ARUA Water Centre of Excellence Development: "Water for African SDGs"

ARUA 水卓越中心发展：“非洲可持续发展目标的水”

• 批准号: ES/T003731/1
• 负责人: Carolyn Palmer
• 金额: $ 78.2万
• 依托单位: Rhodes University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FT003731%2F1
• 关键词: ARUA; Water; Centre; Excellence; Development

Where: SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals), U (university), CoE (Centre of Excellence), CSES(Complex Social-Ecological System) & landscape/catchment/watershed: synonymous. The "Water for African SDGs" project will establish & develop the ARUA Water CoE as an effective, high-performance, hub & network of 8 African Universities' researchers & post graduate students. CoE research development will be based on understanding humans living on earth as the intricate coupling of society with the natural world - CSESs. We will forefront community engagement & knowledge sharing for sustainability. We will use research to catalyse change towards social and ecological justice and sustainability, paying attention to African community water and sanitation needs. The Water CoE has developed a systemic image of the SDGs as a planning, practice & evaluation tool. The image has SDG 6, Clean water & sanitation, at the centre, linking two primary water cycles: i) Water in a Catchment (rainfall, run-off, ground water recharge, evapo-transpiration, evaporation); & ii) Water Services - supply & sanitation (raw water from the natural resource, often in dams, pipes & pumps to water treatment works, treated potable water to households, waste water to treatment works & discharge into the natural resource). Several nodes place their water research in a climate change context (SDG 13), and acknowledge that water is integral to SDG 15 (life on land), 11 (sustainable cities & communities), & 12 (responsible consumption & production), Effective water resource management, supply and sanitation requires good water governance by strong institutions (SDG 16). The Water CoE itself embodies SDGs 17 (partnerships to reach goals), 4 (quality education) & 5 (gender equality). Each CoE node has strengths in different parts of these cycles. This project brings together strengths, so nodes can flexibly link & respond innovatively to research funding calls, & effectively apply research. Capacity-building, exchanges and mentorship will mainly be addressed through the development & delivery of a 3-day course by each node, to 14 participants from 3-5 other nodes. Participants will be doctoral students, early-, mid-career & established researchers. Nodes will host a course on their primary strength, nodes will co-develop courses out of secondary strengths. In Year 1, the hub (Rhodes U), will deliver a core foundation course to 3 delegates from each node (total 21), on Adaptive Integrated Water Resources Management (A-IWRM), including the CSES concept, transdisciplinarity and water governance. Node courses will run over Years 1 & 2, and an early identification of course areas is: Landscape restoration & catchment water use (Addis Ababa U, Ethiopia), hydrology, geohydrology & hydraulic regimes for IWRM (U Dar es Salaam, Tanzania), optimising benefit from dams (Cheikh Anta Dio U, Senegal), biodiversity, natural resource management, water-energy-food nexus (U Rwanda), urban water pollution (U Lagos, Nigeria), urban water quality design (U Cape Town, South Africa), & water in future cities (Makarere U, Uganda). Course days will include time to work on research proposals. In Year 3, activities will focus on grant applications and a Water CoE delegation attending a relevant international conference to present the outcomes of the whole project. Over the 3-year period, each node will have one opportunity to invite/visit an international specialist, & by the end of year 3 at least 3 collaborative research projects will be running, each progressing an SDG challenge-area. Spin-off companies in water & sanitation could be emerging, and each node will have community-based water and/or sanitation impact successes. At least 24 early career researchers and 24 doctoral students will be mentored through the CoE. We will demonstrate the clear emergence of an African water research cohort, addressing water-related SDGs, with positive outcomes and impact.

其中：SDG（可持续发展目标），U（大学），卓越中心（卓越中心），CSES（复杂社会生态系统）和景观/流域/流域：同义词。“非洲可持续发展目标之水”项目将建立和发展ARUA水中心，使其成为8所非洲大学研究人员和研究生的有效、高性能的枢纽和网络。卓越中心的研究开发将基于对人类生活在地球上的理解，即社会与自然世界的复杂耦合----CSES。我们将推动社区参与和知识共享，以实现可持续发展。我们将利用研究来促进实现社会和生态正义和可持续性的变革，同时关注非洲社区的水和卫生需求。水资源卓越中心已将可持续发展目标系统化，作为规划、实践和评估工具。该图像以可持续发展目标6清洁水和卫生设施为中心，将两个主要水循环联系起来：i）集水区的水（降雨、径流、地下水补给、蒸散、蒸发）; ㈡供水服务-供应和卫生（来自自然资源的原水，通常通过水坝、管道和泵输送到水处理厂，经处理的饮用水输送到家庭，废水处理厂和排放到自然资源）。一些节点将其水研究置于气候变化背景下（SDG 13），并承认水是SDG 15（陆地上的生命）、SDG 11（可持续城市和社区）和SDG 12（负责任的消费和生产）不可或缺的组成部分，有效的水资源管理、供应和卫生需要强有力的机构进行良好的水治理（SDG 16）。水问题卓越中心本身体现了可持续发展目标17（实现目标的伙伴关系）、4（优质教育）和5（性别平等）。每个CoE节点在这些周期的不同部分具有优势。该项目汇集了优势，因此节点可以灵活地链接并创新地响应研究资金调用，并有效地应用研究。能力建设、交流和辅导主要通过每个节点为来自其他3-5个节点的14名参与者制定和提供为期3天的课程来解决。参与者将是博士生，早期，中期职业生涯和建立的研究人员。节点将根据其主要优势举办课程，节点将根据次要优势共同开发课程。在第一年，中心（罗兹大学）将为每个节点的3名代表（共21名）提供核心基础课程，内容是适应性综合水资源管理（A-IWRM），包括CSES概念、跨学科和水治理。Node课程将在第1年和第2年进行，课程领域的早期识别是：景观恢复和集水利用（埃塞俄比亚阿迪斯大学）、水文学、地质水文学和水资源综合管理的水力制度（坦桑尼亚达累斯萨拉姆），优化大坝效益（塞内加尔，Chécourse Anta Dio U），生物多样性，自然资源管理，水-能源-粮食关系（U卢旺达），城市水污染（U拉各斯，尼日利亚），城市水质设计（U开普敦，南非），以及未来城市的水（Makarere U，乌干达）。课程日将包括研究建议的时间。在第三年，活动将集中在赠款申请和一个水问题欧洲委员会代表团出席一个相关的国际会议，介绍整个项目的成果。在三年的时间里，每个节点将有一次机会邀请/访问国际专家，到第三年年底，至少有三个合作研究项目将运行，每个项目都在可持续发展目标的挑战领域取得进展。水和环境卫生方面的附带公司可能会出现，每个节点都将在社区水和/或环境卫生影响方面取得成功。至少有24名早期职业研究人员和24名博士生将通过卓越中心接受指导。我们将展示一个非洲水研究群体的明显出现，解决与水有关的可持续发展目标，并取得积极成果和影响。

项目成果

Social-ecological change: insights from the Southern African Program on Ecosystem Change and Society

社会生态变化：南部非洲生态系统变化与社会计划的见解

• DOI: 10.1080/26395916.2022.2097478
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Ecosystems and People
• 影响因子: 5.3
• 作者: Biggs R

Assessing soil erosion risk in a peri-urban catchment of the Lake Victoria basin.

• DOI: 10.1007/s40808-022-01565-6
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: MODELING EARTH SYSTEMS AND ENVIRONMENT
• 影响因子: 3
• 作者: Ssewankambo, Gyaviira;Kabenge, Isa;Nakawuka, Prossie;Wanyama, Joshua;Zziwa, Ahamada;Bamutaze, Yazidhi;Gwapedza, David;Palmer, Carolyn Tally;Tanner, Jane;Mantel, Sukhmani;Tessema, Bezaye
• 通讯作者: Tessema, Bezaye

The Adaptive Systemic Approach: Catalysing more just and sustainable outcomes from sustainability and natural resources development research

适应性系统方法：促进可持续性和自然资源开发研究产生更公正和可持续的成果

• DOI: 10.1002/rra.4178
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: River Research and Applications
• 影响因子: 2.2
• 作者: Palmer C

Implications of Watershed Management Practices on Water Availability Using Hydrus-1D Model in the Aba Gerima Watershed, Upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia

• DOI: 10.3390/w14193095
• 发表时间: 2022-10-01
• 期刊: WATER
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Fikadu, Tekuamework;Teferi, Ermias;Zeleke, Gete
• 通讯作者: Zeleke, Gete

Supporting proactive planning for climate change adaptation and conservation using an attributed road-river structure dataset.

使用归因的道路河流结构数据集支持气候变化适应和保护的主动规划。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115959
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of environmental management
• 影响因子: 8.7
• 作者: Januchowski-Hartley SR