| Report on Training Workshop: Challenges and Approaches in River Delta Planning, Sharing experiences (22-26 October 2012) During the training workshop the participants from Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Netherlands were exposed to the latest thinking of delta planning, its multiple dimensions, places in a development context and familiarized with approaches how to address these dimensions – also considering uncertainty – and (institutional) conditions for implementation. Delta Alliance Secretary, Thursday 22 November 2012 |
| GWP-Delta Alliance Initiative launched at World Water Week 2012 Enabling Delta Life, a collaborative initiative on water management and governance in deltas between the Global Water Partnership and the Delta Alliance, was officially launched on 29 August 2012 at the seminar “Managing the World's Deltas: Unique Systems, Unique Challenges” at the World Water Week in Stockholm. Delta Alliance Secretary, Thursday 30 August 2012 |
| Two workshops will be organised during the Stockholm World Water Week Delta Alliance and GWP jointly organise two workshops:
'Building climate resilience in the World’s Deltas: 'Managing for effective water solutions’ during the GWP Consulting Partners meeting on August 26, and 'Managing the World’s Deltas: Unique Systems, Unique Challenges’ on 29 August. Delta Alliance and Global Partner Watership, Monday 20 August 2012 |
| Cooperation between Delta Alliance and Global Water Partnership Delta Alliance and the Global Water Partnership (GWP) have jointly started a thinking process on water management and governance in deltas. For that purpose an electronic discussion platform has been set up through a LinkedIn Group ‘What makes water management in deltas different?’ Delta Alliance Secretary, Thursday 5 July 2012 |
| Rio+20: Threats of climate change on Deltas worldwide Wim van Driel, Programme Manager at Delta Alliance, talks about the problems facing deltas due to climate change. RTCC – Responding to Climate Change, Friday 29 June 2012 |
| Delta Alliance Young Professionals Award: the winners In scope of the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012, Delta Alliance organized a Young Professionals Award, inviting young delta professionals around the world to present their solutions to the challenges which river deltas are facing. Delta Alliance Secretary, Thursday 21 June 2012 |
| Delta Alliance Young Professionals Award: Winning contributions selected! On the first of June 2012, the jury meeting for the Delta Alliance Young Professionals Award took place in Delft, the Netherlands. The jury was pleased by the active, international participation in this award, as the call for solutions published in January 2012 drew an impressive number of 53 contributions, originating from 29 countries. Delta Alliance Secretary, Thursday 14 June 2012 |
| Dutch grad students at Delta Stewardship Council in California to compare deltas The Rhine-Meuse Delta in the Netherlands is often compared to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in California. Now, two Dutch graduate students are visiting this Delta to conduct an intensive pair of comparative analyses of the two estuaries with the hope that the scientific understanding gained here will further the comprehension of both. Delta Stewardship Council / Delta Alliance, Thursday 31 May 2012 |
| International Scientific Conference: Water & the City Key purpose of the Delft ‘Water & the City’ conference is to bring together a select group of representatives from the fields of Science, Engineering and Design from all over the world, and get them to actively work together on one of four cases of cities around the world facing their own specific water ‘challenges’: Singapore, Jakarta, Rotterdam and New Orleans. Deltares, TUDelft, UNESCO-IHE, Tuesday 28 February 2012 |
| Brief summary of Delta Alliance Netherlands Wing launch during IWW-Aquaterra During the Aquaterra conference of the International Water Week in Amsterdam (1-3 November 2011), the Delta Alliance Netherlands Wing was launched as the Dutch knowledge platform of the Delta Alliance, having its motto: “For the resilience of deltas worldwide”. Delta Alliance International Secretariat, Monday 5 December 2011 |
