The IASTED International Conference on
Environmentally Sound Technology in Water Resources Management
ESTW 2006
September 11 – 13, 2006
Gaborone, Botswana
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Water and Environmental Management in Water Challenged Developing Countries with a Mining-based Economy
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Biography of the Keynote Speaker
Anthony Turton is a specialist in transboundary water resources, particularly where these are contested in some way. With a professional history supporting negotiations in highly contested circumstances, this core skill is being brought to bear in the field of environmental and water resource management. Anthony is a founding member and currently President of the Universities Partnership for Transboundary Waters, a consortium of ten universities on five continents. Serving on the editorial boards of Springer Verlag and the International Journal of Water Resources Development, and active in various Think Tanks including the Woodrow Wilson Centre for International Scholars in Washington D.C., and the Expert Group on Development Issues (EGDI) in Stockholm, Anthony has an international profile. Widely published in the field of transboundary water resource management, Anthony’s most notable recent achievements have been the UNEP report on Hydropolitical Vulnerability and Resilience along International Waters (Africa); the report by the EGDI of the Swedish Foreign Ministry entitled, Transboundary Water Cooperation as a Tool for Conflict Prevention and Broader Benefit-Sharing; and the book entitled, Transboundary Rivers, Sovereignty and Development – Hydropolitical Drivers in the Okavango River Basin. Anthony’s current interest is in governance with an edited volume in press entitled, Governance as a Trialogue: Government-Society-Science in Transition (Berlin: Springer-Verlag). Anthony has a Doctorate from the University of Pretoria and is Research Group Leader in the Water Resource Competency Area at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) in South Africa.
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