems
- Water balance at the basin level
- Coping with issues emerged at the time and responding to challenges (case studies from history)
- Traditional agreements for managing transboundary large rivers and aquifer systems
- Indigenous methods for forecasting and monitoring; with focus on drought and flood management scenarios

UNESCO-IHP
(Yazd, Iran)
tkwrm@icqhs.org