Beschreibung
InhaltsangabeRequirements for Adaptive Water Management.- Eco-Complexity and Sustainability in China's Water Management.- Integrated, adaptive and domanial water resources management.- Can adaptive management help us embrace the Murray-Darling Basin's wicked problems?.- The NeWater Management and Transition Framework - state and development process -.- Groundwater protection in urban areas incorporating adaptive groundwater monitoring and management - Reconciliation of water engineering measures along rivers.- Adaptability of International River Basin Regimes: Linkage Problems in the Rhine.- Institutional elements for adaptive water management regimes. Comparing two regional water management regimes in the Rhine basin.- Intellectual history and current status of Integrated Water Resources Management: A global perspective.- A broadened view on the role for models in natural resource management: Implications for model development.- Deliberation, negotiation and scale in the governance of water resources in the Mekong region.- Enhancing the Potential for Integrated Water Management in New Zealand Throughthrough Adaptive Governance.- How Social Networks Enable Adaptation to System Complexity and Extreme Weather Events.- Managing flood risk in the urban environment: linking spatial planning, risk assessment, communication and policy.- Benchmarking in Dutch Urban Water Management: An Assessment.- Adapting scale use for successful implementation of Cyclic Floodplain Rejuvenation in the Netherlands.- Current and future impacts of climate change on river runoff in the Central Asian river basins.- Adaptive and Integrated Management of Wastewater and Storm Water Drainage in Kolkata - Case Study of a Mega City.- About Ways for Improvement of Water Use in Irrigation of Uzbekistan.- Participatory assessment of water developments in an atoll town.- Criteria for the Assessment of Planning Processes for Sustainable River Basin Management - Illustration by two cases: the EU Water Framework Directive and ongoing water planning processes in Sweden.- Portfolio optimisation of water management investments.
Autorenporträt
Claudia Pahl-Wostl, is Full professor of resource management at the Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrueck is an internationally leading expert on adaptive water management, water governance and participatory integrated assessment. Her research focuses on developing innovative concepts of managing transformation processes towards sustainability with an emphasis on an improved understanding of dynamics and management of actor networks and the implications of complexity and uncertainty. She is the coordinator of the EU project NEWATER (New methods for adaptive water management). Pavel Kabat, is Full Professor and Chair Holder of the Earth System Science and Climate Change Group at Wageningen UR; Co-Chair of the International Scientific Steering Committee of IGBP/ILEAPS; Programme and Science Director of the International Cooperative Programme on Water and Climate (UNESCO/WMO/WWC); Science Director of the Dutch National Research Programme on Climate change and Spatial Planning. His scientific focus is on land - atmosphere interactions, climate hydrology and the water cycle, climate system and climate change. Jörn Möltgen, is a Geographer at the Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrueck. His scientific focus is on usability engineering and knowledge processing for decision support systems in water management. He coordinated several national projects in transportation planning and water management and is manager of the integrated EU project NEWATER.
