Water, Climate, and Development Issues in the Amudarya Basin

Type of Report :

Workshop Report

Title :

Water, Climate, and Development Issues in the Amudarya Basin

Author :

Michael Glantz, Editor, Senior Scientist, Environmental and Societal Impacts Group, National Center for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 USA. Tel: 303-497-8119 Fax: 303-497-8125 glantz@ucar.edu

Year Published :

2002

URL :

http://www.undp.kz/library_of_publications/files/819-15586.htm

Description :

This Informal Planning Meeting (IPM) was held at the The Franklin Institute and has been supported by NOAA's Office of Global Programs (OGP) and by the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The overriding objective of this activity has been to enhance understanding about "climate, water and equity" interactions, with a special focus on a major river basin in Central Asia — the Amudarya. As a result, consideration by participants in this meeting on water, climate, climate-related development issues in Central Asia's Amudarya (river) basin centered on, as well as exposed, several concerns about equity (defined here as fairness) within as well as among countries in the region.