GLOWA Jordan River - Sustainable Water Management under Global Change

Water scarcity has been a feature of life in the Jordan River basin from time immemorial. Over the last century the situation has become gradually more severe because of the increasing population of the region, its development for agriculture and changes in rainfall patterns and consequent droughts. The potential impact of climate change and land use change on the region is likely to be very damaging unless steps are taken to adapt.

GLOWA Jordan River (GLOWA JR) is an interdisciplinary and international research project going from 2002 - 2012 and providing applied scientific support for sustainable water management in the Jordan River region based on state-of-the art science. Team members are from Germany, Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority. The project identified some of the hazards for the Jordan River basin posed by climate and global change and how they can be managed or overcome; hence providing answers to the questions raised by stakeholders and decision makers in the frame of land- and water management.

The project’s findings are not only available in academic publications (see below), and in the project reports of phase I, II, III but are also formulated and presented in this GLOWA JR Portal in such a way that those who have to take decisions about water and land management can readily consult them and use them in their decision making, like the GLOWA JR Atlas and the GLOWA JR Briefings.

GLOWA JR is part of a larger research initiative launched by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the title Global Change and the Hydrological Cycle (GLObaler WAndel des Wasserkreislaufes – GLOWA).

More Publications of the GLOWA Jordan River Project

Peer reviewed journals, electronic articles and databases, click here

Books and book chapters, click here

Project reports, click here

PhD, MSc and BSc Theses, click here