Adaptive and Integrated Water Management: Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty

✍ Scribed by Claudia Pahl-Wostl (auth.), Prof. Dr. Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Prof. Dr. Pavel Kabat, Dipl. Geogr. Jörn Möltgen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 436
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sustainable water management is a key environmental challenge of the 21st century. Developing and implementing innovative management approaches and how to cope with the increasing complexity and uncertainties was the theme of the first International Conference on Adaptive and Integrated Water Management, held in November 2007 in Basel, Switzerland. The conference volume includes selected contributions on conceptual and methodological innovations and empirical insights from case studies on important themes such as multi-level governance, change management, vulnerability assessment, environmental flows, uncertainty analysis and the impacts of climate change. The book addresses a wide interdisciplinary audience of scientists and professionals from academia, industry, and involved in policy making.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Requirements for Adaptive Water Management....Pages 1-22
Eco-Complexity and Sustainability in China’s Water Management....Pages 23-38
Integrated, adaptive and domanial water resources management....Pages 39-59
Can adaptive management help us embrace the Murray-Darling Basin’s wicked problems?....Pages 61-73
The NeWater Management and Transition Framework — state and development process —....Pages 75-96
Groundwater protection in urban areas incorporating adaptive groundwater monitoring and management — Reconciliation of water engineering measures along rivers....Pages 97-123
Adaptability of International River Basin Regimes: Linkage Problems in the Rhine....Pages 125-145
Institutional elements for adaptive water management regimes. Comparing two regional water management regimes in the Rhine basin....Pages 147-166
Intellectual history and current status of Integrated Water Resources Management: A global perspective....Pages 167-185
A broadened view on the role for models in natural resource management: Implications for model development....Pages 187-203
Deliberation, negotiation and scale in the governance of water resources in the Mekong region....Pages 205-225
Enhancing the Potential for Integrated Water Management in New Zealand Throughthrough Adaptive Governance....Pages 227-247
How Social Networks Enable Adaptation to System Complexity and Extreme Weather Events....Pages 249-262
Managing flood risk in the urban environment: linking spatial planning, risk assessment, communication and policy....Pages 263-275
Benchmarking in Dutch Urban Water Management: An Assessment....Pages 277-300
Adapting scale use for successful implementation of Cyclic Floodplain Rejuvenation in the Netherlands....Pages 301-321
Current and future impacts of climate change on river runoff in the Central Asian river basins....Pages 323-339
Adaptive and Integrated Management of Wastewater and Storm Water Drainage in Kolkata — Case Study of a Mega City....Pages 341-355
About Ways for Improvement of Water Use in Irrigation of Uzbekistan....Pages 357-379
Participatory assessment of water developments in an atoll town....Pages 381-403
Criteria for the Assessment of Planning Processes for Sustainable River Basin Management — Illustration by two cases: the EU Water Framework Directive and ongoing water planning processes in Sweden....Pages 405-422
Portfolio optimisation of water management investments....Pages 423-437
Back Matter....Pages 439-440

✦ Subjects

Hydrogeology; Environmental Management; Political Science; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution; Sociology; Environmental Economics