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Patras lecture – 22 March 2014
Water Management in the
Anthropocene
Peter A. WildererMunich, Germany
TUM Institute for Advanced Study – EASA-IoS International Expert Group on Earth System Preservation
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Karl August Wittfogel(1896 – 1988)
German – US American historian & sociologist based on Max Weber & Karl Marx
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water management spured evolution of civilizations
causes and effects:
aridclimate
food & watersupply
large scalehydraulicstructures
watergovernance
urbanization
protectionagainst
flooding &drought
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good water governance requires
- knowledge
- information
- management experiences
K. A. Wittfogel: Oriental Despotism
A comparative Study of total Power Yale University Press, 1957
https://archive.org/details/KarlAugustWittfogel-OrientalDespotism
controlled by
democraticsystem
despoticsystem
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oriental despotism / hydraulic despotism
ruler
administration
subjects
primary goal
building huge hydraulic structures
to secure water supply & agricultural production
total knowledgetotal power
are concentrated in theadministration
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feudal system
monarch
nobles
knights vassals
farmers merchants craftmen
pesants serfs
first installed in England after 1066 AD. by William the Conqueror
primary goal: fighting wars, expansion of wealth and power
power is owned by
nobility
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misuse of power leads to collapse
Jared DiamondUS American scientists, 1937
Collapse: How societies choose to Fall or Succeed
„climate change in accord with misuse of power
determine
rise and fall of empires“
= bad water governance
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rise & fall through climate change
natural impacts
before 2001
350
300
250
200
CO
2 ,
ppm
v warm
cold
GHG emissioncauses
anthropogenicglobal warming
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what´s new: magnitude & accelleration
accellerationof anthropogenic changesof the Earth System
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global accelerationsource: http://de.slideshare.net/owengaffney/great-acceleration
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anthropocen: expression of the contemporary geological ara
Antonio Stoppani1824-1891
1873 anthropozoic era
Paul Crutzen (1933)1995 Nobel Prize Chemistry
2000 anthropocen:the era dominated by humankind
Eugene Stroemer1934-2012
1980 anthropocen:the current geolocial epoch
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7 200 000 0002013 years later
causes of acceleration and effects
170 Mio2013 years ago
170 Mio2013 years ago
7,000,000,000 Mio2013 years later
advances in science & technology
population growth
innovative communication
consequences:
• we need too much• we consume too much• we pollute too much• we destroy too much
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how to solve those tremendous problems
in virtually „no time“ ?
how to solve water & food deficiencies ?
how to handle droughts and flooding?
how can we prevent
collaps
of the human civilization
?
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limits of grassrouts democracy
resistance against changes
collapse
the resilience theory suggestschanges yes, but not
- in my backyard
- on the expense of own interests
interests of
• individuals
• enterprises
• governments
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is revival
of the
oriental / hydraulic despotism
the solution
?
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Wittfogel considers
only those
earn the privilege of freedom
who are routed in the heritage of the past
being alert for the threats of a conflic-torn present
and boldly exhausting the possibilities of an open future
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thank´s for listening
whether democracy or hydraulic despotism is chosen
all what counts is
good governance