STOCKHOLM WORLD WATER WEEK 2021
JOIN US THE SESSION

NATURE AS A PARTNER:
IMPLEMENTING NATURE-BASEDSOLUTIONS GLOBALLY
Date: 23rd August 2021, 8 am CEST
This session will discuss the pathways and lessons from applying the Nature-Based
Solutions (NBS) into the existing urban landscape for flood and storm risk
management in Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Japan, and the Republic of Korea.
The speakers will share the application methodologies, institutionalarrangement, implementation process, ways of measurement, including the costbenefits analysis and effectiveness, compared to “do nothing” and grey infrastructure
and valuing water and eco-systems, decisionmaking process among the multistakeholders, including barriers, trade-offs, operations and maintenanceconsiderations. They will then discuss whether and how different political, financial,landscape, and civil society settings will influence the promotion of the NBS to address
the risks of flood and stormwater in urban areas.
Convenors: Northern Water Network, Danish Water Forum, Finnish Water Forum,
Netherlands Water Partnership, Japan Water Forum, Korea Water ForumNorthern Water
Network (NoWNET)
NoWNET is a network ofcountry level water
partnerships in Europe, Japanand the Republic of Korea forexchanging experiences andgood practices to address water
challenges, interacting withmulti-stakeholders.
It was initiated by the World
Water Council (WWC), Global
Water Partnership (WWC), andthe Steering Committee of the
3rd World Water Forum held inJapan in 2003.
Japan Water Forum has
maintained a role as thesecretariat ever since its launch.

For more detail: https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/9624-nature-as-apartner-implementing-nature-based-solutions-globally

Program
Opening Remarks
Yumiko Asayama, Manager, Japan Water Forum c/o Secretariat of NoWNET

Presentation(Danish Water Forum)
Dr. Peter van der Keur, Senior scientist, Geological Survey of Denmark andGreenland (GEUS), Dept. of Hydrology
The Nature Insurance Value of Ecosystems, Nature Based Solutions (NBS), to mitigate andadapt to water related natural hazards. Support of investment in risk reduction by valuing theimpact of NBS, including co-benefits(Finnish Water Forum)
Mr. Antti Parjanne, Leading Water Management Expert, Ministry of Agricultureand Forestry of Finland
Nature-Based Solutions for stormwater flood risk management in Finland and Baltic Sea region(Netherland Water Partnership)
Prof. Chris Zevenbergen, Professor at the Water Engineering Department, IHE
Delft
NBS: a panacea for urban water challenges? Experiences from Asia and Europe.

(Japan Water Forum)
Dr. Keigo Nakamura
Director, River Restoration Team & Aqua Restoration Research Center(RRT/ARRC), Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), Japan
NbS or Green Infrastructure: Catchment-scale flood management x River restoration(Korea Water Forum)
Prof. Lee-Hyung Kim, Civil and Environment Engineering Dept. Kongiu National
University, Rep. of Korea.
Improving the ecological functions on NBS

Plenary Q&A, Interaction with the audienceModerator: Dr. Anna Tengberg, Senior Adviser, Swedish Water House/ StockholmInternational Water Institute (SIWI)

Wrap up and Summary
Contact: NoWNET Secretariat (nownet@waterforum.jp)

Members:
Global Water Partnership
World Water Council
Danish Water ForumFrench Water Partnership
Finnish Water Forum
Japan Water Forum
Korea Water Forum
Netherlands Water Partnership
Portuguese Water Partnership
Swedish Water House
Swiss Water Partnership

Webinar Registration
How to join the session? Steps:
1. Register on:
https://www.worldwaterweek.
org/tickets
2. Make sure to install the zoom
application on your computeror mobile
3. open the Meeting link on
Pathable: World Water Week:
Virtual Meeting Details(pathable.com)
4. Add the session to yourscheduleIntroduction of the Speakers
Dr. Peter van der KeurDr. Peter van der Keur is a senior scientist at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland,
Department of Hydrology since 2001. His background is on integrated hydrological modelling,
impact assessments of natural hazards, especially groundwater-related impacts, risk
governance and participatory approaches. He has experience in climate change impact anddisaster risk reduction assessments as well as adaptive water resources management. Recently
the focus has been on nature-based solutions for mitigating and adapting to water-related
natural hazards, especially in urban environments.

Mr. Antti Parjanne

Mr. Antti Parjanne work as Leading Water Management Expert in Ministry of Agriculture andForestry of Finland. He is responsible for national flood and drought risk management.
Recently he published report on Natural flood risk management solutions in the Baltic Sea
region.

Prof. Chris ZevenbergenProf. Chris Zevenbergen is a professor at the Water Engineering Department of IHE Delft andhas a 0.2 fte appointment at TuDelft (chair Delta urbanism, Faculty of Architecture and Built
Environment), The Netherlands. He is also a visiting professor at the Southeast University (SEU)
and the North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power (NCWU). Over the past
25 years, he has accumulated extensive national and international experience in research andteaching with integrated approaches to manage natural disasters and water in urban
environments. His research interest is specifically on innovative design-based approaches(water sensitive design) to mitigate urban flood impacts, floodproofing building designs andtechnologies, and decision support tool development in urban planning with practicalapplication in climate adaptation and urban resilience. He chairs the Flood Resilience Group(FRG) of IHE Delft.

Dr. Keigo Nakamura

Dr. Keigo Nakamura works as a Leading River Restoration Expert in the Ministry of Land,Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan. He is now Head of River Restoration Teamand Director of Aqua Restoration Research Center, Public Works Research Institute. His
background is in civil and environmental engineering. He has experience in both research andadministration. Recently he is a committee member and technical head of Green Infrastructure
Public-Private Partnership Platform.

Prof. Lee-Hyung Kim

Prof. Lee-Hyung Kim received BS and MS from Korea University and doctoral degree from
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. His primary research topics areenvironmental and water resources, with emphases on water quality, decentralized
stormwater management, sediment control, ecological engineering, low impact development(LID), Nature-based Solutions, etc. Since 2009, he is a board member of ‘IWA diffuse pollution
specialist group’ and organized the 19th International Conference on Diffuse Pollution &Eutrophication on 2019 in Korea. He is performing many government research projects andinternational joint research projects with Hongkong SAR, China, France, UK, and others. He
published about 120 research papers on international journals and 110 papers on Koreanjournals.
Dr. Anna Tengberg is a Senior Adviser at SIWI, Swedish Water House (SWH), an adjunctprofessor at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS). She holds a PhD in
Physical Geography from Gothenburg University. She has lived and conducted fieldwork andresearch in many different parts of the world and published papers on various aspects ofnatural resources management and assessment. She was a UN employee for more than adecade, first with UNEP Headquarters in Nairobi and later with the UNDP Regional Centre for
Asia-Pacific, with a focus on sustainable land management and integrated ecosystemmanagement portfolios at the global level. Anna currently works with the thematic area Water
for Resilient Landscapes at SIWI, and she is also involved in SIWI’s ongoing programme inEthiopia on Strengthening Water and Landscape Governance.

Dr. Anna Tengberg