順応的水資源管理ハンドブック The Adaptive Water Resource Management Handbook

Mysiak, Jaroslav (EDT)/ Henrikson, Hans Jorgen (EDT)/ Sullivan, Caroline (EDT)

Earthscan Ltd（2009/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781844077922
• DDC分類 333.91

基本説明

The bulk of the book consists of critical case studies from seven river basins across Europe, West Asia and Africa.

Full Description

The complexity of current water resource management poses many challenges. Water managers need to solve a range of interrelated water dilemmas, such as balancing water quantity and quality, flooding, drought, maintaining biodiversity and ecological functions and services, in a context where human beliefs, actions and values play a central role. Furthermore, the growing uncertainties of global climate change and the long term implications of management actions make the problems even more difficult.

This book explains the benefits, outcomes and lessons learned from adaptive water management (AWM). In essence AWM is a way of responding to uncertainty by designing policy measures which are provisional and incremental, subject to subsequent modification in response to environmental change and other variables. Included are illustrative case studies from seven river basins from across Europe, West Asia and Africa: the Elbe, Rhine, Guadiana, Tisza, Orange, Nile and Amudarya. These exemplify the key challenges of adaptive water management, especially when rivers cross national boundaries, creating additional problems of governance.

Contents

1. Introduction - Making a Strong Case for AWM

2. Working Towards AWM

3. Tools and Instruments for Adaptive Management

4. AWM - Training, Capacity Building and Knowledge Transfer

5. Case Study : Elbe

6. Case Study : Guadiana

7. Case Study : Rhine

8. Case Study : Tisza

9. Case Study : Amudarya

10. Case Study : Nile

11. Case Study : Orange

12. Summary and Outlook