Integrated And Participatory Water Resources Management Practice

Author : Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa,Enrico Weber,Andrea Castelletti
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780080551418

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Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Management - Theory by Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa,Enrico Weber,Andrea Castelletti Pdf

Covering the more recent advances in Modelling, Planning, Management and Negotiations for Integrated Water Resource Management, this text brings together knowledge and concepts from Hydrology, System Analysis, Control Theory, Conflict Resolution, and Decision and Negotiation Theory. Without compromising on mathematical rigour, the book maintains a fine line between theory and application, methodology and tools, avoiding getting locked into excessively theoretical and formal development of the issues discussed. The non-technical aspects of water resource systems (such as societal, political and legal concerns) are recognized throughout the book as having a great, if not fundamental, importance to reaching an agreed-upon decision; they are therefore integrated into the more technical and mathematical issues. The book provides a unified, coordinated and comprehensive framework that will facilitate the increasingly appropriate application of the Integrated Water Resource Management paradigm by current and future practising professionals, decision-makers and scientists. · Integration of technical modelling and control aspects with participatory and decision-making issues· Insightful and comprehensive treatment of theoretical contents, supported by practical examples· A wide collection of exercises and project examples based on real-world case studies (with complete solutions)

Author : Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa,Francesca Cellina,Francesca Pianosi,Enrico Weber
Publisher : Elsevier Science
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0444530126

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Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Management - Practice by Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa,Francesca Cellina,Francesca Pianosi,Enrico Weber Pdf

A participatory and integrated procedure for the planning of water resources is presented and illustrated through its application to a real-world case study: the planning of a trans-boundary, multi-purpose, regulated lake. Methods and concepts from Hydrology, System Analysis, Optimal Control, Decision and Negotiation Theory are presented and framed in a comprehensive and coherent procedure for the efficient development of the decision-making process. Relevant theoretical and mathematical aspects are briefly presented for the non-expert reader, as well as all those practical details that are often omitted in texts, but that constitute the very essence of a project and make the difference between a successful project and a failure. The book provides practicing professionals, decision-makers and scientists with a complete, immediate example of application of the Integrated Water Resource Management paradigm. Complete development of a real world application of IWRM Integration of technical modelling and control aspects with participatory and decision-making issues

Author : Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:932561260

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Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Management by Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa Pdf

Author : Roberto Lenton,Mike Muller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136562877

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Integrated Water Resources Management in Practice by Roberto Lenton,Mike Muller Pdf

Better water management will be crucial if we are to meet many of the key challenges of this century - feeding the worlds growing population and reducing poverty, meeting water and sanitation needs, protecting vital ecosystems, all while adapting to climate change. The approach known as Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) is widely recognized as the best way forward, but is poorly understood, even within the water sector. Since a core IWRM principle is that good water management must involve the water users, the understanding and involvement of other sectors is critical for success. There is thus an urgent need for practical guidance, for both water and development professionals, based on real world examples, rather than theoretical constructs. That is what this book provides. Using case studies, the book illustrates how better water management, guided by the IWRM approach, has helped to meet a wide range of sustainable development goals. It does this by considering practical examples, looking at how IWRM has contributed, at different scales, from very local, village-level experiences to reforms at national level and beyond to cases involving trans-boundary river basins. Using these on-the-ground experiences, from both developed and developing countries in five continents, the book provides candid and practical lessons for policy-makers, donors, and water and development practitioners worldwide, looking at how IWRM principles were applied, what worked, and, equally important, what didn‘t work, and why. Published with the Global Water Partnership

Author : Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa,Francesca Cellina,Francesca Pianosi,Enrico Weber
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080551424

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Integrated and Participatory Water Resources Management - Practice by Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa,Francesca Cellina,Francesca Pianosi,Enrico Weber Pdf

A participatory and integrated procedure for the planning of water resources is presented and illustrated through its application to a real-world case study: the planning of a trans-boundary, multi-purpose, regulated lake. Methods and concepts from Hydrology, System Analysis, Optimal Control, Decision and Negotiation Theory are presented and framed in a comprehensive and coherent procedure for the efficient development of the decision-making process. Relevant theoretical and mathematical aspects are briefly presented for the non-expert reader, as well as all those practical details that are often omitted in texts, but that constitute the very essence of a project and make the difference between a successful project and a failure. The book provides practicing professionals, decision-makers and scientists with a complete, immediate example of application of the Integrated Water Resource Management paradigm. Complete development of a real world application of IWRM Integration of technical modelling and control aspects with participatory and decision-making issues

Author : Georg Meran,Markus Siehlow,Christian von Hirschhausen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030484859

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The Economics of Water by Georg Meran,Markus Siehlow,Christian von Hirschhausen Pdf

This open access textbook provides a concise introduction to economic approaches and mathematical methods for the study of water allocation and distribution problems. Written in an accessible and straightforward style, it discusses and analyzes central issues in integrated water resource management, water tariffs, water markets, and transboundary water management. By illustrating the interplay between the hydrological cycle and the rules and institutions that govern today’s water allocation policies, the authors develop a modern perspective on water management. Moreover, the book presents an in-depth assessment of the political and ethical dimensions of water management and its institutional embeddedness, by discussing distribution issues and issues of the enforceability of human rights in managing water resources. Given its scope, the book will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of economics and engineering, as well as practitioners in the water sector, seeking a deeper understanding of economic approaches to the study of water management.

Author : Heila Lotz-Sisitka,Jane Burt,South Africa. Water Research Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Water-supply
ISBN : 1770053883

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A Critical Review of Participatory Practice in Integrated Water Resource Management by Heila Lotz-Sisitka,Jane Burt,South Africa. Water Research Commission Pdf

Author : Dietrich Borchardt,Ralf Ibisch
Publisher : IWA Publishing
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781780405261

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Integrated Water Resources Management in a Changing World by Dietrich Borchardt,Ralf Ibisch Pdf

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.

Author : Pedro Martinez-Santos,Maite M. Aldaya,M. Ramón Llamas
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781138001435

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Integrated Water Resources Management in the 21st Century: Revisiting the paradigm by Pedro Martinez-Santos,Maite M. Aldaya,M. Ramón Llamas Pdf

Integrated water resources management advocates a coordinated approach for managing water resources in a way that balances social and economic needs with concern for the environment. While potentially useful, integrated water management is also controversial. Supporters believe that the multi-dimensional nature of water can only be understood and managed from a holistic perspective, while critics often argue that integrated water management lacks suffi ciently well-defi ned rules for its practical implementation. This book, written by academics, users and practitioners, provides a down-to-earth approach to the ideal of integrated water resources management, drawing from conceptual frameworks and real-life practice to identify the key aspects that are yet to be resolved. As such, it examines the role of water accounting, food trade, environmental externalities and intangible values as key aspects whose consideration may help the water management community move forward. Overall, integrated water resources management is perceived to be a useful utopia, whose value lies more in the steps that need to be taken to make it a reality than in achieving its ever-elusive end goal.

Author : Shimelis Gebriye Setegn,Maria Concepcion Donoso
Publisher : Springer
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319121949

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Sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management by Shimelis Gebriye Setegn,Maria Concepcion Donoso Pdf

The main focus of this book is sustainable management of water resources in a changing climate. The book also addresses the question of how to define and measure the sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The sustainability of IWRM is an important issue when planning and/or developing policies that consider the impact of climate change, water governance and ecohydrology in the context of a more holistic approach to ensure sustainable management of water resources. Sustainable IWRM is more about processes, and relatively little systematic or rigorous work has been done to articulate what components are the most essential to ensure the ongoing sustainability of IWRM efforts. The chapters cover topics including global prospective of IWRM; allocation of environmental flows in IWRM; echohydrology, water resources and environmental sustainability; climate change and IWRM; IWRM and water governance including social, economic, public health and cultural aspects; climate change resiliency actions related to water resources management sustainability and tools in support of sustainability for IWRM. This book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, water resources mangers, policy and decision makers, donors, international institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations, educators, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. It is a useful reference for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), ecohydrology, climate change impact and adaptations, water governance, environmental flows, geographic information system and modeling tools, water and energy nexus and related topics.

Author : Dietrich Borchardt,Janos J. Bogardi,Ralf B. Ibisch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319250717

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Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation by Dietrich Borchardt,Janos J. Bogardi,Ralf B. Ibisch Pdf

This book reviews the concept, contemporary research efforts and the implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The IWRM concept was established as an international guiding water management paradigm in the early 1990ies and has become a vital approach to solving the problems associated with the topic of water. The book summarizes fourteen comprehensive IWRM research projects with worldwide coverage and analyses their motivations, settings, approaches and implementation of results. Aiming to be an up-to-date interdisciplinary scientific reference, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis of contemporary IWRM research, examples of science based implementations and a synthesis of the lessons learnt. It concludes with some major future challenges, the solving of which will further strengthen the IWRM concept.

Author : Julian F. Gonsalves
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781552501818

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Participatory Research and Development for Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management by Julian F. Gonsalves Pdf

Intended for aspiring and new practitioners of Participatory Research and Development (PR&D) as well as field-based researchers in developing countries. Highlights that agricultural research and development has become a joint approach to deal with diverse biophysical environments, multiple livelihood goals, rapid changes in local and global economies, and an expanded range for stakeholders over agriculture and natural resources.

Author : Jeroen Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317093152

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Multi-Stakeholder Platforms for Integrated Water Management by Jeroen Warner Pdf

As they provide a negotiating space for a diversity of interests, Multi-Stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) are an increasingly popular mode of involving civil society in resource management decisions. This book focuses on water management to take a positive, if critical, look at this phenomenon. Illustrated by a wide geographical range of case studies from both developed and developing worlds, it recognizes that MSPs will neither automatically break down divides nor bring actors to the table on an equal footing, and argues that MSPs may in some cases do more harm than good. The volume then examines how MSPs can make a difference and how they might successfully co-opt the public, private and civil-society sectors. The book highlights the particular difficulties of MSPs when dealing with integrated water management programmes, explaining how MSPs are most successful at a less complex and more local level. It finally questions whether MSPs are - or can be - sustainable, and puts forward suggestions for improving their durability.

Author : Oliver Fritsch,David Benson
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039281565

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Governing Integrated Water Resources Management by Oliver Fritsch,David Benson Pdf

Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) has become a global paradigm for the governance of surface, coastal and groundwaters. This Special Issue contains twelve articles related to the transfer of IWRM policy principles. The articles explore three dimensions of transfer—causes, processes, outcomes—and offer a theoretically inspiring, methodologically rich and geographically diverse engagement with IWRM policy transfer around the globe. As such, they can also productively inform a future research agenda on the ‘dimensional’ aspects of IWRM governance. Regarding the causes, the contributions apply, criticise, extend or revise existing approaches to policy transfer in a water governance context, asking why countries adopt IWRM principles and what mechanisms are in place to understand the adoption of these principles in regional or national contexts. When it comes to processes, articles in this Special Issue unpack the process of policy transfer and implementation and explore how IWRM principles travel across borders, levels and scales. Finally, this set of papers looks into the outcomes of IWRM policy transfer and asks what impact IWRM principles, once implemented, gave on domestic water governance, water quality and water supply, and how effective IWRM is at addressing critical water issues in specific countries.

Author : Andrea Castelletti,Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080466028

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Topics on System Analysis and Integrated Water Resources Management by Andrea Castelletti,Rodolfo Soncini-Sessa Pdf

The Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) paradigm has been worldwide recognized as the only feasible way currently available to ensure a sustainable perspective in planning and managing water resource systems. It is the inspiring principle of the Water Framework Directive, adopted by the European Union in 2000, as well as the main reference for all the water related activity of UNESCO in the third world countries. However, very often, real world attempts of implementing IWRM fail for the lack of a systematic approach and the inadequacy of tools and techniques adopted to address the intrinsically complex nature of water systems. This book explores recent and important contributions of System Analysis and Control Theory to the technical application of such paradigm and to the improvement of its theoretical basis. Its prior aim is to demonstrate how the modelling and computational difficulties posed by this paradigm might be significantly reduced by strengthening the efficiency of the solution techniques, instead of weakening the integration requirements. The first introductory chapter provides the reader with a logical map of the book, by formalizing the IWRM paradigm in a nine-step decisional procedure and by identifying the points where the contribution of System Analysis and Control Theory is more useful. The book is then organized in three sections whose chapters analyze some theoretical and mathematical aspects of these contributions or presents design applications. The outstanding research issues on the border between System Analysis and IWRM is depicted in the last chapter, where a pull of scientists and experts, coordinated by Prof. Tony Jakeman describe the foreseeable scenario. The book is based on the most outstanding contributions to the IFAC workshop on Modelling and Control for Participatory Planning and Managing Water Systems held in Venice, September 28- October 1, 2004. That workshop has been conceived and organized with the explicit purpose of producing this book: the maximum length of the papers was unusually long (of the size of a book chapter) and only five long oral presentations were planned each day, thus allowing for a very useful and constructive discussion. Contributions from the leading world specialists of the field Integration of technical modelling aspects and participatory decision-making Good compromise between theory and application