Spatial water management : creating local support for regional and national planning issues / by Hasse Goosen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goosen, Hasse.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Water resources development.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Techne Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Spatial Water Management introduces the reader to the new Dutch water management policy, which combines conventional water engineering with planned flood areas. Such a policy has large socio-economic implications and involves more stakes and stakeholders, implementing it leads to complex decision processes and requires a balance between local interests and regional or national stakes. Spatial Water Management addresses the constraints in water policy implementation and proposes a platform approach that strikes a balance between top-down regulation and bottom-up solutions. The book contributes to the understanding of how decision support tools can be used in the context of such a platform approach and presents a number of implementation management tools that can be used to weigh the various stakes, leading to an interactive, flexible and user-friendly mediation through which commitment and active participation of all involved parties can be reached. Such an approach can create a balance between local interests, regional stakes, and long-term national objectives. This book will be of interest to policy makers and researchers in water management. It will also be relevant for those studying and implementing spatial planning policy in complex environments.

Contents:

Intro

Preface and acknowledgements

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Conditions for successful implementation of spatial water policy1

3. Decision processes for spatial water policy

4. Decision support tools for spatial water policy

5. Integrated evaluation of management alternatives using a tool for spatial multi-criteria analysis

6. Collaborative planning using a tool for interactive design alternatives

7. Application and testing of the support tool for local spatial water policy implementation

8. Conclusions

9. References

Summary

Samenvatting

10. Appendix I: List of water projects

11. Appendix II: questionnaire

12. Curriculum Vitae.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

90-8594-012-5

OCLC:

567951593

Publisher Number:

9789085940067