This book presents papers from an international conference, held in Bonn, Germany in February 2005, that dealt with integrated water resources management in industrialized and developing countries. The papers detail such emerging concepts as blue and green water, virtual water, the water footprints of nations, multi-agent modeling, linkages between water and biodiversity, and social learning and adaptive management.
Author(s): Eric Craswell, Mike Bonnell, Deborah Bossio, Siegfried Demuth, Nick van de Giesen
Edition: 1
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 380
Table of Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Shift in Thinking to Address the 21st Century Hunger Gap – Moving Focus from Blue to Green Water Management......Page 9
A Grid-Based Assessment of Global Water Scarcity Including Virtual Water Trading......Page 25
Water Footprints of Nations: Water use by People as a Function of Their Consumption Pattern......Page 40
Transitions Towards Adaptive Management of Water Facing Climate and Global Change......Page 54
Stakeholder-Driven, Enquiry-Driven, or Stakeholder-Relevant, Enquiry-Driven Science?......Page 68
Learning Alliances for the Broad Implementation of an Integrated Approach to Multiple Sources, Multiple uses and Multiple Users of Water......Page 83
Possibilities and Problems with the use of Models as a Communication Tool in Water Resource Management......Page 100
Integration of the Biophysical and Social Sciences Using an Indicator Approach: Addressing Water Problems at Different Scales......Page 114
Capturing the Complexity of Water uses and Water Users Within a Multi-Agent Framework......Page 132
Upscaling Field Scale Hydrology and Water Quality Modelling to Catchment Scale......Page 152
Linking Databases of Different Sources and Scales for Groundwater Research in the Urema River Basin/Central Mozambique......Page 173
Integrated Water and Food Analysis at the Global and Basin Level. An Application of WATERSIM......Page 187
The Adaptive Integrated Data Information System (AIDIS) for Global Water Research......Page 201
Policy Implications of a Pan-Tropic Assessment of the Simultaneous Hydrological and Biodiversity Impacts of Deforestation......Page 213
Towards Better Water Security in North China......Page 235
Towards Transition Management of European Water Resources......Page 250
Some Foci of Integrated Water Resources Management in the "South" Which are Oft-Forgotten by the "North": A Perspective from Southern Africa......Page 269
The GLOWA Volta Project: A Framework for Water Resources Decision-Making and Scientific Capacity Building in a Transnational West African Basin......Page 295
Integrating a Climate Change Assessment Tool into Stakeholder-Driven Water Management Decision-Making Processes in California......Page 314
Involving Stakeholders in Integrated River Basin Planning in England and Wales......Page 329
Integrated Assessment of Water Resources: Australian Experiences......Page 348
