Integrated Water Resources Management Concept, Research and Implementation [Hardcover]

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.

Part I Introduction.- 1 Integrated Water Resources Management: Concept, Research and Implementation.- Part II Water resources assessments.- 2 Water management in a complex hydrological basin - Application of Water Evaluation and Planning Tool (WEAP) to the Lake Kinneret watershed, Israel.- 3 Assessment of Anthropogenic Impact on the Environmental Flows of Semi-Arid Watersheds: TheCase Study of the Lower Jordan River.- 4 New tools for coherent information base for IWRM in arid regions: the Upper Mega Aquifer System on the Arabian.- 5 Multidisciplinary investigations of the transboundary Dead Sea basin and its water resources.- 6 The impact of rainfall-runoff events on the water quality of the upper catchment of the Jordan River, Israel.- 7 Input-output model-based water footprint indicators to support IWRM in the irrigated drylands of Uzbekistan, Central Asia.- Part III Climate Change.- 8 Climate Change information for IWRM.- Part IV Water Governance.-?9 IWRM in Uzbekistan: A global concept with local consequences.- 10 Water scarcity impacts and challenges of water governance in the Guanting Basin, North Chinl$