Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation

✍ Scribed by Dietrich Borchardt, Janos J. Bogardi, Ralf B. Ibisch (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 768
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation....Pages 3-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
Water Management in a Complex Hydrological Basin—Application of Water Evaluation and Planning Tool (WEAP) to the Lake Kinneret Watershed, Israel....Pages 35-57
Assessment of Anthropogenic Impact on the Environmental Flows of Semi-arid Watersheds: The Case Study of the Lower Jordan River....Pages 59-83
New Tools for Coherent Information Base for IWRM in Arid Regions: The Upper Mega Aquifer System on the Arabian Peninsula....Pages 85-106
Multidisciplinary Investigations of the Transboundary Dead Sea Basin and Its Water Resources....Pages 107-127
The Impact of Rainfall-Runoff Events on the Water Quality of the Upper Catchment of the Jordan River, Israel....Pages 129-146
Input-Output Model-Based Water Footprint Indicators to Support IWRM in the Irrigated Drylands of Uzbekistan, Central Asia....Pages 147-168
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
Climate Change Information for IWRM....Pages 171-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
IWRM in Uzbekistan: A Global Concept with Local Consequences....Pages 201-219
Water Scarcity Impacts and Challenges of Water Governance in the Guanting Basin, North China. Evidence from Interviews with Local Stakeholders....Pages 221-242
Addressing Water Conflicts Through Context-Specific Institutional Analysis: A Handbook for Research Projects and Programmes....Pages 243-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Participative Scenario Development as a Method to Integrate Science and IWRM—Lessons Learnt from a Case Study in the Jordan River Region....Pages 269-301
Benefits and Barriers of Participation: Experiences of Applied Research Projects in Integrated Water Resources Management....Pages 303-331
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
Capacity Development for Integrated Water Resources Management: Lessons Learned from Applied Research Projects....Pages 335-373
Front Matter....Pages 375-375
A Water Related Information System for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong Delta: Experiences of the German-Vietnamese WISDOM Project....Pages 377-412
Analysing Stakeholder Driven Scenarios with a Transboundary Water Planning Tool for IWRM in the Jordan River Basin....Pages 413-433
Decision Support in the Context of IWRM: Lessons Learnt from Research Projects in Developing and Emerging Countries....Pages 435-455
Front Matter....Pages 457-457
The Use of Treated Wastewater for Irrigation as a Component of Integrated Water Resources Management: Reducing Environmental Implications on Soil and Groundwater by Evaluating Site-Specific Soil Sensitivities....Pages 459-470
Agriculture in Mongolia Under Pressure of Agronomic Nutrient Imbalances and Food Security Demands: A Case Study of Stakeholder Participation for Future Nutrient and Water Resource Management....Pages 471-514
WebGIS-Based Approach to Simulate Water and Solute Fluxes in the Miyun Basin in China....Pages 515-539
Front Matter....Pages 457-457
Dynamic Land Use Change as Challenge for IWRM: A Case Study in Central Brazil....Pages 541-566
Front Matter....Pages 567-567
Reconceptualising Water Management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan....Pages 569-602
Integrated Water Resource Management in Isfahan: The Zayandeh Rud Catchment....Pages 603-627
Overall-Effective Measures for Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Coastal Area of Shandong Province, PR China....Pages 629-648
Modular Concept for Municipal Water Management in the Kharaa River Basin, Mongolia....Pages 649-681
From the Concept to the Tap—Integrated Water Resources Management in Northern Namibia....Pages 683-717
Front Matter....Pages 719-719
Sustainable Water and Land Management Under Global Change—The GLOWA Jordan River Project....Pages 721-747
Challenges of Implementing IWRM in the Lower Jordan Valley....Pages 749-777
Back Matter....Pages 779-781

✦ Subjects

Freshwater & Marine Ecology