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9781844077922

The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook

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    9781844077922

  • ISBN10:

    1844077926

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-11-30
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions and services, in a context where human beliefs, actions and values play a central role. Furthermore, the growing uncertainties of global climate change and the long term implications of management actions make the problems even more difficult.This book explains the benefits, outcomes and lessons learned from adaptive water management (AWM). In essence AWM is a way of responding to uncertainty by designing policy measures which are provisional and incremental, subject to subsequent modification in response to environmental change and other variables. Included are illustrative case studies from seven river basins from across Europe, West Asia and Africa: the Elbe, Rhine, Guadiana, Tisza, Orange, Nile and Amudarya. These exemplify the key challenges of adaptive water management, especially when rivers cross national boundaries, creating additional problems of governance.

Author Biography

Jaroslav Mysiak is Senior Researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, and a lecturer at the Department of Economics, University Ca'Fascari in Venice, Italy. John Bromley is a hydrogeologist and a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Water Research, UK. Claudia Pahl-Wostl is Professor of Management of Resource Flows at the Institute for Environmental Systems Research in Osnabruck, Germany.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tablesp. ix
Contributor Affiliationsp. xiii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviationsp. xv
Introduction-Making a Strong Case for AWMp. 1
Challenges of river basin managementp. 1
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)p. 4
Adaptive Water Management in terms of development and application within IWRMp. 7
Tools for adaptive managementp. 9
AWM concept in terms of training and capacity buildingp. 11
Working Towards AWMp. 17
Key outcomes and benefits of AWMp. 17
Summary of outcomes from NeWater case river basins (outputs and benefits)p. 22
Experiences and identification of lessons learned from piloting AWMp. 32
Tools and Instruments for Adaptive Managementp. 33
Management of participatory processesp. 33
Participatory modellingp. 39
Uncertainty and policy makingp. 43
Indicators and monitoring to support AWMp. 47
An introduction to analysing dynamic vulnerabilityp. 53
Integrated assessment tools and decision support systemsp. 57
Climate change impacts on water resources and adaptation optionsp. 62
Management and Transition Frameworkp. 67
Internet portals and services for knowledge transferp. 70
Capacity Building and Knowledge Transferp. 81
Introductionp. 81
Aims of the training coursesp. 81
Target audience for trainingp. 82
Obstacles encounteredp. 82
The 'broker concept'p. 82
Train-the-trainer workshopsp. 83
Train-the-practitioner workshopsp. 83
AWM in academic educationp. 84
Lessons learned in academic educationp. 85
Involvement of organizations outside the project consortiump. 86
Case Study: Elbep. 89
Backgroundp. 89
Selected themesp. 90
Research and tools applied in the Elbe case studyp. 93
Outlook and policy summaryp. 98
Case Study: Guadianap. 103
Backgroundp. 103
Selected themesp. 104
Groundwater modelling and management scenariosp. 109
WEAP modelp. 109
The vulnerability analysis (CART analysis)p. 110
Bayesian Belief Networksp. 110
Water Footprintp. 111
The Futurep. 112
Case Study: Rhinep. 117
Introductionp. 117
The Lower Rhinep. 118
Kromme Rijnp. 120
Wupperp. 123
Comparison between the Wupper and Kromme Rijn regimesp. 125
Conclusionsp. 126
Case Study: Tiszap. 129
Backgroundp. 129
Major problemsp. 130
Lessons learnt and the futurep. 139
How can AWRM help and what tools are still neededp. 140
Case Study: Amudaryap. 143
Backgroundp. 143
Selected themes addressed in the Amudarya Case Studyp. 144
Tools developed and applied in the Amudarya case studyp. 151
The futurep. 154
Case Study: Nilep. 157
Backgroundp. 157
Selected themes in the NeWater projectp. 160
Tools applied in NeWaterp. 160
Future of the Nile Basinp. 167
Case Study: Orangep. 169
Backgroundp. 169
Addressing issues of concernp. 170
The institutional context in the Orange basinp. 171
Tools and approaches applied in the Orange-Senqu case studyp. 171
Theme 1: A focus on ecosystem goods and servicesp. 172
Theme 2: Investigating alternative possible futures through scenariosp. 176
Conclusionsp. 180
Summary and Outlookp. 183
What is adaptive management and why it mattersp. 183
How AWM can contribute to implementation of water policiesp. 185
Lessons learned and practical suggestionsp. 187
Indexp. 193
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