1st Edition
Integrated Water Resources Management: A Systems Perspective of Water Governance and Hydrological Conditions Integrated Water Resources Management
Introduction: stating the problem, research gaps and objectives of the study, Description of the case study area, Integrated Water Resources Management: Contrasting principles, policy, and practice, Awash River Basin, Ethiopia, Evaluating the Impacts of IWRM Policy Actions on Demand Satisfaction and Downstream Water Availability in the Upper Awash Basin, Ethiopia, Dilemmas of Integrated Water Resources Management Implementation in the Awash River Basin, Ethiopia: Irrigation Development versus Environmental Flows, A new vantage point to cross-sectoral coordination in IWRM: Water, Energy, Food and Ecosystem Nexus in the Awash River Basin, Ethiopia, Conclusion and recommendations
Biography
Adey Nigatu Mersha is a water systems analysis and management researcher currently working at the Water and Land Resources Centre of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia – under the UKRI GCRF Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub program. Apart from her research, teaching, and development work experience at different capacities, she has been also serving as a joint coordinator of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) Young Professionals e-Forum (IYPeF), and the African Young Water Professionals Forum (Af-YWPF) of the African Regional Working Group of the ICID. Her research interest is in the areas of integrated approaches to water management as well as analysis and evaluation of hydrological systems under uncertainties. She is a Water Systems Research enthusiast, keen about exploring on the interactions between water, society and the environment.
