Long-Term Monitoring and Water Resource Management in the Republic of Kazakhstan

2013 ◽  
pp. 75-89
Author(s):  
Tursun Ibrayev ◽  
Batyrbek Badjanov ◽  
Marina Li
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Term Monitoring

Integrated Water Resource Management in Latin America and the Caribbean: Opportunities and Constraints

1987 ◽  
Vol 19 (9) ◽  
pp. 201-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Dourojeanni ◽  
M. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Renewable Resource ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Integrated Water Resource Management ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Informal Rules

The virtues of integrated water resource management have been widely extolled in the literature. The purpose of this paper is to review selected aspects of Latin American and Caribbean experience which may provide insights on the constraints and opportunities for progressing towards such integration. Economic development and population growth are placing demands on water which are increasing exponentially. However, with a few exceptions, governments have shown little effective response to the broader issues in resolving the inevitable conflicts. Formulation of plans and policies appears straightforward and it is easier still to recommend implementation by powerful co-ordinating agencies. However, practice bears little relation to theory. This suggests that a focus on questions other than technical optimization might be relevant. Attention needs to be given to the institutional structure - formal and informal rules - which determine why decisions are made at the political, organizational and operational levels resulting in de facto water management. Greater transparency on the informal rules may enable more systematic transactions between and within these three levels (particularly within the organizational level) leading to changes which would allow incorporation of a broader and more long-term view of renewable resource management issues.

Effects of Interactions Between Society and Environment on Policy in Water Resources Management: Exploring Scenarios of Natural and Human-Induced Shocks

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iolanda Borzì ◽  
Murugesu Sivapalan ◽  
Brunella Bonaccorso ◽  
Alberto Viglione
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Water Dynamics ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Sustainable Water Resources Management

<p>In many regions of the world, water supply is threatened by natural hazards such as floods and droughts, as well as by shocks induced by anthropogenic changes to water use. Lack of anticipation and/or preparation for these events can lead to delayed or insufficient responses to sudden or developing water crises, that sometimes can produce irrecoverable damage to the environment. In this work, a socio-hydrological approach to sustainable water resources management of the Alcantara River Basin in Sicily (Italy) is adopted that explicitly takes into account feedbacks between the natural and the human components that might arise from shocks to the water management system, including possible evolution of policy responses. The Alcantara River Basin is a groundwater-fed catchment which supplies many villages on the Ionian coast up to Messina city, mainly through the Alcantara aqueduct, but also agricultural areas and industries, including hydropower plants. It also hosts the Alcantara Fluvial Park, an important natural reserve. The Alcantara aqueduct also supplied the city of Messina during a temporary failure of its main aqueduct caused by a landslide in October 2015. The main purpose of the work is to use the socio-hydrological model as a “screening tool” to frame water resource management issues in a broad way and provide guidance to the community to identify aspects of societal behavior that need to evolve towards sustainable water resource management in order to withstand future shocks. This has been done by scenario simulations in conditions of a natural shock affecting the system (i.e. drought) and of a human-induced one (i.e. increase in groundwater extraction). Sensitivity analysis of the model social parameters revealed how the value attributed by the society to the environment and water resources use, its capacity to remember previous water crises and, in particular, its previous responses to shocks, can affect the system in a way that can produce paradoxical effects. Results show how a rapid decision-making strategy that may work in the short term, can be counter-productive when viewed over the long term and how a do-nothing decision during a water crisis could be highly damaging to the environment. For the above-mentioned reasons, this socio-hydrological approach can be considered as a useful tool to understand human-water dynamics and to support decision-makers in water resource management policies with a broad and long-term perspective.</p>

Forecasting long-term precipitation for water resource management: a new multi-step data-intelligent modelling approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (16) ◽  
pp. 2693-2708
Author(s):  
Mumtaz Ali ◽  
Ravinesh C. Deo ◽  
Yong Xiang ◽  
Ya Li ◽  
Zaher Mundher Yaseen
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Modelling Approach

scholarly journals A virtual water network of the Roman world

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 5025-5040 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. J. Dermody ◽  
R. P. H. van Beek ◽  
E. Meeks ◽  
K. Klein Goldewijk ◽  
W. Scheidel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Virtual Water ◽  
Water Network ◽  
Virtual Water Trade ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Interannual Climate Variability

Abstract. The Romans were perhaps the most impressive exponents of water resource management in preindustrial times with irrigation and virtual water trade facilitating unprecedented urbanization and socioeconomic stability for hundreds of years in a region of highly variable climate. To understand Roman water resource management in response to urbanization and climate variability, a Virtual Water Network of the Roman World was developed. Using this network we find that irrigation and virtual water trade increased Roman resilience to interannual climate variability. However, urbanization arising from virtual water trade likely pushed the Empire closer to the boundary of its water resources, led to an increase in import costs, and eroded its resilience to climate variability in the long term. In addition to improving our understanding of Roman water resource management, our cost–distance-based analysis illuminates how increases in import costs arising from climatic and population pressures are likely to be distributed in the future global virtual water network.

A NEW RESEARCH PARADIGM FOR SUSTAINABILITY RESEARCH IN EGYPT

2000 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. ABOUL ENIEN ◽  
A. ABDEL SHAFI ◽  
M. ABDEL MONEM ◽  
A. KAMEL ◽  
M. B. SOLH ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Irrigated Agriculture ◽  
Productive Capacity ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Nutrient Inputs ◽  
Long Term Monitoring ◽  
Term Monitoring

Sustainability of intensive irrigated agriculture in Egypt has become a critical issue, as land and water resources are limited on the one hand and population is increasing rapidly on the other. Salinization, heavy input use, nutrient export and pollution all threaten the health of soils that have been feeding Egypt for centuries. At the same time, the build-up of newly reclaimed desert soils to economically sustainable productive capacity is a major challenge. In a collaborative effort between the Agricultural Research Center (ARC) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in Egypt and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), a long-term resource management programme, funded by the European Union, has been developed to address the issue of resource management in a multidisciplinary way. Long-term agronomic trials (with such variables as water quantity, water quality, nutrient inputs and crop rotations) have been set up at sites representing the old lands, the newly reclaimed areas and the rainfed areas. These trials are complemented by extensive long-term monitoring in villages close to the experimental sites. This covers farmers' perspectives, farming practices and the condition of farmers' soils and crops and is aimed at identifying over time the sustainable and non-sustainable production practices and the social and economic factors that underline them. The project activities began with a Preparatory Phase which comprised inventory studies, rapid rural appraisal and multi-disciplinary surveys. This knowledge was used in the planning of the two closely related activities of long-term trials (LTT) and long-term monitoring (LTM). As the programme was implemented, the complementarity of the LTT and LTM approaches became the most important feature of this programme.

scholarly journals Towards more inclusive long-term bulk water resource management

Agrekon ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 371-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
W J de Lange ◽  
T E Kleynhans
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Water Resource ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Bulk Water
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