3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

Asia-Pacific Networkfor
Global Change Research (APN)
Yukihiro Imanari
Executive Manager
APN Secretariat
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3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

Outline
APN in Brief
Scientific Agenda of the APN
APN and GEOSSAPN and Asian Water Cycle
Initiative2

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

APN in Brief• Inter-Governmental Network to foster
global change research and capacity
building in the Asia-Pacific region;• Established in 1996 as a result ofthe 1990 White House Conference on
Science & Economics Research Related
to Global Change;• Currently 21 member countries;

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3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

APN in Brief, II• Dedicated secretariat in Kobe, Japan,since 1999;• Major activities:•Providing grants to research
projects (ARCP);•Providing grants to capacity
building activities and research
projects (CAPaBLE); and•Activities to foster science4
policy linkage.

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,
Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

The 21 Member Countries are:
• Australia• Japan• Philippines• Bangladesh • Lao PDR• Republic of Korea• Cambodia• Malaysia• Russian Federation• China• Mongolia• Sri Lanka• Fiji• Nepal• Thailand• India• New Zealand• USA• Indonesia• Pakistan• Viet Nam

Pacific Island Countries and Singapore areapproved countries whose scientists are eligible
5to receive funding under APN awards.

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

The mission of the APN is to enable
investigation of change in the Earth’s life
support systems as it occurs in the AsiaPacific region to:• Identify, explain and predict changes in
the context of both natural andanthropogenic forcing;• Assess potential regional and global
vulnerability of natural and human systems;and• Contribute, from the science perspective,
to the development of policy options for6
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December 2007
Organisational
Governmental

ScientificInterGovernmental
Meeting (IGM)

Scientific
Planning Group(SPG)

Steering Committee(SC)

Secretariat
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3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,
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3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,
International
Regional2007
Beppu,
Japan, 02~04 December
Scientific
Community for GCR

Networks for GCR

Earth System Science
Partnership

Inter-American
Institute for
Global Change
ResearchDIVERSITASInternational GeosphereBiosphere ProgrammeInternational HumanDimensions Programme on
Global Change Research
World Climate ResearchProgramme
Global Change SysTem forAnalysis, Research andTraining

Asia-Pacific
Network for Global
Change Research
African Network ofEarth System
Science - Global
Change Research inAfrica

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3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

Financial Resources

Currently, the APN is supported by following
Governments through direct financial
contributions:•Japan (Ministry of the Environment andHyogo Prefecture)•United States of America (NationalScience Foundation/US Climate ChangeScience Program)•Australia (Department of Environment andWater Resources)•New Zealand (Ministry for theEnvironment)
9•Republic of Korea (Ministry of

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

Scientific Agenda (Strategic Plan
Climate;2005~2010)

Ecosystems, biodiversity and landuse;
Changes in Atmospheric, Terrestrialand Marine Domains
Use of Resources (food, water,energy, materials) and Pathways forSustainable Development
Crosscutting and Science-Policy
10Linkages

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3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

APN and GEOSS• GEOSS’ goal is to enable societies tomake decisions and plan actions based on
coordinated, comprehensive and sustained
Earth observations and information;• Aligned goals of the APN and GEOSS in:
Enhancing human health, safety andwelfare; andImproving the scientific andtechnical capabilities of Asia-Pacificnations, as well as interfacing
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3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

APN and GEOSS II• APN organised two “Scoping Workshops

on Global Earth Observations andCapacity Building Needs of the Region:
Focus - Climate”, in November 2005 inTokyo and March 2006 in Bangkok with theobjectives of:considering the capacity building
necessary for research and monitoring
related to climatechange and its
impacts;
discussing the role of the APN insuch
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3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

APN and GEOSSIII• APN has also

participatedin numerous
GEO/GEOSS
related eventsand emphasizedthat capacity
building
activities
must be driven
by user needs.

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3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

APN and the Asian Water CycleInitiative (AWCI)One of the priority areas of APN’s
scientific agenda is:

Use of Resources (food, water, energy,materials) and Pathways for
Sustainable Development

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3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

APN and the Asian Water Cycle
Initiative (AWCI) II

The APN has been always supporting
research projects related to water, e.
g.:•Water Resources in South Asia: An
Assessment of Climate Change AssociatedVulnerabilities and Coping Mechanisms,
Project Leader: Prof. Amir MUHAMMED,Pakistan;•International Integrated Water Data Access
15and Transfer in Asia (IIWaDATA) Project,

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

APN and the Asian Water Cycle
Initiative (AWCI) III

Exploring exciting possibilities of
new partnership between the Japanese
Ministry of Education, Culture,Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT),AWCI and the APN:
MEXT, the leading governmental agency
in Japan for GEOSS, is advancing thecreation of the “Data Integration andAnalysis System (DIAS)”;163rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

APN and the Asian Water Cycle
Initiative (AWCI) IV

AWCI, trying to better understand themechanism of water cycle and its
variability - in order to provide
applicable tools for informed decisionmaking in water management; andAPN, very much committed to capacity
building of scientists and policy-makers(they are the users of the data andinformation!) in the Asian Pacific17region.

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

APN and AWCI:
Possible Ways of Collaborationy Joint research of AWCI and APN

scientists on water management: bringing
together data producers and data users;y Capacity building activities to train
public officials and decision makers in
the use of the water management models.

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3rd Asian Water Cycle Symposium,Beppu, Japan, 02~04 December 2007

For more information:
APN Secretariat

IHD Centre Building, 5th Floor
1-5-1 Wakinohama Kaigan Dori,Chuo-ku, KOBE 651-0073
JAPAN
Phone: +81-78-230-8017
Fax: +81-78-230-8018
Email: info@apn-gcr.org
Website: http://www.apn-gcr.org
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