Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation (eBook)

Dietrich Borchardt, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Magdeburg, Germany; Janos J. Bogardi, University of Bonn, Germany; Ralf B. Ibisch, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Magdeburg, Germany 

Part I Introduction.- 1 Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation.- Part II Water resources assessments.- 2 Water management in a complex hydrological basin - Application of Water Evaluation and Planning Tool (WEAP) to the Lake Kinneret watershed, Israel.- 3 Assessment of Anthropogenic Impact on the Environmental Flows of Semi-Arid Watersheds: TheCase Study of the Lower Jordan River.- 4 New tools for coherent information base for IWRM in arid regions: the Upper Mega Aquifer System on the Arabian.- 5 Multidisciplinary investigations of the transboundary Dead Sea basin and its water resources.- 6 The impact of rainfall-runoff events on the water quality of the upper catchment of the Jordan River, Israel.- 7 Input-output model-based water footprint indicators to support IWRM in the irrigated drylands of Uzbekistan, Central Asia.- Part III Climate Change.- 8 Climate Change information for IWRM.- Part IV Water Governance.- 9 IWRM in Uzbekistan: A global concept with local consequences.- 10 Water scarcity impacts and challenges of water governance in the Guanting Basin, North China. Evidence from interviews with local stakeholders.- 11 Addressing Water Conflicts through Context-specific Institutional Analysis: a Handbook for Research Projects and Programmes.- Part V Public information and participation.- 12 Participative scenario development as a method to integrate science and IWRM – Lessons learnt from a case study in the Jordan River region.- 13 Benefits and Barriers of Participation: Experiences of Applied Research Projects in Integrated Water Resources.- Part VI Capacity Development.- 14 Capacity Development for Integrated Water Resources Management: Lessons learned from applied research projects.- Part VII Water knowledge, information management and decision support.- 15 A Water related Information System for the Sustainable Development of the Mekong Delta: Experiences of the German-Vietnamese WISDOM Project.- 16 Analysing stakeholder driven scenarios with a transboundary water planning tool for IWRM in the Jordan River basin.- 17 Decision Support in the context of IWRM: Lessons learnt from research projects in developing and emerging countries.- Part VIII Integrated land and water resources management.- 18 The use of treated wastewater for irrigation as a component of Integrated Water Resources Management: Reducing environmental implications on soil and groundwater by evaluating site-specific soil suitabilities.- 19 Agriculture in Mongolia under pressure of agronomic nutrient imbalances and food security demands: A case study of stakeholder participation for future nutrient and water resource management.- 20 WebGIS-based approach to simulate water and solute fluxes in the Miyun basin in China.- 21 Dynamic Land Use Change as Challenge for IWRM: a Case Study in Central Brazil.- Part IX Regional case studies and pathways to sustainable water management.-  22 Reconceptualising Water Management in Khorezm, Uzbekistan Recommendations towards IWRM.- 23 Integrated Water Resource Management in Isfahan: The Zayandeh Rud Catchment.- 24 Overall-effective measures for sustainable water resources management in the coastal area of Shandong Province, PR China.- 25 Modular Concept for Municipal Water Management in the Kharaa River Basin, Mongolia.- 26 From the Concept to the Tap – Integrated Water Resources Management in Northern Namibia.- Part X Transboundary case studies.- 27 Sustainable Water and Land Management under Global Change - The GLOWA Jordan River Project.- 28 Challenges of implementing IWRM in the Lower Jordan Valley.