Society - Water - Technology

Part I: Context and Objective.- Introduction: A Critical Appraisal of Major Water Engineering Projects and the Need for Interdisciplinary Approaches.- Water Ethics - Orientation for Water Conflicts as Part of Inter- and Transdisciplinary Deliberation.- Part II: Major Water Engineering Projects - Challenges, Problems, Opportunities.- Major Water Engineering Projects: Definitions, Framework Conditions, Systemic Effects.- A Global View on Future Major Water Engineering Projects.- Neglected Values of Major Water Engineering Projects: Ecosystem Services, Social Impacts and Economic Valuation.- Water Governance: A Systemic Approach.- Research in two Case Studies: Irrigation and Land Use in the Fergana Valley and Water Management in the Lower Jordan Valley.- Part III: The Fergana Valley - Uzbekistan's Hydro-Agricultural System between Inertia and Change.- Between Multiple Transformations and Systemic Path Dependencies.- From Upscaling to Rescaling - Transforming the Fergana from Tsarist Irrigation to Water Management for an Independent Uzbekistan.- Irrigation Infrastructure in Fergana Today: Ecological Implications -Economic Necessities.- Where Water Meets Agriculture: The Ambivalent Role of the Water Users Associations.- Theory, the Market and the State: Agricultural Reforms in Post Socialist Uzbekistan between Economic Incentives and Institutional Obstacles.- Part IV: The Lower Jordan Valley - The Red Sea-Dead Sea Conveyance Project and its Complex History.- Water Resources, Cooperation and Power Asymmetries in the Water Management of the Lower Jordan Valley - The Situation Today and the Path that has led there.- Reclaiming the Dead Sea: Alternatives for Action.- Jordan's Shadow State and Water Management: Prospects for Water Security will depend on Politics and Regional Cooperation.- Technologies, Incentives and Cost Recovery: Is there an Israeli Role Model?.- Part V: Outlook and Options for Action.- Lessons Learnt, Open Research Questions and Recommendations.

Reinhard F. Hüttl
Reinhard F. Hüttl is chairman of the board and scientific executive director of the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam (GFZ). He is member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and president of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech). He is a professor of the Soil Protection and Recultivation Department at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus (BTU) and spokesperson of the Interdisciplinary Research Group "Society - Water - Technology" at the BBAW. Hüttl, R. F., Schwartze, S. (2013): Editorial: Zentralasien; ein Reallabor und Observatorium für die Geowissenschaften. System Erde, 3(2), p. 5-5.
Grünewald, U., Bens, O., Fischer, H., Hüttl, R. F. J., Kaiser, K., Knierim, A. (Eds.) (2012): Wasserbezogene Anpassungsmassnahmen an den Landschafts- und Klimawandel, Stuttgart: Schweizerbart, 299.
Hüttl, R. F., Bens, O. (Eds.) (2012): Georessource Wasser - Herausforderung Globaler Wandel: Beiträgezu einer integrierten Wasserressourcenbewirtschaftung in Deutschland, acatech Studie, München.
Frede, H.-G., Bücker, A., Hüttl, R. F. et al. (2012): Wassernutzung und Wassereffizienz in Landschaften. In: Hüttl, R. F., Bens, O. (Eds.): Georessource Wasser - Herausforderung Globaler Wandel: Beiträge zu einer integrierten Wasserressourcenbewirtschaftung in Deutschland, acatech Studie, München, p. 91-157.
Germer, S., Bens, O., Hüttl, R. F. (2011): Global Change: Challenges for Regional Water Resources, Editorial. Die Erde, 142(1-2).
Hüttl, R. F, Emmermann, R., Germer, S., Naumann, M., Bens, O. (Eds.) (2011): Globaler Wandel und regionale Entwicklung. Anpassungsstrategien in der Region Berlin-Brandenburg, Heidelberg: Springer.

Oliver Bens
Oliver Bens is head of staff of the scientific executive board of the German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam (GFZ). As a geoscientist, he is responsible for the research field earth and environment and in charge of media and communication