Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict pp 707–718Cite as

The Role of Information Systems in Improving Resilience and Security through Innovation-Oriented Capacity Building

  • Chapter
  • First Online:

  • 7511 Accesses

Part of the book series: Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace ((HSHES,volume 8))

Abstract

Climate change and the increase of extreme weather events have exposed the vulnerability of prevailing resource management regimes where climate and water are concerned (Pahl-Wostl 2009; Pahl-Wostl 2007a). The unpredictable global impacts and prospects of global and climate change are affecting both the bases of natural resources and the capacity for adaptation. They are affecting the swing of the pendulum of sustainability and the indicators of water availability and quality in a way that is likely to increase the risk to social and ecological systems.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   169.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD   219.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • A1-Jayyousi, Odeh, 2001: “Capacity building for desalination in Jordan: necessary conditions for sustainable water management”, in: Desalination, 141,2: 169–179.

    Google Scholar 

  • Arnell, N.; Charlton, M., 2009: “Adapting to the effects of climate change on water supply reliability”, in: Adger, Neil; Lorenzoni, Irene; O'Brien, Karen (Eds.): Adapting to Climate Change: Thresholds, Values, Governance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press): 42–53.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bai, Xuemei; Wieczorek, Anna J.; Kaneko, Shinji; Lisson, Shaun; Contreras, Antonio, 2009: “Enabling sustainability transitions in Asia: The importance of vertical and horizontal linkages”, in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 76,2: 255–266.

    Google Scholar 

  • Beukman, Ruth, 2002: “Access to water: some for all or all for some”, in: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 27,11–22: 721–722.

    Google Scholar 

  • Clark, William; Dickson, Nany, 2003: “Sustainability science: the emerging research program”, in: PNAS, 100,14: 8059–8061.

    Google Scholar 

  • Eakin, Hallie; Lerner, Amy M.; Murtinho, Felipe, 2010: “Adaptive capacity in evolving peri-urban spaces: Responses to flood risk in the Upper Lerma River Valley, Mexico”, in: Global Environmental Change, 20,1: 14–22.

    Google Scholar 

  • Elzen B, Geels F, Green K, (Eds.),. System Innovation and the Transition to Sustainability: Theory, Evidence and Policy. Edgar Elgar: Cheltenham; 2004.

    Google Scholar 

  • Elzen B, Wieczorek A, (Eds.),. “Introduction: Transitions towards Sustainability through System Innovation”, Special Issue. Technological. Forecast. Social. Change Journal. 2005;72(6):651–662.

    Google Scholar 

  • Evan W. “The Organization Set: toward a theory of International Relations”, in: Thompson, J.D. (Ed.): Approaches to Organizational Design. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press; 1967.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gasmelseid, Tagelsir, 2000: “Water Information Systems in Developing Countries: Community-based Analysis and Design”, in: Proceedings of the international Conference on Computing and Control for the water Industry, CCWI’99. Exeter, UK. September 1999; and in:

    Google Scholar 

  • Gasmelseid, Tagelsir, 2000a: “Water Information Systems in Developing Countries: Community-based Analysis and Design”, in Savic, Dragan (Ed.): Water Industry Systems: Modeling and Optimization Applications (London, Research Studies Press): 15–21.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gasmelseid, Tagelsir, 2004: “On Cooperative Decision Support Systems”, Paper for the ACTUI 2004, University of Exeter, 24–25 March 2004; at: <http://www.ex.ac.uk/ACTUI2004>.

  • Gasmelseid, Tagelsir, 2009: Sustainable transitions in shared Watersheds: the case of the River Nile, Proceedings of the Synthesis conference on Global Environmental Change and Human Security, GECHS, Oslo, Norway, 22–24 June 2009.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gasmelseid, Tagelsir, 2010: “A system innovation oriented integration of Management Information Systems in Urban Water Management”, in: Gasmelseid, Tagelsir (Ed.): Handbook of Research on Hydro informatics: Technologies, Theories and Applications (Hershey: IGI): 389–405.

    Google Scholar 

  • Geels, Frank, 2005: “Co-evolution of technology and society: the transition in water supply and personal hygiene in the Netherlands (1850–1930): A case study in multilevel perspective”, in: Technology in Society, 27,3: 363–397.

    Google Scholar 

  • Geels, Frank, 2005: “Processes and patterns in transitions and system innovations. Refining the co-evolutionary multilevel perspective”, in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 72,6: 681–697.

    Google Scholar 

  • Geels, Frank, 2006: “The hygienic transition from cesspools to sewer systems (1840–1930): the dynamics of regime transformation”, in: Research Policy, 35,7: 1069–1082.

    Google Scholar 

  • Geels, Frank; Schot, Johan 2007: “Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways”, in: Research Policy, 36,3: 399–417.

    Google Scholar 

  • Geng, Yong; Doberstein, Brent, 2008: “Greening government procurement in developing countries: Building capacity in China”, in: Journal of Environmental Management, 88,4, (September): 932–938.

    Google Scholar 

  • Gleick, Peter, 2003: “Global freshwater resources: soft-path solutions for the 21st Century”, in: Science, 302,5650: 1524–1528.

    Google Scholar 

  • Grin, John, 2000: “Reflexive modernization as a governance issue, or: designing and shaping restructuration”, in: Voss, Jan Peter; Bauknecht, Dierk; Kemp, Rene (Eds.): Reflexive Governance for Sustainable Development (Cheltenham – Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar): 57–81.

    Google Scholar 

  • Healey, Patsy, 1998: “Building institutional capacity through collaborative approaches to urban planning”, in: Environment and Planning A, 30,9: 1531–1546.

    Google Scholar 

  • Remco H. Exploiting technological niches. Strategies for experimental introduction of electric vehicles. Enschede: Twente University Press; 2000.

    Google Scholar 

  • Kikegawa, Yukihiro; Genchi, Yutaka; Kondo, Hiroaki; Hanaki, Keisuke, 2006: “Impacts of city-block-scale countermeasures against urban heat-island phenomena upon a building's energy-consumption for air-conditioning”, in: Applied Energy, 83,6: 649–668.

    Google Scholar 

  • Loorbach D, Rotmans J. “Managing transitions for sustainable development”, in: Olsthoorn, Xander; Wieczorek, Anna (Eds.): Understanding Industrial Transformation: Views from Different Disciplines. Dordrecht: Springer; 2006.

    Google Scholar 

  • Love, David; Twomlow, Steve; Mupangwa, Walter; van der Zaag, Pieter; Gumbo, Bekithemba, 2006: “Implementing the millennium development food security goals – challenges of the southern African context”, in: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 31,15–16: 731–737.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ludwig, Donald, 2001: “The era of management is over”, in: Ecosystems, 4,8: 758–764.

    Google Scholar 

  • Mkandawire, Theresa W.; Mulwafu, Wapulumuka O., 2006: “An analysis of IWRM capacity needs in Malawi”, in: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 31,15–16: 738–744.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, 2007a: “Transition towards adaptive management of water facing climate and global change”, in: Water Resources Management, 21,1: 49–62.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, 2007b: “Requirements for adaptive water management”, in: Pahl-Wostl, Claudia; Kabat, Pavel; Möltgen, Jorn (Eds.): Adaptive and Integrated Water Management. Coping with Complexity and Uncertainty (Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag): 1–22.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, 2007c: “The implications of complexity for integrated resources management” in: Environmental Modelling and Software, 22,5: 561–569.

    Google Scholar 

  • Pahl-Wostl, Claudia, 2009: “A conceptual framework for analyzing adaptive capacity and multi-level learning processes in resource governance regimes”, in: Global Environmental Change, 19,3: 354–365.

    Google Scholar 

  • Parris, Thomas; Kates, Robert, 2003: “Characterizing a sustainability transition: goals, targets, trends, and driving forces”, in: PNAS, 100,14: 8068–8073.

    Google Scholar 

  • Raven. Rob, 2006: “Co-evolution of waste and electricity regimes: multi-regime dynamics in the Netherlands (1969–2003)”, in: Energy Policy, 35,4: 2197–2208.

    Google Scholar 

  • Robins, Lisa, 2008: “Perspectives on capacity building to guide policy and program development and delivery”, in: Environmental Sciences and Policy, 11,8: 687–701.

    Google Scholar 

  • Schot, Johan; Hoogma, Remco; Elzen, Boelie, 1994: “Strategies for shifting technological systems. The case of the automobile system”, in: Futures 26,10: 1060–1076.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith, Claire; Levermore, Geoff, 2008: “Designing urban spaces and buildings to improve sustainability and quality of life in a warmer world”, in: Energy Policy, 36,12: 4558–4562.

    Google Scholar 

  • Timmer V, de Loe R, Kreutzwiser R. Source water protection in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia: Lessons for building local capacity. Land Use Policy. 2007;24:187–198.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Twomlow S, Mugabe FT, Mwale M, Delve R, Nanja D, Carberry P, Howden M. Building adaptive capacity to cope with increasing vulnerability due to climatic change in Africa – A new approach. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth. 2008;33:780–787.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Van de Kerkhof, Marleen; Wieczorek, Anna, 2005: “Learning and stakeholder participation in transition processes towards sustainability: methodological considerations”, in: Technological Forecasting of Social Change, 72,6: 733–752.

    Google Scholar 

  • van der Zaag, Pieter, 2005: “Integrated Water Resources Management: Relevant concept or irrelevant buzzword? A capacity building and research agenda for Southern Africa”, in: Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 30,11–16: 867–871.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vellinga, Pier; Herb, Nadia (Eds.), 1999: “Industrial Transformation Science Plan, International Human Dimensions Programme”, in: IHDP Report, No.12; at: <http://www.uni-bonn.de/ ihdp/ITSciencePlan/> (15 February 2011).

  • Vleuten, Erik van der; Raven, Rob 2006: “Lock-in and change: distributed generation in Denmark in a longterm perspective”, in: Energy Policy, 34,18: 3739–3748.

    Google Scholar 

  • Vreede, Gert; Jones, Noel: Mgaya, Rabson, 1998/1999: “Exploring the application and acceptance of group support systems in Africa”, in: Journal of Management Information Systems, 15,3: 197–234.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Information Systems, College of Computer Sciences and Information Technology, King Faisal University, Al Ahsaa, 31982, Saudi Arabia

    Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid

Authors
  1. Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Tagelsir Mohamed Gasmelseid .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. ZMAW, Institute for Geography, University of Hamburg, Bundesstr. 53, Hamburg, 20146, Germany

    Jürgen Scheffran

  2. , Institute of Peace Research and Security, Hamburg University, Beim Schlump 83, Hamburg, 20144, Germany

    Michael Brzoska

  3. AG Friedensforschung + Europ., Sicherheitspolitik, AFES-PRESS, Alte Bergsteige 47, Mosbach, 74821, Germany

    Hans Günter Brauch

  4. ZMAW, Res. Group Climate Change and Security, Hamburg University, Bundesstrasse 53, Hamburg, 20146, Germany

    Peter Michael Link

  5. ZMAW, Res. Group Climate Change and Security, Hamburg University, Bundesstrasse 53, Hamburg, 20146, Germany

    Janpeter Schilling

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Gasmelseid, T.M. (2012). The Role of Information Systems in Improving Resilience and Security through Innovation-Oriented Capacity Building. In: Scheffran, J., Brzoska, M., Brauch, H., Link, P., Schilling, J. (eds) Climate Change, Human Security and Violent Conflict. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol 8. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28626-1_36

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation