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Author : Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Release : 2010
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Book Synopsis Includes Special Feature on Adaptive and Integrated Water Management by : Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Download or read book Includes Special Feature on Adaptive and Integrated Water Management written by Claudia Pahl-Wostl. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Release : 2007-12-15
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Adaptive and Integrated Water Management by : Claudia Pahl-Wostl
Download or read book Adaptive and Integrated Water Management written by Claudia Pahl-Wostl. This book was released on 2007-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable water management is a key environmental challenge of the 21st century. This book presents the very latest studies, methods and innovations for managing our water resources from the first International Conference on Adaptive and Integrated Water Management, held in November 2007 in Basel, Switzerland. The book addresses a wide interdisciplinary audience of scientists and professionals from academia, industry, and those involved in policy making.
Author : Jaroslav Mysiak
Release : 2013-09-13
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Rating : 573/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook by : Jaroslav Mysiak
Download or read book The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook written by Jaroslav Mysiak. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Farideh Delavari Edalat
Release : 2017-09-05
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Adaptive Water Management by : Farideh Delavari Edalat
Download or read book Adaptive Water Management written by Farideh Delavari Edalat. This book was released on 2017-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water management. It highlights the need to adopt multidisciplinary strategies in water management while providing an in-depth understanding of institutional interactions amongst different water related sectors. The key characteristics of AWM i.e. polycentric governance, organisational flexibility and public participation are investigated and described through a critical review of the relevant literature. The book presents an empirical case study undertaken in a selected developing-country city to investigate the potential gaps between the current water management approaches and possible implementation of AWM. Feasibility of AWM operations is examined in an environment surrounded by established water management structure with centralised governance and an institutional process based on technical flexibility. The key elements of AWM performance are (re)structured and transformed into decision support systems. Multi criteria decision models are developed to facilitate quantification and visualization of the elements derived from the case study, which is involved with water companies and water consumers. The book describes how the concept of AWM, along with structuring suitable decision support systems, can be developed and applied to developing-country cities. The book highlights the barriers for applying the AWM strategies that include established centralised decision making, bureaucratic interactions with external organisations, lack of organisational flexibility within the institutions, and lack of recognition of public role in water management. The findings outline that despite the lack of adaptability in the current water management in the case study, as an example of developing countries, there are positive attitudes among water professionals and the public towards adaptability through public-institutional participation.
Author : Georg Meran
Release : 2020-09-04
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 858/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Economics of Water by : Georg Meran
Download or read book The Economics of Water written by Georg Meran. This book was released on 2020-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
