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Integrated Assessment of Water Resources and Global Change

A North-South Analysis

  • State of the art review of the science of integrated water resources management in industrialised and developing countries
  • Novel concepts such as blue and green water, virtual water trade, water footprints of nations, etc.
  • New perspectives and methodologies for modelling, up-scaling, and social learning in water management

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-2
  2. A grid-based assessment of global water scarcity including virtual water trading

    • Md. Sirajul Islam, Taikan Oki, Shinjiro Kanae, Naota Hanasaki, Yasushi Agata, Kei Yoshimura
    Pages 19-33
  3. Capturing the complexity of water uses and water users within a multi-agent framework

    • Thomas Berger, Regina Birner, José Díaz, Nancy McCarthy, Heidi Wittmer
    Pages 129-148
  4. Policy implications of a pan-tropic assessment of the simultaneous hydrological and biodiversity impacts of deforestation

    • Ellen M. Douglas, Stanley Wood, Kate Sebastian, Charles J. Vörösmarty, Kenneth M. Chomitz, Thomas P. Tomich
    Pages 211-232
  5. Towards better water security in North China

    • Jun Xia, Lu Zhang, Changming Liu, Jingjie Yu
    Pages 233-247
  6. Towards transition management of European water resources

    • Rutger van der Brugge, Jan Rotmans
    Pages 249-267
  7. The GLOWA Volta Project: A framework for water resources decision-making and scientific capacity building in a transnational West African basin

    • Charles Rodgers, Nick van de Giesen, Wolfram Laube, Paul L. G. Vlek, Eva Youkhana
    Pages 295-313
  8. Integrating a climate change assessment tool into stakeholder-driven water management decision-making processes in California

    • David R. Purkey, Annette Huber-Lee, David N. Yates, Michael Hanemann, Susan Herrod-Julius
    Pages 315-329

About this book

How can the Earth’s finite water resources be managed sustainably to meet the growing needs of humans and of nature in ways that avert the looming crisis?

The pressing water problems must clearly be tackled from an integrated perspective taking into account environmental, human and technological factors and especially their interdependence. The key papers in this volume from the Bonn conference focus on the challenges of integrated assessment of water resources in the context of global change. The growing gap between North and South is also addressed, in terms not only of access to water and its quality, but also of the capacity to do research and implement solutions.

The coverage of the papers is up-to-date and comprehensive. Highlights include emerging concepts such as blue and green water, virtual water, the water footprints of nations, multi-agent modelling, linkages between water and biodiversity, and social learning and adaptive management.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Global Water System Project, Bonn, Germany

    Eric Craswell

  • UNESCO Division of Water Sciences, Paris, France

    Mike Bonnell

  • International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka

    Deborah Bossio

  • Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz, Germany

    Siegfried Demuth

  • University of Freiburg, Germany

    Siegfried Demuth

  • Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

    Nick Giesen

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