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.
Author(s): Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Pavel Kabat, Jörn Möltgen
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 437
Cover......Page 1
Adaptive and Integrated
Water Management......Page 3
ISBN 3540759409......Page 4
Preface......Page 5
Preface of editors......Page 8
Table of Contents......Page 10
Requirements for Adaptive Water Management......Page 13
Eco-Complexity and Sustainability in China’s
Water Management......Page 35
Integrated, adaptive and domanial water
resources management......Page 51
Can adaptive management help us embrace the
Murray-Darling Basin’s wicked problems?......Page 72
The NeWater Management and Transition
Framework – state and development process –......Page 85
Groundwater protection in urban areas
incorporating adaptive groundwater monitoring
and management - Reconciliation of water
engineering measures along rivers......Page 107
Adaptability of International River Basin
Regimes: Linkage Problems in the Rhine......Page 134
Institutional elements for adaptive water
management regimes. Comparing two regional
water management regimes in the Rhine basin......Page 155
Intellectual history and current status of
Integrated Water Resources Management:
A global perspective......Page 175
A broadened view on the role for models in
natural resource management: Implications for
model development......Page 194
Deliberation, negotiation and scale in the
governance of water resources in the Mekong
region......Page 211
Enhancing the Potential for Integrated Water
Management in New Zealand Throughthrough
Adaptive Governance......Page 232
How Social Networks Enable Adaptation to
System Complexity and Extreme Weather Events......Page 253
Managing flood risk in the urban environment:
linking spatial planning, risk assessment,
communication and policy......Page 267
Benchmarking in Dutch Urban Water
Management: An Assessment......Page 280
Adapting scale use for successful
implementation of Cyclic Floodplain
Rejuvenation in the Netherlands......Page 304
Current and future impacts of climate change on
river runoff in the Central Asian river basins......Page 325
Adaptive and Integrated Management of
Wastewater and Storm Water Drainage in Kolkata
– Case Study of a Mega City......Page 342
About Ways for Improvement of Water Use in
Irrigation of Uzbekistan......Page 357
Participatory assessment of water developments
in an atoll town......Page 380
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.......Page 403
Portfolio optimisation of water management
investments......Page 421
Index......Page 436
