International Hydrological Programme

Ecohydrology for River Basin Management under Climate Change
The Twenty-third IHP Training Course
2 - 13 December, 2013
Kyoto, JapanWater Resources Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto
University
Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center, Nagoya University
Supported by
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
Global Center for Education and Research on Sustainability Science for Resilient
Society Adaptable to Extreme Weather Conditions, Kyoto University

Outline
A short training course on ecohydrology under climate change is programmed forparticipants from Asian-Pacific regions as a part of Japanese contribution to the International
Hydrological Program (IHP). The course composed of a series of lectures, practice sessions,and field surveys along the Kizu River will be held mainly at Disaster Prevention ResearchInstitute (DPRI), Kyoto University during the two weeks from 2 to 13 December 2013.
Objectives
Water is our most valuable natural resource. The availability and quality of fresh water not
only impact human health and wellbeing, but also the functioning of essential ecosystems,
including rivers, wetlands, lakes and coastal ecosystems. Without sound water resourcesmanagement, human activities can upset the delicate balance between water resources andenvironmental sustainability.
Ecohydrology is an integrative science studying the relationships between hydrologicaland ecological processes in soils, rivers and lakes at the catchment scale. It deals withhydrological factors which determine the dynamics of natural and human-driven ecosystems,
together with ecological factors which influence water dynamics and water quality. It
proposes a “dual regulation” of a system by simultaneously studying ecological andhydrological processes to enhance the overall integrity of aquatic ecosystems in the face ofhuman-driven alterations and Global Change. River basins have a hierarchical structure andnatural boundaries, and can be considered as inherent integrators of the effects of many
climatic and non-climatic factors. That is why river basins represent a suitable scale for
integrated ecohydrological studies and modelling.
The 23rd IHP training course is focused on three major objectives: (1) to acquire the latest
knowledge on hydrological and ecological assessment under climate changes at river basin
scale, (2) to make practice for learning the methodologies for assessing the impact of climatechange on hydrological and ecological processes, and (3) to discuss the possibility to include
the hydrological and ecological responses to climate change into the water resourcesmanagements.
Course Contents
Convener: SUMI, Tetsuya (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)
Chief assistant: TANAKA, Kenji (Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University)
Lecturers
HAMAGUCHI, Toshio
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
HORI, Tomoharu
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University

KAZAMA, So
Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University
KOBAYASHI, Sohei
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
NAKAKITA, Eiichi
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
NOHARA, Daisuke
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto UniversitySAITO Osamu
United Nations UniversitySATO, Yoshinobu
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
SUMI, Tetsuya
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
SUTAPA, Ignasius D. A.
Asia Pacific Centre for Ecohydrology, UNESCOSUZUKI, Yasushi
Japan Weather Association
TACHIKAWA, Yasuto
Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University
TAKEMON, Yasuhiro
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
TANAKA, Kenji
Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
ZALEWSKI, Mariej
European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology, UNESCO

Lectures’ contents at the Seminar Room (E517D) of DPRI, Kyoto University
Keynote 1

Overall concepts of Ecohydrology

S. Kazama

Keynote 2

Ecohydrology: process oriented thinking towards sustainable enhancement, water
resources, biodiversity, ecosystem services and resilience to climate change M. Zalewski

Lecture 1

Fundamentals of basin-scale hydrological processes

Lecture 2

Projected future meteorological environment

E. Nakakita

Lecture 3

Fundamentals of freshwater ecology

Y. Takemon

Lecture 4

Sustainable management of water resources in marginal area:
Study case in Indonesia

Y. Tachikawa

Ignasius D. A. Sutapa

Lecture 5

Ecosystem Services

O. Saito

Lecture 6

Integrated sediment management

T. SumiLecture 7Interaction between river and coastal ecosystem

Lecture 8

Fundamentals in optimum operation of reservoir systems

Y. Suzuki
T. Hori

Practices
Exercise 1

Basic course of data analysis

Exercise 2

Data analysis of GCM data, historical data

Exercise 3

River basin modelling

Y. SatoExercise 4

Impact assessment by hydrological model

Y. SatoExercise 5

Impact assessment by ecological model

Exercise 6

Optimization of reservoir operation

Field Survey

T. Hamaguchi
K. Tanaka

S. Kobayashi
D. Nohara

Ecological field survey at Kizu riverY. Takemon

Technical visits
Lake Biwa, Katsura River, Yodo River

Schedule (2 to 13 December, 2013)-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1 (Sunday)

Arrival at Kansai Airport and movement to Kyoto

2 (Monday)

Registration & Guidance (morning)
Introduction of the activity of UNESCO (morning) Shahbaz Khan
Keynote Lecture 1 (afternoon)

M. Zalewski

Keynote Lecture 2 (afternoon)

S. Kazama

Welcome party (evening)
3 (Tuesday)

4 (Wednesday)

Lecture 1 (morning)

Y. Tachikawa

Lecture 2 (afternoon)

E. Nakakita

Lecture 3 (morning)

Y. Takemon

Exercise 1 (afternoon)

T. Hamaguchi5 (Thursday)

6 (Friday)

Lecture 4 (morning)Ignasius D. A. Sutapa

Exercise 2 (afternoon)

K. Tanaka

Exercise 3 (morning)

Y. SatoExercise 4 (afternoon)

Y. Sato7 (Saturday)

Technical visits to Lake Biwa and Yodo River

8 (Sunday)

Technical visits and Cultural exchange with students at the Katsura river

9 (Monday)

Lecture 5 (morning)

O. Saito

Lecture 6 (afternoon)

T. SumiLecture 7 (morning)

Y. Suzuki

Exercise 5 (afternoon)

S. Kobayashi

10 (Tuesday)

11 (Wednesday) Field Survey (morning & afternoon around the Kizu River)
12 (Thursday)

13 (Friday)

Lecture 8 (morning)

T. HoriExercise 6 (afternoon)

D. Nohara

Y. Takemon

Report presentation by each participant (morning)
Completion ceremony of this course (morning)
Farewell party (afternoon)

14 (Saturday)

Departure from Kansai Airport--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Downloading the Textbook for Participants from the Net
The textbook of “the 23rd IHP Training Course”, which is converted in PDF style, will beprepared and will be put on the IHP Nagoya forum website of “www.ihpnagoyaforum.org”. The
participants are requested to download such a PDF file from the website in advance as apreparation to the several lectures of the training course. The textbook should be constituted of
one page abstract and presentation material with authorized copyrights.
Web broadcasting the Lectures
The lectures except with the exception of field survey will be webcasted to some universities in
Asia via the UNESCO Office Jakarta and with other technology through DPRI facilities. The
slide materials will be distributed to the participants from the Net in advance. The materials arerequested to be filtered out whenever copyrights apply in case of web broadcasting part or its
whole slides will be masked out with digital treatments such as overlaying mosaic images orwith black-out screening during web broadcasting.