Sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management: Water Governance, Climate and Ecohydrology

ISBN-13: 9783319371214 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 610 str.

Shimelis Gebriye Setegn; Maria Concepcion Donoso

Opis

It is a useful reference for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), ecohydrology, climate change impact and adaptations, water governance, environmental flows, geographic information system and modeling tools, water and energy nexus and related topics.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Part I Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM: Global Perspectives.- IWRM in the Caribbean, Central and South America.- Integrated Water resources Management: African perspective.- IWRM for river basin management under changing climate.- Management of Transboundary Water Resources in the Nile River Basin.- Water Resources and Environmental Sustainability in the tropical river basins.- Part II Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and climate change.- Sustainability of water resources in tropical regions in the face of climate change.- Water Resources Sustainability in the Face of Climate change.- Sustainable Integrated Water Resources Management – IWRM.- Water Resources Variability due to Climate Change in Mexico.- Part III IWRM and climate change: social, economic, and cultural aspects.- Climate change and sustainable water access.- Environmental law and policy making as an adaptation measure to climate change.- Socio economic impact of climate change/ Economic valuation of water in small basins.- Sustainable management of floods and extreme events.- Conflict Resolution and Negotiation for Integrated Water Resources Management.- Part IV Assessing sustainability of IWRM.- Water Resources Management and sustainability in Mexico.- IWRM sustainability.- The implication of climate change on water resources development in Africa.- A critical assessment of IWRM adoption at the country level - barriers and drivers of adoption.- Part V Climate change resiliency actions related to water resources management sustainability.- Climate change resiliency actions and Water resources management sustainability.- Efficient use of water resources for sustainability.- Flood risk management in the context of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM).- Water Sustainability and Society under Changing Climate.- Climate, Ecosystem and Society as drivers of sustainability in water resources management.

O autorze

Dr. Shimelis Gebriye Setegn earned his Ph.D. in land and water resources engineering and M.Sc. in soil and water conservation engineering. Currently, he is a Program Executive Officer at the Global Water for Sustainability Program (GLOWS) and Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Florida International University (FIU). Dr. Setegn has an interdisciplinary background and experience in environmental, hydrological and hydrodynamic modeling; watershed dynamics, ecohydrology, predicting the impact of climate and land-use changes on water resources, agriculture and public health; GIS and remote sensing applications in the environment and water resources. Dr. Setegn has more than 19 years of teaching, research and development experience in Africa, the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, Mexico and Central and South America. His work on different international projects has led to several peer-reviewed journal articles, books and book chapters. He has also given several scientific presentations at international conferences and symposiums. Dr. Setegn has conducted many short and long courses in hydrological modeling, climate change, integrated water resources management, GIS and remote sensing in the United States, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Dominican Republic, Mexico, Honduras, Chile, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Niger, Tanzania, Uganda and Sweden.

Dr. Maria Concepcion Donoso is the Director of Global Water for Sustainability Program (GLOWS). Previously, Dr. Donoso was the Regional Hydrologist of UNESCO for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), where she was in charge of the entire portfolio of water projects implemented by UNESCO in the LAC region. Dr. Donoso's research and professional interests are in integrated water resources management, air-sea-land interaction processes, and in climate change and variability impacts on the natural environment and society. Ms. Donoso has acted as director of

various projects and studies on water sciences. Similarly, she has served as Technical Adviser to national and regional organizations, and to private consulting firms. In this context, she served as the Coordinator of the Regional Consultation of the Caribbean and Central America Vision on Water, Life and the Environment for the 21st Century (1999 - 2000). Furthermore, Ms. Donoso was a member of the Global Environmental Facility (GEF) Overall Performance Study International Team of Experts (2001-2002) and of the UNEP Scientific Advisory Group on Water (2011), as well as the Coordinator of the Task Force of Experts in charge of the development of the Strategy for the VIII Phase (to be implement for the period 2014-2021) of the International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO (2009-2013). 

Blurb

The main focus of this book is sustainable management of water resources in a changing climate. The book also addresses the question of how to define and measure the sustainability of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The sustainability of IWRM is an important issue when planning and/or developing policies that consider the impact of climate change, water governance and ecohydrology in the context of a more holistic approach to ensure sustainable management of water resources. Sustainable IWRM is more about processes, and relatively little systematic or rigorous work has been done to articulate what components are the most essential to ensure the ongoing sustainability of IWRM efforts. The chapters cover topics including global prospective of IWRM; allocation of environmental flows in IWRM; echohydrology, water resources and environmental sustainability; climate change and IWRM; IWRM and water governance including social, economic, public health and cultural aspects; climate change resiliency actions related to water resources management sustainability and tools in support of sustainability for IWRM.

This book will be of interest to researchers, practitioners, water resources mangers, policy and decision makers, donors, international institutions, governmental and non-governmental organizations, educators, as well as graduate and undergraduate students. It is a useful reference for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), ecohydrology, climate change impact and adaptations, water governance, environmental flows, geographic information system and modeling tools, water and energy nexus and related topics.