Integrated water resources management in a changing world : lessons learnt and innovative perspectives

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ibisch, Ralf, Contributor.

Borchardt, Dietrich, Contributor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] IWA Publishing 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents a selection of the main contributions made to the international conference on Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) entitled 'Management of Water in a Changing World: Lessons Learnt and Innovative Perspectives' that was held from 12 to 13 October 2011 in Dresden, Germany. The book summarise the main messages issuing from the conference and contains selected papers which were presented during the conference, either as keynote lectures in plenary sessions or as submitted papers in one of the thematic sessions. The key themes of the book are: Water resources in changing environments Groundwater management Technologies and implementation Water management indicators at different scales Information and decision support systems Water governance: actors and institutions The book provides an overview on important issues concerning the conceptual framework of integrated water resources management (IWRM). All presentations and abstracts and the corresponding PowerPoint presentations as well as a video recording of the panel discussion are available at the conference website http://www.bmbf.iwrm2011.de. Readers are encouraged to complete their review of the conference and its messages by consulting this interesting on-line source of accompanying scientific material.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Contents

About the Editors and Contributors

Preface

Message from the Dresden International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management

Report from the Dresden International Conference on Integrated Water Resources Management

Theme I: Water resources management in changing environments

Pan-European freshwater resources in a changing environment: how will the Black Sea region develop?

Integrating water resources management in eco-hydrological modelling

Methodological challenges in evaluating performance, impact and ranking of IWRM strategies in the Jordan Valley

Theme II: Groundwater management

Irrigated agriculture and groundwater resources resources - towards an integrated vision and sustainable relationship

An expert system for real-time well field management

Riverbank filtration in India - using ecosystem services to safeguard human health

A groundwater perspective on the river basin management plan for central Portugal resources - developing a methodology to assess the potential impact of N fertilizers on groundwater bodies

Consideration of emerging pollutants in groundwaterbased reuse concepts

Theme III: Technologies and implementation

Adapting to water scarcity: constraints and opportunities for improving irrigation management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan

Sustainable water resources management in the Long Bien district of Hanoi, Vietnam

Stakeholder participation and capacity development during the implementation of rainwater harvesting pilot plants in central northern Namibia

The situation of sanitary systems in rural areas in the Miyun catchment, China

A mathematical approach to find long-term strategies for the implementation of resource-orientated sanitation

Theme IV: Water management indicators at different scales.

Risk and monitoring based indicators of receiving water status: alternative or complementary elements in IWRM?

Attributiveness of a mass flow analysis model for integrated water resources assessment under data-scarce conditions

Theme V: Information and decision support systems

IWRM decision support with material flow analysis: consideration of urban system input

A decision support procedure for integrative management of dammed raw water reservoirs

Estimating the recreational carrying capacity of a lowland river section

Sustainable management of a coupled groundwater- agriculture hydrosystem using multi-criteria simulation based optimisation

Can hydro-economic river basin models simulate water shadow prices under asymmetric access?

Theme VI: Water governance: actors and institutions

The water governance challenge: the discrepancy between what is and what should be

Towards adaptive and integrated management paradigms to meet the challenges of water governance

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph