Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management

An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management

Geoffrey Gooch, Per Stålnacke (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2010
Earthscan Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84407-919-3 (ISBN)

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One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. This book examines both analytically and through the description of practical experiences from river basins in Europe, India and South-East Asia.

One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. In this book this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) is examined both analytically and through the description of practical experiences from river basins in Europe, India and South-East Asia. These include the Tungabhadra (India), Sesan (Vietnam/Cambodia), Tagus (Spain/Portugal) and Glomma (Norway), which particularly highlight issues associated with pollution, severely altered river flows and transboundary conflicts.

Following two chapters which lay the framework for the book the authors describe how SPSI was managed in the case study basins and how stakeholder participation and scenarios were used to integrate different perspectives, and to facilitate the communication of different forms of knowledge. Four important aspects of water management and SPSI are then discussed; these are water pollution, land and water interaction, environmental flow and transboundary water regimes. Short descriptions of the case study rivers are provided together with analyses of how SPSI was managed in water management in these basins and policy recommendations for the basins.

The book concludes by providing a series of recommendations for improving the science-policy-stakeholder interface in water management. It represents a major step forward in our understanding of how to implement integrated water resources management.

Geoffrey D. Gooch is Professor of Political Science at Linköping University, Sweden, and at the UNESCO Centre for Water law, Policy and Science at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Per Stålnacke is a Senior Researcher and Head of Section 'Water quality and Hydrology' at Bioforsk (Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research).

List of Contributors

Acronyms

Preface

1. Introduction: The Science-Policy-Stakeholder Interface (SPSI)

2. Putting the 'Integration' In Science-Policy-Stakeholders Interface

3. SPSI and Stakeholder Participation

4. The Science-Policy-Stakeholder Interface in Sustainable Water Management: Creating Interactive, Participatory Scenarios Together with Stakeholders

5. The Science-Policy-Stakeholders Interface in Water Pollution Assessment

6. The Science-Policy-Stakeholder-Interface (SPSI) in Land and Water Use Interactions

7. SPSI and Environmental Flow

8. The SPSI and Transboundary Water Regimes

9. SPSI in Water Management- Lessons Learnt and the Challenges Ahead

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.4.2010
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	430 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-84407-919-8 / 1844079198
ISBN-13	978-1-84407-919-3 / 9781844079193
Zustand	Neuware