The water system explorations — A new dutch project (the aquatic outlook) for combining monitoring, research and policy analysis for integrated water management

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Water System ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Research And Policy

Enhancing research utilization for integrated water management

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 311-319
Author(s):  
Johan Wisserhof
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Research Utilization ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Policy Problem ◽  
Additional Input ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Intermediary Role

Water-related research is often performed at significantly lower levels of integration than policymaking for integrated water management. This may limit its utilization in policymaking. Nevertheless, an analysis of strategic policymaking for water management in The Netherlands shows that policy research still has a considerable impact on policy. This is largely due to the integrative intermediary role of policy analysis. (Policy research is the acquisition of knowledge concerning a policy problem. Policy analysis is the appraisal of alternative policies.) However, policy analysis for water management is often restricted to the natural sciences and engineering. An additional input of administrative science may contribute to resolve the current problems in implementation of integrated water policies. Factors of concern in this respect are elaborated.

A computational framework for modelling the fate of selected toxic substances in the meuse basin

1996 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 59-66
Author(s):  
S. Š. Ploco
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Water Quality Management ◽  
Toxic Substances ◽  
Computational Framework ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
New Research ◽  
International River

Within the scope of the research program of Integrated Water Management Working Group, new research, focused on developing a computer aided system for policy analysis of water management for international river basins, has been launched at Delft University of Technology. This paper refers to conceptual strategies included in creating a part of the computational framework that will be used to support policy analysis of water quality management. Moreover, it outlines major process formulations and process constants referring to modelling the fate of trace metals (Cd, Cu, Zn), PCBs, PAHs, triazines (atrazine, simazine) and pesticides (dichlorovos, mevinphos, lindane). The choice of these substances is tailored to the prevailing water quality concerns that exist in the Meuse basin.

scholarly journals An operational, multi-scale, multi-model system for consensus-based, integrated water management and policy analysis: The Netherlands Hydrological Instrument

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 ◽  
pp. 98-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willem J. De Lange ◽  
Geert F. Prinsen ◽  
Jacco C. Hoogewoud ◽  
Albert A. Veldhuizen ◽  
Jarno Verkaik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Model System ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Multi Scale

The water system explorations – a new dutch project (the aquatic outlook) for combining monitoring, research and policy analysis for integrated water management

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 329-344
Author(s):  
J. P. A. Luiten
Keyword(s):  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Water System ◽  
Ecological Quality ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Target Values ◽  
Catchment Areas ◽  
Environment Sustainability

Sustained development is the target of almost every modern policy dealing with the aquatic environment. Sustainability is focused on human life, but also on the ecological quality of our environment. Both aspects are essential for life on earth. The ecological quality of aquatic systems can be expressed by biotic and abiotic parameters. Monitoring and research give information about these parameters and a comparison with the targets brings us to the necessity of supplementary policy-measures. Human activities are considered to be the cause of the environmental problems. All kinds of social and economical activities influence the water bodies. Reaching the goals is only possible if human influence on environment is changed or reduced. Within a catchment area, relations could be laid between human activities and ecological problems in the reception areas. Policy analysis is especially looking for the most efficient way to remove the bottlenecks. For an effective policy analysis in river catchment areas the following elements are essential: – quantitative data; monitoring programs have to consider more than ever the ecological aspects of policy analysis; – the determination of target values (probably by means of laboratory experiments); - knowledge about the factors causing violation of the targets; – an inventory of measures for influencing the existing or future situation; – sufficient knowledge about the relation between the measures and (i) the ecological parameters and (ii) the social and economical activities in society; – a policy analysis for defining future policies; All of these studies will generate many data; to present these in a clear and succinct manner is one of the goals of the project “The Aquatic Outlook”.

The Water in the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria De Poblet, Tarragona, Spain

2007 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-267
Author(s):  
J.L. De la Peña ◽  
M. De la Peña ◽  
M. Salgot ◽  
Ll. Torcal
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Management System ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Water Management System ◽  
Santa Maria ◽  
Semiarid Conditions

The history and water-related features in the Poblet Cistercian Monastery, located in Tarragona province, Spain are described. The study is undertaken with the main purpose of obtaining data for the establishment of an integrated water management system inside the walls of the abbey, which is suffering water scarcity due to increasing demands and the prevalent semiarid conditions.

Living with water: at the cross-roads of change

1995 ◽  
Vol 31 (8) ◽  
pp. 393-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joost de Jong ◽  
Peter T. J. C. van Rooy ◽  
S. Harry Hosper
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Environment ◽  
Integrated Water Management ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
The People ◽  
Global Perception ◽  
Local Water ◽  
Water Quality Deterioration ◽  
The Way

Until the last two decades, the global perception of how to control our various water bodies was remarkably similar – water management was organised on a sectoral basis, as it always had been. It was only in the 1970s that the people actually responsible for implementing water management began to become aware of the serious implications of such an approach: water quality deterioration, desiccation and an alarming loss of the flora and fauna that characterised their local water environment. It was a growing awareness that led to the formation of the concept of integrated water management, a concept almost universally accepted today as the way forward. However, despite the fact that few dispute the validity of the concept, a number of obstacles remain before this theoretical agreement can be transformed into practical action. Three main bottlenecks stand in the way of implementation: institutional, communicational and socio-political. Whilst solutions to these are available, the key question still to be answered is whether society is really prepared to accept the consequent changes in the way we live that will result from putting the theory of integrated water management into practice. It was this issue that dominated the “Living with water” conference held in Amsterdam in September 1994. The following is a summary of the discussions held there and the various papers that were submitted.

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