Integrated Water Management

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Concepts and Approaches of Integrated Water Management

   1. Introduction

      • Patrick Meire, Marleen Coenen, Claudio Lombardo, Michela Robba, Roberto Sacile

      Pages 1-8

   2. Filling the Information Gap between Water Systems and Decision Makers in the Sustainable Development of a Territory

      • Fabrizio Colaceci, Riccardo Minciardi, Claudio Lombardo, Michela Robba, Roberto Sacile

      Pages 11-21

   3. Towards an Adaptive Approach in Planning and Management Process

      • Manuela Pires Rosa

      Pages 23-32

   4. The Value of the Italian Civil Protection System in Integrated Water Management For The Mediterranean Environment

      • Francesca Giannoni, Giorgio Roth, Roberto Rudari

      Pages 33-49

   5. Knowledge Discovery in Environmental Data

      • Joaquín Izquierdo, José L. Díaz, Rafael Pérez, P. Amparo López, José J. Mora

      Pages 51-68

   6. NetSyMoD - An Integrated Approach for Water Resources Management

      • Carlo Giupponi, Alessandra Sgobbi, Jaroslav Mysiak, Roberta Camera, Anita Fassio

      Pages 69-93

   7. Water Conflicts: An Unavoidable Challenge from the Transboundary to the Local Dimension

      • Andrea Nardini, Andrea Goltara, Bertrand Chartier

      Pages 95-112

3. Case Studies

   1. An Eco-Hydrological Project on Turkey Creek Watershed, South Carolina, U.S.A

      • Devendra Amatya, Carl Trettin

      Pages 115-126

   2. Integrated Transboundary Management of Lake Constance Driven by the International Commission for the Protection of Lake Constance (IGKB)

      • Jürg Bloesch, Heinz Gerd Schröder

      Pages 127-139

   3. Integrated Water Mangement in the Seven Cities Basin

      • Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, João Porteiro, Helena Calado, Emiliana Silva, José Carlos Fontes, Paulo Borges et al.

      Pages 141-153

   4. Establishment of the Iskar Reservoir Minimum Sanitary Storage Capacity

      • Ivanka Dimitrova

      Pages 155-169

   5. Eutrophication in the Blackwater River Catchment, Ireland

      • Phil Jordan, Colleen Ward, Joerg Arnscheidt, Suzanne McCormick

      Pages 171-177

   6. The Proposal of IWRM in the Bouregreg Basin and How it Fits with the UNESCO/HELP Policy Program

      • Abdellatif Khattabi

      Pages 179-187

   7. Impact of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant on the Druksiai Cooler - Lake

      • Jurate Kriauciuniene, Diana Sarauskiene

      Pages 189-197

   8. Transboundary River Contract Semois-Semoy Between Belgium (Wallonia) and France

      • Francis Rosillon, Jérôme Lobet

      Pages 199-206

   9. Ground and Water Levels Change in the Scheldt Basin

      • Eric Masson, Francis Meilliez

      Pages 207-217

   10. The Architecture of a Decision Support System (DSS) for Groundwater Quality Preservation in Terceira Island (Azores)

       • Tomaz Ponce Dentinho, Riccardo Minciardi, Michela Robba, Roberto Sacile, Vasco Silva

       Pages 219-232

   11. Greece: Ecosystem Based IWM Plans in the Framework of WFD Implementation: The “Strymon” Pilot Project

       • Stylianos G. Skias

       Pages 233-245

   12. The Role of the Help Programme

       • Mike Bonell

       Pages 247-261

It is widely stipulated that the world’s water supply will come to symbolize the blue gold of the 21st century. As such, it is essential that further efforts be invested in developing practical means for managing this natural wealth, in order to avoid any possible threat of depletion, contamination or adverse side effects for the societies who depend on it. Water is a limited resource, and human beings and their subsequent anth- pogenic processes can cause subtle but drastic variations in its quantity and quality, which can in turn result in changes to the source’s related ecosystem. The EC directive 2000/60 introduced a whole range of specific definitions, objectives and constraints regarding the various aspects of water management, including water quality management, policies, economic aspects, ecology, price, and sustainable development. These issues all require the formulation of common, integrated, sustainable approaches for managing the water system from a multidisciplinary perspective, and the definition of new professional skills, requirements which become even more evident where transboundary areas are concerned. In order to take decisions in an equitable, sustainable, and ethical fashion, water resource management does in fact call for extensive knowledge of the complex relationships between citizens and their water system. The book represents a practical contribution made possible thanks to the efforts of scientists from NATO countries and partners, along with Belgium and Italy’s collaboration on Integrated Water Management and its possible risk factors, including problems related to targeted terrorist acts.

• Groundwater
• biology
• development
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• environment
• wetland
• water policy
• water quality and water pollution

• University of Antwerp, Belgium

  Patrick Meire, Marleen Coenen

• IST National Institute for Cancer Research, Spain

  Claudio Lombardo

• University of Genova, Italy

  Michela Robba, Roberto Sacile

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