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Abstract
The Adaptiveness of IWRM provides new insights and knowledge on the challenges and solutions that current water management faces in a situation of complexity and uncertainty. Drawing on the available results from a wide range of European research projects under several framework programmes, the book provides an overview of the state of the art in European research on Integrated Water Resources Management on the topics of Participation, Transboundary regimes, Economics, Vulnerability, Climate change, Advanced monitoring, Spatial planning, and the Social dimensions of water management. The achievements of EU research projects are considered in view of the extent to which IWRM responds to the current complexity and uncertainty water management is facing. These achievements are positioned in a wider context of worldwide developments in the respective topics which account for the future challenges. From this, the book concludes with the required focus of European research in the near future and promotes the concept of Adaptive Water Management as the preferred direction for the development of IWRM.
The book presents the achievements of European IWRM research on a range of water management topics and offers conclusions and recommendations for research foci that will be invaluable to water managers, policy-makers and academic researchers working in the field of IWRM.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | |||
| Preface | |||
| List of Contributors | |||
| Chapter 1: The adaptiveness of IWRM | |||
| 1.1 IWRM IN A CHANGING WORLD | |||
| 1.2 CONCEPTS IN WATER MANAGEMENT | |||
| 1.2.1 The transition towards adaptive water management | |||
| 1.2.2 Water management regimes | |||
| 1.2.3 Governance | |||
| 1.2.4 Vulnerability | |||
| 1.2.5 Social dimensions (poverty / gender) | |||
| 1.2.6 Participation | |||
| 1.3 CONCLUSIONS | |||
| 1.3.1 Governance | |||
| 1.3.2 Sectoral integration | |||
| 1.3.3 Scale and analysis of operation | |||
| 1.3.4 Information management | |||
| 1.3.5 Infrastructure | |||
| 1.3.6 Finances and risk | |||
| 1.4 EU RESEARCH POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS | |||
| 1.5 REFERENCES | |||
| Chapter 2: New approaches to water management: contributions from European research on complexity, learning and uncertainty | |||
| 2.1 INTRODUCTION | |||
| 2.2 CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO WATER MANAGEMENT | |||
| 2.2.1 The European Water Framework Directive – an opportunity to apply novel water management strategies? | |||
| 2.3 CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DIFFERENT EU FUNDED PROJECTS | |||
| 2.3.1 HarmoniRiB | |||
| 2.3.2 AQUADAPT | |||
| 2.3.3 HarmoniCOP | |||
| 2.3.4 NeWater | |||
| 2.4 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY AND MANAGEMENT | |||
| Uncertainties and their role in policy and management | |||
| Complexity and the dynamics of human-technology-environment systems | |||
| Learning and managing change | |||
| 2.5 REFERENCES | |||
| Chapter 3: Participation in water management: Theory and practice | |||
| 3.1 INTRODUCTION | |||
| 3.2 CITIZENS, CIVIL SOCIETY AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN WATER MANAGEMENT | |||
| 3.2.1 The concept of public participation and its interpretations | |||
| 3.2.2 Public participation goals and design, methods, and evaluation criteria | |||
| 3.2.3 The design of public participation exercises | |||
| 3.2.4 Public participation methods | |||
| 3.3 EXAMPLES OF PARTICIPATORY METHODS FROM EU-FINANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS | |||
| 3.3.1 MANTRA –East | |||
| Project methods | |||
| Competences of participants | |||
| Identification of participants | |||
| Information needs | |||
| MANTRA-East results | |||
| 3.3.2 River Dialogue | |||
| Focus groups in River Dialogue | |||
| How many focus groups are needed? | |||
| Focus group results | |||
| The citizens’ juries in River Dialogue | |||
| Organising the River Dialogue juries | |||
| The jurors | |||
| Pre-meetings | |||
| The jury | |||
| Results | |||
| 3.3.3 HarmoniCOP Sup 1 | |||
| 3.4 CONCLUSIONS | |||
| 3.5 REFERENCES | |||
| Chapter 4: Analysis of European IWRM research on transboundary regimes | |||
| 4.1 REGIMES: TRANSBOUNDARY INTERACTIONS IN WATER MANAGEMENT | |||
| 4.1.1 Introduction and topic delineation | |||
| 4.1.2 Focus in regimes’ research | |||
| Research on formation of international regimes | |||
| Research on implementation of international regimes and institutions performance | |||
| Research on regimes’ fit, scale and interaction | |||
| 4.1.3 Different theoretical perspectives to studies of international regimes | |||
| Realism | |||
| Neoliberalism | |||
| Cognitivism | |||
| Adaptiveness in regimes | |||
| 4.2 RESEARCH ON TRANSBOUNDARY REGIMES IN EUROPE | |||
| 4.2.1 Brief history and patterns of studies of international regimes in Europe | |||
| Development of a neoliberal concept of regimes’ research in Europe | |||
| Development of a cognitive concept of regimes in Europe | |||
| 4.2.2 EU projects, dealing with transboundary waters | |||
| Research project on International Governmental Organisations and National Participation in Environmental Regimes: the Organisational Components in the Acidification Regime | |||
| Concerted Action on the Effectiveness of International Environmental Agreements and EU Legislation | |||
| Research project on integrated strategies for the management of transboundary waters on the eastern European fringe - MANTRA-East project | |||
| NeWater | |||
| Research project “Harmonising collaborative planning” – HARMONI-COP | |||
| Other EU projects addressing transboundary water regimes | |||
| 4.3 FUTURE PERSPECTIVES OF STUDIES OF INTERNATIONAL REGIMES IN EUROPE | |||
| 4.4 REFERENCES | |||
| Chapter 5: Economics of integrated water management in a European perspective | |||
| 5.1 INTRODUCTION | |||
| 5.2 CHOOSING AMBITION LEVELS AND FUNDING NEEDS | |||
| 5.3 CHOOSING THE BEST WATER POLICY INSTRUMENT | |||
| 5.4 TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT | |||
| 5.5 MANAGEMENT UNDER RISK AND UNCERTAINTY | |||
| 5.6 CONCLUSIONS AND DISCUSSION | |||
| 5.7 REFERENCES | |||
| APPENDIX: LIST OF INCLUDED EU PROJECTS | |||
| Chapter 6: Vulnerability and exposure to shocks and stresses in river basins: a review of EU research and some avenues for the future | |||
| 6.1 INTRODUCTION | |||
| 6.2 THE CHANGING MEANINGS OF VULNERABILITY | |||
| 6.3 THE SOCIAL DIMENSION | |||
| 6.3.1 The geographical dimension | |||
| 6.4 VULNERABILITY TO WATER-RELATED HAZARDS IN EU-FUNDED PROJECTS | |||
| 6.5 TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED VIEW ON VULNERABILITY? ASSESSING SEVEN EUROPEAN PROJECTS | |||
| 6.6 CONCLUSION | |||
| 6.7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | |||
| 6.8 REFERENCES | |||
| Chapter 7: Understanding consequences of climate change for water resources and water-related sectors in Europe | |||
| 7.1 INTRODUCTION | |||
| 7.2 CLIMATE CHANGE IN EUROPE: EXISTING TRENDS AND PROJECTIONS | |||
| 7.2.1 Trends in climate | |||
| 7.2.2 Climate scenarios and uncertainty | |||
| 7.2.3 Expected climate change in Europe according to scenarios | |||
| 7.3 OTHER DRIVING FORCES OF CHANGE | |||
| 7.3.1 Demographic trends | |||
| 7.3.2 Land use and land cover change | |||
| 7.3.3 Consumption patterns and technology trends | |||
| 7.4 IMPACTS AND CONSEQUENCES FOR WATER RESOURCES AND WATER-RELATED SECTORS IN EUROPE | |||
| 7.4.1 General impacts on water balance components | |||
| 7.4.2 Impacts on extreme events (floods and droughts) | |||
| 7.4.3 Uncertainties in research on extreme events | |||
| 7.4.4 Sensitivity of water-related sectors to climate change impacts | |||
| 7.5 COPING STRATEGIES NOW AND NEEDED IN FUTURE – A EUROPEAN POLICY PERSPECTIVE | |||
| 7.5.1 Technical measures and management strategies to cope with climate change | |||
| 7.5.2 Role of EU policies in supporting adaptation | |||
| The Environmental Action Programme | |||
| The European Climate Change Programme | |||
| The Water Policy | |||
| The Sectoral Policies (agriculture, energy) | |||
| Science and Technology Policy | |||
| 7.6 SUMMARY AND DISCUSSION | |||
| 7.6.1 Role of Integrated Water Resources Management | |||
| 7.6.2 Role of Adaptive Management | |||
| 7.7 CONCLUSIONS | |||
| 7.8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | |||
| 7.9 REFERENCES | |||
| Chapter 8: Monitoring information systems to support integrated decision-making | |||
| 8.1 INTRODUCTION | |||
| 8.1.1 Complexity and IWRM – The role of learning | |||
| 8.1.2 Complexity and information production and management | |||
| 8.1.3 Complexity and monitoring system | |||
| 8.1.4 Review framework | |||
| 8.2 REVIEW OF EU FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS | |||
| 8.2.1 Interconnection between monitoring/information management and decision process | |||
| 8.2.2 Information exchange among actors | |||
| 8.2.3 Integration of different types of information | |||
| 8.2.4 Information accessibility and comprehensibility | |||
| 8.3 CONCLUSIONS – WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? WHAT IS MISSING? | |||
| 8.4 REFERENCES | |||
| Chapter 9: Integration of spatial planning in flood management in European research | |||
| 9.1 INTRODUCTION | |||
| 9.2 FLOOD RISKS | |||
| 9.3 MANAGING FLOOD RISKS | |||
| 9.4 REVIEW OF EU RESEARCH | |||
| 9.4.1 Projects overview | |||
| 9.4.2 Discussion | |||
| 9.5 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS | |||
| 9.6 REFERENCES | |||
| APPENDIX 1 – PROJECT INFORMATION | |||
| Chapter 10: The social dimensions of IWRM: Where does inequality fit in? | |||
| 10.1 INTRODUCTION | |||
| 10.2 INTEGRATING THE SOCIAL DIMENSION IN WATER MANAGEMENT | |||
| Water reallocation | |||
| Water pricing | |||
| Participation | |||
| 10.3 ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN SELECTED EUROPEAN UNION FUNDED WATER MANAGEMENT PROJECTS. | |||
| 10.3.1 Selection of projects to be analysed | |||
| 10.3.2 Analysis of projects regarding the integration of social dimensions. | |||
| HarmoniCOP (www.harmonicop.info) | |||
| Euromarket (www2.epfl.ch/mir/page18246.html) | |||
| Intermediaries (www.irs-net.de/intermediaries) | |||
| NeWater (www.newater.info) | |||
| Aquastress (www.aquastress.net) | |||
| Gewamed (www.gewamed.net) | |||
| 10.3.3 Summary of evaluation results and its relevance for IWRM | |||
| 10.4 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS | |||
| 10.4.1 Recommendations for further research. | |||
| 10.5 REFERENCES |