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The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook book cover

1st Edition

The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook

Edited By Jaroslav Mysiak, Hans Jorgen Henrikson, Caroline Sullivan, John Bromley, Claudia Pahl-Wostl Copyright 2010
216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge
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The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions and services, in a context where human beliefs, actions and values play a central role. Furthermore, the growing uncertainties of global... Read more
1. Introduction - Making a Strong Case for AWM 2. Working Towards AWM 3. Tools and Instruments for Adaptive Management 4. AWM - Training, Capacity Building and Knowledge Transfer 5. Case Study : Elbe 6. Case Study : Guadiana 7. Case Study : Rhine 8. Case Study : Tisza 9. Case Study : Amudarya 10. Case Study : Nile 11. Case Study : Orange 12. Summary and Outlook

Biography

Jaroslav Mysiak is Senior Researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, and a lecturer at the Department of Economics, University Ca'Foscari in Venice, Italy. Caludia Pahl-Wostl is Professor of Management of Resource Flows at the Institute for Environmental Systems Research in Osnabruck, Germany. Caroline Sullivan is an environmental economist and is currently Group Leader of the Water Management and Policy Group at the Oxford University Centre for the Environment, UK. John Bromley is a hydrogeologist and a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford University Centre for Water Research, UK. Hans Jürgen Henriksen is Senior Advisor in Hydrology at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland, GEUS, Copenhagen, Denmark. Based on extensive collaborative research from the NeWater (New Approaches to Adaptive Water Management Under Uncertainty) project.

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