Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change: A North-South Analysis

ISBN-13: 9781402055904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 380 str.

Eric Craswell; Mike Bonell; Deborah Bossio

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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.

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Preface P.L.G. Vlek, E.T. Craswell Shift in thinking to address the 21st century hunger gap - moving focus from blue to green water management Malin Falkenmark A grid based assessment of global water scarcity including virtual water trading Md. Sirajul Islam, Taikan Oki, Shinjiro Kanae, Naota Hanasaki, Yasushi Agata, Kei Yoshimura Water footprints of nations: water use by people as a function of their consumption pattern A.Y. Hoekstra, A.K. Chapagain Transitions towards adaptive management of water facing climate and global change Claudia Pahl-Wostl Stakeholder-driven, enquiry-driven, or stakeholder-relevant, enquiry-driven sciences? W. James Shuttleworth Learning alliances for the broad implementation of an integrated approach to multiple sources, multiple uses and multiple users of water Frits W.T. Penning de Vries Possibilities and problems with the use of models as a communication tool in water resource management Johanna Alkan Olsson, Lotta Andersson Integration of the biophysical and social sciences using an indicator approach: Addressing water problems at different scales Caroline Sullivan, Jeremy Meigh Capturing the complexity of water uses and water users within a multi-agent framework Thomas Berger, Regina Birner, José Díaz, Nancy McCarthy, Heidi Wittmer Upscaling field scale hydrology and water quality modelling to catchment scale Alaa El-Sadek Linking databases of different sources and scales for groundwater research in the Urema River Basin/Central Mozambique Franziska Steinbruch, Luis Macario Integrated water and food analysis at the global and basin level. An application ofWatersim Charlotte de Fraiture, Claudia Ringler, Siwa Msangi The Adaptive Integrated Data Information System (AIDIS) for global water research Wolfgang-Albert Flügel Policy implications of a pan-tropic assessment of the simultaneous hydrological and biodiversity impacts of deforestation Ellen M. Douglas, Stanley Wood, Kate Sebastian, Charles J. Vörösmarty, Kenneth M. Chomitz and Thomas P. Tomich Towards better water security in north China Jun Xia, Lu Zhang, Changming Liu, Jingjie Yu Towards transition management of European water resources Rutger van der Brugge, Jan Rotmans Some foci of integrated water resources management in the 'South' which are oft- forgotten by the 'North': A perspective from Southern Africa Roland E. Schulze The GLOWA Volta Project: A framework for water resources decision-making and scientific capacity building in a transnational West African basin Charles Rodgers, Nick van de Giesen, Wolfram Laube, Paul L.G. Vlek, Eva Youkhana Integrating a climate change assessment tool into stakeholder-driven water management decision-making processes in California David R. Purkey, Annette Huber-Lee, David N. Yates, Michael Hanemann Involving stakeholders in integrated river basin planning in England and Wales Paula Orr, John Colvin, David King Integrated assessment of water resources: Australian experiences B.F.W. Croke, J.L. Ticehurst, R.A. Letcher, J.P. Norton, L.T.H. Newham, A. J. Jakeman

Blurb

How can the Earth’s finite water resources be managed sustainably to meet the growing needs of humans and of nature in ways that avert the looming crisis? The need to find answers to this question has exercised the minds of many scientists, practitioners and policymakers who recognise the urgency of the problems. These concerns have spawned a number of international research initiatives and programs, prominent representatives of which met to review progress and exchange views at an international conference in Bonn, Germany in February 2005.
The pressing water problems must clearly be tackled from an integrated perspective taking into account environmental, human and technological factors and especially their interdependence. The key papers in this volume from the Bonn conference focus on the challenges of integrated assessment of water resources in the context of global change. The growing gap between North and South is also addressed, in terms not only of access to water and its quality, but also of the capacity to do research and implement solutions.
The coverage of the papers is up-to-date and comprehensive. Highlights include emerging concepts such as blue and green water, virtual water, the water footprints of nations, multi-agent modelling, linkages between water and biodiversity, and social learning and adaptive management.

Audience: Policy-makers, practitioners and researchers concerned with integrated water resources management; scientists from physical, biological, ecological, and social sciences involved in research on global environmental change and natural resources; scientists concerned with water resources in developing countries.