Assessing integrated water management options for urban developments – Canberra case study

This work aims to develop integrated water resources management (IWRM) and conduct an IWRM implementation assessment based on the study area's indicators. In this way, we have adopted a participatory approach for IWRM indicators development. As for assessing implementation at the local level, a survey was conducted among water sector actors in the study area to collect opinions regarding their management mode. In terms of results, four categories of indicators were developed in consultation with participating stakeholders, and an assessment of IWRM implementation was carried out. This assessment shows that the current management system is generally medium and that there is a difference between stakeholders regarding their capacity to IWRM implement. Some needs were identified for the majority of stakeholders to meet the requirements of integrated water management fully. The final target is to apply the IWRM in Meknes city as a case study that will eventually allow us to evaluate the water management system developed based on these indicators.

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A bricolage-style exploratory scenario analysis to manage uncertainty in socio-environmental systems modeling: investigating integrated water management options

Socio-Environmental Systems Modeling ◽

10.18174/sesmo.2020a16227 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 16227 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Baihua Fu ◽

Joseph H.A. Guillaume ◽

Anthony J. Jakeman ◽

Michael J. Asher

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Scenario Analysis ◽

Policy Design ◽

Exploratory Analysis ◽

Marginal Effect ◽

Management Options ◽

Integrated Water Management ◽

Analysis Process ◽

Model Components ◽

Context Specific

Exploratory analysis, while useful in assessing the implications of model assumptions under large uncertainty, is considered at best a semi-structured activity. There is no algorithmic way for performing exploratory analysis and the existing canonical techniques have their own limitations. To overcome this, we advocate a bricolage-style exploratory scenario analysis, which can be crafted by pragmatically and strategically combining different methods and practices. Our argument is illustrated using a case study in integrated water management in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Scenario ensembles are generated to investigate potential policy innovations, climate and crop market conditions, as well as the effects of uncertainties in model components and parameters. Visualizations, regression trees and marginal effect analyses are exploited to make sense of the ensemble of scenarios. The analysis includes identifying patterns within a scenario ensemble, by visualizing initial hypotheses that are informed by prior knowledge, as well as by visualizing new hypotheses based on identified influential variables. Context-specific relationships are explored by analyzing which values of drivers and management options influence outcomes. Synthesis is achieved by identifying context-specific solutions to consider as part of policy design. The process of analysis is cast as a process of finding patterns and formulating questions within the ensemble of scenarios that merit further examination, allowing end-users to make the decision as to what underlying assumptions should be accepted, and whether uncertainties have been sufficiently explored. This approach is especially advantageous when the precise intentions of management are still subject to deliberations. By describing the reasoning and steps behind a bricolage-style exploratory analysis, we hope to raise awareness of the value of sharing this kind of (common but not often documented) analysis process, and motivate further work to improve sharing of know-how about bricolage in practice.

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Integrated Economic-Hydrologic Assessment of Water Management Options for Regulated Wetlands Under Conditions of Climate Change: A Case Study from the Spreewald (Germany)

Water Resources Management ◽

10.1007/s11269-012-0005-5 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 26 (7) ◽

pp. 2081-2108 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Malte Grossmann ◽

Ottfried Dietrich

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Water Management ◽

Management Options

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Economics of Wetland Conservation Case Study: “Systemic Solutions” for Integrated Water Management

The Wetland Book ◽

10.1007/978-90-481-9659-3_173 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 931-936

Author(s):

Mark Everard ◽

Robert J. McInnes

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Wetland Conservation ◽

Integrated Water Management

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A case study aiming to promote cities resilience based on urban critical zone management as a whole

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-22557 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Marion Diaz ◽

Zahra Thomas ◽

Alain Prenveille ◽

Nicolas Floch

Keyword(s):

Water Management ◽

Urban Development ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Integrated Approach ◽

Critical Zone ◽

Global Changes ◽

Integrated Water Management ◽

Zone Management ◽

Common Strategy

Adaptation to global changes and promotion of cities resilience requires the development of integrated approaches to take into account the urban critical area as a whole. The major challenge is to assess this integrated approach evolving the main actors taking part on critical zone management. One way to do so might be the development of a network of actors and scientists committed to the long-term evolution of practices and having a common strategy for territories use. The poster presents a case study aiming to implement an integrated water management strategy in urban development based on the organization of a network of territory actors and scientists. The methodology here presented was built to focus on three main questions: what specific problems does integrated water management reveal for the various stakeholders? What are their usual opportunities of exchange and information? And which organization allows them to solve their problems, while taking into account the pre-existing networks on water management?. To answer these questions, we conducted comprehensive interviews with water and development stakeholders and representatives of networking organization.Our results highlights the need of collaborative development of urban projects between planners and water managers: each of them is confronted with a diversity of concerns related to several factors, such as<ul><li>their position as a stakeholder in the intentional management of water or in the effective management of water;</li> <li>the scope of responsibilities of local communities in the management of wastewater, stormwater, drinking water, biodiversity ;</li> <li>the specific regional characteristics (coastal territories, morphologies of urban area).</li> </ul>Moreover, the results show that the existing networks address partially some of the questions: the study highlights in particular the lack of dialogue and knowledge transfer between water management actors and urban development actors, resulting in the design of urban projects that are not adapted to the new standards of urban management (e.g. stormwater). In addition, research projects are emerging in relation to big cities issues, but are sometimes in competition with each other. Also, the dissemination of results remains reserved for cities already endowed with significant engineering capacities.Improvements in the networking is required to promote integrated urban water management, we come up with three organizational scenarios including objective analysis of existing networks of the main actors. The implementation of an integrated approach to hydrological systems linked to energy efficiency in urban areas requires taking into account the critical zone as a whole.

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