About Las Palmas

The Workshop is an opportunity to learn about the investigations carried out within the African and other developing contexts, especially those involving an interaction between society and environment in wetland and coastal ecosystems, where the hydrological dynamics play a vital role in sustaining environmental values, health status and human productive capacities.

The meeting aims at covering principally the following topics, among others related to water and hydrological management:


  1. Viñeta The interactions and disequilibrium between the hydrological resources and the human and environmental societies, their causes and their effects, as well as the appropriate measures for an integrated management approach.


  1. Viñeta Human development in humid areas and ecosystems, and ways to achieve it, with the participation and involvement of local communities that can be targeted by appropriate human development strategies and policies.


  1. Viñeta Complementary and synergetic effects between conservation of environmental resources, and meeting human needs in the long run.


  1. Viñeta Eco-feasibility and sustainable traditional activities, with a dematerialization of local economies through the valuation of its resources, and generating synergies between new and traditional activities.


  1. Viñeta Valuation of natural resources, human and cultural premises that could generate greater prosperity for the local community and an integration of the local economy both regionally and nationally.


  1. Viñeta Evaluation of the effects on the environment and human development of productive alternatives, considering all the impacts, and the costs and benefits generated.


  1. Viñeta Measures to increase the capacity of local economies to use its endogenous resources efficiently, and finding markets for local productions.






HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: PROPOSALS AND SOLUTIONS FOR AFRICA IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT


November 20th- 21st, 2008. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)

ecomas@daea.ulpgc.es

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