scholarly journals Environmental Impact Assessment and Integrated Water Resources Management

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-106
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Case Law ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
Legislative Framework

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) plays an important role in the framework of the efforts aiming at the formulation of a complete water resources management. In our paper this issue is examined in an integrated way. The following issues are particularly examined : the notion of the EIA in general, the assessment methods and techniques on the basis of the suitability of their use, the economic aspects, the Greek legislative framework, case-law positions in general as well as the action and the steering pattern of the Greek Public Administration concerning this issue. This paper presents some conclusions and proposals which are drawn by the aforementioned integrated approach.

scholarly journals Why isn't IWRM working in the Caribbean?

Water Policy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-600
Author(s):  
Adrian Cashman
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Resources Management ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Integrated Water Resources Management ◽  
Status Report ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Resources Management ◽  
The Caribbean

At the global level, it appears that acceptance for integrated water resources management (IWRM) has been growing. In a status report by the United Nations in 2012, 82% of the 134 nations which responded indicated that they had embarked on reforms to achieve integrated approaches to water resources management. Over the last decade in the Caribbean there have been similar IWRM agendas. However, so far efforts to embed IWRM in the region have yielded few results. Hence it is appropriate to ask what has been the progress with adopting an integrated approach to water management in the Caribbean and are there lessons that can be learnt? The paper seeks to provide some answers to those two questions. An overview of the various national and regional IWRM initiatives over the last decade provides the basis on which the evaluation of the successes or otherwise is made. This is complemented by an assessment of the enabling conditions and the extent to which they have been able to support developments. The analysis of contributing factors uses a stakeholder characterisation typology developed by Mitchell and Agle. Finally, the need for ‘brokering’ actors as an integral part of policy reform is identified as a necessary element of success.

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