Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   2. Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation

      • Ralf B. Ibisch, Janos J. Bogardi, Dietrich Borchardt

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3. Water Resources Assessments

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   2. Water Management in a Complex Hydrological Basin—Application of Water Evaluation and Planning Tool (WEAP) to the Lake Kinneret Watershed, Israel

      • Rotem Sade, Alon Rimmer, Rana Samuels, Yigal Salingar, Michael Denisyuk, Pinhas Alpert

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   3. Assessment of Anthropogenic Impact on the Environmental Flows of Semi-arid Watersheds: The Case Study of the Lower Jordan River

      • Assaf Chen, Noam Weisbrod

      Pages 59-83

   4. New Tools for Coherent Information Base for IWRM in Arid Regions: The Upper Mega Aquifer System on the Arabian Peninsula

      • Christian Siebert, Tino Rödiger, Stephan Schulz, Marcel Horovitz, Ralf Merz, Jan Friesen et al.

      Pages 85-106

   5. Multidisciplinary Investigations of the Transboundary Dead Sea Basin and Its Water Resources

      • Christian Siebert, Tino Rödiger, Stefan Geyer, Johnathan B. Laronne, Noa Hillel, Martin Sauter et al.

      Pages 107-127

   6. The Impact of Rainfall-Runoff Events on the Water Quality of the Upper Catchment of the Jordan River, Israel

      • Oren Reichmann, Yona Chen, Iggy M. Litaor

      Pages 129-146

   7. Input-Output Model-Based Water Footprint Indicators to Support IWRM in the Irrigated Drylands of Uzbekistan, Central Asia

      • Maksud Bekchanov, John P.A. Lamers, Anik Bhaduri, Manfred Lenzen, Bernhard Tischbein

      Pages 147-168

4. Climate Change

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   2. Climate Change Information for IWRM

      • Christian Bernhofer, Klemens Barfus, Dirk Pavlik, Pablo Borges, Dennis Söhl

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5. Water Governance

   1. Front Matter

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   2. IWRM in Uzbekistan: A Global Concept with Local Consequences

      • Elena Arsenievna Kim, Anna-Katharina Hornidge

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   3. Water Scarcity Impacts and Challenges of Water Governance in the Guanting Basin, North China. Evidence from Interviews with Local Stakeholders

      • Ilona M. Otto, Frank Wechsung, Xiaoxi Wang, Jacob Möhring, Rong Tan

      Pages 221-242

   4. Addressing Water Conflicts Through Context-Specific Institutional Analysis: A Handbook for Research Projects and Programmes

      • Jan Monsees, Ross Beveridge, Timothy Moss

      Pages 243-265

6. Public Information and Participation

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   2. Participative Scenario Development as a Method to Integrate Science and IWRM—Lessons Learnt from a Case Study in the Jordan River Region

      • Janina Onigkeit, Karl-Heinz Simon, Joseph Alcamo, Katja Tielbörger

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   3. Benefits and Barriers of Participation: Experiences of Applied Research Projects in Integrated Water Resources Management

      • Sabrina Kirschke, Lena Horlemann, Marian Brenda, Jutta Deffner, Alexander Jokisch, Shahrooz Mohajeri et al.

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7. Capacity Development

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This book reviews the concept, contemporary research efforts and the implementation of Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM). The IWRM concept was established as an international guiding water management paradigm in the early 1990ies and has become a vital approach to solving the problems associated with the topic of water. The book summarizes fourteen comprehensive IWRM research projects with worldwide coverage and analyses their motivations, settings, approaches and implementation of results. Aiming to be an up-to-date interdisciplinary scientific reference, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical and empirical analysis of contemporary IWRM research, examples of science based implementations and a synthesis of the lessons learnt. It concludes with some major future challenges, the solving of which will further strengthen the IWRM concept.

• water management
• water technologies
• adaptive management
• global change
• water governance

• Helmholtz Centre Environmental Research, Magdeburg, Germany

  Dietrich Borchardt, Ralf B. Ibisch

• Center for Development Research - ZEF, Bonn, Germany

  Janos J. Bogardi

Dietrich Borchardt, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Magdeburg, Germany; Janos J. Bogardi, University of Bonn, Germany; Ralf B. Ibisch, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Magdeburg, Germany 

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